Notices by Johannes Ernst (j12t@j12t.social)

The Fediverse has its share of consistency problems: comments and likes only show up in some places, but not others.

Signal is worse. I have 4 linked devices, and each of them has a different subset of the chats, and different messages in each chat, with no way of reconstituting the conversation in one place that I can see.

I'm not understand what the security problem might be in doing this, it's the same account. They just haven't gotten around to it?

[the merger of AI and social media] "transcends recommendation engines and begins to reshape the very architecture of knowledge."

Yes, indeed. We really really need to get our act together on the open social web.

Read this.

https://www.techpolicy.press/in-house-data-harvest-how-social-platforms-ai-ambitions-threaten-user-rights/

h/t @rreisman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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.

👏👏👏

Thanks @cwebber . This "time to recover" is exactly why I pulled the plug on this FediForum event at this time. And to create some opportunity for me and all to listen and reorganize.

Of course he would. As he will in the US when he feels he needs to.

https://www.politico.eu/article/musks-x-suspends-opposition-accounts-turkey-protest-civil-unrest-erdogan-imamoglu-istanbul-mayor/

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"

https://activitypub.ghost.org/content/images/size/w1600/2025/03/activitypub-beta-1.png

#Ghost #ActivityPub

Listened to a presentation what the #internetarchive is up to these days, such as archiving all the deleted US government pages on climate, inclusion, tolerance etc etc and making it available easily in context to people.

IMHO it’s just a matter of time until it will be in the cross hairs of the current US administration.

It deserves your support.

@evan I had a slide a million years ago (that Kaliya dug up recently, otherwise I would have forgotten) that contrasted 1) a big company/platform in the middle, with all its users around it connecting 1-N vs 2) me in the middle, with all the companies/platforms I interact with around it, connecting 1-N.

The original form of user centricity rather than company centricity.

A detailed comparison table of Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and X. (In German)

https://social-media-matrix.king-consult.de

“Revoked the green card.” Wow.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8

Hey @bjoernsta, is this basically a public declaration (only) or will there be some kind of project work, fundraising, a permanent organization etc etc?

@bjoernsta Would love to help connect internationally. Lots of similar discussion in various places, as I'm sure you know.

P.S. impressive job signing up important supporters in Germany! Congratulations!!

What #fediverse software can express richer semantics than just “Like”? Eg Facebook as things like heart, fire, open mouth etc. One can imagine others like “I dis/agree” etc. If not, any good reasons why not?

So if Threads is at over 100 million daily active users, Twitter used to have 217 million and hasn't really grown since (and perhaps fallen), Threads is now getting to the same ball park.

Compare to about 5m on Bluesky, and not sure how many daily active users in the ActivityPub world.

Somebody got #venture money in the #fediverse ! Openvibe got $800k from some VCs and Automattic, the company behind WordPress and Tumblr.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/automattic-and-others-back-openvibe-an-app-thats-unifying-the-open-social-web/

There might be more coming from meta.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-meta-right-wing-1235245769/

“Tech billionaires want to ‘overthrow democracy’ with social media, Spain PM Sánchez says”

A politician is understanding what’s going on here. Help, what now?

PS: what an opportunity for the #fediverse. How do we best go about this?

https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-pedro-sanchez-big-tech-billionaires-democracy-social-media/

I read that report cover to cover a few days ago, and it’s … fairly realistic, in my view. Also absolutely horrendous.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/16/economic-growth-could-fall-50-over-20-years-from-climate-shocks-say-actuaries

'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.

'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'

So #bluesky is raising more money, according to Business Insider.

They say valuation is around $700m, which at, say, 10m MAU values them at $70/user. Which is about in the commercial social media platform ballpark.

It also means that every one of you/us with a Bluesky account is expected to make at least $70 in profit for the company.

https://www.businessinsider.com/x-competitor-bluesky-valuation-new-funding-round-2025-1