Excited to announce that I’m teaming up with Anuj Ahooja on a new non-profit for the open social web, across protocols, with Bridgy Fed as its first main project! Introducing A New Social.

When I posted Possible futures for Bridgy Fed a while back, I was surprised and gratified by the outpouring of support. So many of you really believe in it and want it to survive, grow, and find a stable footing beyond the useful little one-person side project it is today.

Some people stepped up even further and said, “I’m willing to put the work in and actually help build, drive, and even lead this.” Anuj is one of those people. He’s a renaissance man who’s worked on the fediverse and open social web for many years at sub.club, Flipboard, and more. He’s written at length about the potential he sees in the open social web, across all sorts of networks – “people, not platforms!” – and how we have an opportunity now that we haven’t had in a long time.

And there are so many more of you, across the space, who’ve joined and committed to supporting us! We’re truly humbled and grateful. We’re still only at the very beginning, we have a lot of work to do, but we’re excited to get started. Wish us luck, and please reach out if you want to get involved!

I just realized that I don't need to argue with y'all about:
* Starter packs
* Composable moderation
* Quote tweets
* Paying trust & safety engineers for their labor
* Funding stuff without VC or begging for donations
* If UX is possible without VC money

I don't need to argue with y'all about any of this. I'm not asking for your permission or your help. I'm telling you what's going to happen.

Mastodon is moving in the right direction, just slowly. It could be faster with funding + focus.

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Check it out and place your order: A card game for lovers of Japanese prints (and for manuscripts lovers there is still the earlier game Anjou). Kudos to our wonderful KU Leuven history graduate Bram De Ridder
https://www.sunkentower.be/

saw someone describe LLMs as "an encyclopedia on steroids" and i think that's basically incorrect in every way, isn't it? i would have gone for something more like "a thesaurus on acid"

I shared a very personal post a few month ago and then unlisted it from my site. It's a tough one and I was very worried about attracting the wrong folks with it or getting into painful discussions. But a lot of really wonderful conversations followed. Especially with people from the US.

I think it's the right time to post it once more. Maybe it can help you in some way or another: "My Grandpa was a Nazi" https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa

@ludicity See, if you'd read the classics, you'd know what classical societies tended to do to VCs (the fate of Marcus Licinius Crassus comes to mind). I believe we should reinstate the practice, myself, but unfortunately stock options don't melt quite as well as gold does.

The current chaos in WordPress caused by Matt seems like a good time to remind folks that the Mastodon “community” websites and trademarks are 100% owned by one man, despite pleas from current and former project members to make Mastodon a foundation with a board.

the eu, led by west germany, kills more migrants in a year than anyone was killed at the berlin wall by both sides put together in its entire existence. same for the us on its southern border.

"For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience." ;)

#ThanksEU #GDPR #AIAct #DMA #TormentNexus