Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Finally, @princeton.edu is on a decentralized social media platform! 👏👏

If you are using Bluesky because you're fed up with how centralized platforms get enshitified after a new owner takes over, you should at least use it with a custom domain handle rather than one that depends on bsky.social. Here is how: bsky.social/about/blog/4...

Bluesky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

I'm on a panel about the future of social technologies at #AAAS to talk about the decentralized social media, e.g., Bluesky, for scientists.

Why do you think scientists should or should not be on Bluesky? 👨‍🔬

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The full paper is available in the ACM DL dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Massive kudos to the awesome @omelmalki.bsky.social, who was able to build this in a summer.

One of the great things about decentralized social media is that researchers can experiment with new ideas.

Please help science and apply to be part of this study that one of our students is doing to make it easier for anyone to create sophisticated custom Bluesky feeds.

Spread the word too! 🙏

Omar El Malki @omelmalki.bsky.social

Want $50 to create your own feed with natural language? We’re a group of researchers at Princeton studying how people could more easily build their own feeds. Join our study to try it out and tell us what you think of the experience! 👉 Sign up at forms.gle/MkSGKzxDfBEc... (takes less than 1 min)

The DeCenter at Princeton is hiring a cohort of postdocs to work on decentralization of power through decentralization of trust. HCI folks encouraged to apply puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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I still haven't figured out how to not depend on the company's relays and PDS, which is why I continue to be skeptical and use it as if Meta or some other company could acquire it 🤷

Congrats to Varun Rao for defending his PhD dissertation, "Toward Human-Centered, Evidence-Based Policy on AI's Labor Impacts."👏

Not only is he the first PhD student I graduate, but probably the first in the field of HCI in Princeton’s 280-year-old
history.

citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Participate in a fun study from one of our students that involves creating your own daily email digest to catch up on what happened on Bluesky!

We're organizing an in-person workshop about decentralized social media at Princeton to discuss topics ranging from decentralization, federations, governance, platforms, protocols, and more.

Apply at:

dsmw.cs.princeton.edu/

We have some travel funding!

Spread the word ♻️

Hi from Orcas Island

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Varun’s work is part of our Workers’ Algorithm Observatory wao.cs.princeton.edu

He is also a member of @princetonhci.bsky.social and @princetoncitp.bsky.social

He will join Apple’s Responsible AI team in Boston, led by another @princeton.edu alum, @jeffreybigham.com 🐯

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It was great hosting you all! Thanks for coming to campus and hope we can get to collaborate with you!

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We missed you!!

You can't DDoS the Fediverse!
The Atmosphere really needs to invest in making it easier to set up a more diversified ecosystem.

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Fun to see an OLPC XO in the wild!

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Thanks for the welcome! 🙏

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Looks like we will be able to set up independent instances of this thing, which has regained my interest in YASP (yet another social protocol) 😅

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Yes!! 👋👋