An unexpected obstacle to adoption. I assume Mastodon would be no different: “I spoke with a few congressional staffers who said that they had tried using Bluesky as an alternative to Twitter after Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, but they gave up after their bosses kept getting yelled at by Democratic users angry at their impotence.”

Semafor Media: 🟡 Anti-woke identity crisis | Semafor

In today’s edition: How a slice of the media ecosystem is adapting to Trump in power.

Utah is going to legally require social media interoperability and portability of the social graph. Wow, this law has been signed and it somehow passed under my radar. IMHO It has a good change to substantially impact the open social web, in a very good way. Thanks @npub1vag7...mjkp for the tip!

HB0418

The #InternetArchive wants your support for this petition urging the record labels to drop their existential lawsuit. I signed.

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125,395 people signed and won this petition

Defend the Internet Archive

Bluesky account confirmation e-mail has the footer: "Bluesky, the social internet." Hmm.

The #Mastodon team has managed to get @Scott Jenson signed up as a design advisor. Congratulations, I can't wait to see impact on the product!

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Product Design Advisor at Mastodon! | Scott Jenson | 54 comments

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Product Design Advisor at Mastodon! | 54 comments on LinkedIn

Cory Booker just broke Strom Thurmond's record for the longest speech in the Senate of the United states at 24 hours and 19 minutes. 👏👏👏

In the past day or so, it was pointed out that my FediForum co-organizer has made some public statements that are incompatible with the kind of community we want to bring together at FediForum, and that I personally disagree with. Accordingly, Kaliya and I have agreed that she will be transitioning out of FediForum.

I'm thinking of running a #FediForum session next week on: Funding the open social web It appears to cost about $1 / month / user to run a social network, based on public company numbers. (Counting volunteer labor as a donation at market prices.) If we want the Fediverse to go from its current user numbers to 10x or 100x, and make it possible for most of humanity to get off the toxic platforms, we need to find those 10x or 100x or 1000x resources somehow. Let's brainstorm.

Ghost has made ActivityPub available to all of its Pro subscribers. Interesting how they name and describe it: "Social Web - y/n Federate your site with ActivityPub to join the world's largest open network" #Ghost #ActivityPub