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It's noteworthy that we haven't seen many outages as Bluesky scales. On Twitter they had fail whales for years.

[Khadija Alam and Russell Brandom at Rest of World] Mobile internet subscriber growth is significantly slowing globally: "From 2015 to 2021, the survey consistently found over 200 million coming online through mobile devices around the world each year. But i...

What matters with social networks is what you can get done there, not so much the features of the network. Bluesky has the same features today it had a month ago. The difference is we had an election in the US, I guess that was the catalyst. The presence of Elon Musk so close to Trump says there is a need for a Musk-free place. I've kept my account on Twitter. I started there in 2006, and I love the web more than I feel it would do any good to erase my presence there. It's pretty much against my religion to deliberately erase bits of the web. And whatever you think of Twitter, it is most definitely part of the web.

On Bluesky, inbound RSS is becoming a thing.

[Anil Dash] Anil Dash on Substack's attempt to brand "writing in a newsletter": "We constrain our imaginations when we subordinate our creations to names owned by fascist tycoons. Imagine the author of a book telling people to "read my Amazon". A great direc...

Looking up the translation for the word “cute” in another language, it’s listed in a dictionary as “cute, a.F” where “a.F” stands for “adjective, Familiar” …but that is not how I read it at first!

I’m working on a new page for Micro.blog and having so much fun with it. It’s equal parts business marketing page and hobby art project, built natively for the web with CSS and JS.

A quick podcast about our new 365-day-a-year campaign on the social web to keep our democracy alive.

I've been saying this for twenty years -- the Dems shut down their campaign presence on the social web on Election Day, and they come back when they need our money (to give to the huge media companies for ads) and vote, and that's it. We play no role in governing. Meanwhile...

We've found Lauren Kapp, the 25-year-old creative genius behind kamalahq. We need to get her back on the air, with her team, fully funded and supported. We need leadership on the social web. Thanks to Brian Puckett for the link.

I’ve updated my website’s posting interface to allow me to selectively POSSE to Mastodon and/or Bluesky (previously I was using RSS-to-micro.blog for Bluesky syndication)

Vincent has been quietly improving web accessibility in Micro.blog behind the scenes, and it’s bringing some other benefits such as new keyboard navigation in the timeline. More we can do here but already I really like it.

[Annie Waldman at ProPublica] UnitedHealth Group has been using an algorithm to determine whether patients have been receiving "too much" therapy and then cutting them off: "Around 2016, government officials began to pry open United’s black box. They found t...

[Joanna Chiu and Viola Zhou at Rest of World] Tech companies like Microsoft and Google have, through their accelerators, supported startups that provide censorship and policing technologies in China. It's perhaps not a surprise that they've supported these e...

Good post on The Fediverse Report about Bluesky and decentralization. A lot of people are looking at AT Proto through fediverse-colored glasses and it’s just not the same architecture. There are different advantages and different weak points.

Rain earlier today from Hank’s. Started to get a little wet even though it was covered… Went inside shortly after this.

I’m @manton on most networks, @manton.org on Bluesky, and @manton@manton.org on the fediverse. These are all managed by Micro.blog. “Are you getting it? These are not three separate accounts… This is one place to post. And we’re calling it a blog.” 🤪

Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly writes for the Observer, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg Is ‘More Energized’ Than Ever Amid WP Engine Battle.