Open social media has a new fan: U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna. The congressman for California's 17th Congressional District appeared on Kara Swisher's "On" podcast last week and talked about Bluesky, @surf, and the importance of being able to construct your own social graph, take your followers where you go, and opt out of algorithms. Here's the full episode:

https://flip.it/G01JHr

#SocialMedia #OpenSocial #SurfSocial #Bluesky #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #ATProto #ActivityPub

I often see posts on LinkedIn about EuroSky. The MEP @alexandrageese often likes them.

If our MEPs finally decide to leave X, will they mainly go to BlueSky or a European server?

It's better than nothing, but I wonder how they will adapt to the #Fediverse. We shouldn't forget that the EU Commission is active on the @EUCommission@ec.social network.

#LeaveX #BlueSky #EuroSky #ATProtocol #ActivityPub #Europe #EU

For #SelfHosted #blogging, is #ghostblog really all that better than #WordPress? I'm thinking in #freemium terms.

The one thing that particularly bothered me about WordPress was how anything truly useful, outside of taxonomy, was the fact that it ties a lot of value to monthly subscription fees.

I even see the #ActivityPub implementation is single user only. I'm wondering if self hosted means you don't get multi user - or multi author support.

It's been it and #WriteFreely.

Anyone else have 1,000's of photos they never posted because they didn't want to spam the feed with all the posts over a random #weekend? My new scheduler has 40 posts lined up for the next few weeks. And they all have AI assisted #AltTest and #Hashtags, the #Location. I feels great to be so productive! #PhotographyLife #Productivity

#Pixelfed #ActivityPub #Fediverse
https://fediversestudio.zero.vedfolnir.org/

It would be so cool if I could use my current Mastodon instance "identity" to join other Mastodon instances.

Why?

Well, my thinking is this. Some instances, like infosec.exchange is "more" aiming for a community around Information Security.

But as a person I'm not just one thing, I'm many things.

Currently I'm more or less forced to either make my home in one place, or create multiple accounts.

But if instances instead were considered communities I could say "Oh... I would like to join this and that community", but still have my "home" somewhere.

Perhaps the solution is not necessarily to make Instances communities but rather extend ActivityPub with some sort of "community" based actor or something.

Let's say there is a Community around Photography in Sweden that I would like to join.

How do I do that today? I don't really see a way for me to integrate "naturally" with that community.

Have other people thought about this? What's your thoughts concerning Community groups, or circles etc?

#Fediverse #Groups #Community #Circles #Mastodon

cara

fiz uma lista com 447 pessoas ATIVAS para seguirem aqui, seguindo critérios bem específicos para "ativos"

isso SÓ ENTRE MEUS MUTUALS

sem falar a quantidade de gente por aí nesse mundão do mastodon que eu nem conheço, mas facilitei pra vocês

agora quem disser que não consegue encontrar gente aqui vai ser descupinha frouxa

#Linktipp: Fediverse Report – #149 – On Protocol Governance https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/

Resumo (no print) da minha opinião sobre a polêmica que tá rolando no fediverso envolvendo a proposta do "o bonde"

já escrevi muito antes da proposta ser apresentada sobre o tema, e foi bom para nem por um segundo soar birrinha ou disputa por espaço

a escolha entre ActivityPub x Nostr não é "uma escolha muito difícil"

Someone should build a podvideo player. Maybe someone already has? Then you could couple that with the payment tech/method used by https://underproduktion.se/ in Malmö who have successfully created a user friendly simple app agnostic way to paywall podcasts, allowing content creators to get paid for their work.

Then you'd have something that could substitute YouTube (in some cases)
#underproduktion #malmö #degoogle #deyoutube

Looking for a recommendation on ultra-light eating utensils. Due to a timing mishap on my part I'll be attending FOSDEM this year with an insecure front crown (the permanent replacement will not be ready until after I'm already on the way). It's already fallen out once and when it was put back in they said to cut everything up really small when eating. So, I am looking for a very light sturdy travel utensil kit for my backpack that is also easy to keep clean.

#askfedi #fosdem #forkiverse

NYT's Hard Fork and Search Engine podcast started a #mastodon site in the #fediverse called the #forkiverse.

"Can We Build a Better Social Network?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/podcasts/can-we-build-a-better-social-network.html

I've talked before about the inherent limitations of Mastodon. It will never be like the commercial socials it replaces. It's slower, quieter, unlikely to reach your dear Aunt Sally or K-12 classmates. No realtime updates on earthquakes, traffic, etc. No talking with world leaders & celebs.

Final details for #PfPLondon are locked in. We have our ️ venue, last ️ speaker confirmed, and the ️ registration is now completely open!

https://protocolsforpublishers.com/final-details-for-pfp-london/

#ActivityPub #ATProto #AI #webpayments #webpublishing #events #London

I dag trives jeg på jobb

#Mastodon #Plushtodon #LiveLaughFederate #Allheimen #NorskTut #ActivityPub #Kontor #Office #FalkMedia

Ideologues are weird. You can't talk to them about anything because they'll go off on a rant if they get a whiff of something that sets them off even if it's tangential to the actual topic.

Me ajuda aí, onde posso hospedar meu pseudopodcast (arquivos de áudio despretensiosos de 15 minutos)?

Sei que minha antiga casa Ayom hospeda podcasts, mas até onde saiba é afrocentrado.

First Post!

Wir schauen gerade, wie wir mehr auf Social Media tun können, und da darf das Fediverse natürlich nicht fehlen!

One of the pitches that is being made about decentralized social media is that it can be censorship resistant.

Iran has been in a situation of maximum censorship for days now, as they simply turned off all communication services.

How would social media look like that could still be functional in these circumstances? There is a need!

Running ActivityPub over packet radio seems a stretch ... Running AtProto at all seems an even bigger stretch.

Where does censorship resistance start and end?

@Casey @kevin weren't kidding. This feels exactly like early days Twitter.

It's kinda fun milling about, but I think I thought the Fediverse was going to be something more than just another social media network.

Maybe I misunderstood that part of the pod.

decent growth rate on the forkiverse this week. if it continues at this rate (i think it almost certainly will) we should be at 213 million users by next year. although obviously this is an estimate, and it's possible that the growth rate increases.

Interesting read on decentralization of threat intelligence sharing! Random thought... I can't help but wonder if the Fediverse might have some future role to play here.

https://medium.com/@d3lt4labs/decentralized-cyber-threat-intelligence-community-based-approaches-for-global-threat-sharing-4e721d87eb73

#cti #threatintel #cybersecurity #decentralization #fediverse #activitypub