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2026-06-13 13:23:10 UTC

This rings true. #Apple #AI
youtu.be/t7L6-fMpx… https://youtu.be/t7L6-fMpxFc?si=DxXjjo-_6Svjkmlr

2026-05-25 06:15:00 UTC

This, from Josh Marshall, rings true:
"White House friendly reporters are putting out the administration’s claim that Iran has made 'verbal commitments' to basically shutting down or greatly reining in its nuclear program. In other words, Iran has agreed in advance to be super accommodating about agreeing to shutter its nuclear program in these coming negotiations. But that sounds like happy talk. Either BS from the White House or BS from Iran to the White House then passed on to the US press. It’s very hard to see how Iran is going to make major concessions on its nuclear program absent some overwhelming threat of force.
What did the US get out of this? Even on the White House’s own terms? Close to nothing."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-new-iran-us-ceasefire

2026-05-25 05:05:41 UTC

This is a big milestone for the folks at Automatic and the WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) reader just became a great deal more connected and integrated to the open social web:
"The plugin’s ActivityPub API (https://activitypub.blog/2026/04/22/8-1-0-by-the-numbers/) now powers its first real production client: the WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) Reader. As a WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) user, you can now read, follow, and post across the Fediverse through your WordPress blog, with every interaction tied to your blog’s own ActivityPub identity, and it all sits next to the rest of your Reader.
At the moment, this works for WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) and Jetpack-connected sites (Jetpack may take a few more days to roll out fully), with self-hosted blogs coming next. Beyond that, the goal is to support any site that speaks the API. The Reader is the first client we’ve built on it, and what we learn here will also feed into the broader WordPress reading experience.... If your WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) site has joined the Fediverse (https://wordpress.com/support/enter-the-fediverse/), it shows up in the Reader’s new Social section (https://wordpress.com/reader/connections) automatically, next to any Bluesky or Mastodon accounts you’ve connected."
https://activitypub.blog/?p=15944

2026-05-24 21:23:31 UTC

This is the way: Bluesky is solving it their way, the Fediverse exprimentiing with things like this:
"Every social network has been given its fediverse clone. Asking people to hold a separate account on each is taking the problem backwards. If the fediverse keeps mirroring the GAFAM, it loses. The point was never to rebuild their world, but to offer something else: one identity across every content. HolosSocial is simply a try. But we can do it....
To clarify: the real shift Holos explores is identity portability. With your own domain, your account is no longer tied to a single instance or platform. You can move, switch, evolve, the identity stays yours.
Switching with one tap between video, photo or blogging is just cosmetic. But the fediverse allows it natively. That's what's missing today. You don't need a lookalike platform to tell you what kind of content you're allowed to see or share."
https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/116626082671227556

2026-05-24 18:45:31 UTC

Comparing StartPage to DDG to Kagi Search... Been using DDG as primary web search but exploring others too. Looking for right mix of quality of results and privacy as Google has been failing at both for some time.
Any opinions?
https://www.startpage.com/en/about-us

2026-05-24 13:10:23 UTC

True: I tink #OpenSocialWeb apps could have a "river" metaphor in their UX like Current does for RSS, or like in Manton's Inkwell app, old posts could just fade off. This fits well with #Calmtech ideas of app design.
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. In a world of infinite scroll and endless notification, the act of truly noticing something, of giving it the gift of your undivided presence, has become almost countercultural.
The river metaphor isn't about passivity. It's about presence. You're not behind on a river. You're just wherever you are, watching whatever flows past..."
"Your main feed where content naturally flows. Unlike traditional readers, the River doesn't stack items into an ever-growing backlog. Content arrives, you engage with what interests you, and the rest drifts past. The Waterline (https://www.currentreader.app/docs/waterline) shows you where new content begins."
Why Not Unread Counts?
Traditional readers show "127 unread articles" and create pressure to clear the queue. The Waterline takes a different approach:
No numbers create no anxiety
You see where "new" begins without quantifying it
Scroll past naturally without feeling obligated
The line fades as you scroll, merging old and new"
https://www.currentreader.app/

2026-05-24 10:37:10 UTC

Some key observations here on search and #agenicweb:
“Because it was always happening. It was never going to not happen. Does Google owe them the traffic? I don't know. But they did change the terms of the deal. They did weather the storm of introducing AI overviews and then AI mode...And their position is, yeah, we'll send some traffic to you. And it's the last step when people want to buy the shoes.
That's the traffic you're going to get. And you have to be happy with that. And then for us, people who use Google, the step to, oh, this is an agent.
Now, I'm not using the web. Google is going to use the web for me. And I'm going to just use this interface...
That is the next version of an interface. It's the next version of an interactive assistant that everyone's been talking about for years and years and Google is poised to do it. And then it's also like, oh, but this is going to change how I get information....You aren't doing searches any more, Google is doing searches....
Google is upending the soft economic agreements of the entire Internet by just doing stuff for people now, and finding ways to do that stuff even if there's not some formal API to do it, right?
...All of that has just massive implications for how we use computers, how all those companies make money. I think Google, they've done so much fighting about search traffic and Google Zero that they're just like, screw it, we're doing it. This is so obviously the future.”
From The Vergecast: The post-search Google era begins, May 22, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vergecast/id430333725?i=1000769057310&r=3177

2026-05-23 00:06:46 UTC

A #Calmtech focused RSS reader.
Will check it out but liking the vibe. I do think folks could build an open social web reader with many of these same principals, or at least that could shift into a Calm Tech Zen mode.
https://www.terrygodier.com/current
And for those new to the idea of calm tech and calm UX design: https://www.calmtech.institute/calm-tech-principles

2026-05-22 23:54:57 UTC

I dig this. A lot. #OpenWeb and #OpenSocialWeb will win long term. And it plays on different rules.
"Every property that made these protocols feel old and uncool to you in 2014 i_s part of what’s keeping them alive in 2026....But the actual internet — the protocols, the federated services, the plain-text commands, the open feeds, the small servers, the personal sites, the things people built when _user and developer were sometimes the same word — is still right there.
It was not demolished.
It was buried under a louder layer for a while.
Now the louder layer is thinning out."
Read the whole thing here:
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

2026-05-22 23:15:06 UTC

I'd lost faith in Firefox management several years back, and #Vivaldi is now my browser of choice. They focus on privacy, customization, and speed, proving a small company can compete with big tech giants. Not open source, but alligned with my values.
Vivaldi wisely filled the "market gap" for a non-big tech, non-AI web browser that firecely protects my privacy.
I use Chrome now only as my "Claude speaks to it browser" and I keep all my real web experience cordoned off like a perimeter against all things LLM.
And version 8.0 is a big step up. Try it out. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/vivaldi-8-0-is-the-anti-ai-browser-update-we-ve-all-been-waiting-for/ar-AA23Lfkf

2026-05-22 04:07:41 UTC

I actually agree here. #RSS and especially RSS2 or Atom feeds are the unsung hero for the #AgenticWeb and what I think is a coming agentic social web.
Markdown as a format has seen it's stock value as a format gone up by about 1,000 fold. RSS in the AI space will see the same ride.
"RSS is the cleanest structured data layer the open web has ever produced. Machine-readable by design, chronologically ordered, with zero algorithmic manipulation. If you need to track a specific domain (competitive intel, regulatory filings, niche technical topics), there’s no cleaner signal.
The format was never the problem. But the volume was."
https://rss.app/blog/why-rss-ai-is-the-cure-for-information-overload-zrYKid

2026-05-22 01:57:51 UTC

Hey #OpenSocialWeb fans this...
https://www.theverge.com/tech/935674/let-me-get-this-straight-i-post-it-here-and-it-goes-everywhere
Is a big...
https://indieweb.social/@imdavidpierce@threads.net/116614596638802210
Big...
https://indieweb.social/@imdavidpierce@threads.net/116614596638802210
Big...
https://www.threads.com/@imdavidpierce/post/DYnV8NJFBXa
...Effin' deal. We are all #TheVerge now.
David continues: "This is just the beginning, too: our team is already working on ways to bring all the federated conversation together and make it so everybody can talk to everybody everywhere. It’s gonna take a minute but it’s gonna be SO cool "
And Nilay is right: "Pretty sure we are the first big media brand to federate content directly. Small test with big ambitions to come!"
https://indieweb.social/@reckless1280@threads.net/116614558056217354
And David is right: "The open social future rocks."
Watch this space.

2026-05-21 19:35:07 UTC

I fully endorse this. (What my friend Will wrote, not necessarily what was in the thread bare and sketchy DNC "audit"...
"The path forward is not complicated, but it is hard. Democrats need permanent local media infrastructure. They need always-on organizing. They need persuasive content built for the platforms people actually use. They need trusted messengers who already have relationships in communities. They need to compete in rural areas, factory towns, suburbs, and digital spaces at the same time. They need to stop pushing information out and start pulling people in.
Most of all, Democrats need to stop confusing technology with strategy. Data, AI, targeting, dashboards, and platforms are tools. They are not a politics. Technology can accelerate a strong organization, but it cannot fix a hollow one."
https://willrobinson.substack.com/p/the-dnc-autopsy-says-the-quiet-part (https://willrobinson.substack.com/p/the-dnc-autopsy-says-the-quiet-part?publication_id=3415184&post_id=198729433&isFreemail=true&r=dg02&triedRedirect=true)

2026-05-19 20:38:50 UTC

I think search has been dead for a while, actually. But it does feel like today was someting of a last gasp. Exactly what that means for the open web built upon search economics, is anyone's guess. #OpenWeb
"Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build personalized mini apps tailored to their needs."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

2026-05-17 15:53:33 UTC

Whatever there was left of the old Republican Party has long been subsumed into MAGA. Last night was one more sign. "There is no Dana, only Zuul."
"Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was defeated in a three-way primary against two Trump-aligned challengers tonight...Cassidy was one of the few remaining Republicans in the Senate to vote to convict Trump during his 2021, post-Jan. 6 impeachment trial. (Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska are the other Republicans who took that vote and remain in office.)"
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bill-cassidy-gets-primaried

2026-05-11 22:33:39 UTC

#BridgyFed has become a "load-bearing," key part of the #OpenSocialWeb making every network it bridges more valuable as it goes.
"Bridgy Fed is a free public service, funded by individual donations (https://www.patreon.com/c/ANewSocial?ref=blog.anew.social) and institutional grants. Real people and orgs trust us with their money so that we can keep this thing running. We feel that responsibility acutely, and we’re serious about keeping these projects sustainable for the long haul. Every dollar we don’t spend on hosting is a dollar that keeps us afloat a bit longer."
If you benfit from it, show them some love here: https://www.patreon.com/c/ANewSocial/posts

2026-05-11 14:56:13 UTC

Fully endorse. #bigtech
“Asking platforms to do better won’t work. We need to force their hands..”
werd.io/asking-pl… https://werd.io/asking-platforms-to-do-better-wont-work-we-need-to-force-their-hands/

2026-05-10 23:12:17 UTC

I always read this from #glaad each year: they do all of us a great service for tracking how the major platforms are doing protecting their users - or not. All the more reason for us to build out our own safer, healthier #OpenSocialWeb
"With the exception of TikTok, the 2026 scores dropped across the board. These declines are due to various factors, not all of which is quantified in the SMSI scorecard. Most significantly, both Meta[[3]](https://www.glaad.org/smsi/2026/executive-summary/#ftn1) and YouTube[[4]](https://www.glaad.org/smsi/2026/executive-summary/#_ftn1) continue to maintain their recent anti-LGBTQ policy changes, which have made online environments even _more toxic and harmful for LGBTQ people."
https://www.glaad.org/smsi/2026/executive-summary/

2026-05-09 19:13:09 UTC

For my day job my firm does do web development as a key offering. Increasingly I think this is true, the website's role is shifting dramatically to this:
"Websites As Canonical Sources, Not Just Destinations
Your website still matters. But its job description has changed.
Your website is no longer just a destination. It’s a source. It’s the canonical, structured, well-maintained origin point from which your message gets picked up, interpreted, summarized, and carried elsewhere. The better that source material is, the better it travels.
Think of it this way: Your website used to be the store. Now, it’s also the warehouse. And the warehouse needs to be organized well enough that anyone (human or machine) can find what they need, understand what it means, and carry it somewhere else without losing the plot."
For individuals: I'm wondering if the #agenicweb means that suddenly something like blogs matter again. Maybe soon they will matter more than the microblogging central sites (IG, FB, X, etc) that subsumed them.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/your-website-is-a-source-not-a-megaphone/571490/

2026-05-09 15:15:49 UTC

This from Josh Marshall rings true on #Redistricting:
"What we have seen over recent months is that Democrats have largely abandoned the mode of the last decade plus in which with one hand they fought the partisan battles of the day and with the other assume the mantle of defending the political norms Republicans have already destroyed. In other words, it was the responsibility of Democrats both to be contestants and referees. Republicans violated norms; Democrats tried to uphold them. That of course meant no partisan battle was ever on equal terms and Republicans almost always won them.
Through the redistricting battle and then with a thunderclap after the Callais decision Democrats have mostly abandoned this stance. There’s no race to the bottom beyond the simple fact that Democratic restraint has been removed from the equation. And that is a good thing. Democrats can release the enervating, demoralizing burden of being the custodians of an already-destroyed consensus."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-its-really-not-a-race-to-the-bottom-on-redistricting

2026-05-09 14:33:26 UTC

Looking over this, glad to see those #AgenticWeb discussions starting at the WC3. I deeply feel both the promise and the dangers to the Open Web and the Open Social Web are very real.
"Let’s first consider the problem at hand. A major reason for the web’s success is that it is open in many ways: it’s powered by open standards, it’s open for everyone to publish on (for fun, fame and/or profit), and it’s open for everyone to read. Perfect.
At the same time, content is increasingly consumed via LLMs and AI agents, which worries websites that care about content quality (like news organisations, governments, or public health information providers) and advertising income....
What could W3C do?
In addition to AI Preferences (IETF) and standards for responsible use of journalistic content (SPUR Coalition), these are some things participants suggested W3C can do..."
See the full article here:
https://hidde.blog/web-ai-breakout/

2026-05-07 00:21:24 UTC

So Fediverse app #HolosSocial just added support for this in their latest iOS beta:
"Holos Social 1.5.5 (34)
Support for web+ap:// links (fedilinks): to open profiles and posts directly in Holos
This is a big milestone for a key fix myself and Sean wrote about here, to help make remote fediverse content more seemlessly available. EVERY Fediverse mobile app should support this and follow their lead.
https://wedistribute.org/2026/04/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux-sins-a-redemption-report-card/

2026-05-06 02:21:41 UTC

This from #FindOutMedia is really important.
It's another example of a podcast and media network building their following directly on the open social web: a network they own, that can't be taken away by Zuckerberg or Musk or held hostage to Google's or YouTube's latest algorithm. They just launched their own fediverse server, and dedicated mobile apps, and each new account joining there is automatically bridged over to BlueSky.
This is the model to keep an eye on. Everyone else with a core media and podcast following: watch and learn from their early work.
I'm looking forward to seeing this brand-new community form here as new fans join the open social web for the first time, much like the community thriving at the #Forkiverse around the Hard Fork podcast.
I've underestimaed before the power of focused open social web servers, great to see another example of it forming.
Everyone on the Fediverse and Bluesky, please welcome the Find Out community to the open social web.
https://www.threads.com/@timfullerton/post/DX9C9WSlmeX

2026-05-05 02:48:11 UTC

Making the "ruthless" business case for the #OpenSocialWeb, here is Helen Halvack from the Verge:
Helen: “I'll give you the ruthless business answer of why I'm interested in open social web projects like Surf from the Flipboard team. So platforms like MetaX, they are openly hostile to news content in their algorithms. They have moved away from that.
They are no longer great discovery sources for us. Links in general even. Forget news, just links. They're not like good places to hang out anymore.
Could you start the Verge now, the way we started The Verge, or you started The Verge 15 years ago? The answer is like probably not, or you would need a lot more money because starting something for free and finding audiences for free is much harder now.
A lot of audience discovery is people buying ads from Mark Zuckerberg, right? I would rather not give money to Mark Zuckerberg. I would rather spend money on journalists in our newsroom, which means the discovery problem, like can we solve it a different way?
...To the point of discovery, I would love to acquire acquisition channels for us where, again, I don't have to pay to play.
The open social web is a lot more friendly to news. I think there's opportunity there for how do you get the next cohort of Verge audience. And then as Nilay said, as we think about our website, our product experience, I think there's really fun ideas about how you create new product experiences that attract people to The Verge, because the open social web, you can surface in all kinds of different ways.
So that would be my cold business answer of, I would rather give our money to the newsroom than be buying acquisition from Meta or whoever.”
From The Vergecast: The Vergecast Vergecast, 2026 edition, Apr 21, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vergecast/id430333725?i=1000762604727&r=1199

2026-05-05 02:37:57 UTC

More from Nilay on the Verge and the #OpenSocialWeb:
“You can get some traffic and that's great, and you can't live or die in traffic, [as] the traffic can go away. The Yahoo algorithm cannot send you traffic to your links on the Yahoo homepage anymore, which is a real experience that we've had. Google can go away.
That's just traffic. It just comes and goes and that's great. The [real] goal is to turn the traffic into audience and have people come to you directly and care about your brand and your people...I don't take that for granted at all.
Then the real goal is to turn the audience into a community, and we are very lucky that we have that too across platforms. So I just look at these open distribution protocols.
This is how I can go get a bigger community. We're going to be where you are, and if you reply to us or like our posts or engage with us on BlueSky or Threads or Mastodon, we'll get some value from that too.
And the people who are out on those platforms, we can curate that work in other.
...I'm not saying we're going to get there tomorrow, but that is the vision, is to say our community exists in all these places in a way that is additive instead of constantly dividing our attention.”
From The Vergecast: The Vergecast Vergecast, 2026 edition, Apr 21, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vergecast/id430333725?i=1000762604727&r=1099

2026-05-05 02:27:24 UTC

Love this post from Nilay on the value of the open social web to media brands today:
"David: "I think the question here is essentially, what is sort of your current theory of the case about connecting The Verge to these broader open social protocols? "
Nilay: ..."I think all great media brands grow up with their distribution. So the Verge is just like a good example. We're like, we started in 2011. We started a giant desktop website. And like phones didn't exist in the way that they exist now. Like we came up with distribution on the open web....
So when I say, if we were starting the Verge again today, what would we do? The...exercise in my brain is what is the distribution that's on the way up that you would build a thing around?
And maybe for the last five years, the answer has only been YouTube. And then there was like a brief minute when the answer was TikTok. And I just think it's hard to survive on those platforms.... I'm confident in this conversation. [What we need] is distribution that no one controls.
There's no Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, literally with a knob being like, I don't like you and turning you off, which is a thing that I try to run away from. And so Bluesky is like open distribution, Activitypub is open distribution and that's why i keep saying that's what we would start we would start a thing on the open distribution that no one controls and try to make our own way.
There's like layers and layers of things to solve here, but it just seems obvious that we should connect to the next generation of distribution that no one controls. “Because that to me is, that's always the thing, a media brand that's on the rise, should be trying to do.”
🎙️ The Vergecast
📻 The Vergecast Vergecast, 2026 edition
👤 with David, Nilay, Helen Havlak
⏱️ 14:36–16:59
🔗 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vergecast/id430333725?i=1000762604727

2026-05-04 17:58:11 UTC

Very gratified to see this built on #OpenSocialWeb protocols. Can't imagine why any new social or parasocial network today would be built on anything else. https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/as-x-shuts-down-communities-acorn-debuts-an-alternative-that-puts-creators-in-control/

2026-05-02 01:51:42 UTC

Well put: it's a reminder of the social media we once glimpsed & seems so far away now. But we can build it back. "I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage.
https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

2026-05-02 00:40:26 UTC

Yes. Given the givens, Democrats should do all of this. California should do another round & I do bet Maryland residents fire the one state senator that was holding things up this time. AND they should do the push for a national ban on gerrymandering, too. https://www.axios.com/2026/05/01/supreme-court-voting-rights-2028-maps-democrats

2026-05-01 22:40:10 UTC

We are going to run out of sites for our training data pretty soon at this rate.
"Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created (https://ai-on-the-internet.github.io/?ref=404media.co) since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchers—which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive—published their findings online in a paper titled “The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet.” (https://ai-on-the-internet.github.io/?ref=404media.co)
https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/

2026-05-01 17:08:20 UTC

This is very welcome, and I referenced it in my recent article on Fediverse progress: "Decentralized social media platform Mastodon (https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-get-started-on-mastodon-and-leave-twitter-behind) plans on adopting its own end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for private messages.
Mastodon announced the upcoming feature in a blog post (https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/ "(Opens in a new tab)") about receiving €614,000 ($724,000) from the Sovereign Tech Fund, an effort backed by the German government to support open-source software. "
I do wonder if or how this could work in concert with other open E2EE messaging, I'm thinking of #DeltaChat or #Matrix protocols or Dan new Sup messaging effort.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/mastodon-plans-end-to-end-encryption-for-private-messages

2026-04-29 06:28:42 UTC

More from Luis I really like, this time on #RSS:
"Let’s talk about the best way to access all these feeds. My preferred and recommended approach is using a feed reader.
When subscribing to content on the open web, feed readers are your secret weapon.
RSS might seem like it’s dead (it’s not—yet). In fact, it’s the reason you often hear the phrase, “Wherever you get your podcasts.” But RSS goes beyond podcasts. It’s widely supported by blogs, newsletters, and even social platforms like the Fediverse (Mastodon, PeerTube, etc.) and BlueSky. It’s also how I’m able to compile my starter packs (https://lqdev.me/collections/starter-packs/).
I've written more about RSS in Rediscovering the RSS Protocol (https://lqdev.me/posts/rediscovering-rss-user-freedom), but the short version is this: when you build on open standards like RSS and OPML, you’re building on freedom. Freedom to use the tools that work best for you. Freedom to own your experience. And freedom to support a healthier, more independent web."
https://lqdev.me/posts/how-i-keep-up-with-ai/

2026-04-29 06:10:46 UTC

A conversation spinning out of #Fediforum. I like this from Luis...
I do think there is a "there, there" on the "agentic web" and the "open social web." Frankly I think the Open Social Web may be the first and best place to explore the web and agentic web interactions and how to make them more human-serving.
"That feels like exactly the kind of problem the open social web community is well positioned to think about. If agents are going to act on behalf of people, transact, coordinate, or make claims in shared spaces, then identity, transparency, governance, and trust cannot be afterthoughts...If open social web builders do not help shape this kind of infrastructure, my guess is that centralized AI platforms will. And if that happens, these systems will probably become less open, less resilient, and less interoperable over time."
https://lqdev.me/posts/mycelium-fediforum-ai-agents-open-social-infrastructure-04-2026/

2026-04-28 13:21:45 UTC

Via Connected Places Newsletter, very worth applying for this if you are doing good work on the Open Social Web:
"...Applications are open for the first Open Social Awards, and I want to make sure they’re on your radar. The awards, presented by New_ Public, PublicSpaces, and Waag Futurelab, are looking for projects built on open social protocols that are past the prototype stage and in active use. That includes applications, shared infrastructure, and tools built on any federation or interoperability protocol. The awards will grant €10,000 to a grand prize winner and €5,000 to two excellence award winners, sponsored by ZDF and Bluesky. If you’re building something on the open social web, or you know someone who is, this is worth applying for. The jury includes Audrey Tang, Mike Masnick, Johannes Ernst, Melanie Bartos, Robin Berjon, and myself. Applications are due by May 1st, and winners will be announced at the PublicSpaces Conference in Amsterdam on June 5th. You can apply here (https://newpublic.org/OSA):
https://newpublic.org/OSA "

2026-04-28 03:09:22 UTC

Good luck everyone doing demos at tomorrow's #Fediforum. As a reminder you can follow the #Surffeed for it even if you aren't in the surf app beta here:
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jvprse7ptd6b9gccy3m9g547

2026-04-28 02:47:32 UTC

This feels wise for the #EU:
“We don't need a "European [add US social media platform]" – that would be just a different kind of centralised trap – we need a commitment to open protocols for our digital infrastructure. By moving our digital hangouts and town squares to decentralised protocols we ensure that no single entity – be it either governments and/or a volatile billionaires – can pull the plug on our democratic discourse and exchanges.”
https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-architecture-of-autonomy-and-freedom/

2026-04-27 17:23:34 UTC

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Thanks for that update!

2026-04-27 03:53:17 UTC

Josh Marshall captures this dynamic well:
"As the Iran war drags on, I wanted to share some thoughts on the proper context in which to see the conflict. Donald Trump lost this war in its very first days. Everything that has happened in recent weeks — the threats, the negotiations, the live-on-social-media breakdowns — has simply been a matter of trying to get free of that fact. This isn’t a political attack. It’s simply an accurate appraisal of what we all see. More importantly, it is the only way to understand what is happening now. Everything that’s happening today and for weeks has been focused on breaking Iran’s hold on the Strait of Hormuz, something it didn’t have before the war started. That’s the definition of failure: fighting a war and continuing a war to clean up the mess the war of choice actually created....
The Iranian leadership sees that just as clearly as everyone else. And as [trump] waits he and the global economy sustain damage. He’s stuck and since he won’t recognize that fact the conflict and the massive damage to the global economy continues, even if the scale of the fighting, for the moment, doesn’t."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/making-sense-of-the-iran-war

2026-04-26 20:52:14 UTC

Am a fan of both Rabble & Ben, so very much looking forward to checking this out today: "Revolution.Social (http://revolution.social/) podcast with Rabble talking about an alternate history of social media...." #OpenSocialWeb
https://werd.io/an-alternate-history-of-social-media/

2026-04-26 15:29:48 UTC

This new AI tool called Malus.sh (http://malus.sh/) is pretty wild, cloning open source software to sidestep ANY copyright. I bet this sort of thing will change EVERYTHING for web and native apps, not just open source code, and probably sooner than we think.
So, how do developers survive when the "product" can be cloned instantly?
I saw this exact same thing occur to the music industry and more slowly to the film industry, who thought they were in the business of selling shiny discs to consumers and got beat out in part by pirates (which was a body blow) but then later legitimately by streamers (Netflix, Spotify, AppleMusic) who understood this: You have to move from a product mindset to a service and relationship mindset to the end users.
Music. Movies. Now it is software developers turn in the barrel. And soon, not just OSS software developers.
In the digital space, and even more now in the AI incarnation of a digital space we are moving from a Functional Economy to a Relational Economy.
In this new landscape, the "moat" isn't your features or your codebase. Those can be mirrored or cloned or pirated. The only true protection left is Community and Momentum.
Relational Value: Users stay because they want to be part of the ecosystem, the brand, and the direct feedback loop with the creators.
Innovation Velocity: Users trust the true developer to innovate and iterate faster than a clone can keep up.
The value of software is shifting from what it does to who is building it and who is using it beside you. The clone might have the same code, but it doesn't have the soul, the support, or the future roadmap. Are you building a product that can be copied, or a community that can’t?
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/malus-clones-software-copyright

2026-04-26 13:19:08 UTC

Very glad to see the #HardFork and SearchEngine podcast Fediverse community server continuing to thrive. So they are at 10,000 or so registered users, and hovering at a healthy 1.4 thousand of those as monthly active users. That tracks to normal rates on social.
And the conversations are active and growing. I think I underestimated the power of focused, topic-based server communities on the fediverse. (Ironic I know as i founded one based on the #Indieweb community) Those are as important or more than big general purpose servers.
Go #Forkiverse. Power on.
https://mttrpxnpokzgsnfurldu.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/post-media/260efaae-82d1-4134-86aa-aa744c428f9b/8aced80c-0690-4794-a3d7-71fb49bb350b.png

2026-04-26 12:02:53 UTC

Anil Dash’s piece is a wake-up call for the #OpenWeb. The threats he outlines feel scarily accurate, a "perfect storm" that needs us all to pause and then consider how to counter them. Definitely worth your time. https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/

2026-04-26 05:50:38 UTC

Mark Qvist built #Reticulum, an open mesh protocol some call "the next internet." It ran on nearly any network, even the most meager, for free. Then he vanished. The dev community took over, and ran with it. Great story here: https://nodestar.net/mark-qvist

2026-04-26 05:20:39 UTC

I've long been fascinated by the #mesh network #reticulum & the #LXMF messaging protocol built atop it—especially for areas w/o reliable Internet, or where govt. blackouts occur. I strongly believe bridges from LXMF to the open social web & open messaging protocols like #DeltaChat are strategic. I'd love to connect with others sharing similar thoughts.
Links: https://reticulum.network/
And: https://github.com/markqvist/LXMF

2026-04-25 17:15:00 UTC

This tracks. #AI https://mttrpxnpokzgsnfurldu.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/post-media/260efaae-82d1-4134-86aa-aa744c428f9b/25b58fc9-e7ea-4892-9331-984a13b980d6.jpg

2026-04-25 17:01:07 UTC

Every day of this hurts us more than them. And they know it. Not sure Trump does. [www.nytimes.com/live/2026…) https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/25/world/iran-war-us-talks-pakistan?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.dlA.CYH7.6Of1YNNq%5C_z-n

2026-04-25 16:18:34 UTC

Great news about an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer, in early trials. It looks like patients who responded are still alive 6 years later. That's a huge deal.
Am super hopeful for MRNA cancer vacines for a hosst of our deadliest cancers. #Science
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-vaccine-shows-lasting-results-in-an-early-trial/ar-AA21czSE

2026-04-25 14:58:16 UTC

What is the best source for the monthly active users for #nostr these days?

2026-04-25 14:39:52 UTC

I'm convinced that very soon, all AI model capabilities will be negligible for most users & completely commoditized & also have near zero switching costs. No "moat" for any of them. #AI https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/chinas-deepseek-launches-v4-ai-model-claimed-to-outperform-google-gemini-chatgpt-and-other-american-ai-systems/articleshow/1304

2026-04-25 14:12:43 UTC

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Fully endorse.

2026-04-25 13:39:10 UTC

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Glad to see this moment became and actual meme.

2026-04-25 13:36:27 UTC

Hello #nostr world. Just trying out #Primal and very impressed for it as a web and mobile client.