Notices by Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)

In which I claim that a few annoying #Fediverse problems (and ATproto too) could be solved by using URI schemes the way they’re designed to be used: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/04/16/Decentralized-Schemes

@timbray love this and fully agree. I had followed this since Eugen’s comment you referenced on sketchy browser support - has anyone documented in detail browser compatibility today though? It might be far better now.

@pluralistic Am considering attending this.
https://plpopup0005.splashthat.com/

Do you have thoughts on the Utah law that requires social networks to support interoperability and account migration?

It was new to me and I want to learn more and see if they did a good job here:

https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0418.html

@smallcircles @write_as As you prefer!

“Although these costs are not as high as in dictatorships like Russia—where critics are routinely imprisoned, exiled or killed—America has, w/stunning speed, descended into a world in which opponents of the government #fear #criminal investigations, #lawsuits, #TaxAudits & other punitive measures & even #Republican politicians are, as one fmr #Trump admin ofcl put it, 'scared' out of their minds 'about death threats.'”

#AmericanAutocracy

We're doing our 25Q1 Hackday today at OEF. Everyone on our team -- designers, developers, operations, partnerships, product -- takes 24 hours to make something interesting and creative related to our mission. It can be code, a presentation, making something physical, creating a document. All self-guided, can be solo or collaborative.

@imdavidpierce Its dramatically under-reported that the newly federated forum software #nodebb went from zero to 2.7 million federated users, and jumped. tobe the 2nd biggest platform on #ActivityPub after Mastodon shortly after launch..

https://fedidb.com/software?software=nodebb

Fully endorse:

"In the end, Kev’s post is also a testament to the work the Mastodon team has done on account portability. You can easily imagine a future where it will be fairly normal to switch between Micro.blog, Mastodon, Ghost, and WordPress, with your identity and content intact. And that means each platform can lean into what makes it unique."

https://www.manton.org/2025/05/08/on-moving-to-microblog.html

@stanley @ben Please do! Patreon themselves should be federated but seeing no signs of that and hope someone does.

Good thinking here from @ben….
https://werd.io/2025/if-i-started-fresh

Yes. Yes, it is. #Vivaldi cc: @Vivaldi

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/i-ditched-chrome-for-the-vivaldi-browser/

The more I see of Apple and Mozilla and other browsers integrating AI into the browser, the more glad I am for browsers like @Vivaldi and for the Fediverse. I think being free from AI-slop and cruft will be a far bigger feature of the open social web than we perceive right now.
https://flipboard.com/@maddoxa/apple-osophy-lvjnjeenz/-/a-VAzMKro6TFuxCIJeiBLNLQ%3Aa%3A41983690-%2F0

Charles Herring, president of #OAN, confirmed, “OAN will be supplying an extensive amount of programming, including ‘Hungry Heroes,’ a series that highlights the incredible work performed by our first responders and military.”

The #Trump admin is fighting in court to defend a March EO dismantling the #USAGM. The order led to >1k #VoiceOfAmerica staffers being placed on paid administrative leave, & broadcasting has stopped for the first time in the organization’s history.

#law #FreePress #VOA

No surprise there… #scams

https://www.theverge.com/policy/662109/trump-white-house-scams-crypto-cfpb-doj-sec

@mnordmeyer Plus you can use your gravatar to authenticate that it and your Mastodon account are owend by the same person as it supports rel=me standard.

I consider that a complete win of a choice.
https://flipboard.com/@indiewire/latest-news-05brsedfz/-/a-BbmPvFZGSUSPGS21MZd1OA%3Aa%3A1805834852-%2F0

“If you are watching this right now and you’re thinking I don’t want a king in this county, good news: Neither do we. And you can be part of this.” - Ezra

We’re mobilizing nationwide on June 14 to say No Kings. Find an event near you or start one: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

@MastodonEngineering @diondiondion Welcome! ✊

@memeorandum An entirely reasonable response.

@dansup @stux Is there a roadmap document already somewhere we can see likely features in the works?

Would historical data (at least as far back as FediDb had begun scraping) be possible? Indieweb.social would love to see that for our traffic etc, but also I would love to see that across whole Fedi.