Mastodon.social is being DDoS right now. That's bad. It was bad when Bluesky was DDoSed. It's bad when open social platforms are attacked.
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I am seething with rage. We cannot treat people like this, let alone fucking blind refugees who escaped a literal genocide enabled by US tech companies.
Tomorrow is #bandcampfriday!
I wanna hear your recs! I want to see them fill this feed I created!
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TELL US WHAT WE SHOULD CHECK OUT
Another problem with TikTok, X & Paramount's acquisitions by right wing extremists means that they literally own our cultural artifacts.
Like the Ellisons own all the copyrights to 60 minutes archives. Elon owns all the URLs for Dril's tweets. He could repoint them to Mein Kampf if he wanted to.
Yes this, but for 3 years ago when MAGA went on a successful racist vendetta to expel Nikole Hannah-Jones from one of the most prestigious journalism schools in the country, UNC. And then expelled Claudine Gay at Harvard.
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The staffing shortfall consequences are here
Honestly, this isn't just an open source maintainer or crypto exec problem.
This is a social engineering attack that can be used against literally anyone, from journalists to organizers of any stripe.
It's worth reading up on the details of what happened here if you use a computer and video calls
Right now, Dave's voluntary departure from the Washington Post to run his own indie news org sure seems clear eyed and prescient
Rudy is out here very much living "we can just do things" with a "for each other" emphasis.
Okay, sorry sorry, I can't let this thing from @ghost.org's post go.
When Ghost says it now connects to all these places including Bluesky, what they don't mention is that the Real Heroes, completely unmentioned in the post, are @snarfed.org, @quillmatiq.com & @anew.social and their @ap.brid.gy.
This is the real fundamental challenge of the creator journalism age. Journalism outlets are institutions and can bring some fire power to some legal battles, or dissuade moneyed litigants from trying to destroy individual reporters.
Remember when the New York Times said they didn't need a public editor because social media would be sufficient for newsroom accountability?
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Talking with @karenho.bsky.social about <waves> all of this, made me realize the following:
As a 40 something year old, it's fathomable that I can just outlast fascist 78 year old grandpa.
But fascist 53 year old billionaire is an unavoidable problem.
We can literally contribute to Blacksky, Eurosky etc to decentralize further.
If you care about decentralization, donate, move your account to a non-bluesky PDS, and use apps other than Bluesky.
The ecosystem isn't perfect, but we don't have to settle for complaining. We can do something about it!
Publications like Mother Jones have had their insurance rates skyrocket because the targets of their investigations have enough money to drag them through multi-year legal processes.
Okay, so i know some of you don't like liquid glass.
But like, I need you to upgrade to iOS 26. Please do it so you don't get pwnd.
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But if you _do_ want some AI help, Graze has an LLM you can prompt to build you a feed as well!
Graze's LLM & feed builder also provides some explainability since you can look at the blocks that the LLM generates for you.
I guess we gotta repeat it for the folks in the back:
I've never seen a project like Blacksky over years of watching social platforms. It's remarkable in many ways.
That Blacksky is out in front on both community and technical leadership is something the Atmosphere is incredibly fortunate to have.
Something I wished people thought about more!
Tomatoes, which seem like a staple of Italian cuisine weren't introduced to Europe until the 1540s!
Potatoes didn't arrive until like the 1570s!
@faineg.bsky.social just published a big long piece about minimizing the storage of sensitive data, what that has to do with government use of your data, and the risks/threats that DOGE pose. Def worth a read
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Bluesky ranking 5th for community platforms which 30k respondents wish to use next year behind StackOverflow, StackExchange, Youtube and Github.
That's pretty wild
Strongly endorse this book and series. If you haven't read it, it's very worth it! Accessible, fun, thought provoking, and certainly relevant to our times.
@mmasnick.bsky.social shouting out the Gift Links feed, which is genuinely something that's only possible in Bluesky:
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