James Dreben

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

A website to destroy all websites. How to win the war for the soul of the internet and build the Web We Want. A tiny website by Henry (from Online)~3100 words; about a 15 minute read https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

Loops is in the iOS App Store now https://apps.apple.com/us/app/loops-by-pixelfed/id6499375182 #loops

On Apple M3, a Linux KDE plasma desktop under Fedora Asahi Remix is now WORKING! Super excited to share this update and happy to answer any questions! Co-credits to noopwafel and Shiz. :)

Lovely rainbow outside my apartment today

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This is a really fascinating read. I strongly recommend.

The fundamental difference between Mastodon and Bluesky, at least for now, is Mastodon is truly decentralized. www.compliancehub.wiki/the-decentra...

Keep Android Open keepandroidopen.org/ This is important. We already have a basic duopoly in mobile operating systems, now Google is trying to lock down their platform even more. Nobody benefits from this other than Google's shareholders. Source: mstdn.social/@rysiek/1155...

My first thought was that this might be an over-reaction. Of course, bsky uses automatic labeling as part of their moderation of images and videos. It is impossible not to. But looking at Hive's ToS and other documentation, there is no limitation on Hive using submitted content to train their genAI

important note is that while hive does have genai image stuff, it's limited to stock stable diffusion and flux. they are not making new models and are not using bsky images to train them, they're doing software as a service for open source image generators.

seeing this screenshot and a lot of ₊˚⊹♡ discourse ♡⊹˚₊ 1) this is from 2 years ago, privacy policies change 2) pretty sure hive deletes customer data after like 2 weeks hive is NOT generative AI, they use AI models and traditional ML for spam and abuse and safety purposes

You don’t need to become an expert on AT Protocol, you don’t need to learn to code, but I really do want to impress upon people that “federated social media” is a vitally important concept in a time of global authoritarian and technofeudalist consolidation.

Now the Bluesky company and their appointees get to decide what content gets “verified”. The people running this company don’t want an open social network, they want a Twitter clone with better optics.

This is so embarrassing. I remember when this app was marketing itself on decentralization.

I am happy to say the "Followers only" reply setting is getting implemented. We're also adding a way to set default reply settings If you want your posts to default to "Followers only," that'll become an option

welp

The NTSB says it will no longer email news outlets or reporters with notifications of upcoming press conferences, including those on plane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia. Instead, all notifications will be made on X. We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.

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Sakamoto Days dares ask the question of what if Way of the House Husband was One Punch Man

This guy, he did Pebble and Beeper? For those who don’t know, Beeper lets you use iMessage from Android. This guy is amazing. And now he got Google to open source the Pebble OS and is bringing them back. I never had one but the Pebble is cool. www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24...

Who here is a founder or product builder and would be interested in a custom feed to trade advice, thoughts, support, etc? Any ideas on what you'd like to see from something like this? Let me know.

Costco’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal from a conservative think tank aimed at getting the company to roll back its diversity hiring practices.

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everything is Dead Internet now

I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥.

I would love to get into Marvel Rivals. But it feels kind of overwhelming… So many different play styles and then right into PVP. This style of game makes me feel old

Number of homeless in US soared to a record high this year. www.hud.gov/press/press_...