If you're in Austin, visiting #Fediverse House at 412 Congress Ave today and tomorrow is what you need to be doing. I don't think you need a #SXSW ticket - just show up and meet some of the key people building and thinking about this network for all of us.
About Flipboard
SXSW '25 - About Flipboard
Flipboard and Surf are hosting the first-ever Fediverse House at SXSW to explore the world of decentralized social media.
21 years ago, I started writing an open source social networking platform. Since then, it's been run by teams of very smart people who have continued to evolve it through various phases of the web. This year it fully joined the #fediverse. I'm a bit proud - but mostly of the amazing people who took this project on and made it their own.
GitHub
GitHub - RiverVanRain/activitypub: ActivityPub integration for Elgg
ActivityPub integration for Elgg. Contribute to RiverVanRain/activitypub development by creating an account on GitHub.
Sometime over the last few years I completely stopped listening to podcasts. I just don't have time for it. Maybe it was becoming a parent; maybe it was something else. But I don't get where it fits into anything else.
The original, exciting promise of the web was to redistribute publishing power from the few to the many. We need to return to that spirit of redistributed equity.
Ben Werdmuller
The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back.
It's time to rekindle the movement.
Excited to read this story raising the alarm about American snacks illegally entering the UK market because their ingredients are harmfully toxic. Luckily in America we believe in BUSINESS and CHOICE which means people can get CANCER from CHIPS if they want to.
the Guardian
Illegal imported sweets ‘flooding UK high streets’, councils say
Social media driving demand for US products containing banned additives linked to cancer and behaviour issues
I know I've been slow on this, but I was a New York Times subscriber until today (for the games and the recipes, mostly). This graph was the final straw. image
If you were taking a team out for an interesting group activity in NYC one evening, where would you go? Trying to avoid the usual / generic choices (although last time we did an escape room and it went surprisingly well).
The people throwing the Nazi salutes and the systemic targeting of vulnerable communities aren't what bother me the most. They're awful, don't get me wrong. But what truly bothers me is the people who downplay these things, who tell us it's not so bad, that see fear of all of this as unjustified.
"We now have the bizarre situation that anyone with any sense can see that America is no longer a reliable partner, and that the entire US business world bows to Trump’s dictatorial will, but we STILL are doing everything we can to transfer entire governments and most of our own businesses to their clouds." #Technology
Ben Werdmuller
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
[Bert Hubert] A European point of view: "We now have the bizarre situation that anyone with any sense can see that America is no longer a reliabl...
Who’s writing the best political protest music in this moment?