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 to fall, and there probably won’t be a “Great Schism.” It’s a mess, but we get through it. I think that a small part of the Fediverse will take a preemptive maximalist stance and try to defederate Meta before they even launch, even though we’ll still have 3 months after they launch to find out what their policies are. Continue reading →

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 entity scraping all the Fediverse public social graph today - Want proof? See here: is.gd/q8U2pv But what if they merge that Fediverse data with their own internal data from IG isn’t that worse than just scraped data? Continue reading →

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…”

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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 key or ID emoji to your bio. Twitter will not let you add the emoji for check marks. This URL must lead to a page you create on your own website or the official website for your organization. Continue reading →

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…

“Imperfectly #indieweb - How the collapse of Twitter and a trip to the Wayback Machine inspired me to go all in on the Indieweb.” rossabaker.com/blog/impe…