How we're thinking about supporting the communities that rely on Mastodon every day.
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.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/mastodon-is-for-the-people/
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.
Current introduces a stress-free, totally reimagined RSS news reading app as a one-time paid download.
Read to the end for a magical sounding supermarket freezer aisle
"…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."
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-taboo-left-is-copyright-infringement
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
Tackling the biggest problem of network effects: bringing people here.
Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.
"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)
https://aftermath.site/anthropic-claude-ai-leftist-technology/
“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.
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
No tracking. No profiling. No model training.
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