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\n“Bridgy Fed is a free public service, funded by individual donations and institutional grants. Real people and orgs trust us with their money so that we can keep this thing...
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\n“Asking platforms to do better won’t work. We need to force their hands..”
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\n“With the exception of TikTok, the 2026 scores dropped across the board....
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\n“Websites As Canonical Sources, Not Just Destinations
\nYour website still matters. But its job description has changed.
\nYour website is no longer just a...
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\n“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...
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\n🔗 https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-its-really-not-a-race-to-the-bottom-on-redistricting 🧵 4/4
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\n“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...
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\nSee the full article here:
\n🔗 https://hidde.blog/web-ai-breakout/ 🧵 4/4
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\n“Holos Social 1.5.5 (34)
- Support for web+ap:// links (fedilinks): to open profiles and posts directly in Holos\nThis is a big milestone for a key fix myself and Sean wrote about here, to help make remote fediverse content...
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\nIt’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...
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\nHelen: “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...
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\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bitzoewdveqxvx7x7rv5iagh/post/3ml36dtomz324","date_published":"2026-05-05T02:48:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Tim Chambers","url":"http://www.timothychambers.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Ftchambers%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tchambers"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-05 02:48","date_timestamp":1777949285,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89611781","content_html":"@timothychambers.net …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… 🧵 2/7
\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bitzoewdveqxvx7x7rv5iagh/post/3ml36dtnu3g2e","date_published":"2026-05-05T02:48:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Tim Chambers","url":"http://www.timothychambers.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Ftchambers%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tchambers"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-05 02:48","date_timestamp":1777949285,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89611201","content_html":"More from Nilay on the Verge and the #OpenSocialWeb:
\n“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...
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\n“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? \"
\nNilay: …“I think all great media brands grow up with...
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\n“Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchers—which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and...
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\nMastodon announced the upcoming feature in a blog post about receiving €614,000 ($724,000) from the...
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\n“Let’s talk about the best way to access all these feeds. My preferred and recommended approach is using a feed reader.
\nWhen subscribing to content on the open web, feed readers are your secret weapon.
\nRSS might seem like it’s dead (it’s not—yet). In fact,...
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\nI 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.
\n“T...
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\n“…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...
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\nhttps://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jvprse7ptd6b9gccy3m9g547
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\n“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...
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\n“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...
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\nhttps://werd.io/an-alternate-history-of-social-media/
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\nSo, how do developers survive when the “product” can be cloned...
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\nAnd the conversations are active and growing....
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