"If #governments are concerned about the dominance of privately-owned online platforms, they have a responsibility to run and own their own. A logical response would be for these entities to run their own instances of software like #Mastodon—or any #Fediverse-compatible, #ActivityPub-based service. This would allow them to own their content, domain, and user verification, ensuring greater control and independence." @Andy Piper
Fediverse for Freedom – The lost outpost
"Over the past #100Days, #DOGE teams have grabbed #personaldata about US residents from dozens of federal databases and are reportedly merging it all into a #masterdatabase at the #DHS… a #whistleblower had come forward to reveal that the master database will combine data from such federal agencies as the #SocialSecurity, the #IRS and the #DHHS. He also alleged that DOGE workers are filling backpacks with multiple laptops, each one loaded with purloined agency data."
Opinion | ‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
On March 10, 2025, #Flipboard CEO and Co-founder @Mike McCue McCue took to the stage of the #FediverseHouse at #SXSW to show off #Surf, a new kind of #socialbrowser and a way to bring your communities together via #customfeeds
Flipboard PeerTube
Surf Demo
On March 10, 2025, Flipboard CEO and Co-founder Mike McCue took to the stage of the Fediverse House at SXSW to show off Surf, a new kind of social ...
"Even in a hysterical #bubble where everybody is agreeing that this is the future, #OpenAI currently requires more money and more compute than is reasonable to acquire. Nobody has ever raised as much as OpenAI needs to, and based on the sheer amount of difficulty that SoftBank is having in raising the funds to meet the lower tranche ($10bn) of its commitment, it may simply not be possible for this company to continue."
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry
Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award....
"#Mastodon—built as a #nonprofit and run by independent communities—has essentially made it impossible for itself to fall into the familiar pattern of #socialmedia “enshittifiction". #Bluesky, despite its innovative technology & good intentions, is built on the same #venturecapital-backed foundation. Mastodon–despite being slightly more challenging to get started with–represents our best chance at building a truly #opentownsquare of the internet that benefits everyone."
phillipjreese.com
The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky - phillipjreese.com
As users flee from Twitter/X, two visions of social media's future compete: Mastodon's community-controlled network versus Bluesky's...
Fediverse people, the hot one to listen to this week: [@benwhitelaw.bsky.social](
Bluesky Social
Ben Whitelaw (@benwhitelaw.bsky.social)
Founder and editor of everythinginmoderation.co. Co-host & writer of ctrlaltspeech.com puns. Media consultant by day. #LUFC fan by birthright.
 ) and [@mmasnick.bsky.social](
Bluesky Social
Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that m...
 ) on content moderation and internet regulation. Funny talk about the "crazy" idea of deleting all #Facebook users' #socialgraph.
Buzzsprout
Why Can't We De-Friend - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Inside Mark Zuckerberg...
Último dia para se inscrever! Se você é #servidorpúblico federal, e quer trabalhar com #softwarelivre e com o #fediverso como #políticapública em #museus, veja a oportunidade abaixo. Possibilidade de #expedienteremoto híbrido (após 6 meses de carência). Re:
Mato
Ecologia Digital (@josemurilo@mato.social)
Attached: 1 image Se você é servidor público federal, está interessado em "oportunidades de #movimentação interna", e gostaria de trabalhar ...
Se você é servidor público federal, está interessado em "oportunidades de #movimentação interna", e gostaria de trabalhar com #acervosdigitais de #museus e com o #Tainacan no #IbramMuseus — inscrições só até amanhã (11/03) no SOUGOV.SIGEPE: Vaga: Chefe da Divisão de Desenvolvimento de Sistemas (FCE 1.07) . Formação técnica em Redes de Computadores ou áreas correlatas; e . Experiência com gerenciamento de #serviçosweb. . FCE 1.07 . Movimentação por requisição ou cessão https://sougov.sigepe.gov.br/sougov/OportunidadeDetalhe?IdEditalInput=3796&IdOportunidadeInput=6721 image
"When the very #institutions that made US #innovation possible are being systematically dismantled, it’s not a “political” story anymore. It’s a story about whether the environment that enabled all the other stories we cover will continue to exist. We’ve always covered the intersection of #technology,innovation,& #policy…But what happens when the fundamental systems that make all of those conversations possible [#democracy] start breaking down?" @npub14j85...pjuf
Techdirt
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal jour...
"#Amazon’s recent decision to stop allowing people to #download copies of their Kindle #ebooks to a computer has vindicated some of my longstanding beliefs about #digitalmedia. Specifically, that it doesn’t exist and you don’t own it unless you can copy and access it without being connected to the internet."
404 Media
The Digital Packrat Manifesto
DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.