When will Bluesky be bought by a Trump-adjacent autocrat or succumb to autocrat forces and cease to be able to pretend to be an alternative to corporate social media?

Reply with your answer:

a) Within this year.

b) Before Trump’s term ends.

c) Within 5 years.

d) Sometime after 2030.

e) Never. It will remain a bastion of freedom and democratic principle.

(Polling manually so it is seen fully through the Bluesky bridge)
#bluesky #democracy #opensocialweb #socialweb #endcorporatesocial

When will Bluesky be bought by a Trump-adjacent autocrat or succumb to autocrat forces and cease to be able to pretend to be an alternative to corporate social media?

Reply with your answer:

a) Within this year.

b) Before Trump’s term ends.

c) Within 5 years.

d) Sometime after 2030.

e) Never. It will remain a bastion of freedom and democratic principle.

(Polling manually so it is seen fully through the Bluesky bridge)
#bluesky #democracy #opensocialweb #socialweb #endcorporatesocial

“I feel like we're rebooting to the last version of the Internet that I felt uncomplicated joy about.”

@Casey, @kevin and @pj on why they set up their Forkiverse fediverse server.

https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/

#Fediverse #Federation #ActivityPub #Forkiverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Internet #Technology #Tech

Hey #forkiverse folks!! Welcome! Don’t let the reply guys turn you away. Focus on the #catsodon #dogsOfMastoson #fensterfreitag #mossotodon and other silly and wonderful things and people on the #opensocialweb!

You are part of the future of Social web! You are making that future! Thank you and have fun!

Hey #forkiverse folks!! Welcome! Don’t let the reply guys turn you away. Focus on the #catsodon #dogsOfMastoson #fensterfreitag #mossotodon and other silly and wonderful things and people on the #opensocialweb!

You are part of the future of Social web! You are making that future! Thank you and have fun!

“I feel like we're rebooting to the last version of the Internet that I felt uncomplicated joy about.”

@Casey, @kevin and @pj on why they set up their Forkiverse fediverse server.

https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/

#Fediverse #Federation #ActivityPub #Forkiverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Internet #Technology #Tech

“I feel like we're rebooting to the last version of the Internet that I felt uncomplicated joy about.”

@Casey, @kevin and @pj on why they set up their Forkiverse fediverse server.

https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/

#Fediverse #Federation #ActivityPub #Forkiverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Internet #Technology #Tech

@tchambers #fediverse #opensocialweb

https://islandinthenet.com/a-response-to-tim-chamberss-2026-predictions/

The more I look into it, the #podcast2 folks fighting for open podcasts are in exactly the same fight, with almost 100 % the same challenges & opponents as the #opensocialweb folks are. Just a different front. We should all be natural allies. cc: @samsethi
https://podstandards.org/2025/03/24/podcast-standards-project-what-weve-achieved-and-what-comes-next/

The more I look into it, the #podcast2 folks fighting for open podcasts are in exactly the same fight, with almost 100 % the same challenges & opponents as the #opensocialweb folks are. Just a different front. We should all be natural allies. cc: @samsethi
https://podstandards.org/2025/03/24/podcast-standards-project-what-weve-achieved-and-what-comes-next/

Really good comments from @manton on my 2026 open social web preditions. Exactly the sorts of discussions I'd hope this incite... #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #BlueSky

https://www.manton.org/2025/12/27/fediverse-predictions.html

"Not by chance, recently #DaveWiner ( @davew), creator of the #RSS format, declared that he sees #WordPress as the ideal “OS” for the #opensocialweb.
As soon as we experimented with ( @pfefferle's) WordPress #ActivityPubplugin, we realized how we could immediately choose, in the plugin interface, the type of #Tainacan post we could select for posting in the Fediverse…[creating] a direct channel for segmented dissemination of #culturalheritage content to subscribing users."
https://josemurilo.com/2025/12/05/museums-in-the-fediverse-experiments-with-tainacan-activitypub-and-websocial/