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Mastodon is for the people

blog.joinmastodon.org · Feb 19

How we're thinking about supporting the communities that rely on Mastodon every day.

Shared by @topstories and 51 others.
Box464 (@box464) · Feb 19
🔁 @haubles:

Excited to share our community vision for @Mastodon today: we are for the people.

This year our focus is on ensuring everyone can have a safe and fun experience on #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline, and doing more to support and celebrate the diverse servers running #Mastodon, its forks, and every #Fediverse application out there.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 (@chris) · Feb 19
🔁 @haubles:

Excited to share our community vision for @Mastodon today: we are for the people.

This year our focus is on ensuring everyone can have a safe and fun experience on #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline, and doing more to support and celebrate the diverse servers running #Mastodon, its forks, and every #Fediverse application out there.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

Felix Hlatky (@mellifluousbox) · Feb 19
🔁 @Mastodon:

The third in our blog post series is by @haubles - sharing our work and ideas around how to grow and nurture the community, for everyone. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

Bogdan Buduroiu (@budududuroiu) · Feb 19
🔁 @haubles:

Excited to share our community vision for @Mastodon today: we are for the people.

This year our focus is on ensuring everyone can have a safe and fun experience on #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline, and doing more to support and celebrate the diverse servers running #Mastodon, its forks, and every #Fediverse application out there.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

Tim Chambers (@tchambers) · Feb 19
🔁 @haubles:

Excited to share our community vision for @Mastodon today: we are for the people.

This year our focus is on ensuring everyone can have a safe and fun experience on #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline, and doing more to support and celebrate the diverse servers running #Mastodon, its forks, and every #Fediverse application out there.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

hannah aubry (@haubles) · Feb 19
🔁 @haubles:

Excited to share our community vision for @Mastodon today: we are for the people.

This year our focus is on ensuring everyone can have a safe and fun experience on #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline, and doing more to support and celebrate the diverse servers running #Mastodon, its forks, and every #Fediverse application out there.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

ADRIAN :bkg: 🏳️‍🌈 (@adrian) · Feb 19
🔁 @Mastodon:

The third in our blog post series is by @haubles - sharing our work and ideas around how to grow and nurture the community, for everyone. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

Trendy Toots (@trendytoots) · Feb 19
🔁 @Mastodon:

The third in our blog post series is by @haubles - sharing our work and ideas around how to grow and nurture the community, for everyone. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

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Where Does Community Live?

connectedplaces.online · Feb 18

ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional design, and right now those institutions are being built.

Shared by @jdp23 and 19 others.
dansup (@dansup) · Feb 18
🔁 @stefan:

Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.

This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.

connectedplaces.online/where-d

#SocialMedia #community #blacksky #bluesky #fediverse

Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq) · Feb 18
🔁 @fediversereport:

new from me - Where Does Community Live?

A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web

connectedplaces.online/where-d

Jon (@jdp23) · Feb 19
🔁 @fediversereport:

new from me - Where Does Community Live?

A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web

connectedplaces.online/where-d

David B. :SetouchiExplorer: (@David) · Feb 19
🔁 @fediversereport:

new from me - Where Does Community Live?

A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web

connectedplaces.online/where-d

wakest ⁂ (@liaizon) · Feb 18
🔁 @stefan:

Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.

This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.

connectedplaces.online/where-d

#SocialMedia #community #blacksky #bluesky #fediverse

lashman (@lashman) · Feb 18
🔁 @stefan:

Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.

This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.

connectedplaces.online/where-d

#SocialMedia #community #blacksky #bluesky #fediverse

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Current is a new RSS reader that's more like a river than an inbox | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com · Feb 19

Current introduces a stress-free, totally reimagined RSS news reading app as a one-time paid download.

Shared by @timothyjchambers and 10 others.
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The only taboo left is copyright infringement

garbageday.email · Feb 18

Read to the end for a magical sounding supermarket freezer aisle

Shared by @troy_s and 17 others.
troy_s :praxis_100: (@troy_s) · Feb 19
🔁 @josemurilo:

"…a theory on #thenewcool: You have to essentially pre-#deplatform yourself.

#Culture right now is determined not by #human teams of editors & producers picking & choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the #unthinkingalgorithms that power YouTube & TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of #scarcity & #danger required to be seen as #cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms."

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

hypebot (@hypebot) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

Chip Butty (@otfrom) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

Carolyn (@CStamp) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

dave (@dthompson) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement rules

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

Martin (@martin) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg."

(Original title: The only taboo left is copyright infringement)

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

mel (@xyz) · Feb 19

"You know things are bad when even #OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “#Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg."

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

#AI #algorithm #culture #influence #cool #popular #original

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

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‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science

theguardian.com · Feb 19

As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world

Shared by @draNgNon and 27 others.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (@Lazarou) · Feb 19
🔁 @future_upbeat:

So a government cancels research grants, slashes science budgets, restrict inflow of talented immigrants and what do you get?

A brain drain.

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

#science #research #braindrain

adarsh 🚲 (@adarsh) · Feb 19
🔁 @davidho:

The brain drain from science in the US isn't to other countries, but from science to non-science (e.g., I know scientists driving for Uber). The one exception is that students and postdocs are choosing other countries over the US because of the lack of funding, the danger, and the uncertainty.

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

Chris Adams (@acdha) · Feb 19
🔁 @davidho:

The brain drain from science in the US isn't to other countries, but from science to non-science (e.g., I know scientists driving for Uber). The one exception is that students and postdocs are choosing other countries over the US because of the lack of funding, the danger, and the uncertainty.

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

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Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy

deadsuperhero.com · Feb 19

Tackling the biggest problem of network effects: bringing people here.

Shared by @MOULE and 12 others.
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (@reiver) · Feb 19
🔁 @sean:

Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy

Tackling the biggest problem of network effects: bringing people here.

deadsuperhero.com/reimagining-

Jesse Karmani (@jesseplusplus) · Feb 19
🔁 @sean:

Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy

Tackling the biggest problem of network effects: bringing people here.

deadsuperhero.com/reimagining-

ozoned (@ozoned) · Feb 19
🔁 @sean:

Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy

Tackling the biggest problem of network effects: bringing people here.

deadsuperhero.com/reimagining-

Michael Foster (@michael) · Feb 19
🔁 @sean:

Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy

Tackling the biggest problem of network effects: bringing people here.

deadsuperhero.com/reimagining-

Alex Chapman (@alexchapman) · Feb 19
🔁 @sean:

Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy

Tackling the biggest problem of network effects: bringing people here.

deadsuperhero.com/reimagining-

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The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited

aftermath.site · Feb 19

Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

Shared by @mmu_man and 29 others.
Aslak Raanes (@aslakr) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Blain Smith (@blainsmith) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (@onepict) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Stu (@tehstu) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Helen LH (@Research_FTW) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

mmu_man (@mmu_man) · Feb 20
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (@grumpybozo) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Chip Butty (@otfrom) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

divya (@divya) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Jørgen fra Europa (@slaeg) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

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We Have Learned Nothing About Amplifying Morons

404media.co · Feb 19

“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.

Shared by @CosmicTraveler and 17 others.
The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Feb 20
🔁 @karlbode.com:

almost as if the decision to build all of our media and information platforms on the back of corporate ad engagement was foundationally cancerous

We Have Learned Nothing About ...

Jer Clarke (@jerclarke) · Feb 19
🔁 @404mediaco:

“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.

404media.co/we-have-learned-no

Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Feb 19
🔁 @m0bi:

📰 "Nie nauczyliśmy się niczego o wzmacnianiu kretynów

Prawie dziesięć lat temu Jason i ja siedzieliśmy w ogrodzie na dachu biura VICE w Brooklynie, aby porozmawiać z Whitney Phillips, profesorką i ekspertką w dziedzinie komunikacji cyfrowej i etyki. Media, naukowcy i eksperci polityczni wciąż próbowali ogarnąć fakt, że Donald Trump wygrał swoje pierwsze wybory prezydenckie, a Phillips rozmawiała z nami na potrzeby analizy, którą pisała na temat tego, jak media w większości zawiodły w relacjonowaniu nowej, skrajnie prawicowej i niezwykle internetowej polityki, która przejęła kontrolę nad kulturą w latach poprzedzających wybory w 2016 roku.

Polityka w Stanach Zjednoczonych i na całym świecie, która w ciągu ostatnich 10 lat skręciła w kierunku skrajnej prawicy, nie jest problemem, za który można winić wyłącznie technologię, internet lub media. Jest to złożona, wieloaspektowa kwestia dotycząca wielu pokoleń, obejmująca ekonomię, geopolitykę, demografię i wiele innych dziedzin. Jednak problem, który ogólnie rzecz biorąc zidentyfikowała Phillips i od którego wzięła nazwę jej badania, dotyczył koncepcji „wzmocnienia”. "

Całość [EN]:
404media.co/we-have-learned-no

#polityka #internet #media #społeczeństwo

lashman (@lashman) · Feb 19
🔁 @feed:

We Have Learned Nothing About Amplifying Morons

“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.

404media.co/we-have-learned-no

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Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

ianbetteridge.com · Feb 19

I could — and probably should — write an entire essay about the cult of the founder in Silicon Valley, how it developed and the damage it has done. This article from Dave Karpf, though, encapsulates some of my own thinking. Contrasting Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman — both members of the first

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