TikTok’s enshitification with its new right wing owners may accelerate as fast as X’s did. Might be next window for the open social web. #tiktok

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TikTok in Final Talks to Be Bought by Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz

Negotiations are becoming more serious as the Sept. 17 deadline approaches to sell the app or see it banned in the U.S.

This summarizes the situation better than anything else you will read. There, saved you a lot of time. #charliekirk

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Pretty accurate progression so far. #Charliekirk

We have to bulld a new healthier open social web. The current closed, commercialized siloes are indeed a cancer. GOV. COX: "Social media has played a direct role in every single assassination and assassination attempt that we have seen over the last 5, 6 years. There is no question... Cancer probably isn't a strong enough word. What we have done especially to our kids, it took us decade to realize how evil these algorithms are." https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-september-14-2025-n1312719

This is my priors on this too, btw. But we will see what we see. As i said before believe nothign you don’t see validated by trusted sources. #charliekirk

Mental note: do not trust anything on this story until it is verified by trustwothy sourcing. Just wait. #charliekirk

Very well put.

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✊ Am happy to endorse this statement - along with many thought leaders from both #ATProto and #ActivityPub sides of the Open Social Web dev community…

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Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol

Foreword This statement was originally published on the swicg/general repository after I had been granted approval to merge. Since then one commun...

A small but big thing: every profile UX on the open social web should copy #Threads: Show the full handle w/ domain plus a “Copy” button in account details. None do now—Mastodon, Bluesky, PixelFed, etc. Only Threads does, and it’s a must-have.