I don’t know who needs to hear this, but decentralization doesn’t prevent you from having to adhere to laws and regulations.
I think this is super-interesting. Future developments, including using the web payments API, feel promising - a way of funding the #Fediverse. https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/introducing-crowdbucks/
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If we're thinking about building GitHub alternatives, let's build ones that host not just code but everything involved in building software, including the community work involved in validating assumptions and making sure we're solving real problems, equitably, for the people we're trying to help.
The thing about so-called 'creeping fascism' is that it doesn't actually creep. It's loud and overt. What's insidious is how quickly those loud, overt changes are normalized.
I used to check into every restaurant and bar on Foursquare. Those thousands of location pins felt like memories. Now they feel like evidence. New piece on how our voluntary self-surveillance became a potential tool of authoritarian control - and what we might do about it:
Ben Werdmuller
Lifelogging under fascism
How self-tracking became self-incrimination
On bridging between networks vs cross-posting: "They’re similar, but they’re different in some important ways. Notably, bridging results in more unified conversations, while cross-posted conversations are more fragmented." That's why Bridgy Fed's approach is so interesting - and, imo, important.
A New Social
Bridging vs cross-posting
When we talk about what we do here, one topic that comes up often is bridging vs cross-posting. They’ve both been around for a long time, and the...
 #Fediverse
"Yes, you read that right. A law supposedly designed to protect children now requires victims of sexual assault to submit government IDs to access support communities."
Techdirt
Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements...
If you could design your life from scratch, what would *you* do?
Ben Werdmuller
If I ran my life
Designing a values-centered life from first principles.
Seeing these images of starving children barely holding onto life while my own two year old sleeps soundly in bed upstairs is devastating. These poor parents; these poor children. I would be going out of my mind. I would hold a grudge forever. Who wouldn’t?