Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
We are excited to sponsor WordCamp Lisboa on May 16th and 17th, following a Warmup Meetup. I will be at our booth, ready for podcasts, and I encourage attendees to get their tickets now.
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
In this episode host Matthias Pfefferle dives into the world of decentralized social networks and the open web, specifically focusing on the Fediverse, with guest André Menrath. André shares his unconventional journey into software development, driven by his passion for events and democracy, and his vision for a federated future. They explore the challenges and […]
The Daily
• The New York Times
Another big update to Micro Social:
Release version on V1.7 pushed to TestFlight.
Micro Social https://microsocial.micro.blog/2025/04/16/release-version-on-v-pushed.html
- Support for drafts
- Redesigned posting & editing screen
- Support for cross posting options
- Option to open links in external browser
- Location default map provider and opening app
Worked a little on archiving all the Core Intuition episodes in one place. We’ve used a few hosts over the years — DreamHost, S3, Libsyn — and things are bound to break eventually if all 600+ episodes aren’t together.
Platformer
• Casey Newton
And other revelations from day two of Meta's antitrust trial. PLUS: the OpenAI social network
Gutter.
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
For the past few weeks, one man has become a focal point for President Donald Trump’s war on immigration. Kilmar Abrego García was mistakenly deported and sent to a Salvadoran prison last month. Abrego García’s deportation has become a legal battle over the rights of immigrants and the boundaries of executive power.
Host Colby Itkowitz speaks with immigration reporter Maria Sacchetti about how Abrego García became collateral damage in Trump’s immigration fight.
Today’s show was produced by Ariel Plotnick with help from Rennie Svirnovskiy. It was edited by Reena Flores and mixed by Sam Bair. Thanks also to Lucas Trevor and Lucy Perkins.
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In today's mastodon.social update, we're testing a few minor quality of life improvements to the web interface: Every list of accounts now has a shortcut to add or remove an account from lists; clicking a hashtag in a post now brings up a menu with a shortcut to browse posts in that hashtag specifically by the author, and a new featured tab on profiles to make featured hashtags and posts easier to find and navigate.
Looking for help from people who know how to create WordPress themes. The goal is to create a default theme that works well for WordLand-authored sites. It was suggested I try the Retrospect theme, and it does look quite nice when I switched over the daveverse site to use it. Is it possible to fork a WordPress theme? If so, here's a list of changes I'd like in a new theme.
Upcoming video social app Neptune will allow hiding follower and like counts:
A key distinguishing feature of Neptune is that it lets creators hide their total followers and likes. This “ghost metrics” feature is optional, however, and is designed to help users avoid the pressures associated with follower count, yet still caters to creators who may want to showcase their metrics.
Good. Might as well go all the way and hide counts by default.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News and host of the What the Health? podcast, breaks down the headlines from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s so-called "Make American Healthy Again" tour, designed to highlight Kennedy’s plan to fight chronic disease and promote a healthy diet, amid cuts to chronic disease prevention programs and widespread layoffs at the Food and Drug Administration.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Cristiano Lima-Strong, associate editor at Tech Policy Press, offers analysis of the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Meta, where they will argue that the social media giant maintained a monopoly after it bought Instagram and WhatsApp.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Allan Wernick, legal advisor to CUNY Citizenship Now! - CUNY's free immigration law service program, offers guidance to tourists, visa-holders and permanent residents with green cards on their rights at the U.S. border.
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TechCrunch: OpenAI ships GPT-4.1 without a safety report. I don’t want to overreact to this, but as an OpenAI customer it is a little concerning. System cards are fascinating and even if they don’t paint a perfect picture, the transparency is good.
OpenAI working on a social app? From The Verge:
Entering the social media market also puts OpenAI on more of a collision course with Meta, which we’re told is planning to add a social feed to its coming standalone app for its AI assistant. When reports of Meta building a rival to the ChatGPT app first surfaced a couple of months ago, Altman shot back on X again by saying, “ok fine maybe we’ll do a social app.”
Stay in your lane, OpenAI! 🤪 But I think OpenAI and Sam Altman work on a lot of different things, so who knows whether a social app would actually ship.
