Notices by Ian Forrester | @cubicgarden (cubicgarden@mas.to)

Just seen a 20 something man with a t-shirt saying...

"Make money not friends"

Charming...

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Lets talk about the future of social media at PublicSpaces 2025

#MakeSocialsSocialAgain
#pubconf2025

https://cubicgarden.com/2025/06/09/lets-talk-about-the-future-of-social-media-at-publicspaces-2025/

Saw Bounce at #fediforum yesterday and was amazed by the engineering!

Introducing Bounce, a tool to move your following between Bluesky and Mastodon | @TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/introducing-bounce-a-tool-to-move-your-follwing-between-bluesky-and-mastodon/

> The overall goal at A New Social is to shift the power of social networks back to the people, not the platform makers, by giving them tools that let them move their account, their followings, and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.

Really enjoyed #fediforum, some really good talks and demos.
Good points made about the fedi-matching, multiple identities are needed for such a thing to work. Thanks @travisfw

Hope I can make tomorrow

Hoping to sqeeeze 56 slides into 20mins for the #fediforum. Looking forward to the questions & answers

The Fedi-Public service internet?
Keynoting at the Fediforum 2025 on June 5-7th.

https://cubicgarden.com/2025/05/20/keynoting-at-the-fediforum-2025/

I won't lie, I did find these piece from the #dailyshow about #ai girlfriends funny... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmbJDao5i0g
However its worth noting, there is likely more #ai boytfriends*

* I haven't looked through the research or looked at a meta-study yet

The #mozilla Festival (#Mozfest) call for participation is now live!
https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/proposals/

The theme this year is unlearning... Time to unlearn so much of the nonsense we see around us.

Go wild! But put it in before May 21st!

Very happy to be an advisor at the #fediforum and help shape a healthy #fediverse

FediForum (@fediforum)

https://mastodon.social/@fediforum/114462384030476115

> We are proud to announce the first-ever FediForum advisory board. We are very glad to have such an incredible group of committed and experienced Open Social Web pioneers and advocates come together to advise FediForum and help move the Open Social Web forward.
Check out https://fediforum.org/people

I'm joining the Fediforum as an advisor

https://cubicgarden.com/2025/05/06/im-joining-the-fediforum-as-an-advisor/

Simon Sinek & Trevor Noah on Friendship, Loneliness, Vulnerability and so much more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNBxIhxHHxM
This video is just so good, really got me thinking!

When was the last time you said to a friend, you love them?
Sacrificed success for friendship?

#oggcamp is back! - https://oggcamp.org/

@oggcamp is an unconference celebrating Free Culture, Free and Open Source Software, hardware hacking, digital rights, and all manner of collaborative cultural activities and is committed to creating a conference that is as inclusive as possible

Shame I can't attend, although its so close to me!

This slipped right past me recently
Nearly 40,000 people died home alone in Japan this year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyx6wwp5d5o - Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WGioO7Q-0Q - Video

There is a lot to unpick within this but, an ageing population, loneliness and social isolation on top of the commercialisation of dating can not be good. No wonder Tokyo has setup their own app - https://fortune.com/2024/06/06/tokyos-government-plays-matchmaker-with-new-dating-app-to-reverse-its-plunging-birth-rate/
@evan

Beware Trump's secret weapon: Elon Musk's X-Twitter
https://www.theframelab.org/beware-trumps-secret-weapon-elon-musks-x-twitter/
Found via a colleague...

Steps to minimise Musk's damage to democracy for all parties and organisations...
Some good advice summed up by me

1. Setup accounts on Mastodon & Bluesky
2. Use Twitter last, stop making it the place for news and especially breaking news

X/twitter no longer works on Firefox with privacy feature enabled | Cybernews

https://cybernews.com/news/x-twitter-not-working-on-firefox/

> Mozilla Firefox users can no longer access social network X (former Twitter) if they have Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled.

#Techgrumps is famous!

Mentioned by @james & @samsethi on the Podnews weekly review - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/14916701-flightpath-the-m-m-global-awards-and-max-cutler-s-pave-studios

"Ian Forrester from Tech Grumps had a little mention for you, James, in his podcast this week. It's a proposal for labelling if a transcript is AI generated or human checked, which I think is one of your proposals"

Thanks to @rnalexander @andypiper @briansuda
https://techgrumps.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/techgrumps-3-14-ai-arbitrage/

@eastmad The one time you miss the boat. eh? 😅

#Techgrumps 3.14

Myself, @rnalexander @andypiper @briansuda

From Podcasting 2.0 to XZ utils and spying on encrypted traffic. Its all in techgumps

Chomp away at the key stories in the tech space this month.

https://techgrumps.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/techgrumps-3-14-ai-arbitrage/

> Big #Beeper news today...

No more waitlist - Beeper is now available for everyone to use

Beeper has been acquired by Automattic

Our new Android app is out of beta We're renaming Beeper Cloud → Beeper

Thinking about inequality...

"On the four year anniversary of the UK’s first Covid-19 lockdown, we wonder no longer. The worldwide appetite to move on after Covid– even though the virus is still very much active and the impact of Long Covid is still barely understood –has been unstoppable. We lived surrounded by death for a little bit. We don’t want to revisit it."

https://equalitytrust.org.uk/blog/we-don%E2%80%99t-want-look-back-lockdown-%E2%80%93-rich-and-powerful-are-counting