Here is a good elevator pitch for the #Surfapo from #flipboard …I use it everyday for more than half of my social engagements and reading … youtube.com/shorts/x9…

#Fediforum is coming! Follow breaking news on this feed on #Surfapp: surf.social/feed/surf… or this feed on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/d… #OpenSocialWeb

Just saw my first TV ad for something (in this case furniture) that ended with a pitch that it had “tariff-busting pricing.” So yeah, I guess that is a salient sales pitch now.

Well written review of #surfapp beta from Mike Saas:

“I wasn’t sure what the app would do for me that my already-well-curated…timelines wasn’t doing. But then, I built my first custom feed. From there, I started to see the potential…”

shellsharks.com/notes/202…

A note: I now use #Microblog for over half my social posting, cross-posting feaatures to Bluesky, Medium, Threads, Tumbr, etc….& I now use #Surfapp from #Flipboard for over half the time - to read, engage, & reply on Bluesky, Mastodon, and many RSS feeds. Open Social Web FTW!

I’m still getting up to speed on #MCPservers, but from what I have learned so far, I tend to agree with Anil. www.anildash.com//2025/05/…

Hmmm. Interesting, Brazil. Will be 👀… restofworld.org/2025/braz…

Purchased! Just got this cool sticker to add to my standing desk (which is covered with others) & also am supporting #BridgyFed and #ANewSocial. Win, win, win. store.anew.social/products/…

My periodic rave at how much I love #RSS (I am tying together lots of data for my work) and how it is truly the glue that holds together much of the open web. We are so lucky it gained critical mass before the worst of Web 2.0 took over and that it has lasted. We need to keep it alive at all costs.

I just bought my tickets to this year’s #Fediforum, and if you care about the Open Social Web - both Bluesky and Mastodon/Fediverse enabled offerings and beyond—you should too. Very worth your time.

Key item from this research in this screenshot. Full report here:

www.milkkarten.net/p/state-o…

Trying hard to remember this.

I so glad to be using a browser free from AI integration. I only want AI in doses fully in my control. #Vivaldi youtu.be/BBjM0SHg-…

#FediIndex is a great toolset. We are lucky to have both them and #Fedidb as resources to see trends along this part of the open social web. fedi.wrm.sr

Cool. Look at the growth in #GhostCMS websites joining the open social web - these are new #Activtypub users. Ghost does support bridging to #Bluesky too, curious what those numbers look like. fedi.wrm.sr/software/…

“….Carvana Cybertruck offers have gone to as low as $49k…a 51% depreciation over a year.” www.torquenews.com/11826/tes…

I am increasingly using #Microdotblog to publish out across Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and other places. And using #surfsocial to browse content from the same, in one UX – plus blogs, plus podcasts, plus RSS. Open Social Web FTW! about.surf.social

My wife & I are a house wide purge, tossing old papers, old junk and old photos that literally should have never kept. Made me think of this bit: youtube.com/shorts/sY…

I’m only two episodes in, but I’m in. I think it is only partly comedy, but that is a quibble. #Murderbot www.npr.org/2025/05/1…

Its grift all the way down. #Trump abcnews.go.com/Business/…

“I am more excited about the web than I have been in a lonnnnng time….I am typing in a respectable editing window, where I retain copies…& because I’m hooking in through a protocol…this writing can go anywhere. Let me say that again. Any. Where.” scripting.com/2024/10/1…

Good news for open #research and for keeping big tech platforms accountable. caad.info/analysis/…

Always a good read for anyone who cares about the state of #political #tech. highergroundlabs.com/political…

YouTube continues to push hard into the #podcast space; I wish they fully supported podcast #RSS standards. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/1…

Important new report on #X profiting from and helping fundraise for sanctioned terrorist groups and individuals.

www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/…