#Threads growth continues…. www.socialmediatoday.com/news/thre…

While the fight against the great harms of the Trump bill continues, we saw this one key victory last night:

“The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program (Bloomberg)”

There is a sound of ocean waves that I’m convinced cannot be fully captured by any digital recording. I don’t know if it is overtones/undertones…but it’s like the difference between hearing a live band vs. a recording of one. The only way to really hear an ocean is to sit in person and listen.

Good summary of the build out of #surfapp www.viget.com/work/flip…

The ability to think or mull over things deeply on vacation is a luxury akin to cooking rich meals while on break - something my work week rarely gives time for.

So you made it through the first fiery sermon in this series. Trust me—I didn’t enjoy preaching it any more than you enjoyed reading it. But every word came from a place of love—for the Fediverse, and for what it still could become. But fear not, dear reader: as the preacher once said, salvation is within your reach. And to reward you for slogging through that earlier wall of hard truths, here’s your moment of grace. Continue reading →

Decentralized platforms like Fediverse and Bluesky will be interesting to watch re: breaking news & disinformation. X/Twitter’s already the worst tonight, its former strength in breaking news now its worse than useless.

Summer officially starts today at 10:42 pm. www.space.com/stargazin…

#Surffeeds have now fully taken over the UX role that both Mastodon and BlueSky lists used to play – in my usage of either platform. And cool that it is now one Surf Feed that can help me engage on both platforms. Open Social Web FTW! surfsocial.org

So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them through their first steps into our glorious decentralized galaxy. And seeing it all again through fresh eyes? Reader, it was brutal. So much of what should be table stakes for any social media UX in the year of our Lord 2025 still is missing or deeply broken still. I know progress has been made and a good fight, fought. Continue reading →

All the elements that makes the major platforms harmful to humans in general all make it equally or more hostile to online organizing, too. Convinced the open social web is future of organizing. nymag.com/intellige…

Bookmarks for mobile and desktop web browsers should be totally reinvented & made fully (securely and with permission per bookmark) enabled to be federated to the Open Social Web. And the browser that should do it first is #Vivaldi.

Fully agree: switched to #Vivaldi after losing faith in #Firefox management and zero regrets. Only a better experience. www.makeuseof.com/why-switc…

Made me laugh. (But I’m easy)

“We got the first polling data on how people feel about the LA situation… Despite apparent wisdom that it’d help Trump, voters don’t initially approve…”

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/why-the… 

#Ghost launch coming: “What if nobody owned this?” …The fediverse represents an alternative path… Will it work?… Up to all of us… Networks succeed when people use them. Difficult to start & nearly impossible to stop once it has momentum." activitypub.ghost.org/ramping-u…

“[We chat w/ Robin Berjon abt a piece he co-authored w/ Maria Farrell ‘We Need To Rewild The Internet' abt how the Net has become unhealthy & extractive & how we can revitalize it using lessons…by ecologists.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Be safe tonight LA friends. Stay peaceful and don’t take the bait. #iceprotests #losangeles

States rights touting Republicans are awfully quiet right now. #losangeles

This exchange from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica is even more relevant now than ever. #losangeles #iceprotests youtu.be/HnZ53lPPs…