Amen. ““My strongest belief about the social web is that if we want it to succeed, we have to keep lowering the barrier to entry.” #Ghost john.onolan.org/reflectio…

Updated #podcast numbers and #YouTube is dominating - worrisome as they do not use open podcast formats…. sherwood.news/business/…

This is a big, big deal for the #OpenSocialWeb today - congrats to the #Ghost team! announcements.ghost.org/ghost-6-0…

Why having an open social web discovery system like #surffeeds is more important than ever. www.npr.org/2025/07/3…

A reminder to those at - or just at following all things #fedicon starting tomorrow -> here is a #surffeed of key voices: surf.social/feed/surf…

Sad state of things and why the open social web needs to prove new distributed models of trust and safety. www.platformer.news/trustcon-…

Could #Mastodon and #Bluesky do this? “The filter relies on manually curated open-source blocklists, including the ‘nuclear’ list by uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist,” DuckDuckGo said…” techcrunch.com/2025/07/1…

Ouch. I cannot name a brand that has fallen further, faster. #Tesla

finance.yahoo.com/news/tesl…

#TeslaTakedown

Was very glad to see #Severence and #theStudio do so well today - and to see Harrison Ford get his first #Emny nod. Good on Apple TV - this feels like a real break out year.

Signs of the times. Likely the right call here. But “disinformation” as a term being demonized was no accident and it’s being so only helps the various well organized disinformers. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/comment…

Still racist. #grok www.theatlantic.com/technolog…

This tracks. #grok techcrunch.com/2025/07/1…

Pretty much. #grok

#Threads growth continues…. www.socialmediatoday.com/news/thre…

While the fight against the great harms of the Trump bill continues, we saw this one key victory last night:

“The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program (Bloomberg)”

There is a sound of ocean waves that I’m convinced cannot be fully captured by any digital recording. I don’t know if it is overtones/undertones…but it’s like the difference between hearing a live band vs. a recording of one. The only way to really hear an ocean is to sit in person and listen.

Good summary of the build out of #surfapp www.viget.com/work/flip…

The ability to think or mull over things deeply on vacation is a luxury akin to cooking rich meals while on break - something my work week rarely gives time for.

So you made it through the first fiery sermon in this series. Trust me—I didn’t enjoy preaching it any more than you enjoyed reading it. But every word came from a place of love—for the Fediverse, and for what it still could become. But fear not, dear reader: as the preacher once said, salvation is … read more

Decentralized platforms like Fediverse and Bluesky will be interesting to watch re: breaking news & disinformation. X/Twitter’s already the worst tonight, its former strength in breaking news now its worse than useless.

Summer officially starts today at 10:42 pm. www.space.com/stargazin…

#Surffeeds have now fully taken over the UX role that both Mastodon and BlueSky lists used to play – in my usage of either platform. And cool that it is now one Surf Feed that can help me engage on both platforms. Open Social Web FTW! surfsocial.org

So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them through their first steps into our glorious decentralized galaxy. And seeing it all again through fresh eyes? Reader, it was brutal. So much of what should be table stakes for any social media UX in the … read more

All the elements that makes the major platforms harmful to humans in general all make it equally or more hostile to online organizing, too. Convinced the open social web is future of organizing. nymag.com/intellige…

Bookmarks for mobile and desktop web browsers should be totally reinvented & made fully (securely and with permission per bookmark) enabled to be federated to the Open Social Web. And the browser that should do it first is #Vivaldi.