The #Mastodon team has managed to get @Scott Jenson signed up as a design advisor. Congratulations, I can't wait to see impact on the product!
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Product Design Advisor at Mastodon! | Scott Jenson | 54 comments
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Product Design Advisor at Mastodon! | 54 comments on LinkedIn
Cory Booker just broke Strom Thurmond's record for the longest speech in the Senate of the United states at 24 hours and 19 minutes. 👏👏👏
In the past day or so, it was pointed out that my FediForum co-organizer has made some public statements that are incompatible with the kind of community we want to bring together at FediForum, and that I personally disagree with. Accordingly, Kaliya and I have agreed that she will be transitioning out of FediForum.
I'm thinking of running a #FediForum session next week on: Funding the open social web It appears to cost about $1 / month / user to run a social network, based on public company numbers. (Counting volunteer labor as a donation at market prices.) If we want the Fediverse to go from its current user numbers to 10x or 100x, and make it possible for most of humanity to get off the toxic platforms, we need to find those 10x or 100x or 1000x resources somehow. Let's brainstorm.
Ghost has made ActivityPub available to all of its Pro subscribers. Interesting how they name and describe it: "Social Web - y/n Federate your site with ActivityPub to join the world's largest open network" image #Ghost #ActivityPub
Dear weather, you are not supposed to be raining like this. Unless the changing climate has some very nasty influence on you. Just hit 430ppm CO2 this week for the first time in a few million years.
A detailed comparison table of Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and X. (In German)
Social Media Matrix • King Consult
Social Media im Vergleich: Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads oder X? Warum das Fediverse langfristig die beste Wahl für Behörden, Verbände, Wissenschaf...
#AI causes -96% in referral traffic according to this source.
Forbes
New Data Shows Just How Badly OpenAI And Perplexity Are Screwing Over Publishers
AI companies promised publishers their AI search engines would send them more readers via referral traffic. New data shows that’s not the case.
"Intimacy gradients" for social media. A really important concept that at least I have not seen implemented anywhere.
Socialroots
Intimacy Gradients: The Key to Fixing Our Broken Social Media Landscape
Un-breaking our social networks requires fundamentally different architectures than the defaults currently used to build most tools for coordination.
Crowdsourcing ... for my talk about UX in the Fediverse and the social web, what do **you** think the biggest challenges are for user experience today?