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  If you’re in the #USA 🇺🇸 #Elections are just around the corner: Please Vote TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3. This mid-term election is the most important one, so every vote matters. Especially yours. It may be inconvenient. There might be long lines. Please make a plan that gets you to the booth anyway. Despite the lines, despite the hassle. Despite all the barriers they put in your way. Vote BECAUSE of all the barriers they put in your way. Please Vote.

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  If someone asks you why they should join the Fediverse.. If any local politician, library, park, or museum asks you why they should be on the Fediverse.. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/meta-x-no-kings-elections-protests-midterms-free-speech-us-brazil/ The big platforms have their places, but we can’t depend on them to link us when it matters most.

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  Thank you again, @_elena@mastodon.social and @sturmsucht@mastodon.social You two made #FOSDEM better because of your work!

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  @julian This is a fantastic visualization. I haven't detailed it well in the early draft, but this is where I'm heading. You might implicitly endorse your server's account. Servers might endorse each other (after some vetting process). The scenario you described would make me your 3rd-level endorsement (to temporarily use LinkedIn vocabulary). Then after we go out for beers at FOSSY, we might endorse each other as 1st-level contacts. Others could use that as a stronger signal of w...

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  So, what would “Better Safety Tooling” on the Fediverse look like? And, what would meaningfully help the Fediverse to serve more people? — Tagging @laurenshof@indieweb.social because you had some interesting insights I’d LOVE for you to expand on :)

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  A developer in Korea just built a Fediverse server that runs directly on CloudFlare. /r/fediverse users responded: "this is cancer" "you are a horrible person" ??? Can you please help me with a genuine question: what would make the #Fediverse a more welcoming place? Yes, humans are just grumpy sometimes. But a real solution can't just be more HOA members reading the rules at the door. What do YOU think would make a difference here?

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  Bandwagon in the news! https://www.kuketz-blog.de/graswurzel-musik-plattformen-spotify-alternativen-teil-4/

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  #Emissary is currently undergoing its first colonoscopy - a full QA scan by a third-party QA company.. I've done these in the past with other software. They're always informative, always make the software better, and are always a tremendous pain in the ass to fix. When the anesthesia wears off, I'm gonna need a cookie.

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  Hello @HolosSocial@mastodon.social 👋🏻 We are talking about you over in the E2EE group messaging discussion - specifically about your “Follow a Note” proposal for Holos. https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-e2ee/issues/56#issuecomment-4780657551 Your design may solve one of the big issues we are having with the spec for private, encrypted groups, so I am hoping you can take a look at our conversation and weigh in on this idea. And, if everyone likes where this goes, we might publish it as an F...

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  @wjmaggos@liberal.city Thought you'd want to know: Interledger is echoing this idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwu8ELIa8B0 A year or two ago, this was a cool idea that lacked the global infrastructure to pull it off. Today, it seems more doable. On a single site, I could see this working easily - Spotify and Medium do this now. Cross site? Figuring out the federation will be key. More to come, for sure...

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  Very true. That’s a great case for each person controlling their own identity/experiemce/etc. I’m fascinated how different people can look at the same evidence and take away such different conclusions. I usually see apps as a kind of lock in. Someone’s more likely to find you on the open web first, then MAYBE “convert” and upgrade to your app. I totally see your point too (esp regarding security) but there are so many paths up the mountain. @bengo@mastodon.social @smallcircles@social.coop @s...

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  Sorry Google. It's not me, it's you. Yeah, you've made the go-to web browser for years now, but I'll have to take my chances elsewhere. When you tried to installing a 4GB AI model on my machine without asking me, I had to finally draw the line. So tonight I'm 100% chrome free for the first time in years. Let's see what it does to my laptop battery life :) #enshitification

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  WeDistribute is back at it with another comprehensive run down of where we are as a technology. Great work as always, guys. And thanks for the checklist. Now I know what I’m doing this summer. https://wedistribute.org/2026/04/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux-sins-a-redemption-report-card/

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  If you haven't already read "The Death of Spotify" check it out -> https://joelgouveia.substack.com/p/the-death-of-spotify-why-streaming (Jimmy) Iovine put it bluntly: “The streaming services have a bad situation, there’s no margins, they’re not making any money.” Let's all celebrate with a single tear 💧

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  I'm so excited for this next year on the #Fediverse. And the more I learn, the more I think #BridgyFed is going to become a foundational part of our network. I just posted my first messages from #Emissary across Bridgy to my account on BlueSky. I still have some things to fix (on my end, not theirs) but it worked. IT WORKED. NGL, I feel a little like Morpheus right now. And just think of what it will mean for every account set up on #Bandwagon...

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  @johannab @fediforum Let's do it! There is so much great stuff happening on the Fediverse right now, it's pretty hard to keep up.

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  I'm looking forward to giving everyone a demo of #E2EE at #FediForum. If I can get enough done, I open up a beta for people who attend. I'm going to call this the @jaz@toot.wales screen:

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  If Russia can block it, it’s not distributed… https://therecord.media/russia-cracks-down-bluesky-internet

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  Have you seen this news? #Mastodon just got funding to add end to end encryption into their software. So, some time next year, you’ll be able to send truly private messages to the vast majority of the #Fediverse Im so excited about this. Because it’s an open spec, this opens the doors for every Fediverse app to join the party. Yesterday, this project was a proof of concept. Today, Mastodon has turned it into a stampede. #E2EE https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-fu...

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  Soooo... #JustBetweenUs There's already some big stuff in the works for 2026: The Social Web Foundation (@swf) has kicked off a project to bring real end-to-end encryption to the Fediverse. It's a big undertaking, with real financial backing from the @sovtechfund Check out the announcement: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/12/19/implementing-encrypted-messaging-over-activitypub/ And, I'm very excited that #Emissary is one of the projects selected to participate i...

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  Remember, kids: Everything you do to make the Fediverse better is an act of resistance. Go make things better today 🤘🏻

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  @silverpill@mitra.social @mariusor@metalhead.club @trwnh@mastodon.social I e*love* this idea- especially in principle. I say that because I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this and how it would be used in practice. Do you think you could post an example workflow (or three) to demonstrate how this would work? I get that objects could be added to client-defined collections (very cool) but if object/collection IDs don’t have predefined semantics, how will I know where to look to ge...

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  @hongminhee Great piece of writing, and I agree with lots of what you say here. Building this stuff is super hard, so good for you doing it “the right way.” I hate not being able to trust the data I receive. I’m one of those who’s taking the shortcuts, which has plenty of drawbacks, so I’m glad you’re in here fighting the good fight.