On a night like tonight, how utterly stupid is it that governments and news organizations don't have their own #mastodon and #peertube servers. Instead they let tech mega corps and even cable companies stand between them and an informed public. Fucking ridiculous. #SocialWeb#Iran
You are getting your news from somewhere. Why you wouldn't want that place to allow you to pick a wide variety of the smartest journalists, without the influence of ads or a corporate/billionaire controlled algorithm, I don't understand. That's our potential here. #SocialWeb
Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.
We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.
Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.
This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!
Delightful 💕 to see that #EuropeanCommission now has an official #Mastodon instance. #EC loves Mastodon, as the image clearly shows.
I hope this love will expand further to not just extend to one #FreeSoftware microblogging application, but to become a full embrace of the #OpenStandards based decentralized #SocialNetworking environment and #SocialWeb technology ecosystems that have formed around its open protocols, such as #ActivityPub.
@molly0xfff is a leading cryptocurrency critic, but get to know her and you’ll see she’s anything but cynical about the future of the web. Hear why this researcher, writer and software engineer thinks so in this fascinating conversation with @mike:
The ridiculous way that Cory (@pluralistic) approaches his account name and posting his articles here is still better than the cluster that is #nostr and #bluesky names, system structure and data management. IMHO! #SocialWeb
People have email addresses like me@mydomain.com while also having a website at mydomain.com. What's preventing folks from also having a #SocialWeb account using me@mydomain.com? Would it just be confusing? Then there's all the different fedi services.
It's just so basic but someday we won't have websites littered with icons for #Xitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube etc. It will just be a fedi icon next to the email icon. Or at least that's the dream. #SocialWeb
saw your #WTFpod episode show up in my feed so I read the description and then googled you. That you're already on the fedi is so very cool. How did you find out about the #SocialWeb? Listening rn.
The vibes on Threads have been shifted. The For you feed brings up negative and controversial posts. Unsurpisingly no such negativity exists on my chronological feeds on Mastodon.
Former CEO of Twitter wanted to build a social protocol no-one can control, like SMTP or HTTP for social media. Bluesky’s ATProto was supposed to be an open source protocol that Twitter could eventually utilize, but then Musk happened and Bluesky started taking it to the wrong direction and everything fell apart in Dorsey’s mind.
A very revealing interview. I now see even more future in W3C’s ActivityPub.
"But the real tragedy of Reader was that it had all the signs of being something big, and Google just couldn’t see it. Desperate to play catch-up to Facebook and Twitter, the company shut down one of its most prescient projects; you can see in Reader shades of everything from Twitter to the newsletter boom to the rising social web."
Technocrats are using the language of revolution as a means of winning hearts and minds.
Lower-level fiefdoms are perhaps sincere in their attempt to make a better web. But mostly, we are witnessing a Potemkin revolution by the same folks who made their fortunes off our data and content.
Jack Dorsey is not a revolutionary. Mark Zuckerberg is not a revolutionary. Andreessen Horowitz, Sam Altman, and Steve Huffman are not revolutionaries.
The natural end state of hashtags is to eventually serve as subreddits for the #SocialWeb. but here they would overlap, allowing us to visit any space in the Venn diagram of all the tagged posts we're interested in.
We can now connect to #BlueSky accounts from here, but both sides need to enable it.
We're supposed to be opt-out folks, but too many "safety" advocates are stopping the #SocialWeb from ever becoming ubiquitous. Imagine being so scared of "bad" speech that you demand users and server admins add each other's domain to their settings before they could communicate or even browse to those sites. We'd all still be on AOL.
Today is a good day to explain the Fediverse to peoples and share this text about it!
»Web – The fediverse, explained:
The buzziest new thing in social networking is a big deal. It’s also very confusing. And it’s not actually new. Let’s talk about it.«
In the latest episode of #DotSocial I interview @snarfed.org@snarfed.org, a passionate bridge builder with a focus on connecting people across the open web and the #fediverse. His latest work, #BridgyFed, connects #ActivityPub and #ATProtocol resulting in excitement, critique and lots of discussion.
Ryan and I talk about the parallel communities on #Mastodon and #Bluesky, their shared desire to create an open social web and the pros and cons of their underlying protocols, #ActivityPub and #ATProtocol. Can or should these be bridged? If so, how? As whole new communities continue to join the fediverse, how should the user experience evolve?
Listen to this excellent discussion on our @PeerTube instance or wherever you get your #podcasts.
like you said, the #SocialWeb won't become as ubiquitous as email if our default is opt-in. because most people won't understand the settings etc.
we need an explicitly pro connection but anti intentional harassment federation policy (that I think would be very popular). instead the default is becoming having a network where nobody can stumble on anything upsetting. that's not the open web.
I've got some thoughts about how the tech world ignores the needs of users with cognitive disabilities like dementia. Hit me hard this week.
There are degrees of dementia. Some people live with mild or moderate forms for years and deserve respect, dignity and as much freedom as we can offer them. That includes access to the internet.
Iemand vanuit #Mastodon benadrukt het belang van #OpenStandaarden. Hij roept op dat daar meer financiering voor moet komen om deze door te ontwikkelen. Zeker in het licht van verregaande koppelingen tussen andere sociale media zoals Instagram en Facebook die hier grote budgetten voor hebben.
Ja, dat was ik denk ik, op het #CommonsNetwork event in Den Haag. Enige verwarring daarbij is dat ik niet van Mastodon ben, maar hen indirect wel vertegenwoordig. Ik sta nl. in het algemeel de Fedi voor en haar #OpenStandaarden. O.a. mede-faciliteer en representeer ik al geruime tijd de #SocialHub dev community en het #FEP process beheer.