william.maggos

Advocate for #DemocracyOfReach

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2026-05-10 20:21:23 CEST

How Memes Are Orchestrated by the Man (2013)
via @npub1tlw…nzdv
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/how-memes-are-orchestrated-by-the-man/274466/

2026-04-17 17:08:07 CEST

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true but he wouldn't even have needed a party if NYC had FFV (vote for whoever in the election that replaces the primary and then use RCV among the top five vote getters in the general). getting there will be difficult if it requires getting party aligned officials to vote for it, but more likely via referendum.

2026-04-16 08:11:14 CEST

I need pictures of #boardgames in progress posted here using that hashtag regularly.

2026-04-15 16:59:24 CEST

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many share your more closed vision of fedi. imo those places are also needed but this tech allows more than that. as long as we work to prevent the harassment that drives people to not participate, just like IRL, we can have work go worldwide viral among people who would vehemently disagree on lots of other issues. that's not possible if we screen for bigotry. people in different countries might agree on ending war but disagree on so much else. see MTG on Epstein.

2026-04-14 19:51:43 CEST

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if they wouldn't harass people here, absolutely.
I think there's a ton of Fox News viewers who would never ever tag a minority with mean shit, but go on and on about minorities ruining the country. I want them to follow their nephew here and see their nephew's minority friend being awesome.
people always get better the less we live in bubbles.

2026-04-14 19:21:59 CEST

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do you ever tell people not to post the die slur shit cause you can see here that myself and some others are vocal about the excessive censorship? and it's not without cost.

2026-04-14 17:10:49 CEST

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not all the people that you call bigots because of their opinions or posting what you consider misinfo, would intentionally bother people if given the chance. the former should be welcome here, the latter should not be.
it's hard for me to believe everyone doesn't have experience with people like this, who believe stuff that seems crazy/evil but also would never intentionally bother others. who would go out of their way to help a stranger. but they are anti trans etc.

2026-04-14 16:12:37 CEST

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except "bad people" do change and I have had information shared with me by them that corrected my misunderstandings. doesn't your electoral strategy involve voting in the general for people we may find repugnant but still better than the other person who would otherwise win?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Phelps-Roper

2026-04-12 06:26:59 CEST

#VictorOrban is a very bad man cause he doesn't like democracy but #Hungary still has possibly legit elections while they don't in Saudi Arabia and other countries whose dictatorships we never complain about. Why?
I hope he loses but please consider that the constant talk about certain countries but not others might come down to whether they serve our interests, not how democratic they are, no matter how often they claim this is the reason.

2026-04-11 17:31:00 CEST

@npub1sg6…ak6d
my family is from the town of Kastri. my grandparents (both my Dad's parents, my Mom Swedish/British) came over before WW1. but when we visited, they said their problem was with the communists after WW2. possibly killing family members. Is there a good way to think about all this? thanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Kynouria

2026-03-29 21:34:43 CEST

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the podcast is dead. I hope to get more rolling with https://democracyofreach.org soon.
for the music, see @npub1ety…5krm. most of what I played, he pointed me towards.

2026-03-25 14:50:25 CET

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maybe you're not completely serious, but this kind of thing is an issue here. I know many don't care about growth but that's obviously deterred when potential newbies expect their ability to federate requires quite close agreement on politics etc. imagine trying to get people to move from AOL to the web if browsing was so tightly controlled. of course unwanted tagging should be policed harshly, but that's like email spam. rarely stumbling on stuff you don't like is life on the web.

2026-03-18 19:42:58 CET

https://pca.st/episode/db2465e1-cad9-4a7d-9e83-da3aca12a631

2026-03-06 15:51:33 CET

One's ratio of boosts to posts is a good proxy for their character.
#SocialWeb

2026-02-25 15:46:53 CET

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I disagree. The only servers that should be blocked are those that fail to address their users who engage in unwanted tagging. That's harassment/abuse. It drives away users. I could support a list of servers somehow so verified.
But to go further than this is a kind of censorship of content allowed elsewhere on the web. Stuff we basically never stumble on while browsing. Without algos here, it will never be forced on us.
I can easily see posts critical of Israel called antisemitic.

2026-02-21 20:21:16 CET

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sure except that they have so much say re what happens next re AT. there should be different speakers over time.

2026-02-16 20:13:57 CET

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I agree that effects are more relevant. it would be nice to know the likely effects of all possible policy choices but that's probably impossible, so I'd favor those most likely to happen, which usually comes down to popularity. but maybe reporting on an option that the reporter thinks is great could make it more popular. IDK.

2026-02-15 20:46:47 CET

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but could a podcast use #ActivityPub instead of RSS to enable boosting of the episodes themselves and replies directly attached? imagine the possibilities of a podcatcher fully decentralized social graph enabled.

2026-02-15 06:21:31 CET

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Netflix and Spotify and Substack are easier than if you were turning on and off a Patreon subscription for each show, musician and blog. The idea is easier than all of them. One donation bucket in your bank account that gets divvied up and automatically goes everywhere, even if you only listened to one song by an artist once. I think people would slowly support that model over everything else if they understood the potential.
but sure...

2026-01-22 20:38:05 CET

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I guess so? there's no actual harm if nobody who is offended by the comment sees it. like all the horrible stuff on the web that you never browse to. I guess we could say those sites are problems too but that reality is not something people usually complain about, except maybe when some wanted to scare us off the web in the 90s. it was a trade-off for letting people create their own sites. this moderation approach lets us share a social network with people we don't agree with 100%.

2026-01-22 08:12:50 CET

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that sounds great but just like people have different interests based on experience and who we are, nations do too. democracy works because while we're pulling in different directions, nobody has more power than another. and overwhelming force is rested in a power above any of us.
the problem at the international level is we haven't done this yet. the US talks about respecting everyone (usually) but can mostly act as it wishes. same with other local big powers.

2026-01-11 20:59:48 CET

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matrix (decentralized) > signal > imessage
signal died when AWS crashed.

2025-12-25 07:49:48 CET

Imagine that independent musicians and FOSS developers could come together to build decentralized Spotify. What should we hashtag such a project?
#IndieMusic #ccmusic #FOSS #decentralization

2025-12-17 18:55:39 CET

I'm watching this on my TV via Roku and the #owncast app. It's part of what I want for the #CCMusicClub. That we could help every online radio DJ do this. That we could help musicians broadcast their show. No corporate crap involved.
CC @npub1ety…5krm @npub12r7…myay @npub1uj3…c6ph @npub1p2u…nr5m @npub10u0…x5et
https://ravenation.club/@labr/115736145157861677

2025-11-28 20:06:31 CET

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I don't want anything done to your account while you do want at least "a lighter touch" taken against these accounts. that's bad for free expression imo, if these accounts are not driving anyone off the network.

2025-11-28 18:18:59 CET

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ask Darren so he can tell you to look it up.

2025-11-26 20:35:27 CET

Does #MAGA want us to call their loved ones fat and ugly? Maybe it's the kink or something.
https://flipboard.com/@cnn/business-and-tech-fie8hiijz/-/a-qS2oxbwLR-WP6u45ndlApw%3Aa%3A132361178-%2F0

2025-11-19 21:07:42 CET

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I dream that you could build your site off #bandwagon (like people use WP) and I could have an app where I subscribe to your site (artist/albums/tracks) like I would podcasts in a podcatcher. decentralized Spotify.

2025-10-13 17:38:56 CEST

Obama deported lots of people. How did he do it?
My guess is the difference isn't just the media coverage and public response but I'd really like to know.
#ICE #immigration #deportations #Trump

2025-10-03 17:24:56 CEST

What constitutes the bad moderation at #bluesky?
For me it's tough because wanting a diversity of perspectives also requires making it as easy as possible to find a place with different policies while not losing your connections, and never having stuff pushed on you via algos etc.
I can't say I understand their situation very well but I'm conflicted. I'm upset they don't do decentralization well yet I'm probably with them at being annoyed at being told to censor more. IDK

2025-09-27 03:25:55 CEST

@npub1p7v…qql0
would it be possible to run a podcatcher off an #ActivityPub account instead of an RSS feed?
and maybe integrate our social graph so we could see what's most popular with the people we follow. let us boost episodes to those who follow us.

2025-09-24 17:16:02 CEST

Let's stop just complaining about big video companies doing selfish shit and help make the decentralized #peertube and #owncast ecosystem awesome.

2025-09-19 16:56:49 CEST

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I feel like I've addressed this.
yes some celebrated. most were glad he wouldn't be endangering them and people they love anymore. I cannot prove it but I do believe that saying cruel shit about groups leads to more hate crimes that never make the national news.
we all have to push to tone down this shit.

2025-08-20 20:18:23 CEST

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I totally understand this. It's why I try to refrain from responding after listening to your show. but that's conceding to the same shit the M5M does. letting them get away with BS, just from a different direction. it's frustrating...
and why I started doing my show in a different format than NA or MMO. but IMO the brave truth fighters are not what they claim to be, while I'm told the problem is my sound quality or matrix etc.

2025-06-17 19:22:21 CEST

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I need to play around with it but so far, it almost seems worse now. imagine not getting notified about emails from people outside your email service till you click on another tab.

2025-06-13 17:49:48 CEST

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how do you do it?
the Alaska model where you can vote for anybody in the first election and then have RCV for the general seems great to me. basically eliminate party control, outside of being a membership org that can do endorsements ala Sierra Club etc.
the primaries screw everything up.

2025-06-06 20:01:26 CEST

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I think people are calling it #WebMonetization
https://indieweb.social/@johnallsopp/114559885473514144

2025-05-20 05:15:04 CEST

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crypto promises a way to directly send money electronically and maybe build programs around it. it does that poorly but until we have another good way to do that, lots of good people will be interested in it. a way around middlemen like PayPal, Venmo and Patreon etc. maybe an alternative to Amazon etc having our information.
please help us build an open protocol for money transfer from bank to bank, like we have here for social media with AP.
cc @npub1494…2xd2

2025-05-12 16:47:28 CEST

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I agree social media and social networks are different, but maybe not the way you do.
social media is a public square, but not inherently corporate, algo driven or full of ads. it's what I want the fedi to be. anybody should be able to post anything on the web and the public decides it should go viral. everything ties into it and the power of money to decide what we know about goes away, replaced by the democracy here.
social networks are groups with a single sign-on.

2025-05-06 17:11:22 CEST

If you tried to not be too conservative or progressive about it, how would you reduce US debt? #uspol

2025-05-04 23:14:39 CEST

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with AT (before today's announcement of fully decentralized relays I think), everything went thru the bluesky relay. as just happened in Turkiye, their govt asked and BS complied to make sure some posts were not seen by their users in that country. there's been reporting but no statement by the company.
with AP, it's only about the posting and reading servers.
and big picture long term, overall network decentralization is key. which model will more likely lead to that?

2025-05-04 20:44:53 CEST

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my focus is getting to "democracy of reach", the necessary addendum to "freedom of speech" vastly expanded by the web. it will mean people decide what goes viral. huge implications in culture generally, not just as a better way to do social media.
anyway, I see how AP does that, basically promising a future of no gatekeepers between a site run by a govt or news outlet with social capacity and the public.
I don't yet see the AT vision re this, esp post Turkiye censorship.

2025-05-02 17:41:16 CEST

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everybody is free to do what they want but trying to protect from the abusive conservatives by trying to make all conservatives feel unwelcome just in case, means decent conservatives don't come here and so media that appeals to them also doesn't come here, and the conversation here becomes more lopsided and people lack the conservative perspectives and growth here slows.
It's not about what I get to read. I'm concerned about the public conversation being algo crap or bubbled.

2025-05-02 16:16:02 CEST

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you can have whatever rules you want for content posted on your home server. I'm talking about federation. This is like trying to limit links on the web or where you can go in your browser. We could do that but it would make for a much less interesting place and if it had started that way, there would have much less interest in building it by everybody but the left. Most might still be on AOL (like they remain on the corporate platforms today)
I don't get your last two lines.

2025-05-02 16:00:24 CEST

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if they are policed for harassment, a maga server should be federated with. like the web has shitty content and doesn't become a Nazi bar, the key is no algos. that allows us to not see stuff we didn't ask for, even though it's a link away. that's our magic power, to let everybody coexist and everybody talk to who they want, yet not bother each other. our norms here are currently not allowing this but could.

2025-05-02 02:03:05 CEST

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last point. if a conservative server showed up but nobody there harassed anybody, there would still be calls to defederate from them. there would even be calls to defederate from other servers if those servers did not defederate from them. it would be widespread. that's not a culture we should tolerate, like any other kind of bias. IMO

2025-05-02 00:49:44 CEST

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very true.
but we're not a group app that enables private communities. a fedi server is much more a portal to the larger social web than a place in itself. the norms that predominate make some feel safer than anywhere else except a private group app, but drive many others who want more of a public square away.
sorry. what I want (open to everyone w no algos, ads or assholes) is not possible anywhere else while the greater safety others want can mostly be done in any group app.

2025-05-01 23:36:49 CEST

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it is definitely progress. having no algos or ads is essential to the "democracy of reach" only we are capable of, but we basically also lack even the nicest conservatives. afaik that's a problem with moderation on lots of fedi servers. opinions or misinfo that even most people here don't want to see, shouldn't lead to any moderation if nobody was tagged. IMO.
if we want to hear a variety of voices, be inviting to everyone and become a true public square...
#SocialWeb

2025-04-29 02:56:35 CEST

Shouldn't TEs and RBs be interchangeable? #NFL

2025-04-24 22:07:24 CEST

A discussion about how to make lefty change in America. In the Democratic party or outside of it, etc etc. I liked a lot of what #VivekChibber said, especially about using the Dems to break open the system to make other options more viable like #RankedChoiceVoting. But I don't see them letting that happen.
I still think we must focus on the "attention being controlled by the wealthy" problem. It's true in the mainstream but now also via corporate algos on social media.
https://pca.st/episode/0dfc49f1-c961-43e1-aeab-fdcb549d9bfd

2025-04-17 05:52:39 CEST

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2025-04-17 05:46:53 CEST

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when was it down?

2025-04-17 05:29:23 CEST

We don't need #tariffs that force jobs that don't need as much education back into the US. We need policies that make the education needed for the jobs we have more affordable, and tax and labor policies that create more good paying jobs in exchange for zero billionaires. Of course you're not going to get that with the wealthiest people dominating the media, institutions and both major parties. They are going to sell you on bullshit that puts us at each other's throats and won't fix shit. #uspol

2025-04-16 21:53:15 CEST

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yes we need to be more decentralized.
where is the regular tech press on this story? frustrating that the anti Trump censorship press can love BS but not understand the weakness of their relay.
here I assume the account would switch instances to one outside their govt's jurisdiction and they'd have to go after the servers their people are on or try to block IPs. even now, if everybody on BS was bridged here, the account could move to any masto server and bridge and be done.

2025-04-16 21:22:15 CEST

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I think they already did but I'd like to see some tech reporters who normally cover this space look into it
https://micro.arda.pw/@arda/114344261036182422

2025-04-16 21:18:26 CEST

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I think I saw those but don't see reddit discussions or news articles. Got links?

2025-04-16 19:16:28 CEST

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please map out this better society where people are born totally free. I wish every libertarian could be given a virtual reality to play around in, with whatever rules they want but full of NPCs with good AI approximating human nature.
over human history, we've developed the best rules we could. under those, he won twice. we must all work together to try to make the best of this situation, as we do with every imperfect president. he just has very diff thoughts re those rules apparently.

2025-04-16 18:45:08 CEST

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the user could join mastodon and bridge and bluesky could tell all its users about what happened and tell them to bridge too :/

2025-04-16 18:37:56 CEST

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it's our money that we've collectively decided through a democratic process to spend on something. It's not free, the govt pays for something it gets. and regarding business, all contracts are backed up by the govt.
we have a real problem between libertarians and establishment PR. the govt does lots of good but also fucks up. democracy and the rule of law play out in complex ways. but both sides speak without nuance. this prevents the hard work of making it better.

2025-04-16 17:33:42 CEST

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sad I missed this one. we need a social media for the public square and attention democracy, and an agreed upon best way to do groups. maybe they overlap but people need to think about what they are doing and what they want out of both. otherwise we'll get lots of complaining and both won't get to be as nice as they could be.
I love #ActivityPub for the former, and wish #matrix could be more like discord for the latter (wtih messaging and audio/video calls). then interoperate!

2025-04-16 17:15:22 CEST

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I've heard of blacksky but I wasn't aware they had a relay. all the other stuff seems to be happening. I wonder how that works.
The alternative relay project #FreeOurFeeds seems to have stalled with $100k of a hoped for couple million by now.

2025-04-16 17:07:26 CEST

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IDK

2025-04-16 17:04:55 CEST

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definitely not a perfect system.

2025-04-16 17:02:30 CEST

On a decentralized social network, your government has to go after every independent local server that wants to post the stuff they don't want you to see. And you can always use a foreign server accessing that content on foreign servers that they can't touch. The government has to shut down every way to try to access those servers outside the country. #SocialWeb
On #bluesky, they just have to ask/threaten the company running the relay for the entire service to block access in your country.

2025-04-16 16:45:07 CEST

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and of course that threat of cancellation is going to put pressure on them to change their speech, which is fine among private entities but the govt is not supposed to do that.
I get where you're coming from but it's more complicated imo. ultimately it's an issue of govt contracts. everybody can decide who they work with based on politics, but when the govt does that, it becomes a 1A concern. so govt can either do it all in house or do less stuff.

2025-04-16 16:35:17 CEST

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my understanding is very different. the federal money is for research that the govt wants to do and contracts out to private universities to do. Trump is saying we're breaking those contracts unless you stop teaching the stuff we don't like (that we don't actually give you any money to teach).
imo it's like having a longstanding business relationship with someone they've come to rely on, then cancelling it over their not new political opinions. shitty but maybe legal IDK 1A concerns.

2025-04-16 16:08:42 CEST

Hoping to see some tech journalists report on the claims of #bluesky censorship re Türkiye soon...
Or maybe the company could release a statement.

2025-04-16 13:41:48 CEST

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assuming it's true...
so that account could resurrect itself using #ActivityPub and then bridge and the owners/staff of #bluesky could explain that they had to follow the law to everybody and ask them to bridge so they can avoid this problem in the future, right?

2025-04-16 04:55:13 CEST

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and what I meant by a standard is probably more thought of as a naming convention. since the domain usually gets cut off, if most sites used something like @[email protected], that might help everybody.

2025-04-16 03:40:54 CEST

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I believe he said in this interview that we needed to shut down but not as long as we did. that other issues were not properly weighed and that there was not enough consideration given to our inability to shut down compared to an authoritarian China.
I did not know him and he came off as much more reasonable than I expected. but when she asked him the harder questions about dealing with MAHA and Trump, he seemed weak. and talked a lot about prayer. but it was worth a listen imo.

2025-04-16 01:06:13 CEST

How many need to claim something causes autism or a chronic disease for #MAHA to think it's worth looking into? How big and how long does the study need to be? Why should someone or some group be trusted with making that call or doing the research?
AFAIK there are no perfect answers to any of these questions. There never have been. There have always been dissident voices. The only difference now is the power of the internet to multiply these dissident opinions into political pressure. #science

2025-04-16 00:43:27 CEST

It's a nightmare but at least he hasn't given Alex Jones a job yet.

2025-04-15 23:20:29 CEST

This is really good. I love that #JayBhattacharya says that the people who pushed to censor him over his disagreement with the consensus over #COVID policy, thought they were doing the right thing. Doing good. Saving lives. I wish we were a culture that cared more about discussing this hard civic stuff than holding tight to comfortable and simple beliefs, virtue signaling and entertainment.
https://pca.st/ynddv4o2

2025-04-15 17:47:53 CEST

I want to know where most people still get their "news feed", using that term in the most expansive sense. What system are they letting tell them what to pay attention to, of those things outside their direct experience like family, friends and neighbors? And not the people/orgs that do the reporting, but what process puts the next item in front of their eyes or ears.
TV, radio, podcasts, direct site visits, the pure algo of Google News, the algo-with-followings of most social media...

2025-04-15 15:10:03 CEST

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the fedi username for a ghost blog? I got a bit rambly tho.

2025-04-15 01:29:48 CEST

All the pictures from the Oval office now look like somebody applied a yellow filter and then superimposed all the people.

2025-04-15 01:26:18 CEST

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yea I wonder what the standard could be. like an RSS feed but in email address form where it remains clear what you're referencing when the domain gets dropped off. one thing to consider is that it wouldn't usually be able to reply. IDK

2025-04-15 00:48:51 CEST

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progressives but yea.

2025-04-14 22:35:18 CEST

Conservatives are weird about #fairness. They'll scream that life isn't fair and you're a commie when mention income inequality. Or when you say the US mistreats other countries and should be restrained by a stronger UN, they'll call you an evil globalist. Or if you point out that some groups still feel the effects of being disadvantaged and we should give them advantages today, they'll claim you're worse than the old racists and sexists.
But let's tariff everybody to fix our trade imbalance.

2025-04-14 21:39:23 CEST

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it can (will!) default creators into having a much greater understanding of who is interacting with their work.
thinking it thru, it begs that we be very careful and deliberate in how quote posts get implemented. I hope they can somehow shape how your followers interact with whatever you're QPing, but that all QP comments are also visible as a reply when viewing the post (article, video, episode etc) itself. all while deterring dunking of course. a difficult task.

2025-04-14 21:21:32 CEST

So #Trump wants us to believe he can push every other country in the world to adopt whatever economic policy he wants, but can't get friendly little El Salvador to return one guy we just sent there?
He's the bully who "really wants to fight" but lets his buddy hold him back so he doesn't get killed.

2025-04-14 20:27:31 CEST

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every article, podcast episode and video being natively a fedi post is our killer app.

2025-04-14 19:24:00 CEST

Much of what defines power is never having to answer tough questions.

2025-04-14 19:00:06 CEST

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Ok. Can't think of another possibility besides one server, many servers or everybody is a server.

2025-04-14 16:15:11 CEST

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IMO...
perfection being the enemy of the good, just push the fedi. #ActivityPub is actually already decentralized and has momentum. build tools to make it easier to use and more capable. same with #matrix for messaging. if you can, help evolve the standard. Dave is great but will always find a way to complain about anything he isn't part of.

2025-03-31 21:58:27 CEST

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I'm fine with this kind of govt centralization.
The US has an ACH (automatic clearing house) system where banks have a routing number and then we have account numbers. What I don't get is why we can't modernize this into something like a username/domain to make transferring money like sending an email. then let us build that into apps. also #FedNow is starting up.
do other countries have this? could we have an international system?

2025-03-31 15:06:46 CEST

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agreed. but the decentralized middlemen of banks work. like fedi servers. the centralized middlemen of PayPal, Venmo etc suck but dominate. I just want a protocol to make transferring money work more like fedi than Facebook etc. maybe we weaken the power of credit card companies in the process. and stop empowering sites like Amazon by storing our billing info with them.
crypto is like everybody keeping gold and cash under their mattress.

2025-03-31 03:27:22 CEST

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I think that's true but I also want to do it without a middleman. Transfer money easily. Like email. Someday soon hopefully with @npub1494…2xd2 perhaps. But I'd still rather use what we've already got over crypto.

2025-03-27 01:53:52 CET

Who else has been #disappeared so far?
#KhalilMahmoud
#RumeysaOzturk

2025-03-24 00:57:50 CET

AFAICT #Section230 defaults the internet to small, independent websites letting people post dumb shit. And that's great cause sometimes that stuff isn't actually dumb, it was just unlikely to be thought of or said, especially by the wealthy/powerful. It was low-key genius.
Without it, everybody would have to be a lot more careful. Very similar to what we see with overly cautious moderation here on this network of small, independent websites. IMO #fediblockmeta #LiberalValues #SocialWeb

2025-03-21 19:33:50 CET

What's worse, a govt that doesn't regulate business or one that does but is willing to be paid not to? Or willing to be paid to go after their competitors instead?
I understand the libertarian argument that the ability to regulate invites corruption, but what's the alternative if the threat of competition isn't protecting us? Just let them fuck us? They don't seem to consider that this standard argument might itself be corporate propaganda. Please think harder.
https://pca.st/wimbzee8

2025-03-14 16:01:41 CET

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of course it depends. are you a listener? since it became a good grift to do so, he has spoken all manner of bullshit about COVID and vaccines.
again and like always, I am not against people giving their outsider opinions. or even bad info if they truly think it is correct. but don't act like you're smarter than people with more knowledge and experience. if you think they are lying for some reason, explain the details. don't just say they are Dems etc. engage your critics in good faith.

2025-03-14 14:46:38 CET

Please tell me @npub13cj…xnnm is not this dumb. To think that a genetic cause for a disease means all your kids will get it and not just one out of three etc. #NoAgenda #ITM #TYFYC #TBPITU
https://pca.st/episode/de3e3c99-a1ce-4156-870d-ff1f0005822e?t=5405

2025-03-14 00:42:37 CET

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people are comfortable with paying so much per month for Netflix, Spotify etc. for example, if we could instead slowly get them to pay that to creators using #peertube or making #ccmusic, we encourage more of that work, make content available to all, help culture be more independent of pressures to conform and help lessen the concentration of wealth. journalism unencumbered by ads & media owners (coupled with decent civics education) would be great for democracy.

2025-03-13 23:31:23 CET

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absolutely. when your vote matters, if one guy is a pedo and the other is a murderer, you vote for the rapist. it's that simple.

2025-03-13 23:01:45 CET

Maybe #DOGE is trying to make government more efficient like everybody wants, so any "mistakes" should be excused. But what if that's PR for those "mistakes" that are actually just small accidental exposures of a larger demolition mission?
We're all seeing it how we want to, and in this age of media distrust, unlikely to let any reporting or punditry shake us from those priors. Unless we can be personally sure of something they do that affects us positively or negatively directly.

2025-03-13 19:48:24 CET

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“The lady doth protest too much, methinks”

2025-03-13 19:44:43 CET

Alaska and Greenland should both probably become part of Canada. The US should get rid of everything beyond our 48 contiguous states, especially the military bases. #uspol

2025-03-13 18:31:10 CET

the fedi is too quick to moderate for "bad ideas" and claims of misinfo while #bluesky is too slow to moderate for harassment of conservatives. #SocialWeb

2025-03-13 17:14:18 CET

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very excited about this. it addresses a ton of concerns I've had. but how do we make users comfortable with the amount they are spending and feel like they are in control?
my thought was that you set a monthly amount in your banking app that you're comfortable with, and it gets divided up later based on reporting from your various browsers and media apps. percentage of total time works for media but not really the browser or clicks. #PublicPatron