We need to separate identity from servers in the ActivityPub world. It's time. I should be able to have a single identity and use it with lots of servers from Mastodon to Lemmy and beyond. Then, various instances could reflect different communities with different people in them, different features and policies. This also would elegantly solve the "instance selection paralysis" in @Tim Chambers 's Deadly Fediverse UX sin #1. Fortunately @Ben Pate 🤘🏻 is starting to assemble people to solve this.

"They promised connection. But they delivered addiction, surveillance, and manipulation." What a simple, powerful statement about commercial social media by [@_elena](

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Elena Rossini ⁂ (@_elena@mastodon.social)

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) in her amazing movie. I'm going to steal this. (With attribution of course!) https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN

An unexpected obstacle to adoption. I assume Mastodon would be no different: “I spoke with a few congressional staffers who said that they had tried using Bluesky as an alternative to Twitter after Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, but they gave up after their bosses kept getting yelled at by Democratic users angry at their impotence.”

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In today’s edition: How a slice of the media ecosystem is adapting to Trump in power.

Utah is going to legally require social media interoperability and portability of the social graph. Wow, this law has been signed and it somehow passed under my radar. IMHO It has a good change to substantially impact the open social web, in a very good way. Thanks @Tim Chambers for the tip!

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