Jesse Chen (engineering manager on Threads) and Zahan Malkani (server engineer lead on the Threads app) from the Instagram dev team discuss their launch - growing from a small incubation team to one of the central efforts from inside Meta - and importantly they reaffirm the upcoming support for … read more

And this from this episode with Casey Newton and Joshua Toplosky: Josh: “I understand the whole Fediverse and the Mastodon thing, and that is cool, and if they can make it work well, I’m totally into it and will keep posting there… …But I think we all acknowledge, that … read more

Here are some very important quotes from the head of Instagram on their roll-out of ActivytPub support and how they plan to interact with the Fediverse: which he commits to being a “fast follow” feature to add now that they have launched, where he commits to decentralization to be a long … read more

I wrote before that we need humility, recognizing there is so much we don’t know and could be wrong about. I would have sworn that Meta would not support full export of users' social graph to go join other servers. Many opposing federation with Meta did too. We were all wrong at least to what … read more

As Meta’s new App - now officially confirmed as “Threads” - has a near-term launch date of July 6th, wanted to restate that Indieweb.social will be taking the same position as almost all mid-sized and large-sized servers and will be “Watching Like a Hawk, with our Fingers … read more

The strum and drang of the conversation of Meta joining the Fediverse continue at it’s wild and intense pace: See this: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/06/3… And to me, for the most part, that is a good thing, this is a big deal and we as a fediverse family should suss it out. We have … read more

One more post about how things are going inside the Fediverse now that #Project92 has joined the Fediverse. I have two ideas: One is that the Fediverse has ALWAYS had to make hard choices about things like this, but we’ve always found a way. We’ll do it again. The sky isn’t going … read more

With the #meta #Project92 or #Threads Fediverse offering, there has been a, well, robust discussion of how to avoid threats looming. Those advocating mass-preemptive defederation make three cases for it. ➡️ To avoid data mining … However, defederation does virtually zero to avoid any big tech … read more

More on Meta’s Instagram “project 92” Twitter-competitor just leaked including confirmation of #ActivityPub support: twitter.com/alexeheat…

“The most interesting thing about Meta’s Twitter clone…If Meta pursues this idea at scale, it would be an incredible departure for the world’s largest social media company.” #Barcelona #Meta #Fediverse

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Some important questions users of #BlueSky and other emerging social networks will have to face: www.vanityfair.com/news/2023…

Funny (and a sign of the times) to see “billions of minutes viewed” become functionally the new Neilsen ratings: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-new…

Well if they had virtual legs, they would be.

“Major retail players are walking back their metaverse strategies…”

www.modernretail.co/technolog…

Because, of course, they are. And soon these #BlueCheck users will be the only ones upranking & downranking the Twitter algorithm for everyone.

www.newsweek.com/2023/04/0…

Happy April 2nd - International Fact-Checking Day - to all who celebrate. #FactsMatter twitter.com/factcheck…

This solution for Twitter verification without paying Elon is easy to use, adheres to web standards, and works efficiently. First, include the following in your (or your organization’s) Twitter bio: This account can be verified at timothychambers.net/verified/ You can also (like I did) add the … read more

No, it’s just the #indieweb, #openweb, and #fediverse doing it’s thing.

No, it’s just the #openweb, #indieweb, and #fediverse doing their thing.

This #blackFriday keep #privacy in mind in gift choices… foundation.mozilla.org/en/privac…

OK, pretty cool: Feedle - a new track of RSS feeds of blogs and podcasts…. feedle.world

#Mozilla issues its “State of Mozilla 2021-2022 Report. The web is such a better place with them in it. They have many challenges but wishing them a bright next chapter: www.mozilla.org/en-US/fou…

This site is going to be very busy: twitterisgoinggreat.com #Twitter

“A Guide to US Election Day Misinformation” - www.bloomberg.com/news/news…

“Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to ‘ignore’ Web3: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’…” www.cnbc.com/2022/11/0…

“Mastodon says 230,000 people joined its decentralized social network in the last week and it now has 655,000 active users” #TwitterMigration techcrunch.com/2022/11/0…