william ⁂ maggos

Advocate for #DemocracyOfReach

"federate with everybody except trolls"

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2026-08-04 19:23:58 UTC

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the Dem party that mostly loves killing brown foreigners? I think having shitty opinions about foreign policy which leads to mass murder is worse than opinions on trans sports but go on fedi.
my view is that the view doesn't matter if you aren't pushing it on anyone. I want to talk to Zionists here. etc etc.
Nazi is the term of art here. have you ever seen someone use it too broadly and people rush in to defend the conservative? they'd get punched too.

2026-08-04 19:06:19 UTC

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Any conservative opinion posted here is likely to get you widely called a Nazi and harassed and blocked, maybe your entire server. but yes imo there is a difference.

2026-08-04 19:01:14 UTC

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neither do I. that's one user getting banned from a quasi private space. what I'm concerned about is a fedi norm that supports harassment and fediblocks for opinions deemed somewhere on the conservative spectrum. for entire servers with a few users who post like that. sometimes for entire servers that federate with such servers.
and while this might have personal benefit, it leads to us staying small and bad places growing. at least everyone can connect over there.

2026-08-04 16:21:44 UTC

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what's mind blowing to me is that people here either have never found value in relationships they've had with people who wouldn't be fairly treated here, or are too cowardly to fight for them.

2026-08-04 15:59:33 UTC

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I don't believe that the majority of people here want a fedi where expressing shitty opinions or boosting stuff many don't like, means it's ok to be harassed or exiled.
or maybe the majority here does feel that way, but then we will never grow. which they are probably ok with, but it means the vast majority of people can't use social media or will be on platforms with algos where they get bombarded with horrible propaganda.

2026-08-04 15:54:48 UTC

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except we already do this with the open web and IRL. it's not perfect but if we tried to make them both more perfect in the ways we do here (not by dialogue but exile and limiting where we could browse), both would break.

2026-08-04 15:50:37 UTC

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you should feel as bothered by someone saying that stuff on fedi as you do about all the horrible websites that exist. without algos and when nobody is tagged and it's posted on a server you're not on, it should be completely ignorable. we don't try to police the web in the way we do fedi, otherwise I'd be unable to browse nice sites cause I also browse bad sites (my server is blocked because of which other servers I federate with).

2026-08-04 13:42:47 UTC

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there should be one decentralized social media network with everyone on it, like the web. but also where pushing yourself into others feeds, like spam, isn't tolerated. ultimately, it can't be X or bluesky cause those both won't really be decentralized ever.
my brother is MAGA. I'm sure most of us have family that wouldn't be treated well here if they honestly expressed themselves and boosted stuff they liked, even if they weren't intentionally bothering anyone. that has to change.

2026-07-24 13:26:09 UTC

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so why define it that way? what gets posted on a server doesn't have to be oriented to that community. people usually aren't excluded from having accounts. in my experience, you can usually join if you're nice.
afaik it's usually just a feel good term to use and people can't think of another way to talk about it. people want to say they are making a place for this group or that, and don't consider how that can confuse or push away people who don't know where to join.

2026-07-23 07:08:42 UTC

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I don't get thinking of servers as a community, except to the degree something like the fans of a podcast start a server to talk to each other AND figure out the fedi. but communities are insular and that's the opposite of interoperability. and everybody will soon have friends off server that they feel like are part of their community.
a server shares mod policy. in order to avoid centralization, when no other sensible division makes sense, let's separate servers by locality.

2026-07-11 13:58:18 UTC

An article can be made boostable with #ActivityPub. I call it #APnative and WordPress and Ghost already allow us to publish that way. I desperately want this to happen with podcasts too. Perhaps such that we use AP in addition or instead of RSS as the base of the format.
Can content that works with #ATproto live outside of a PDS?
cc @npub10jf…4g7l

2026-07-10 16:36:51 UTC

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I agree. We have two murderous political parties and yet it's still proper to vote for the one that's better for trans people etc and lots of other things even if only moderately so.

2026-07-08 14:49:43 UTC

@npub1xnz…kpy3
can I follow your site directly via activity pub?
imo our framing of the fedi is wrong. it's not microblogging and other stuff, but everything here is part of a social news feed. an attention layer for the open web.
and having articles incorporate AP is a big step to where we need to go.
https://democracyofreach.org/this-article-is-apnative/

2026-06-30 18:53:05 UTC

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but why?
I ask because I think it's the algos and worry that failing to make this distinction in the popular consciousness is moving people away from a great technology. And that people in mass media would love this to happen cause decentralized social media challenges their power.

2026-06-21 13:53:54 UTC

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and I've seen a lot of near misses by cyclists disrespecting pedestrians. but they also constantly jaywalk. It's a shit show and we all need to do better.

2026-05-21 13:38:39 UTC

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journalists (but many others too) want a network with huge democratic reach where everyone they care about can talk to each other. open networks facilitate this if we work to let people only see what they want (no ads or corp algos, mod for unwanted mentions) and no node can block user visibility for much of the network
[see Link re bluesky. ATproto will always have this big node power problem imo]

2026-05-13 12:38:51 UTC

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looks like another @npub1ynz…en3h to me. it's great to have better alternatives to Bandcamp but the future has to be a decentralized Spotify. the musicians have their own site and we listen in an app we choose and the money is transferred directly in amounts that work for both sides.

2026-05-10 10:07:39 UTC

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you are extrapolating from my argument that it's best if the public collectively decides how info, ideas and art spreads instead of fewer people with more money dominating that process, to claim I'm arguing for human value being based on followers and that I'm against other forms of fighting for change and that I want to force people to interact etc. I'm not saying any of that.

2026-05-10 03:13:08 UTC

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and maybe you don't share some of that stuff. but some stuff, you do. and some of that, your followers think is worth sharing with their followers. and we are hopefully less misled by a few people with access to the mass media version of bullhorns but moreso by the wisdom of crowds. Or those who have a social media version of a bullhorn in the form of lots of followers who they had to earn, not achieve reach by buying ads or a media outlet.
bad attention stewards will lack followers.

2026-05-10 03:00:16 UTC

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who decides it's the wrong things? the people should get to decide imo. and we won't all see everything but hopefully the best stuff can bubble up. isn't this how the world figured out fire etc, just more slowly?

2026-05-09 13:28:42 UTC

When you maximize the ability of humans to determine what info, ideas and art gets the most attention, I think you better society as fast as possible. I trust us collectively to properly manage the selfish incentives when the power is properly distributed. Fully connected while not allowing anyone to be harassed into silence, must be our goal.
#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #DemocracyOfReach

2026-05-03 23:25:46 UTC

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sure don't talk to your dad. don't hire jerks. but the equivalent to that on fedi is muting or blocking people yourself, not pushing for it at the server level. and of course, if your dad and his buddies all join the same server and most of them harass Jews and their admin refuses to do anything about it, I think we can block their server. but somebody's mom who says dumb shit about trans people but would never bother a trans person, shouldn't get her server defederated.

2026-04-17 15:08:07 UTC

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true but he wouldn't even have needed a party if NYC had FFV (vote for whoever in the election that replaces the primary and then use RCV among the top five vote getters in the general). getting there will be difficult if it requires getting party aligned officials to vote for it, but more likely via referendum.

2026-04-16 19:08:55 UTC

So true. I'm partial to the Enlightenment but Jesus also made the point that human life shouldn't just be ruled by the law of the jungle. What the administration argues for, that those with more force should be able to exert their will. That has really been US foreign policy under a cloak of democracy promotion PR since WW2. Trump is just more forthright about it.
#DaPope is at least a vocal symbol that lots of people think that attitude is abhorrent.

2026-04-16 06:11:14 UTC

I need pictures of #boardgames in progress posted here using that hashtag regularly.

2026-04-14 15:10:49 UTC

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not all the people that you call bigots because of their opinions or posting what you consider misinfo, would intentionally bother people if given the chance. the former should be welcome here, the latter should not be.
it's hard for me to believe everyone doesn't have experience with people like this, who believe stuff that seems crazy/evil but also would never intentionally bother others. who would go out of their way to help a stranger. but they are anti trans etc.

2026-04-14 13:52:25 UTC

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the fedi should be as open as the internet and as protective as email with spam blocking software. this best balances interactions we each decide we want with helping everyone avoid those they don't want. my community includes my family members who have opinions I hate. your prescription is a very small fedi that feeds groupthink. see how Dems and the further left vehemently disagree re Gaza and so many other issues.

2026-04-12 04:26:59 UTC

#VictorOrban is a very bad man cause he doesn't like democracy but #Hungary still has possibly legit elections while they don't in Saudi Arabia and other countries whose dictatorships we never complain about. Why?
I hope he loses but please consider that the constant talk about certain countries but not others might come down to whether they serve our interests, not how democratic they are, no matter how often they claim this is the reason.

2026-04-11 16:51:17 UTC

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2026-04-11 15:31:00 UTC

@npub1sg6…ak6d
my family is from the town of Kastri. my grandparents (both my Dad's parents, my Mom Swedish/British) came over before WW1. but when we visited, they said their problem was with the communists after WW2. possibly killing family members. Is there a good way to think about all this? thanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Kynouria

2026-03-27 19:24:02 UTC

I wonder if the fedi struggles because it's too good to be believed.
"You're saying you're just trying to free us from advertising and corporate control? No strings? Bullshit. Everybody's got an angle."
#SocialWeb

2026-03-11 16:29:29 UTC

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I'd love to share but do you have a link?

2026-03-04 14:21:34 UTC

It's funny when you consider all the shit the US constantly does to other countries that we try to hide and say doesn't amount to war etc, and then how we try to claim that what #Iran has been doing is so very bad. We're so much worse.

2026-02-25 14:46:53 UTC

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I disagree. The only servers that should be blocked are those that fail to address their users who engage in unwanted tagging. That's harassment/abuse. It drives away users. I could support a list of servers somehow so verified.
But to go further than this is a kind of censorship of content allowed elsewhere on the web. Stuff we basically never stumble on while browsing. Without algos here, it will never be forced on us.
I can easily see posts critical of Israel called antisemitic.

2026-02-20 17:11:56 UTC

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and there are alternative search engines to Google too. that doesn't change the power they have in spaces built on open protocols. bluesky might be yahoo. but we can already see how being the default app view matters re AT in a way that isn't true with AP.

2026-02-18 17:16:30 UTC

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can you explain this process to me? if I understand correctly, they are more careful with providing users of their app view access to PDSes they don't own?

2026-01-31 17:52:24 UTC

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exactly. two things...
if this was a company, this goal would be horribly monopolistic. that's why any competitor that claims to share this goal but is driven by profit can't be trusted.
we must understand why the Nazi bar analogy does not apply or else this goal looks like fascism. when we share a space (like the web) but others' views are never forced on us, the shitty voices don't dominate the conversation. no algos and moderating hard for unwanted tagging is key.

2026-01-29 20:35:10 UTC

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can you both please address that this phase of growth (that AP lacked) is built on VC and there will come a point when that not only ends, but need to paid back in multiples? that it can't be out of their thoughts (even if they never speak of it) that whatever they do with the openness must facilitate that? that we know becoming "the way we do things" is usually part of the process and people who don't cash in on that, usually regret helping make it so.

2026-01-22 07:12:50 UTC

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that sounds great but just like people have different interests based on experience and who we are, nations do too. democracy works because while we're pulling in different directions, nobody has more power than another. and overwhelming force is rested in a power above any of us.
the problem at the international level is we haven't done this yet. the US talks about respecting everyone (usually) but can mostly act as it wishes. same with other local big powers.

2025-12-30 20:25:16 UTC

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when you stop pretending that you have no idea what I think about any of these points so that you can bitch about communism etc, it will be worth engaging. you support there being some government and some taxes, enforced at the barrel of a gun. Etc etc.
please stop trolling.

2025-12-28 17:36:20 UTC

Maybe we need a better term, but all media should be decentralized. Like a website. Anybody can put it up and anybody can access it, nobody in between. Podcasts are like that. #Castopod helps. #Peertube does it for on demand video. #Owncast does it for live video. #Azuracast for radio. #Ghost for articles. There are others.
But our biggest need at the moment is in consumption. Better tools for those who want to access this stuff, manage it and handle recommendations. Great app developers.

2025-12-25 07:03:14 UTC

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https://liberal.city/@wjmaggos/115775098014706496

2025-12-25 06:49:48 UTC

Imagine that independent musicians and FOSS developers could come together to build decentralized Spotify. What should we hashtag such a project?
#IndieMusic #ccmusic #FOSS #decentralization

2025-12-14 16:37:16 UTC

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I want them to merge more. or perhaps I want everybody to have the best features. the tricky part is how threadiverse seems more about private groups vs mastodon etc being public and about journalism going organically viral.
we've gotta talk more about this difference. big vs small fedi. social media vs social networking. they require different moderation.

2025-11-26 21:00:36 UTC

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I am unaware, got a link?
I've heard he talked to the media in the bathroom etc. maybe with his dick out. did he call them names to their faces? and I seem to recall recordings by maybe him and Nixon where they maybe even used slurs about the media in "private".

2025-11-25 21:24:31 UTC

Eventually we'll all be paying for our media via a donation amount we set up to be auto distributed to creators based on the percentage of our time spent with their work, out of all the time we consumed media for that month. It will liberate creators from advertiser and business concerns and put independents on the same level as big media corporations.
But to get there, we need a fiat transfer protocol. Maybe somebody who will benefit could give them some press.
#interledger #PublicPatron

2025-09-23 19:19:53 UTC

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gotcha. I don't see that yet on android.

2025-09-20 23:52:28 UTC

There must be a good explanation for Doritos and Taco Bell not merging yet.

2025-09-20 15:48:36 UTC

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cause I can't find people on the right who want to kill minorities and lefties.
I have publicly made the argument for lefties to compromise on trans issues. imo we need more conservatives to do that on their side, to not advocate kicking them out of the country.
all while we advocate peace.
but please tell me what you think of Vox saying you need to toughen up. I so rarely find disagreement among y'all.

2025-09-19 00:51:48 UTC

#spartacus
https://cdn.masto.host/liberalcity/media_attachments/files/115/228/218/028/648/374/original/ed527cafaa419941.jpg

2025-09-15 18:41:53 UTC

Somehow [@mmasnick.bsky.social](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social ) wrote this today and while prefacing it with "this article isn’t really about Bluesky", he argued that people should leave X because of Elon's abuse of his control over reach and only offered #bluesky as the alternative, but never mentioned the widespread complaints about the company's suspending accounts that said the wrong things about #CharlieKirk.
A better fix to this real problem exists.
#SocialWeb #DemocracyOfReach
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/stop-begging-start-building/

2025-08-16 10:44:49 UTC

I loved the article "Protocols Not Platforms" by Mike Masnick. I shared it incessantly.
But I hate that even great outlets like [@onthemedia](https://threads.net/@onthemedia/ ) treat it like the origin of the idea of social media by open protocol. Like he came up with the concept in 2019. It was great to explain the concept to regular folks, but I assume the Twitter team knew about #ActivityPub for years before they considered rolling out #bluesky.
Can you clarify this @npub17lr…294v?
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/silicon-valleys-rightwing-roots-plus-the-ceo-of-bluesky-reimagines-social-media

2025-08-16 01:14:55 UTC

the conspiracy re #Epstein has always been that he was blackmailing famous people on behalf of various governments. why did #MAGA forget this now that #Trump is acting afraid of what blackmail exists (possibly held by #Russia / #Israel)? same with establishment Dems not connecting all their claims about him being blackmailed to Epstein. #Putin
https://cdn.masto.host/liberalcity/media_attachments/files/115/035/789/863/010/582/original/fc8d251ecdf83a97.mp4

2025-08-15 23:51:47 UTC

A #DemocracyOfReach would be so much better. Where at least in the world of digital media, money didn't get you more attention. You couldn't get a boost by paying somebody or playing to the algos.
It's gonna take a fiat transfer protocol to get there.

2025-08-04 04:11:37 UTC

@npub1ety…5krm
did friday's show get published?

2025-07-28 03:52:06 UTC

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#faircamp vs #bandwagon vs #mirlo
right. so which one can give the musician everything they want to allow for having their singular but independent "home on the web"?
I think bandwagon is thinking ahead by also providing a fedi account. the next step imo would be all the sites together sharing some protocol that allows for a decentralized spotify. everybody using whatever they want, but with money flowing to artists. my dream.

2025-07-16 14:05:09 UTC

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I think there's a critical mass for indie music developing around NHAM and I wonder if we all couldn't support a more open version of RadiOMG if you've got time and interest in working on it.
I just found out that this existed the other day:
https://www.radio-browser.info/
@npub1qj3…nha4

2025-06-12 20:43:14 UTC

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do they have an agreement or is public data there being scraped?
I've seen that being on BS exposes you to data mining that I assume is under its control. shitty and a big reason people should be here instead where we don't do that at all.
but to the degree our data is public and they know we exist and its efficient to crawl all the different sites, that will happen.
BS is also not trustworthy having censored in Turkiye while saying nothing publicly about it.

2025-05-30 10:44:33 UTC

"Doing your own research" could mean greatly increasing the amount of well-done scientific research when you're the richest guy on the planet or one of his billionaire friends. Instead, he boosts contrarian posts from people he doesn't know to drive controversy on his website. #interesting

2025-05-23 13:03:25 UTC

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you have to let media outlets say what they want, but what we can change is the media structure that defaults to giving them so much attention and money. broadcast and cable TV replaced with #owncast and #peertube.

2025-05-06 15:11:22 UTC

If you tried to not be too conservative or progressive about it, how would you reduce US debt? #uspol

2025-05-04 23:05:10 UTC

Starting with Bill Clinton, Republicans came to irrationally hate Dem presidents. It continued with Obama. full of conspiracy shit. listen to somebody in the conservative media world while it was happening. or go ahead and focus on TDS.
https://pca.st/2pvlr4eb

2025-05-04 21:14:39 UTC

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with AT (before today's announcement of fully decentralized relays I think), everything went thru the bluesky relay. as just happened in Turkiye, their govt asked and BS complied to make sure some posts were not seen by their users in that country. there's been reporting but no statement by the company.
with AP, it's only about the posting and reading servers.
and big picture long term, overall network decentralization is key. which model will more likely lead to that?

2025-05-04 21:02:04 UTC

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it's not everybody's brain connected with worldwide wireless chips we control, but AP is quite an improvement. I worry that the AT model moves us backwards.

2025-05-04 20:49:32 UTC

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@npub156x…ju5t is the example I always use. they are a news outlet running their own servers, mastodon and peertube I believe. mostly criticizing Israel, lots of pressure could come down on them, claiming they are lying or being antisemitic. it's essential imo that folks like them be fully independent and be able to have their items go viral without anybody (except our server admins I guess) being able to limit that. and relatedly, us only needing to switch servers if they do.

2025-05-04 18:44:53 UTC

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my focus is getting to "democracy of reach", the necessary addendum to "freedom of speech" vastly expanded by the web. it will mean people decide what goes viral. huge implications in culture generally, not just as a better way to do social media.
anyway, I see how AP does that, basically promising a future of no gatekeepers between a site run by a govt or news outlet with social capacity and the public.
I don't yet see the AT vision re this, esp post Turkiye censorship.

2025-05-04 17:09:08 UTC

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https://social.coop/@bnewbold/114439914596970558

2025-05-02 15:41:16 UTC

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everybody is free to do what they want but trying to protect from the abusive conservatives by trying to make all conservatives feel unwelcome just in case, means decent conservatives don't come here and so media that appeals to them also doesn't come here, and the conversation here becomes more lopsided and people lack the conservative perspectives and growth here slows.
It's not about what I get to read. I'm concerned about the public conversation being algo crap or bubbled.

2025-05-02 14:16:02 UTC

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you can have whatever rules you want for content posted on your home server. I'm talking about federation. This is like trying to limit links on the web or where you can go in your browser. We could do that but it would make for a much less interesting place and if it had started that way, there would have much less interest in building it by everybody but the left. Most might still be on AOL (like they remain on the corporate platforms today)
I don't get your last two lines.

2025-05-02 14:00:24 UTC

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if they are policed for harassment, a maga server should be federated with. like the web has shitty content and doesn't become a Nazi bar, the key is no algos. that allows us to not see stuff we didn't ask for, even though it's a link away. that's our magic power, to let everybody coexist and everybody talk to who they want, yet not bother each other. our norms here are currently not allowing this but could.

2025-05-02 00:03:05 UTC

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last point. if a conservative server showed up but nobody there harassed anybody, there would still be calls to defederate from them. there would even be calls to defederate from other servers if those servers did not defederate from them. it would be widespread. that's not a culture we should tolerate, like any other kind of bias. IMO

2025-05-01 22:49:44 UTC

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very true.
but we're not a group app that enables private communities. a fedi server is much more a portal to the larger social web than a place in itself. the norms that predominate make some feel safer than anywhere else except a private group app, but drive many others who want more of a public square away.
sorry. what I want (open to everyone w no algos, ads or assholes) is not possible anywhere else while the greater safety others want can mostly be done in any group app.

2025-05-01 21:36:49 UTC

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it is definitely progress. having no algos or ads is essential to the "democracy of reach" only we are capable of, but we basically also lack even the nicest conservatives. afaik that's a problem with moderation on lots of fedi servers. opinions or misinfo that even most people here don't want to see, shouldn't lead to any moderation if nobody was tagged. IMO.
if we want to hear a variety of voices, be inviting to everyone and become a true public square...
#SocialWeb

2025-04-29 17:47:36 UTC

Just got told #ATproto relays are cheap and easy to run. Haven't heard that before.
Again, I just want a world where every govt and journalistic outlet (at least) can afford to run a piece of social media infrastructure such that whatever they want to tell the public, can go viral without the approval of any middleman company. Just like when they post information on their website or send an email. Adding "democracy of reach" to the "freedom of speech" the web gave us.
#SocialWeb #LiberalValues

2025-04-29 00:56:35 UTC

Shouldn't TEs and RBs be interchangeable? #NFL

2025-04-16 15:04:55 UTC

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definitely not a perfect system.

2025-04-16 15:02:30 UTC

On a decentralized social network, your government has to go after every independent local server that wants to post the stuff they don't want you to see. And you can always use a foreign server accessing that content on foreign servers that they can't touch. The government has to shut down every way to try to access those servers outside the country. #SocialWeb
On #bluesky, they just have to ask/threaten the company running the relay for the entire service to block access in your country.

2025-04-16 11:41:48 UTC

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assuming it's true...
so that account could resurrect itself using #ActivityPub and then bridge and the owners/staff of #bluesky could explain that they had to follow the law to everybody and ask them to bridge so they can avoid this problem in the future, right?

2025-04-15 23:06:13 UTC

How many need to claim something causes autism or a chronic disease for #MAHA to think it's worth looking into? How big and how long does the study need to be? Why should someone or some group be trusted with making that call or doing the research?
AFAIK there are no perfect answers to any of these questions. There never have been. There have always been dissident voices. The only difference now is the power of the internet to multiply these dissident opinions into political pressure. #science

2025-04-15 21:20:29 UTC

This is really good. I love that #JayBhattacharya says that the people who pushed to censor him over his disagreement with the consensus over #COVID policy, thought they were doing the right thing. Doing good. Saving lives. I wish we were a culture that cared more about discussing this hard civic stuff than holding tight to comfortable and simple beliefs, virtue signaling and entertainment.
https://pca.st/ynddv4o2

2025-04-09 00:13:47 UTC

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we need to talk about what we're trying to do here.
I think we're mostly collectively allocating attention with comments. like a blog, it is public. there shouldn't be abuse, but there will have to be stumbling on mean stuff and misinformation. again, like the web.
those who want more privacy also tend to want it to be "safer". more like a tight knit community. what people now get in group tech. I think matrix has huge potential.
but if we confuse these goals, nobody will be happy.

2025-03-31 19:58:27 UTC

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I'm fine with this kind of govt centralization.
The US has an ACH (automatic clearing house) system where banks have a routing number and then we have account numbers. What I don't get is why we can't modernize this into something like a username/domain to make transferring money like sending an email. then let us build that into apps. also #FedNow is starting up.
do other countries have this? could we have an international system?

2025-03-31 13:06:46 UTC

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agreed. but the decentralized middlemen of banks work. like fedi servers. the centralized middlemen of PayPal, Venmo etc suck but dominate. I just want a protocol to make transferring money work more like fedi than Facebook etc. maybe we weaken the power of credit card companies in the process. and stop empowering sites like Amazon by storing our billing info with them.
crypto is like everybody keeping gold and cash under their mattress.

2025-03-31 01:27:22 UTC

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I think that's true but I also want to do it without a middleman. Transfer money easily. Like email. Someday soon hopefully with @npub1494…2xd2 perhaps. But I'd still rather use what we've already got over crypto.

2025-03-27 00:53:52 UTC

Who else has been #disappeared so far?
#KhalilMahmoud
#RumeysaOzturk

2025-03-24 23:38:08 UTC

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"This is what you get in my house when you spill paint in the garage."

2025-03-24 00:22:46 UTC

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what I've heard is that it's better for the small sites cause it prevents lawsuits from even getting going against site operators. without it, most sites might win under 1A but the cost to defend yourself would be too much for little guys. the big guys have the lawyers and money to handle those cases, so they'd eventually be the only sites left.

2025-03-23 23:57:50 UTC

AFAICT #Section230 defaults the internet to small, independent websites letting people post dumb shit. And that's great cause sometimes that stuff isn't actually dumb, it was just unlikely to be thought of or said, especially by the wealthy/powerful. It was low-key genius.
Without it, everybody would have to be a lot more careful. Very similar to what we see with overly cautious moderation here on this network of small, independent websites. IMO #fediblockmeta #LiberalValues #SocialWeb

2025-03-21 18:33:50 UTC

What's worse, a govt that doesn't regulate business or one that does but is willing to be paid not to? Or willing to be paid to go after their competitors instead?
I understand the libertarian argument that the ability to regulate invites corruption, but what's the alternative if the threat of competition isn't protecting us? Just let them fuck us? They don't seem to consider that this standard argument might itself be corporate propaganda. Please think harder.
https://pca.st/wimbzee8

2025-03-18 18:35:42 UTC

The pro-natal billionaires could spend their money making #IVF free for everyone instead of launching rockets. No need to involve the government. Done.

2025-03-16 19:56:31 UTC

I might be wrong about this "everybody having good faith conversations with people who disagree with us to solve our civic problems" idea. Most of our egos might be too fragile for that. #LiberalValues

2025-03-14 15:01:41 UTC

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of course it depends. are you a listener? since it became a good grift to do so, he has spoken all manner of bullshit about COVID and vaccines.
again and like always, I am not against people giving their outsider opinions. or even bad info if they truly think it is correct. but don't act like you're smarter than people with more knowledge and experience. if you think they are lying for some reason, explain the details. don't just say they are Dems etc. engage your critics in good faith.

2025-03-14 13:46:38 UTC

Please tell me @npub13cj…xnnm is not this dumb. To think that a genetic cause for a disease means all your kids will get it and not just one out of three etc. #NoAgenda #ITM #TYFYC #TBPITU
https://pca.st/episode/de3e3c99-a1ce-4156-870d-ff1f0005822e?t=5405

2025-03-11 14:26:03 UTC

I want a fedi client that immediately turns off boosts for any account that boosts themselves. #SocialWeb

2025-03-11 12:44:27 UTC

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AFAICT he thinks being outvoted is equivalent to having politicians gerrymander your district.

2025-03-09 19:15:53 UTC

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is there another way besides joining the beta to read this?

2025-03-07 19:00:51 UTC

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yep, he was very confused. and #bluesky but not #ActivityPub. she also seemed to blame social media for our problems instead of the corporate algos. and seemed supportive of ending Section 230. we really need to help the political pundit world understand the importance of decentralization for free speech.

2025-03-07 05:02:56 UTC

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the short version is Integrity, Curiosity and Empathy.

2025-03-03 23:07:08 UTC

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I just wanted to make you guys aware of it. It shows what people in the indie music space are doing together and demonstrates potential more than being something I'd personally like to see more people doing imo.

2025-03-03 16:08:30 UTC

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FYI @npub12r7…myay @npub1uj3…c6ph @npub1ety…5krm @npub17wn…9s6v