Tim Chambers

#teslatakedown

RE: https://fedizen.net/pub/objects/01M5GKDQ9NW7CR4FXC3K4D9DH5

Endorse:

“There are still benefits to alternate protocols existing… if for no other reason than bringing new ideas to the table that force the more popular protocols to compete. We’ve already seen how effective the competition between ActivityPub and AT Proto has been, and the biggest winners have been the people using the protocols. The endgame is not any one protocol or platform; the endgame is finding the right tools to connect to the people you care about, and helping them to do the same.”

I agree with every idea

advocates for here.

A European digital sovereignty movement that is all based on close source European owned solutions vs American tech is not the solution. That’s trading one dependency for another.

The solution is open protocols and offerings not owned by any single company. #opensocialweb #opensource #ooenprotocol

https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conference-2026-102392-open-protocols-unite-common-goals-in-advocating#t=634

& I cowrote this today speaking to organizers and campaigns: "It Does Not Matter Why Meta Took No Kings Down. The Lesson Is the Same: Prepare for More of This. Now!" #NoKings

https://willrobinson.substack.com/p/it-does-not-matter-why-meta-took

RE: https://mastodon.social/@trendytoots/117458949760941287

Well done people, we got #NoKings up to 3rd most trending hashtag on Mastodon.

Seems like at least the account back, but no word from Meta on why this happened. This is why they were so smart of @indivisibleteam build out on platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon & their own direct to their users newsletters too - that are not at the whim of giant big tech.

#Meta needs to give exact and full answer of what the Hell just happened on this critical day of action. #Nokings #NoKingsVoteEarly

Not suprising in the least but disappointing to see Reddit move the wrong way. Less open, killing public API, ending RSS. #enshitification commences in a speed run.

Looking forward to #Piefed and rest of #Threadiverse to work to take advantage of this moment.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/

Scott Galloway said he thought #Bluesky "cute and adorable & will die a slow & painful death " While noting that's "just vibes I haven't looked at the data... "I think it is a better brand than a business right now." (While he does praise small, independent digital players and newsletter platforms.)

While some Fediverse folks might applaud such a dark view of Bluesky's outcome, my view is no one who cares about the open social web should root for their failing 1 of 2.

https://www.threads.com/@brittainforsenate/post/DaEF0Rskgiv/media

I'm still getting my head around how this would actually work:

"co/core is a place where people share the compute they already own to run AI for each other, instead of renting from a handful of giant providers. It's an experiment in inference we build, share, and own together — and your existing code works as-is, because we speak the same standard API everything else does. The models are open ones that run on the hardware people already have. Every new user is granted 1m tokens… 🧵 1/2

I like this a lot:

"More true is to say that early internet champions were alive to the importance of the internet, and therefore both excited about the possibilities of the internet to deliver a world of connection, idiosyncrasy, love and solidarity; and about the danger of the internet as a dystopian system of surveillance and manipulation... History isn't finished. Long after the AI bubble pops, there will be local models and people vibe coding homemade software that respond… 🧵 1/2

RE: https://backend.newsmast.org/@newsmast/116699386342655110

Very well deserved. I feel more assured that #newsmast as a good steward of the #indiewebSocial community was a very solid steward, and they are doing great work for the #OpenSocialWeb.

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116681977926733327

If I were starting over to the Fediverse I think I'd likely make this my primary account. As it is, I have a secondary account for testing and learning from what #HolosSocial is building.

Q. if one day the Holos Social relay were to go away, would the only recourse for users be to move accounts to another mastodon server? if the user made his domain his account name, could that even work?

Fully endorse this article from Newsmast. They are doing crucial work in this space and everyone that cares about the open social web should learn from their efforts. Expecially like this:

"The web began with connections. Then it outsourced search to Google, and social to Meta, X and TikTok. We have a chance to start again and do something different. The work begins with that overused but still powerful word: community. There's a world of organisations, communities and inspiring… 🧵 1/3

I think "AGI" or Artifical General Intelligence will be like nuclear fusion, perpetually 5 to 10 years away. "Ask someone in AI for their timeline, and they’ll tell you when they expect the arrival of AGI—artificial general intelligence—which is sometimes defined as AI technology that can match the abilities of humans at most tasks. As AI’s sophistication has scaled—thanks to faster computers, better algorithms, and more data—timelines have compressed. The leaders of major AI labs... 🧵 1/3

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116659010227090745

#HolosDiscover just keeps getting better. Definitely think all fediverse apps should keep an eye on this and look to pay for enterprise access to integrate it and keep it growing.

cc:

A keen observation from Laurens, and the #OpenSocialWeb needs both of these:

"If you read that statement with the fediverse and the atmosphere in mind, this is almost a diagram of the two ways the project can fail. Subsidiarity without solidarity is fragmentation: a thousand instances each guarding their own place, with no shared obligation or collaboration, with no place to maintain the commons that is the network itself. This is exactly what we see in the fediverse right now:… 🧵 1/3

RE: https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/116652198665234570

Cannot tell you what a difference this group makes to the open social web. This is "load bearing" for he fediverse, and deserves and will wisely use whatever donations you can send on...

I know that in some quarters of both the Bluesky and Fediverse side of the #OpenSocialWeb there is a justifiably allergic reaction to AI. I get it and share it. But I'm becoming more convinced than ever at this: if we in the open social web space don't build our own healthy, safe and fair versions of #AgenticWeb interactions here, it will be defined and done for and to us. The big platforms are already building agentic features: social enabled agents that read your feed, draft your… 🧵 1/3

This is a big milestone for the folks at Automatic and the WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) reader just became a great deal more connected and integrated to the open social web:

"The plugin’s ActivityPub API (https://activitypub.blog/2026/04/22/8-1-0-by-the-numbers/) now powers its first real production client: the WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) Reader. As a WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) user, you can now read, follow, and post across the Fediverse through your… 🧵 1/3

Hey #OpenSocialWeb fans this... https://www.theverge.com/tech/935674/let-me-get-this-straight-i-post-it-here-and-it-goes-everywhere

Is a big... https://indieweb.social/@[email protected]/116614596638802210

Big... https://indieweb.social/@[email protected]/116614596638802210

Big... https://www.threads.com/@imdavidpierce/post/DYnV8NJFBXa

...Effin' deal. We are all #TheVerge now. David continues: "This is just the beginning, too: our team is already… 🧵 1/2

I fully endorse this. (What my friend Will wrote, not necessarily what was in the thread bare and sketchy DNC "audit"... "The path forward is not complicated, but it is hard. Democrats need permanent local media infrastructure. They need always-on organizing. They need persuasive content built for the platforms people actually use. They need trusted messengers who already have relationships in communities. They need to compete in rural areas, factory towns, suburbs, and digital… 🧵 1/3

This from #FindOutMedia is really important. It's another example of the #findoutMediaPodcast folks building their following directly on the open social web: a network they own, that can't be taken away by Zuckerberg,Musk or by Google's or YouTube's latest algorithm. They just launched their own fedi server, and dedicated mobile apps, and each new account joining there is automatically bridged over to BlueSky. This is the model to keep an eye on. Everyone else with… 🧵 1/3 https://findout.media/public/local

Well put: it's a reminder of the social media we once glimpsed & seems so far away now. But we can build it back. "I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage."

🔗 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

Thanks to

for the collaboration on this update to my article from last summer. As Sean put it: "It's a way to reflect on how things have changed over the past six months, with clear ideas on where things are headed." Hope like the last time, this sparks good conversations and further motion.

The Seven Deadly #Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card https://wedistribute.org/2026/04/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux-sins-a-redemption-report-card

Good luck everyone doing demos at tomorrow's #Fediforum. As a reminder you can follow the #Surffeed for it even if you aren't in the surf app beta here:

🔗 https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jvprse7ptd6b9gccy3m9g547

This new AI tool called Malus.sh (🔗 http://malus.sh/) is pretty wild, cloning open source software to sidestep ANY copyright. I bet this sort of thing will change EVERYTHING for web and native apps, not just open source code, and probably sooner than we think. So, how do developers survive when the "product" can be cloned instantly? 🧵 1/5 cc:

Anil Dash’s piece is a wake-up call for the #OpenWeb. The threats he outlines feel scarily accurate, a "perfect storm" that needs us all to pause and then consider how to counter them. Definitely worth your time. cc:

🔗 https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/

Great news about an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic #cancer, in early trials. It looks like patients who responded are still alive 6 years later. That's a huge deal.

Am super hopeful for MRNA cancer vacines for a host of our deadliest cancers. #Science

🔗 https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-vaccine-shows-lasting-results-in-an-early-trial/ar-AA21czSE

I'm convinced that very soon, all AI model capabilities will be negligible for most users & completely commoditized & also have near zero switching costs. No "moat" for any of them. #AI https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/chinas-deepseek-launches-v4-ai-model-claimed-to-outperform-google-gemini-chatgpt-and-other-american-ai-systems/articleshow/1304

This is precisely correct.

"The difference from corporate social media comes down to incentive structures. Platforms designed around narcissism & parasocial relationships produce content optimized for engagement. A federated network w/ no central owner produces something closer to actual knowledge-sharing, because nobody profits from making it addictive."

https://boingboing.net/2026/03/06/why-mastodon-matters-now-more-than-its-creators-imagined.html

The $1.5 Billion Butterfly Effect: How eBay’s Acquisition of PayPal as a "Butterfly Effect"

I was having breakfast with a friend today, and we fell down a rabbit hole: How different would our country—and the world—be today if eBay hadn’t chosen to adopt, and eventually acquire, PayPal in 2002? It sounds like a niche piece of Silicon Valley history, but when you look at the "PayPal Mafia" timeline, it’s arguably is hard to overstate what impact that had. **1. 🧵 1/6

#Podcasts casts are the most important "open decentralized web" media right now and it is crucial that anyone who cares about the "open social web" is also fighting for podcasts to evolve, grow healtheir, integrate into the open social web via standard #podcasting2 standards, and avoid capture by closed centralized media.

https://doc.searls.com/2026/04/24/the-other-reasons-why-podcasting-is-hot/

Proposal for Fediverse Remote Content Engagement Updated April 14, 2026: https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/14/proposal-for-fediverse-remote-content.html

FYI, continually happy to see #indiewebsocial as a server continue to be a thriving social home for this many folks as it recently crossed 12,000 registered accounts and with a thriving and growing activty base. Just happy to be here.

Thanks again for

for being great stewards of this social space.

https://fedidb.com/servers/indieweb.social

So hopeful for these trials to create a vaccine for some of the deadliest of #cancer:

“BNT122 is the candidate more ambitious...A sample of the patient's tumor is taken, the genome is sequenced to identify up to 20 unique mutations,& a personalized mRNA vaccine is built that contains the instructions to produce exactly those tumor proteins. The immune system recognizes them as foreign and learns to seek them out and destroy them.“

https://en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/03/vaccino-mrna-contro-4-tumori-i-risultati-arrivano-questanno/

#ProstateCancer #ProstatecancerFeeds

“All I know for sure is that using Surf leaves me feeling better about the state of the internet. I am aware that the net is rapidly filling up with AI-generated slop, and that, furthermore, the technology’s impact on search and advertising threatens to disincentivize humans from bothering with the medium at all. But for now, there’s still lots of great stuff out there—and #Surf is a refreshingly inventive way to find it.”

cc:

https://www.fastcompany.com/91520679/surf-flipboard

A great new toolset just opened up from

enabling users to browser, sort, sift through literally thousands of federated "magazines," brand or org accounts, and fipboard TV accounts - all federating out and ready to copy and paste into your Fediverse app to follow.

Searchable and sortable in every way you can imagine (by most followers, newest, by language, etc)

Check it out.

#Flipboard

https://flipboard.com/directory

Reminder ✊
You can follow this #Surfsocial feed on their app for today’s #nokings protests:

No Kings Protest

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01k7fma1sa0f66jewn6tv6thfc

#SurfFeeds

I'm starting to kick around ideas for a #FASP for social feeds.

has suggested one for global hashtags, and the #Fediscovery folks are doing one for search. It feels like "feeds" is a missing &

,

and

and others have great feeds in the wild now. And I think, correctly me if I'm wrong

that the exact new feed format is being sussed out at the WC3. I think maybe the time is right to consider what a Feeds FASP might be. Whatcha think? https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications

Hey #Reticulum hobbyists and dev folks. I just installed the "Reticulum Mesh Chat" on my Mac OS and need to learn how to share my account info publicly (and what not to share) and if there are any users up for chatting to help me see this in the wild working. Any advice for newbie getting started welcome.

More evidence we need a form of mesh network peer to peer bridge to the open social web for time of internet blackouts. #iran

Very proud of my teams work with PSG Consulting on this research. Hope it sparks a robust discussion on #LLM training and risks at each stage this... #AI #aifeeds

https://www.psgconsulting.com/research-publications/potential-risks-of-ideological-skewing

RE: https://werd.social/@ben/115956098700373051

Fully endorse that view. Build an open and better independent ecosystem start to finish, don't build just another stand alone X competitor, or AWS competior. Build a system for hundreds to thousands of solutions.

""Our 1 week-old social network has already become entangled with a Russian disinformation campaign.... The Fediverse Trust & Safety team...They're doing the Lord's work over there. They, they truly are. The ED of

Jaz, wanted to alert us to the fact that the Forkiverse is what's called an open registration service, & [such servers] are being targeted by a pro-Russia propaganda network...named Portal Combat."

Via: Hard Fork 📻 An Update on the Forkiverse 🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork

Ok, Fedi: Inspired by

here is what I wish could be vibecoded (or hand coded) - an app that enabled me to download and listen to a set number of podcast and easily see or generate their transcripts… but then made it dead simple to excerpt from those transcripts and post those excerpts to the open social web…. (At least to fedi, Bluesky)🔥 anyone working on such a thing or willing to? cc:

And in #Forkiverse news: every bit of this - starting at 51 minutes in - is great! @[email protected] &

got a shout out & the whole thing was just fun… cc

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034?i=1000745421942

So we now have almost 100 of the top acounts from the #Forkiverse on this starter pack... including

and other top #Forkizens ....Will keep working on it but happy to hand it off to someone from the server to own too!

https://fedidevs.com/s/ODQy/

"The #Forkiverse makes all of this visible...unfolding in real time. We are watching a community take shape, with excitement, disagreement, and inevitable growing pains. Whether or not it fixes the internet is almost beside the point...in the Fediverse, community is not abstract. Community matters more than algorithms....It is intentional, contextual, and deeply shaped by where you choose to belong. And there is space, even if you have too many faces." https://maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkiverse-experiment-and-why-instance-choice-matters/

First day back at work after two weeks away.

The more I look into it, the #podcast2 folks fighting for open podcasts are in exactly the same fight, with almost 100 % the same challenges & opponents as the #opensocialweb folks are. Just a different front. We should all be natural allies. cc:

https://podstandards.org/2025/03/24/podcast-standards-project-what-weve-achieved-and-what-comes-next/

“Yes, the Fediverse is sometimes clunky, nerdy, uncomfortable. But it belongs to us. It’s not over-regulated, not driven by capital, not buggered up by algorithms. It’s what social media once aspired to be: A network of people, not brands.“ Via