Michael Foster
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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:
I uploaded the fifth FediCon 2025 video:
@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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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:
From discussion during the end of day panel @cyberlyra pointed out that organizational design is the underlying, un-acknowledged piece that we all have to work on and learn about.
I enthusiastically agree! My label for the design we are learning is Networked Orgs https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/networkedorgs/
Links in there to more writing including Simon Wardley’s work.
The #WardleyMaps basis is bespoke to utility tech & the orgdesign each stage needs
Also appreciate @cyberlyra’s pragmatism - using Discord because it has the tools to safely moderate a chat community with high usability.
Today we have OOYE to sync Discord with Matrix https://gitdab.com/cadence/out-of-your-element/
And Roomy https://roomy.space has plans to sync with Discord, linked with #ATProto accounts
cc @erlend
Tim Chambers
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Tim Chambers
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@purpleidea @j12t there are many “yes ands”
Higher quality software comes from? Funding, business models, serving users that pay for things.
Lots of good nuance from @j12t in his talk about not just “social media”
I have some of these themes in my talk this afternoon about all the not-microblogging apps on #ATProto
There’s even an #ATproto competitor to ForgeFed / Forgejo: https://tangled.sh/
Interestingly, it has a different follow graph than what Bluesky offers.
@purpleidea @j12t there are many “yes ands”
Higher quality software comes from? Funding, business models, serving users that pay for things.
Lots of good nuance from @j12t in his talk about not just “social media”
I have some of these themes in my talk this afternoon about all the not-microblogging apps on #ATProto
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Questions to @quillmatiq about other apps and ecosystems and ends up mentioning Sprk (open video platform, longer than what Bsky supports), Roomy (Discord chat alternative), and Germ (e2ee messaging) on the #ATProto side