william ⁂ maggos

Advocate for #DemocracyOfReach

"federate with everybody except trolls"

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2026-08-27 17:35:15 UTC

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decentralized media thwarts the power of money (or force) to shape public opinion. the web gave us speech, fedi does it for attention. of course we're a threat.
what annoys me is that we're not taking advantage of our power here. most would rather keep their nice but conservative relatives away than focus moderation only on harassment. we've somehow managed to browse a web full of shitty sites for decades and it didn't become a Nazi bar.
harrumph.

2026-08-20 23:57:25 UTC

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fediblock is great to prevent users from being harassed. like we do with spam. everyone shouldn't have to see crap and block assholes themselves.
but you're being ridiculous if you don't think it's used to prevent a server's users from possibly stumbling on posts they (the admin or lots of the server's users) deem upsetting. that happens and done at scale, it makes this place uninviting to non lefties.

2026-08-20 22:30:01 UTC

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I guess you've never heard conservatives complain about the mainstream media. or what they thought of Twitter before Elon bought it. both sides have large elements who do not want to be told what to think.
the right needs to do less trolling and we need to do less blocking in pursuit of never stumbling on racism etc. all while most of us agree on preventing harassment in any direction.
our culture and civic future requires that we do this better.

2026-08-13 15:07:14 UTC

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I'm kinda scared @npub18xn…kv33 wants to be the player instead of one of many that works through an open API.

2026-08-09 14:38:32 UTC

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can you send it out to #owncast?

2026-08-07 14:46:31 UTC

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except politically :(
we all have family members who, while they'd never troll anyone, would be harassed and fediblocked if they joined and expressed their honest opinions here. that has to change.

2026-08-04 19:23:58 UTC

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the Dem party that mostly loves killing brown foreigners? I think having shitty opinions about foreign policy which leads to mass murder is worse than opinions on trans sports but go on fedi.
my view is that the view doesn't matter if you aren't pushing it on anyone. I want to talk to Zionists here. etc etc.
Nazi is the term of art here. have you ever seen someone use it too broadly and people rush in to defend the conservative? they'd get punched too.

2026-08-04 19:06:19 UTC

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Any conservative opinion posted here is likely to get you widely called a Nazi and harassed and blocked, maybe your entire server. but yes imo there is a difference.

2026-08-04 19:01:14 UTC

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neither do I. that's one user getting banned from a quasi private space. what I'm concerned about is a fedi norm that supports harassment and fediblocks for opinions deemed somewhere on the conservative spectrum. for entire servers with a few users who post like that. sometimes for entire servers that federate with such servers.
and while this might have personal benefit, it leads to us staying small and bad places growing. at least everyone can connect over there.

2026-08-04 16:21:44 UTC

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what's mind blowing to me is that people here either have never found value in relationships they've had with people who wouldn't be fairly treated here, or are too cowardly to fight for them.

2026-08-04 16:16:32 UTC

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you shouldn't want to know shit about me. I cavort with people you'd call Nazis. you support policies that would exile me for my relationships.

2026-08-04 16:09:12 UTC

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sit in a bar with a Nazi. he's talking quietly with friends. when they get too loud, the bartender tells them to quiet down and they do. everybody at the bar has a nice night.
vs the Nazi refuses to be quiet and the bartender does nothing and normies leave and it becomes a Nazi bar.
vs the Nazi refuses to be quiet and gets kicked out.
vs the Nazi never gets loud but you go tell him to GTFO not cause you heard him across the room but you just don't want him there. then what?

2026-08-04 15:59:33 UTC

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I don't believe that the majority of people here want a fedi where expressing shitty opinions or boosting stuff many don't like, means it's ok to be harassed or exiled.
or maybe the majority here does feel that way, but then we will never grow. which they are probably ok with, but it means the vast majority of people can't use social media or will be on platforms with algos where they get bombarded with horrible propaganda.

2026-08-04 15:54:48 UTC

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except we already do this with the open web and IRL. it's not perfect but if we tried to make them both more perfect in the ways we do here (not by dialogue but exile and limiting where we could browse), both would break.

2026-08-04 15:50:37 UTC

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you should feel as bothered by someone saying that stuff on fedi as you do about all the horrible websites that exist. without algos and when nobody is tagged and it's posted on a server you're not on, it should be completely ignorable. we don't try to police the web in the way we do fedi, otherwise I'd be unable to browse nice sites cause I also browse bad sites (my server is blocked because of which other servers I federate with).

2026-08-04 13:42:47 UTC

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there should be one decentralized social media network with everyone on it, like the web. but also where pushing yourself into others feeds, like spam, isn't tolerated. ultimately, it can't be X or bluesky cause those both won't really be decentralized ever.
my brother is MAGA. I'm sure most of us have family that wouldn't be treated well here if they honestly expressed themselves and boosted stuff they liked, even if they weren't intentionally bothering anyone. that has to change.

2026-08-03 16:28:32 UTC

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right but eventually we should have a protocol for bank to bank fiat transfers, no longer having to manage multiple intermediaries. same with apps that let us search and listen to music, no matter where they host their music or how. then we merge the two, directly paying an amount we can afford directly to them for percentage of total time spent with their work over a month. etc etc.
#PublicPatron #Chorus

2026-07-31 19:14:21 UTC

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there's nobody born between 1965 and 1980? :) where do you lump in my people?

2026-07-31 18:57:10 UTC

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#GenX erasure continues

2026-07-28 00:25:26 UTC

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yikes. I'm in Downers Grove. my house got mostly spared but there's damage in the neighborhood. not as bad as you're reporting. we've been out of power since about 1pm tho.

2026-07-27 16:56:29 UTC

AFAIK OBS is how most video streamers connect to their #owncast servers. Is there something like this for @npub1jat…6hv0? FOSS, available for most operating systems and widely embraced.
#icecast
https://mastodon.social/@OBSProject/116992951370777689

2026-07-27 13:51:30 UTC

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I'm glad you're trying but I'm generally not a fan of adding complexity, esp when most people already can't handle choosing a server.
The fedi I want looks like the web. We'd be able to follow "horrible" people and not get cut off from also following friends and the "best" people on other servers. the problem is norms not tech.
I'm not a bad guy...
https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=liberal.city

2026-07-26 21:44:31 UTC

Most people want to have private online conversations. Some also want to post publicly. I get wanting to be able to use the same account for both but trying to let everyone do so seems to be creating more problems than it solves. Lots of confusion and anger and tons of effort to build in more nuance and moderation capacity to the tools we already have and need to keep somewhat simple to encourage adoption.
Perhaps build on #matrix and #ActivityPub separately. Have users list both accounts.

2026-07-25 20:16:23 UTC

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we'll never get close to that real life complexity here. that's why I'm focused on what we already figured out and try to understand what makes what we're trying to do so hard. my conclusion is it isn't. we're just trying to do diff things with similar tech/norms. impossible.
you want to grow. many don't. imo saying anybody can play my music is enough. they want direct endorsement.
my non troll MAGA brother would never be treated like I am here. mod tools can't fix that.

2026-07-25 19:28:58 UTC

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everyone seems to understand websites (public attention), group apps (private communities) and email (potentially so bothersome that users need moderation help at the server level). we've managed letting people post whatever they want forever and ignoring it. we created spaces for only certain interested people. we address spam.
we're going to struggle as long as we're not clear on our goals. I don't think it's a tool or org problem. we mostly don't want the same thing.

2026-07-24 13:26:09 UTC

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so why define it that way? what gets posted on a server doesn't have to be oriented to that community. people usually aren't excluded from having accounts. in my experience, you can usually join if you're nice.
afaik it's usually just a feel good term to use and people can't think of another way to talk about it. people want to say they are making a place for this group or that, and don't consider how that can confuse or push away people who don't know where to join.

2026-07-23 07:08:42 UTC

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I don't get thinking of servers as a community, except to the degree something like the fans of a podcast start a server to talk to each other AND figure out the fedi. but communities are insular and that's the opposite of interoperability. and everybody will soon have friends off server that they feel like are part of their community.
a server shares mod policy. in order to avoid centralization, when no other sensible division makes sense, let's separate servers by locality.

2026-07-22 19:52:23 UTC

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https://mailchi.mp/nashownotes/rip-jcd-no-agenda-newsletter

2026-07-22 19:39:52 UTC

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damn.

2026-07-21 13:05:21 UTC

Is the Open #subsonic API already doing what I was hoping to see out of #canimus / #chorus?
a protocol to enable a decentralized Spotify?
cc [@fluffy](https://plush.city/@fluffy ) @npub166d…xj3f
https://opensubsonic.netlify.app/

2026-07-18 15:13:58 UTC

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I constantly said to my fellow lefties after he lost in 2020 that he would not try to stay in office, no matter how many times they told me he would. I was wrong. I no longer put that shit past him.

2026-07-18 14:42:02 UTC

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Trump wants this done quickly because he thinks it could protect him from a hostile Congress and maybe win him a third term. he doesn't give a shit about the country. Pie in the sky thinking is how we do anything worthwhile and outside the interests of elites and partisans (and their propaganda).

2026-07-18 14:31:53 UTC

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having to go through the lengthy process and pay to leave the country is nuts.

2026-07-17 17:09:44 UTC

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I think it's an issue worth compromising over.
What I'd like to see is everybody get a passport for free and make us use that for lots of government stuff, including voting. But have it roll out by 2030. I know libertarians might not like it.

2026-07-17 16:58:29 UTC

Last night, Trump somehow did not claim any #elections were stolen.
First, a short self congratulatory SOTU.
Then he said there's lots of election related info that can be improperly obtained. And that there were influence campaigns against him. Same as Dems said re Russia. Trump focused on China. If you doubted Dems, why believe Trump? Why trust a deep state he now controls?
Last he said we need more voter regulation. Yes GOP, that will deter participation, like it does re business activity.

2026-07-11 13:58:18 UTC

An article can be made boostable with #ActivityPub. I call it #APnative and WordPress and Ghost already allow us to publish that way. I desperately want this to happen with podcasts too. Perhaps such that we use AP in addition or instead of RSS as the base of the format.
Can content that works with #ATproto live outside of a PDS?
cc @npub10jf…4g7l

2026-07-10 16:36:51 UTC

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I agree. We have two murderous political parties and yet it's still proper to vote for the one that's better for trans people etc and lots of other things even if only moderately so.

2026-07-04 04:03:21 UTC

Social networking apps are for talking to your community. Group and chat apps. Exclude everyone except the exact people you want to hear from. #matrix
Social media is for getting the world's attention. Defined by the boost. Only exclude the people whose inclusion leads to others not participating. #ActivityPub

2026-07-03 21:44:45 UTC

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mostly we've slowly gotten better from a social aspect but economics is more complicated. unions were stronger, the wealthy shouldered more of the cost for helping to pay for housing and education. but women and minorities didn't get the benefits. my sense is we lag behind Europe generally now but I'd hope there's some good market things we could retain without the bad stuff.

2026-07-01 18:06:26 UTC

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I'd say matrix instead of signal but yes.
this is kinda the big conversation we don't fully have here. social networking vs social media. small vs big fedi. this confusion/disagreement slows down everything else. ultimately imo the people who gave mastodon etc critical mass did so to escape the big fedi idea, but in so doing, built the best possible tool to do big social media well. ironic.

2026-06-30 18:53:05 UTC

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but why?
I ask because I think it's the algos and worry that failing to make this distinction in the popular consciousness is moving people away from a great technology. And that people in mass media would love this to happen cause decentralized social media challenges their power.

2026-06-28 20:43:12 UTC

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wouldn't having half or more of the web on Gopher made for a worse web and helped prolong the dominance of AOL etc? sorry but that's how I see it.
And of course the people who came late to the party with VC backing are playing nice. they always do, until they outlast the competitors and don't fear what users will do when they enshittify. it doesn't matter how nice their team is, they will get moved out as necessary.
the app view is nice but it naturally centralizes network power.

2026-06-21 13:53:54 UTC

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and I've seen a lot of near misses by cyclists disrespecting pedestrians. but they also constantly jaywalk. It's a shit show and we all need to do better.

2026-06-14 20:36:37 UTC

#JoeRogan now appears to have serious regrets about supporting #Trump in 2024. I plan to watch tonight in hopes that he takes advantage of his position at the center of the broadcast to voice them.
#UFC #WhiteHouse #Idiocracy

2026-05-30 20:29:13 UTC

With all this concern over #GrahamPlatner and Dems in #Maine, I got to wondering what's the point of #RankedChoiceVoting. They have RCV but use it poorly. They should get rid of partisan primaries and just have an election where the top five vote getters advance to the general RCV election. Maybe one of them is GP but the Dem party wouldn't matter. And his presence wouldn't preclude somebody lots of Dems like.
Our civics sucks to a large degree cause our political system is broken. Media too.

2026-05-22 17:45:31 UTC

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Frightened Rabbit deserved so much more.
The Cure blew me away live.

2026-05-21 13:36:08 UTC

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journalists (but many others too) want a network with huge democratic reach where everyone they care about can talk to each other. open networks facilitate this if we work to let people only see what they want (no ads, corp algos, mod for unwanted mentions) and no node can block user visibility for much of the network
[see Link re bluesky. ATproto will always have this big node power problem imo]

2026-05-20 13:08:08 UTC

Somebody please go find out why Republicans voted against #Massie. I really can't understand it unless they still just love Trump blindly or were tricked by the advertising. He's like a perfect Republican with integrity.
cc @npub10us…p5pu @npub1gx2…4lmh @npub1ll8…2w72 @npub135w…4llc

2026-05-16 20:21:21 UTC

#Twitter did not make it possible for #Trump to win, but #Facebook did. With ads and algos and massive participation from naturally conservative audiences and a shunning of it by respected journalists and the left. Early Twitter without ads or algos made it possible for lots of ideas to gain traction that corporate media ignored, like the Arab Spring. Preventing the sharing of info and organizing by those hurt by the wealthy, and fostering political division among them, is why #Elon bought it.

2026-05-15 13:05:52 UTC

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not sure I get how to use this...

2026-05-15 01:52:56 UTC

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cool, got a link?
here I'd just like to be able to link to the episode itself on their website and tag the creator and not have a pcast link, but yea my big dream is running podcasts off AP.

2026-05-15 01:39:11 UTC

A great episode but I wish #PocketCasts provided a better link. That would require most podcasts had their own website tho. And if I may be so bold, that the podcasters had a fedi account. It could be the same thing... [@Castopod](https://podlibre.social/@Castopod ) ?
https://pca.st/episode/9868d7de-3985-4bd4-a1fc-27bc9abab433

2026-05-13 12:38:51 UTC

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looks like another @npub1ynz…en3h to me. it's great to have better alternatives to Bandcamp but the future has to be a decentralized Spotify. the musicians have their own site and we listen in an app we choose and the money is transferred directly in amounts that work for both sides.

2026-05-10 18:21:23 UTC

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/

2026-05-10 10:07:39 UTC

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you are extrapolating from my argument that it's best if the public collectively decides how info, ideas and art spreads instead of fewer people with more money dominating that process, to claim I'm arguing for human value being based on followers and that I'm against other forms of fighting for change and that I want to force people to interact etc. I'm not saying any of that.

2026-05-10 03:13:08 UTC

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and maybe you don't share some of that stuff. but some stuff, you do. and some of that, your followers think is worth sharing with their followers. and we are hopefully less misled by a few people with access to the mass media version of bullhorns but moreso by the wisdom of crowds. Or those who have a social media version of a bullhorn in the form of lots of followers who they had to earn, not achieve reach by buying ads or a media outlet.
bad attention stewards will lack followers.

2026-05-10 03:00:16 UTC

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who decides it's the wrong things? the people should get to decide imo. and we won't all see everything but hopefully the best stuff can bubble up. isn't this how the world figured out fire etc, just more slowly?

2026-05-09 13:28:42 UTC

When you maximize the ability of humans to determine what info, ideas and art gets the most attention, I think you better society as fast as possible. I trust us collectively to properly manage the selfish incentives when the power is properly distributed. Fully connected while not allowing anyone to be harassed into silence, must be our goal.
#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #DemocracyOfReach

2026-05-04 15:56:28 UTC

People and organizations have deeply held values but the space where those entities argue for their viewpoints cannot if we want everyone to feel they are being treated fairly. It can also not allow people or organizations to be harassed into leaving or directly silenced.
The conflict is in how we think of something like an open social media network or university. Is it a node or the underlying web of connections? A speaker or where the dialogue happens?
#SocialWeb #FreeSpeech

2026-05-03 23:25:46 UTC

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sure don't talk to your dad. don't hire jerks. but the equivalent to that on fedi is muting or blocking people yourself, not pushing for it at the server level. and of course, if your dad and his buddies all join the same server and most of them harass Jews and their admin refuses to do anything about it, I think we can block their server. but somebody's mom who says dumb shit about trans people but would never bother a trans person, shouldn't get her server defederated.

2026-05-03 14:29:44 UTC

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I guess you don't have any intolerant family members. also isn't it tolerating intolerance to allow them to walk among us? why do you draw the line at using fedi and not the web? why not consider people who drive or eat meat as intolerable? or those who pay taxes to a government at war?
we all suck and get better through dialogue.

2026-05-03 13:38:52 UTC

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what you're arguing for will not achieve what you want. we'll just have separate networks misunderstanding and hating each other. the more difficult but more productive approach is to connect everyone as long as they do not intentionally bother each other. without algos, like on the web, people with strongly opposed views can coexist. the Nazi bar problem goes away.

2026-05-01 16:32:40 UTC

In the video in the post I just boosted, @npub16sj…va89 says #Substack is now boiling the frog in a slow move from email towards lock-in. And of course they work with Nazis etc.
What we need is an effort between newsletter publishers like #Ghost #WordPress etc and reader apps like @npub1tlw…nzdv to build an ecosystem like podcasting. To make it smooth while remaining totally open. I'd argue for using #ActivityPub in addition to RSS to support boosts. Then we need decentralized money.
#APnative

2026-04-25 17:03:35 UTC

He loves to say he has all the cards and the other guy has none. At this point, I think the game is uno. #DadJokes

2026-04-24 16:49:31 UTC

The #WHCA dinner could be awesome. I love the idea of electeds having to deal with a room full of adversarial journalists, with all of it getting out to the public unedited. Add in lots of talk of our great ideals and comics exposing where the nation falls short. Then have other celebrities wandering around in order to get more of the public to pay attention.
That's kinda my dream of a perfect party. Where the small talk is instead about important issues and political philosophy.

2026-04-20 23:50:02 UTC

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but this capability is really important. revolutionary even. it can prevent wars when the govt and big money thinks an invasion is a good idea and is even willing to lie to make that happen. evidence and arguments they don't like but the public collectively finds important and trustworthy should get the most attention instead.
and because of this, I think the decentralization difference matters. a few app views can be squeezed in a way thousands of servers cannot.

2026-04-20 19:39:28 UTC

Fedi is frustrating because we're so awesome for the one thing almost nobody seems to care about here. Uncontrollable virality based purely on human agency.
Obviously there's no corporate ads or algos. But you can also find your people and hang out with them without being bothered using so many other technologies. Currently even bluesky has a ban hammer that will affect your reach on almost the entire ATmosphere.
We're using a hammer to dig ditches.
#SocialWeb #DemocracyOfReach

2026-04-20 19:14:54 UTC

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and people can use alternatives to google...
my concern is not just about having options but how everybody using the same thing has societal effects.
people don't have to use Amazon but if that's good enough, they will. and society gets impacted.
so I see bluesky going in that direction and I can't see that happening based on AP. so I argue for helping people understand the difference and focusing on the awesome things AP could enable that's less likely under AT.
see @npub156x…ju5t

2026-04-20 18:49:55 UTC

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what's so much more likely tho is most people will use bluesky and they will enshittify and most people won't care. like google.
if we get a mass movement from the platforms to decentralized social and they become the dominant player, their choices will impact more people than meta or X or Tiktok.
credible exit is based on collective action. everybody deciding they suck and switching together. that never happens. instead they can slowly turn off interop or add exclusive features.

2026-04-19 17:24:56 UTC

Lots of rich people freely give and maybe they care about having their name on something good. But why can't we harness this money and interest to fight the venture capitalists with the development of new protocols and FOSS? Get there first and make the open systems so good that the bad guys can't sneak in with fantastic promises only to enshittify later? Basically what #ActivityPub tried to do without big money. Are grants just always so much smaller than investments? Is it a PR war?
#bluesky

2026-04-18 22:25:08 UTC

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I get that but assuming bluesky doesn't get nuked, they will have a lot of power. and while other such entities could exist, they will all have a lot of power. and there won't be many of them due to cost.
do I have that right? can that be changed without losing the benefits of easy search and simplicity and the smoother experience people like about it?
since wafrn works with the PDSs without bluesky, what do you think users lose out on?

2026-04-18 22:08:32 UTC

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I'd love to know what you think about the AT vs AP systems. I find the PDS idea awesome but hate the app view, that it seems designed to ensure a quite centralized experience. what the tech might enable vs how it will actually play out. AT developers seem to think they will run a service on the network and get rich while AP developers want to make a new thing possible and imagine endless implementations. maybe I'm too cynical.

2026-04-18 15:01:10 UTC

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this is what made the AT rollout so frustrating. while one could see the problems it addressed, it increased others. and one could see why it would be more appealing to VCs.
so imo if one protocol will dominate and there will be tradeoffs to the design choice, we should ask what our goals are and which one best achieves them. I understand AT as more appealing re experience and thus quick growth. AP is more sustainably open, better for healthy civics and free culture.

2026-04-17 23:19:52 UTC

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don't we do this with HTTP?

2026-04-17 23:11:10 UTC

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I don't understand. there's more agency in AP than AT if we're talking about no gatekeepers, but less if we're talking about potential audience.

2026-04-17 23:03:40 UTC

@npub1ety…5krm
https://stream.ryno.cc/oo
dead for me

2026-04-17 22:59:16 UTC

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I get how you prefer the tradeoffs (and it's why I'm desperate for a big public convo over we care about decentralization) but I have a hard time believing you actually believe AT will get more independent (thanks to VC).

2026-04-17 19:51:22 UTC

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yea but it's bigger than a brand of rechargeable tools. imo AT means less independence for creators, while AP means the experience is less smooth. AT means waiting for the monetization shoe to drop while AP means making it a lot harder to build and grow.

2026-04-17 19:37:49 UTC

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lots of telling people how to use tech is overblown imo, but I don't think people are wrong re the negative social implications of big tech, like using X or substack. or the YouTube algo. I think Trump won mostly thanks to boomers and Facebook algo.
I'm glad you're trying to give people a way out but I think the business model will account for that. imo VC history shows they will "go evil" and I can't see how it's wrong to try to convince people to just build here instead.

2026-04-17 19:00:20 UTC

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capitalism does this automatically. afaict you're trying to bend that curve for what you see as a humanitarian purpose.

2026-04-17 18:54:02 UTC

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but we're all in the "small digital business ecosystem" support business, right?
#CraftBeerCapitalism

2026-04-17 18:28:25 UTC

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my buddy started a taco joint. small but growing. then taco bell got bought by a nazi and decided the packaging would have fascist shit on it. my buddy's business spiked, but then Chipotle showed up. funded by VC, they undercut my neighbor on cost. they rolled out more products faster and grew like crazy. I told him that if he could just hold on, VCs eventually demand a return and their prices would go up. while Chipotle employees were nice, I screamed they were cheating.

2026-04-17 17:41:00 UTC

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I didn't like her framing. I replied here:
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qjeavhlw222ppsre4rscd3n2/post/3mjonpuy2ok2i

2026-04-17 17:02:40 UTC

Longform could be so much better and indy if everybody worked together. Fuck #substack.
Publish anywhere as #APnative so that it auto shares on fedi, not just a post linking to it. When we bookmark it, it shows up in a queue in our chosen reader app. Then we scroll or use TTS to have it read to us while we do other stuff etc. The creator and time spent is reported to our bank and used monthly to divide up and distribute an amount we choose. And we can boost the article.
#DemocracyOfReach

2026-04-17 16:26:54 UTC

The Story of Reality Winner, America’s Most Unlikely Leaker
via @npub1tlw…nzdv
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/who-is-reality-winner.html

2026-04-17 15:08:07 UTC

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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 19:43:09 UTC

What would #MAGA say if it turns out Trump did rape a girl that Epstein introduced him to, and then her dad assassinates him? They love that revenge fantasy shit, right?

2026-04-16 19:08:55 UTC

So true. I'm partial to the Enlightenment but Jesus also made the point that human life shouldn't just be ruled by the law of the jungle. What the administration argues for, that those with more force should be able to exert their will. That has really been US foreign policy under a cloak of democracy promotion PR since WW2. Trump is just more forthright about it.
#DaPope is at least a vocal symbol that lots of people think that attitude is abhorrent.

2026-04-16 06:11:14 UTC

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

2026-04-15 20:18:01 UTC

I deactivated the #bluesky account I was using to ask people to federate here. : (

2026-04-15 15:26:07 UTC

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"because you have an invalid view of what a bigot is, and what they do"
we're done for now.

2026-04-15 14:59:24 UTC

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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.

2026-04-15 14:48:25 UTC

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again, I am not arguing that the fedi can solve bigotry. but that there's a larger vision that is really just an attempted improvement on what humans do. advance culture and civics through conversation and sharing the best info, ideas and art of others. social media, mostly through the boost, helps us do that faster. decentralization removes the dominant influence of big money in how that flows.
we didn't need to end bigotry first to make this work IRL. same here.

2026-04-15 14:22:22 UTC

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@npub15pc…wrfk
I brought up Mr Davis and Mrs Phelps only to refute your argument that bigots can't change. Then I also tried to point out that not all bigots are harassers. I also argued that you too have views that others on the left wish they could never stumble upon here.
Somehow you turned all that into me believing this place is for therapy for bigots. I do not.
I believe this place can realize a marketplace of ideas vision but to do so, it must be as inclusive as possible.

2026-04-14 18:42:40 UTC

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imo it's an attention layer for the open web. nothing else can do that democratically.
done for today with you calling me a therapist for bigots.

2026-04-14 18:17:58 UTC

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what is the point of fedi?

2026-04-14 17:51:43 UTC

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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 17:42:09 UTC

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I wish there was a "we love Fox news" boomer server. not 4chan people but I really like the flag people. I'd hope you join me in advocating it not be blocked.

2026-04-14 17:21:59 UTC

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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 17:15:14 UTC

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cause we shouldn't defederate a server for hosting this. like we wouldn't demand browsers be unable to visit a blog that posted this.