Notices by Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)

@TechCrunch And @Vivaldi remains blissfully and intentionally AI free.

@jaredwhite @tech @the-age-of-ai-tech Have heard good things about that. I'm at duck duck go so far. Mixed reviews but better than Google and in essence better than (but includes) Bing.com data.

@chris Will check that out.

Hey @rabble, in your podcast with Kara Swisher you mentioned that in the early days of what became Bluesky, there was an active discussion whether Bluesky should be a joint venture between Twitter and Reddit. A fascinating tidbit I hadn’t heard of! Can you say more about this? What were the arguments in favor and against? Why did it ultimately not go in that direction?

@jupiter_rowland I'm not worried about the age laws. I'm just thinking there might be good ideas for a healthier fediverse around some of these standards, in an appropriate decentralized way folks could opt into.
Servers could voluntarily adopt some IEEE standards as a differentiator. The fedi might embrace voluntary adoption of child safety standards more readily than centralized platforms who care only about metrics and growth.

@jupiter_rowland - And maybe those that do in the fedi, could also do experimentation with novel approaches to age verification that preserve privacy better than traditional methods. The key would be developing lightweight, interoperable implementations of these IEEE standards that work within the fediverse's distributed architecture while respecting its values of user autonomy and decentralization and privacy.

I wonder how this might apply to Fediverse development and design.... #IEEE cc: @ieeespectrum
https://spectrum.ieee.org/online-safety-kids-ieee-standard

Sad state of things and why the open social web needs to prove new distributed models of trust and safety. https://www.platformer.news/trustcon-trust-safety-leadership-decline-2025/

@thisismissem @laurenshof @nlnet 👏👏👏

I like the framing of "cozy apps" - & long time fan of #CalmTech - & do think that is a space between mass scale social and IM's. #Signal
for me is a "Cozy app" via it's group features.

"One possibility is something called cosy media, which refers to apps or other content designed to help you connect with small groups of friends, often in a friendly, calming environment." https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26735530-100-social-media-is-dead-heres-what-comes-next/#Echobox=1753469388

@Archie8 I feel seen.

As a result,…troops failed to surround a Russian position in the town of Beryslav, east of Kherson, the administrative center of the region of the same name. “The encirclement stalled entirely,” said the military official in an interview. “It failed.”

Ultimately, #Ukraine’s counteroffensive succeeded in reclaiming Beryslav, the city of Kherson & some additional territory #Russia had occupied.

#power #corruption #oligarchy

We all suspected it, now it’s confirmed.

#Musk ordered shutdown of #Starlink satellite service as #Ukraine retook territory from #Russia

A previously unreported order by #ElonMusk to cut satellite #communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order & its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

#power #corruption #oligarchy
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/

Abbott is not just screwing over Texans, he’s rigging the game to screw over voters across the country. Trump and Abbott both know voters are pissed. They’re reasonably worried about a coming Blue Wave in 2026. And rather than attempt to make amends for their failed leadership, they’re giving the middle finger to everyone who believes in free and fair elections.

But Abbott and Trump don’t hold all the cards.

@mike Fully with you on the need for full transparancy in block lists plus appeal process. IFTAS, an group I advise I think got the model right that others should mimic.

The fediverse and the larger open social web is such a better place because of the choices that @Flipboard has made. We are lucky to have them.
https://flipboard.com/@haveago/mind-shift-828ph9kaz/-/a-4SnPqX4ASOqHQLtNccw59w%3Aa%3A7347489-%2F0

@stux Hate to say it, but yeah, this tracks.

@thisismissem Yeah, so it would only block images with a full path link to one of those sites, or images in the opengraph preview. Maybe of some use, but not as much as web search.

@thisismissem Hmmmm.

@lndn Only on the occasional Chromebook and work servers.