Open social media has a new fan: U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna. The congressman for California's 17th Congressional District appeared on Kara Swisher's "On" podcast last week and talked about Bluesky, @surf, and the importance of being able to construct your own social graph, take your followers where you go, and opt out of algorithms. Here's the full episode:
#SocialMedia #OpenSocial #SurfSocial #Bluesky #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #ATProto #ActivityPub
Open social media has a new fan: U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna. The congressman for California's 17th Congressional District appeared on Kara Swisher's "On" podcast last week and talked about Bluesky, @surf, and the importance of being able to construct your own social graph, take your followers where you go, and opt out of algorithms. Here's the full episode:
#SocialMedia #OpenSocial #SurfSocial #Bluesky #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #ATProto #ActivityPub
Asking again: does anyone who edits Wikipedia want to glance over and hit publish on this Blacksky draft?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Blacksky
EDIT!! it's live now thanks to @Szescstopni
And thanks to everyone in the #Fediverse who contributed to this page!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksky
(now not only is Blacksky, the social media project represented, it's also knocked Blacksky, the US military contractor, out of being the only Blacksky on Wikipedia)
#Fediverse users worked together to make sure #Blacksky has a #Wikipedia page, arising from the need to educate users here about the project, starting in about September last year (https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/115166596826618536 )
I was sort of trying to cheerlead but you-all are who actually built the page! 🙏 ❤️
thanks to @Anne_Delong https://musician.social/@Anne_Delong/115321834133067505 among others.
It's ironic that this page went live right as people are breaking their bridged connections to Bluesky because of ICE getting verified there +
Technical details are largely above my paygrade, but it's interesting that also today, Blacksky is running an appview of its own, per @mcc (linking out to Blacksky's Rudy Frasier)
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115917963359245981
Maybe there will be a way to stay bridged to Blacksky while remaining (ahem) defederated from Bluesky, from instances over here?
(mcc's 🧵 gives some back story here, and it [the thread not the story] begins in... September of last year)
Asking again: does anyone who edits Wikipedia want to glance over and hit publish on this Blacksky draft?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Blacksky
EDIT!! it's live now thanks to @Szescstopni
And thanks to everyone in the #Fediverse who contributed to this page!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksky
(now not only is Blacksky, the social media project represented, it's also knocked Blacksky, the US military contractor, out of being the only Blacksky on Wikipedia)
@Ilka4You @DavidBHimself @Gargron I still have yet to learn how Bsky's supposed to be the *federated* platform they claim to be.
@P__X @Ilka4You @DavidBHimself @Gargron Some say you can host the whole thing on a Raspberry Pi, but I doubt it. I haven't seen many people endorsing or encouraging self-hosting for Bluesky. And really, what's the point if 99% of users are on Bluesky's main servers or using their relay?
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:web:didd.uk/post/3mcni53squ225
Hello user experience, content design, information architecture, UX research, and adjacent professionals 👋 Say hi if interested in the future of online social and/or #atproto. I plan to pilot a few UX office hours sessions for the AT Protocol community, and would like to invite new perspectives in
Hello user experience, content design, information architecture, UX research, and adjacent professionals 👋 Say hi if interested in the future of online social and/or #atproto. I plan to pilot a few UX office hours sessions for the AT Protocol community, and would like to invite new perspectives in
🏄🏻🎉 There's a new beta for Surf available on TestFlight and Google Play. As well as the usual performance improvements and bug fixes, we've made some updates to the Surf Shop. Tap Discover Feeds in your sidebar to check out what's new and find inspiration for when you create your own feeds.
#SurfFeeds #Flipboard #ActivityPub #ATProto #OpenSocial #Apps #Technology #Tech
🏄🏻🎉 There's a new beta for Surf available on TestFlight and Google Play. As well as the usual performance improvements and bug fixes, we've made some updates to the Surf Shop. Tap Discover Feeds in your sidebar to check out what's new and find inspiration for when you create your own feeds.
#SurfFeeds #Flipboard #ActivityPub #ATProto #OpenSocial #Apps #Technology #Tech