a helpful write-up on how content moderation on Bluesky is conceptualised

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3m2j6ccx2bs2t

🔥 RSS/Atom support opens up data portability beyond the fediverse.
You can now subscribe to user feeds, thread comments, posts, articles, events, media feeds, or custom feeds directly in your RSS client.

Demo: https://www.tella.tv/video/cmg57fu7u00050bjj2skigzpn/embed?b=0&title=0&a=1&loop=0&t=0&muted=0&wt=0%22

Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/

#enshittification #release #dataportability

🔥 Consent-based quoting has arrived in Bonfire!

The latest Bonfire Social release implements Mastodon's FEP-044f, enabling you to:
✨ Use boundaries to define who can quote your post, who must request first, or who cannot request at all.
✨ Quote — or request consent to quote — someone else’s post.
✨ Give or withdraw consent at any time.

A first step toward making quoting work smoothly and respectfully across the fediverse.

Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/

#quote

🔥 More Anti-enshittification features now live in Bonfire

✨ Complete data portability: Export/import now supports circles/lists, bookmarks, likes, and boosts alongside follows, blocks, and posts.

✨ Transparency by design: A dedicated real-time dashboard to monitor migration progress in detail and troubleshoot issues.

Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/
#enshittification #release

As big weird primates, we tend to understand emotional intensity and high incoming comms volume and markers of status at a very low level, but we've mostly not had the chance to play with those dynamics in our online platforms in consent-forward and socially skillful (rather than shady or extractive or clumsy/all-acceleration-all-the-time) ways.

Before this escapes my contextual sphere, I should say that the things I'm ~thinking about would acknowledge that, for example, getting boosted by an account with a million followers is meaningfully different from getting boosted by an account with a few dozen.

Systems that allow custom discovery algos could build out feeds that surface not just "popular with friends" but "small or newer accounts that cover things I love and that have indicated that they want to be found."

Daydreaming about social features that take differences in account size + differences between individual vs. org accounts into consideration.

Oh, the paper link one more time!

"Pin the tail on the researcher: From distributed to meshy accountability in decentralized social media"

https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644

(ETA: Oh, and sincere thanks to everyone who's both lent moral support & helped me navigate this situation, including offering insights about network architecture & features. I say that in the paper but I should post it here too 💛)

#Commodon #FLOSS #Mastodon #STS #MeshyAccountability #LocatedAccountability #FeministSTS

@firesloth@gts.scoobysnack.net hey

boycot vercel/nextjs

bloomberg.com/news/articles/...

#palestine strike in formia

Margaret Atwood is on substack, likely the most relevant substack in days like these...
margaretatwood.substack.com/

@firesloth@gts.scoobysnack.net hey do you get this mention?

A new microseason in the "Beginning of autumn" (立秋 Risshū) division has begun:

Cool winds blow (涼風至 Suzukaze itaru)

This microseason will last until August 12.

"How do we maintain a sense of individual agency when our connection is increasingly distributed?"
I am enjoying every second of this talk:
unlikehumans.antikythera.org/

@bonfire@indieweb.social test

@deadsuperhero@spark.box464.social we developed a PWA that does a decent job imo, re. native apps, we will have some cool news soon-ish :)
@spark464@spark.box464.social

measure this ceppa bryan johnson...
noemamag.com/cultivating-wel...

Bonfire is one of the most exciting projects in the ActivityPub ecosystem, whilst Newsmast brings experience in community-building, advocacy, and outreach through projects like https://Channel.org.

You can learn more about Bonfire's Mosaic project here: https://bonfirenetworks.org/mosaic/

Let’s see what we can achieve together!

Bonfire x Newsmast

We’re excited to share that Bonfire and @newsmast are working together.

We’re collaborating across several key areas:

🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire

🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels mobile app and Bonfire

🌌 Partnering to offer services for organisations around Bonfire’s Mosaic initiative

#Bonfire#Newsmast#Fediverse#SocialWeb#TechNews#FediNews