"#Bluesky is hot. It's popular. It's got steam. It's got gobs of cursed VC money. It's got some admittedly cool tech behind it. But it just isn't it. If #FreeOurFeeds succeeds, stands up another instance and figures out a way to run it on the cheap, then I'll be the first to say "congrats" and "I was wrong". Until then, I will remain skeptical, and I'll keep saying that this sort of money would be better thrown at building out the proven solution, #theFediverse."

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Okay, so Cory Doctorow published his take on the #freeourfeeds thingy, all about "billionaire-proofing" the Internet (or more accurately, b...

My good friend @Rodrigo Ghedin has a solid case for his rant over #FreeOurFeeds. But given the names involved, I'd slap a question mark on his headline: "$30 million to reinvent the wheel"? That's because I see opportunity for innovative advancements at the protocol level, even dealing with emerging public payment systems like PIX. The wheel is done: #ActivityPub. I am open to hear what those good people can do to help the #opensocial path forward. https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2025/bluesky-free-our-feeds-mastodon/

#ICL no Fediverso? "Eduardo Moreira anunciou as novidades para o ano de 2025. Uma das principais é o lançamento da #redesocial exclusiva para membros da comunidade. A rede social será um “espaço para trocar ideias com quem compartilha da mesma luta que você, inclusive a equipe jornalística do ICL”. A comunidade terá um espaço seguro, livre do ódio e da desinformação que estão tomando conta das redes tradicionais." Aí sim, o jogo pode virar.

ICL Notícias

ICL lança rede social própria para membros; veja as novidades de 2025 - ICL Notícias

Eduardo Moreira anunciou, no programa ICL Notícias — 1ª Edição desta sexta-feira (10), as novidades para o ano de 2025. Uma das principais é...

Their problem with #Brazil: "…after the #coupattempt failed, Brazil took a different route altogether. While in the US, the judicial system moved slowly, Brazil’s Federal Police built quite a strong case against #Bolsonaro, with thousands of messages, documents, and testimonies informing an indictment against the former president for his role in an attempted coup d’etat. Even before that, in 2023, Bolsonaro had been banned from running for office again."

openDemocracy

Musk, Zuckerberg and Trump have their eyes on Brazil

After Trump 2.0, these powerful men have eyes on Brazil next. Here’s what can be done to defend our democracy

"Free yourself from the painted yellow lines., the tracking, the ads, the arbitrary rules and follower counts and gaming the algorithm and acquisitions and shutdowns and a chronic lack of ownership. Free yourself, for the low low cost of a single domain and a moment’s effort. You can start from nothing, and build whenever ready… But fair warning, it may become your new #addiction!" #indieblog #blog

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Indie-blog EVANgelism

"By the end of 2024, #Zuckerberg had given up on finding any middle path through the polarized and opposite criticisms leveled against him by Republicans & Democrats. #Musk spent the past year showing how Republican party support can be bought — cheaply. Zuckerberg’s motivation has only ever been to win. And a doddering, transactional Trump presented #Meta with a rare opportunity for a fresh start. All they would have to do is whatever #Trump wanted them to do."

Platformer

Meta surrenders to the right on speech

“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer

"Across a series of experiments, we found that people treated unfairly by an #AI were less likely to punish human wrongdoers afterwards than participants who had been treated unfairly by a human. They showed a kind of #desensitisation to others’ bad behaviour. We called it AI-induced #indifference, to capture the idea that unfair treatment by AI can weaken people’s sense of accountability to others. This makes them less likely to address injustices in their community."

TNW | Future-Of-Work

Unfair decisions by AI could make us indifferent to bad behaviour by humans

Researchers asked: how does experiencing unfairness from an AI system affect how people treat one another afterwards?

Artigo importante do @npub177gp...f8wp sobre não restringir celular por lei em escolas: "Como o celular é um poderoso computador, mais potente do que muitos disponíveis nas escolas, não utilizá-lo é um equívoco…precisamos é de #políticaspúblicas que apoiem as escolas para que possam trabalhar essas máquinas poderosas. Esse trabalho tem que passar pela compreensão crítica das relações de saber e poder do contexto tecnológico contemporâneo…"

Folha de S.Paulo

Opinião - Nelson Pretto: Celulares devem ser restringidos por lei nas escolas? NÃO

Mais do que uma proibição de cima para baixo, precisamos da mesma coragem para enfrentar a captura perniciosa por algoritmos e redes sociais

"I would love to use #Bluesky, not least because I am fast approaching the point where the costs of using #Twitter will exceed the benefits. I'm pretty sure Bluesky would substitute well for the residual value that keeps me glued to Twitter. But the fact that Twitter is such a dumpster fire is why I'm not going to join Bluesky until they install fire exits. I've learned my lesson: you should never, ever, ever join another service unless they've got working #fireExits."

Pluralistic: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits (14 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#footballclubs are leaving X! They could take better care of their fans with an ActivityPub customized app. "Beyond celebrities and journalists, the most surprising departures from X have come from German football clubs. First #Hamburg’s St Pauli left, calling X a “hate machine”, followed by Werder #Bremen. “We are leaving 600,000 followers on X for only 9,000 on Bluesky,” he said. “For us a place where there is no regulation for hate speech is not the place to be.”"

the Guardian

From X to Bluesky: why are people fleeing Elon Musk’s ‘digital town square’?

Musk’s platform has lost 2.7 million active US users in two months, while its rival has gained 2.5 million