Notices by Mallory Knodel (mallory@techpolicy.social)

Anyone going to FOSDEM, there's A LOT of decentralized social media on the agenda: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/16/social-web-devroom-at-fosdem-2025-schedule/

Protocols, not platforms! “And people should be able to choose freely between different platforms and also be able to move between them” —@Gargron https://techcrunch.com/podcast/social-media-should-be-built-on-protocols-not-platforms-says-mastodon-ceo-eugen-rochko/

My latest: What Trump’s Return Means For Encryption https://www.techpolicy.press/what-trumps-return-means-for-encryption/

There are so many ways to support the open social web on #GivingTuesday https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/12/02/support-the-fediverse-on-givingtuesday/

@solene

This is just a snippet of activities happening at the Feminist Tech Gardens during the AWID forum in Bangkok this week. You can read the full list of activities at https://gardens.feminist.tech

The Weaponization of Things: Israel’s Techno-Violence, A Litmus Test for Technologists https://www.techpolicy.press/the-weaponization-of-things-israels-technoviolence-a-litmus-test-for-technologists/

One year later, a newsletter edition featuring Beautiful Solutions, a book, and a tech incubator launch with guest post from Paul Biggar @tech4palestine https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/beautiful-solutions-palestine-solidarity/

My weekly newsletter covers highlights from #tprc2024, the launch of @swf and, of course, all of the links.
https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/social-web-foundation/

Just followed Threads-myself on Mastodon. I think I love the inception more than the federation.

If you're a technologist and you care about the public interest, my weekly newsletter is for you. And in this week's edition especially, as I point to some ongoing collaborative work that you can join https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/internet-complexity/

What is the best gift/giveaway/etc that you have ever been given digitally?

I love gift articles and discount codes. What else?

@evan would love to but we have a cat and that just feels like collusion

Does this AI think you might be a criminal? It’s based on predictive policing models and you answer ~10 questions to find out. https://www.fairtrials.org/predictive-policing/

Mastodon meets the moment through its implementation of Activity Pub a @w3c, open web standard to scale decentralised and federated social media https://www.wired.com/story/the-man-behind-mastodon-eugen-rochko-built-it-for-this-moment/