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Clive Thompson
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@mmasnick's latest piece for @techdirt.com is an absolute must-read if you're interested in democracy, technology, and the possibility of a better future.
"The solution isn’t building better platforms — it’s making platforms an obsolete concept. Platforms concentrate power; protocols distribute it. Platforms extract value from users; protocols enable users to create value for themselves. Most importantly: platforms can be captured by bad actors, but protocols resist capture by design."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/take-back-our-digital-infrastructure-to-save-democracy/
#Technology#PeopleNotPlatforms#Fediverse#ActivityPub#Bluesky#ATProto#OpenSocial#OpenSocialWeb
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I uploaded the fifth FediCon 2025 video:
Boris Mann
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Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps (FediCon 2025)
by Boris Mann @boris
Wait, is @rabble saying what I think he's saying? That's there a central moderation power in BlueSky that you can't opt-out of? Even if you use an ATProto stack totally independent of BS services? Or does he just mean you can't opt-out if you're using the BS AppView, Relay, or either?
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/
#podcasts#WeDistribute#Decentered #moderation#BlueSky
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I uploaded the fifth FediCon 2025 video:
Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps (FediCon 2025)
by Boris Mann @boris
@mmasnick's latest piece for @techdirt.com is an absolute must-read if you're interested in democracy, technology, and the possibility of a better future.
"The solution isn’t building better platforms — it’s making platforms an obsolete concept. Platforms concentrate power; protocols distribute it. Platforms extract value from users; protocols enable users to create value for themselves. Most importantly: platforms can be captured by bad actors, but protocols resist capture by design."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/take-back-our-digital-infrastructure-to-save-democracy/
#Technology#PeopleNotPlatforms#Fediverse#ActivityPub#Bluesky#ATProto#OpenSocial#OpenSocialWeb
For our latest episode of The Decentered Podcast, we interviewed @rabble! It's an awesome interview that talks about Twitter, Secure Scuttlebutt, and the evolution of #Nostr.
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/
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Of course my blog supports AP but it needs a lot of work before I can use its social media thing as a replacement for anything.
Of course my blog supports AP but it needs a lot of work before I can use its social media thing as a replacement for anything.
I'm pretty much exclusively on Bluesky now.
https://bsky.app/profile/kyefox.com
I rarely send newsletters, but if you want to keep up, hit that subscribe button and I'll eventually get around to figuring out what I want to do with the blog:
Tim Chambers
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We're proud to support A New Social, a non-profit helmed by @quillmatiq and @snarfed.org. Learn more here about its mission to liberate people's networks from their platforms, and level the playing field across the open social web.
https://www.anew.social/hello-social-web/
#OpenSocialWeb#SocialNetworks#SocialWeb#Bluesky#BridgyFed#PeopleNotPlatforms
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Okay, really interesting that rich text and out-of-band hashtags are supported in #ATProtocol but the #Bluesky client.
Haha. I guess it’s not so different from #ActivityPub in some aspects.
Tim Chambers
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Neat to hear @boris talk about #ATProtocol (which is not#Bluesky), and building apps for it.
Tim Chambers
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Okay, really interesting that rich text and out-of-band hashtags are supported in #ATProtocol but the #Bluesky client.
Haha. I guess it’s not so different from #ActivityPub in some aspects.