Thank you again to @mike for joining me on this episode of Fireside Fedi!
#CEO #Flipboard #surf #openSocialWeb
#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/gg6vMsHxWSX8e1FJW6y6az
#Castopod #Fedicast - https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/mike-mccue-flipboard-and-surf-livestream-2025-10-22
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Thank you again to @mike for joining me on this episode of Fireside Fedi!
#CEO #Flipboard #surf #openSocialWeb
#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/gg6vMsHxWSX8e1FJW6y6az
#Castopod #Fedicast - https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/mike-mccue-flipboard-and-surf-livestream-2025-10-22
#Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@btfree_org
All #Links - https://firesidefedi.live
#stream #interview #firesideFedi #FsF #people #peopleOverPlatforms #protocolsOverPlatforms #fedi #fediverse #open #internet #openInternet #podcast #show #episode #peertube #vod #castopod #writefreely #lemmy #boostplease #fedizen #btfree #bigTechFree #nonprofit #signup #tubeFree
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#gratefulforyou post today goes to @jaz . Jaz has given everything to make the #opensocialweb a safe and trusted place. He's created multiple tools to help all of us. And most don't even know he exists. Until my first #FediForum I didn't. And yet, he's still there in the background fighting to protect us all. I'm going to be talking with him on Fireside Fedi today, but I want Jaz to know, I really am grateful for all you've done.
Missed @ben's keynote at this year's @fediforum? Here's the full transcript. "The opportunity right now isn't to build a better Twitter or to provide a nice place for people who care about Linux to chat: it's to build infrastructure that vulnerable people can actually use to organize, to communicate safely, and to build community. But we can only do that if we're building with those communities from day one, not building for them based on our assumptions about what they need."
#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Community #CommmunityBuilding #FediForum #Fediverse #Media #ActivityPub #ATProto #Protocols #Technology #Tech
Missed @ben's keynote at this year's @fediforum? Here's the full transcript. "The opportunity right now isn't to build a better Twitter or to provide a nice place for people who care about Linux to chat: it's to build infrastructure that vulnerable people can actually use to organize, to communicate safely, and to build community. But we can only do that if we're building with those communities from day one, not building for them based on our assumptions about what they need."
#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Community #CommmunityBuilding #FediForum #Fediverse #Media #ActivityPub #ATProto #Protocols #Technology #Tech
#allthingsopen made so many great connections. Can't wait to discuss a better way forward for the world with #fedi and #opensocialweb
For the people that think #Mastodon and other social web sites are “ healthier” would love to know your thoughts on this https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/problem-mastodon-fediverse/ #fediverse #fedi #opensocialweb
"At the end of the day, no matter how good and ethical something is, it has to feel right to the user. Unfortunately, for the majority of the Social Web, the vibe isn't good enough for new users to trust and try the tech. But, if we know that, we can work to change it."
@saskia takes a look at the vibe of the social web to outsiders.
https://forbetter.ghost.io/whats-the-vibe-of-the-social-web/
#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Blog #Mastodon #Bluesky #OpenSocialWeb
The other thing that the #Guppe incident showed us is that the #Fediverse seriously needs the #Nomadic protocol.
Let's say the Fediverse understands the protocol: just move to a new domain, inform all instances "this is the new domain, automatically re-subscribe please", done. Life goes on for regular people.
I am not saying it is that easy or that's how exactly it will work. But it could've been avoided. Right now, entire communities are gone, many who were relying on it are now disconnected. (Then again, I can argue that it's time to clean the membership since many accounts are also stagnant.)
So, when? #ActivityPub2 ?
The other thing that the #Guppe incident showed us is that the #Fediverse seriously needs the #Nomadic protocol.
Let's say the Fediverse understands the protocol: just move to a new domain, inform all instances "this is the new domain, automatically re-subscribe please", done. Life goes on for regular people.
I am not saying it is that easy or that's how exactly it will work. But it could've been avoided. Right now, entire communities are gone, many who were relying on it are now disconnected. (Then again, I can argue that it's time to clean the membership since many accounts are also stagnant.)
So, when? #ActivityPub2 ?
Official steps in the development of the open social web. Big players involved here. @Projectliberty is an active org in this area and a great source for this kind of news.
#opensocialweb #fediverse #decentralization #academia #academicchatter
https://www.projectliberty.io/news/bridging-tech-and-governance/
⁂ Article
Official Steps into the Open Social Web… but Whose Steps?
We’re seeing “official” moves in the development of the #opensocialweb. Big players are turning up. Conferences in Geneva. Glossy orgs like @ProjectLiberty positioning themselves as bridge-builders between tech and governance.
On the surface, this looks like progress, recognition, and legitimacy. But let’s be brutally honest: these are completely the wrong people to be steering the direction. The problem isn’t that they show up, it’s that they try to take up all the air in the […]
⁂ Article
Official Steps into the Open Social Web… but Whose Steps?
We’re seeing “official” moves in the development of the #opensocialweb. Big players are turning up. Conferences in Geneva. Glossy orgs like @ProjectLiberty positioning themselves as bridge-builders between tech and governance.
On the surface, this looks like progress, recognition, and legitimacy. But let’s be brutally honest: these are completely the wrong people to be steering the direction. The problem isn’t that they show up, it’s that they try to take up all the air in the […]
Official steps in the development of the open social web. Big players involved here. @Projectliberty is an active org in this area and a great source for this kind of news.
#opensocialweb #fediverse #decentralization #academia #academicchatter
https://www.projectliberty.io/news/bridging-tech-and-governance/
If anyone knows of people/groups that actually care about people, getting people off of #BigSocial, advancing the Open Social Web and making the spaces more accessible, safe and user-friendly let me know. Just without the weird ideology, religion and protocol wars. #Fedi#fediverse#opensocialweb#activitypub#atproto#nostr
You’d think people would want to work together to get people off of #BigSocial yet people want to be weird & engage in protocol wars. That lets me know it’s not truly about the public benefit #atproto#activitypub#opensocialweb
If anyone knows of people/groups that actually care about people, getting people off of #BigSocial, advancing the Open Social Web and making the spaces more accessible, safe and user-friendly let me know. Just without the weird ideology, religion and protocol wars. #Fedi#fediverse#opensocialweb#activitypub#atproto#nostr
You’d think people would want to work together to get people off of #BigSocial yet people want to be weird & engage in protocol wars. That lets me know it’s not truly about the public benefit #atproto#activitypub#opensocialweb
(CW antiBlack racism) 3/
Here’s Fouché describing what happened when an enslaved Black person invented a piece of agricultural equipment:
Why am I talking about hay rakes on a decentralized #opensocialweb network? This history is at play in some of the arguments we’re seeing about #Fediverse #atproto #activitypub right now
Whatever one thinks of Bluesky, the most innovative cultural and technical experimental space there right now is Blacksky; and it’s also the clearest example of decentralized possibility on the AT protocol. When people double down saying “AT isn’t decentralized”, they are denying that Blacksky exists. 4/