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If you say that we need to live in a cave 100m underground to avoid it, why are #radiation levels set 70 times lower in some countries than others?How does this fit in with schools in Europe removing #WiFi to avoid excessive #EMF?
Agree with the #privacy concerns.
There's #gaslighting and charming #advertising aimed at building consent for #5G.
#LocalCouncils are disempowered in #Australia yet where's the proof of #publicSafety?
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Interesting to look back at this five months later ... here's what's currently happening today in terms of decentralization the ATmosphere.
@rudyfraser.com announced today that Blacksy feeds and moderation service are now powered by our own atproto relay -- and it's an independent implementation, not using Bluesky's reference code. It's really worth reading the thread, which has a great analogy for how a relay enables custom feeds.
@edavis.dev has configured deer.social (a third-party app) to to point to a self-hosted bsky appview which reads from a self-hosted relay which subscribes to a self-hosted PDS which is where this -- as he says, "Bluesky independent from Bluesky".
@bnewbold published A Full-Network Relay for $34 a Month, updating his post from last summer. The network size has increased by close to an order of magnitude since his first post; the cost of a realy
#FreeOurFeeds is donating a $50K to the AT Community Fund to support the #IndieSky working group. The notes from last week's Ahoy IndieSky Europe give a sense of the energy here -- and also link to a bunch of other projects that sure look decentralized to me and discusses the prospects of Eurosky.
Of course, like I said in the article,
""Decentralization" means different things to different people. As the links in the Appendix highlight, people who are focusing on the (very real) concentration of power in the ATmosphere today, or the potentially-centralizing architecture of AT, find it more useful to describe Bluesky as centralized."
And the power concentration -- or "operational centralization" as Bluesky folks were calling it at the ATmosphere Conference -- is still very real. Bluesky still runs almost all of the infrastructure for the ATmosphere, and it's by far the most popular app, and most other apps (as well as Bluesky) use the Bluesky AppView, Relay, and labeler.
Then again, that's clearly in the process of changing, and it'll be interesting to see how it looks six months or a year from now.
@laurenshof @fediversereport @cyrus @cwebber @rysiek @jonny @possibledog @oblomov @rwg @Kye
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@humanetech I'll also raise my annoyance with CWs once more: as these are presently implemented, a heavily CW'd conversation when visited by someone outside the Fediverse, I've started calling this #DirectWebAccess as opposed to authenticated in-network access ... is a wall of roadblocks. Each. Single. Individual. Toot. Must. Be. Individually. Opened. One. At. A. Time. And. Any. Mis-click. Means. Starting. Over. From. Scratch.
This is entirely a design/UI flaw with Mastodon and derivatives that @Gargron and #Mastodevs have so far refused to address, despite it being raised as an issue for years. It's a really shitty first experience for anyone outside Mastodon. (And pretty bad for those of us who do use the site regularly.).
It is possible to both support use of CWs and NOT make the experience a nightmare for all others. There's been no developer will to do so yet.
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@boud All but certainly a markup failure, as what's printed is "n2" rather than the more conventional "2n" when referencing multiplication.
Then there's the issue that Metcalfe's law overstates the value of network size. Odlyzko & Tilly suggest n * log(n) as a better approximation.
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf
My own view is that value 1) increases at a decreasing rate as nodes grow (Odlyzko-Tilly) and 2) that there's a constant cost function per node, 'k':
V = n * (log(n) - k*n
This also gives us an upper bound on value-increasing network scale: where k >= log(n), the network can no longer grow effectively.
Corollaries:
- By reducing k, viable network size can be increased. This is effectively the same as improving network hygiene such that cost factors are reduced.
- Increasing k will reduce the total viable size of a network.
- A periodically variable k (whether regular or irregular) will result in a network with a variable maximum viable size.
But the key is If you want to make large networks less viable, increase their constant cost function.
Ping @pluralistic
#MetcalfesLaw #NetworkValue #NetworkEffects #AndrewOdlyzko #OdlyzkoTilly #HygieneFactors #NetworkCostFunction #Scale
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@boud All but certainly a markup failure, as what's printed is "n2" rather than the more conventional "2n" when referencing multiplication.
Then there's the issue that Metcalfe's law overstates the value of network size. Odlyzko & Tilly suggest n * log(n) as a better approximation.
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf
My own view is that value 1) increases at a decreasing rate as nodes grow (Odlyzko-Tilly) and 2) that there's a constant cost function per node, 'k':
V = n * (log(n) - k*n
This also gives us an upper bound on value-increasing network scale: where k >= log(n), the network can no longer grow effectively.
Corollaries:
- By reducing k, viable network size can be increased. This is effectively the same as improving network hygiene such that cost factors are reduced.
- Increasing k will reduce the total viable size of a network.
- A periodically variable k (whether regular or irregular) will result in a network with a variable maximum viable size.
But the key is If you want to make large networks less viable, increase their constant cost function.
Ping @pluralistic
#MetcalfesLaw #NetworkValue #NetworkEffects #AndrewOdlyzko #OdlyzkoTilly #HygieneFactors #NetworkCostFunction #Scale
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Emergence of governance in open communities
How the Fediverse is growing to meet its challenges
[German language version of this text will be published in FIfF-Kommunikation, the journal of the Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF e.V.)]
ToC
The dead live longer
Multi-layered self-regulation
Gab: the Nazis are coming
Threads and Bluesky: Federation Washing?
Conclusio: Small is Beautiful
LiteraturThe social media landscape has been undergoing a tectonic shift since Elon Musk took over Twitter and Donald Trump took over the USA. The Fediverse emerged at a time when the previous phase of decentralised social networks – the blogosphere – was being supplanted by globally centralised platforms such as Facebook (2004), YouTube (2005) and Twitter (2006). With them came the problems: surveillance-based advertising, election manipulation by Cambridge Analytica, addictive design, enshittification of previously useful services (Cory Doctorow), techno-feudalism (Yanis Varoufakis).
In contrast, a counter-movement for the recentralisation of the Internet (Kahle 2016, Berners-Lee et al. 2016) is emerging and for sovereignty in Europe, which is becoming painfully aware of its comprehensive technological dependence on the US.
The perception of a crisis is giving rise to a new digital universe, the decentralised and federated Fediverse. For many migrants from toxic environments, it feels like a friendly neighbourhood where reason and civilised conversation prevail. Of course, this is not a genetic trait, hard-coded into Mastodon & Co. But how does an open community oriented towards the common good, a bustling field of players and technologies, organise itself? How does the governance of complex socio-technical systems unfold?
Resilient structures of self-organisation, so the theory goes, are the result of experiences of conflict. Current external or internal conflicts as well as structural problems (onboarding, money, etc.) trigger a collective reflection that challenges open communities to emerge from a lack of structure. The solutions, as I would like to show with examples, can be of technical or social protocols, usually a combination of both.
The dead live longer
Distributed and federated protocols have been around since 1999 with XMPP. According to official historiography, the Fediverse began in 2008 with the decentralised OpenMicroBlogging protocol and the platform Identi.ca, a free version of Twitter based on it, both developed by Evan Prodromou.
In January 2016, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) presented the ActivityPub protocol to improve the interoperability of the various decentralised platforms in the Fediverse. Prodromou is again co-author. Also since 2016, Eugen Rochko has been developing the microblog Mastodon, which is now the star among the decentralised platforms with around ten million users. In addition to Mastodon, the microblog Misskey, the photo platform Pixelfed, the link aggregator Lemmy and the video platform Peertube are also popular in the ActivityPub universe (FediDB: Software, April 2025).
As already mentioned, the development is motivated by criticism of the techno-feudalism of the mega-platforms. The current lead author of ActivityPub, Christine Lemmer-Webber, notes that no companies are involved in the team developing the protocol, which is very unusual for technical committees. In addition, the team identifies predominantly as queer, which leads to functions in the protocol and in the clients that help users and administrators to protect themselves from ‘unwanted interaction’ (Klemens 2023).
Mastodon is run by a non-profit limited company. The community excludes venture capital as well as surveillance advertising, which has made the mega-platforms the richest companies in the world. Mastodon per default does not even include a function for displaying adverts. But how is a global community that is essentially financed by collecting donations supposed to build an alternative to this overwhelming power and lure people out of the lock-in by the mega-companies?
As the Fediverse contradicts all business logic, experts predicted that it would soon come to an end (Woźniak 2025). The opposite is the case. At Berlin Fediday 2024, Prodromou (2024) reported on growth by all criteria: ActivityPub is being implemented by more and more platforms (WordPress, Ghost.org, Flipboard, Threads). The number of users is growing continuously, as are the bridges to other protocols, applications, content, publications and institutions of self-organisation: the SocialCG (Community Group) for ActivityPub at the W3C, the online conference FediForum, the moderator community IFTAS, Mastodon’s non-profit offshoot in the USA. He answers the question of his presentation title ‘Is Bigger Better?’ with a resounding yes.
A week later, Prodromou announced the creation of the Social Web Foundation (SWF), whose mission is a ‘growing, healthy, sustainable and multipolar Fediverse’. Shortly afterwards, the foundation became a member of the W3C as a community front-end for ActivityPub: ‘We collect requirements and design potential extensions to the ActivityPub protocol and guide them through standardisation’ (SWF 2025).
Multi-layered self-regulation
The Fediverse is, of course, also subject to external regulation through laws, etc. The focus here is on the area in which the Fediverse players are free to regulate themselves. The Fediverse project unites them on the basis of a normative conviction: a different, decentralised, federated Internet is possible. Civil society and the public sector can collectively create an online environment in which people treat each other in a civilised and respectful manner. Common values are initially shared tacitly. As the community grows and becomes more diverse, but especially when conflicts challenge these values, they are made explicit in rules of conduct, mission statements, etc. and operationalised with mechanisms for their implementation and enforcement.
Projects usually start with minimal ad hoc organisational structures and move on to more permanent forms as required. Regulation arises in order to solve problems, e.g. a legal form must be established in order to open a bank account and thus collect donations. Internal dynamic lead to the problem of the Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL). A free software project is started by a man (is there really not a single woman in the Wikipedia list of BDFLs?), becomes popular, grows into a community of co-developers and users, in which the founder remains at the top, respected for his valuable contributions. A meritocracy that, if left unchecked, becomes dysfunctional. The term was coined for Linus Torvalds and his Linux kernel. In the Fediverse, this currently affects Matt Mullenweg from WordPress, Daniel Supernault from Pixelfed and Loops and Eugen Rochko from Mastodon, for example. The latter announced in January 2025 that he would retire from management and concentrate on development. A new non-profit company is to be founded to which he will transfer the Mastodon brand and the copyrights to the code. This means that Mastodon’s independence no longer depends on a single person (Mastodon 2025).
Gab: the Nazis are coming
2016 was a breakthrough year for the Fediverse. It was also the year of Brexit and Trump’s first presidential election. And behind both, the Alt-Right movement emerged onto the research radar from image boards like 4Chan. An Internet-native movement that only half-jokingly boasts of having voted Trump into office and promotes “Fashy”, a “fashionable fascism” (Cramer 2017).
Gab was launched in August 2016 as a social network for radical free speech. Co-founder Andrew Torba cited ‘the total left-wing monopoly of Big Social’ as the motive. Especially during the 2016 election, Facebook and Twitter censored conservative voices. Gab started on its own technology as a mixture of Twitter and Reddit.
Gab was soon banned from the app stores for hate and pornography. In October 2018, a white supremacist killed eleven people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh. The perpetrator had posted his anti-Semitism on Gab for almost a year. As a result, payment services, web hosts and cloud providers also blocked Gab. To circumvent this block, the creators decided to migrate Gab to a fork of Mastodon in July 2019, making it accessible with every Mastodon app.
Mastodon founder Rochko spoke out on the same day. He explained that the licence (AGPLv3) does not allow certain uses or users to be excluded as long as it is complied with. At the same time, he expressed his disgust at Gab,
“which uses the pretense of free speech absolutism as an excuse to platform racist and otherwise dehumanizing content. Mastodon has been originally developed by a person of Jewish heritage and first-generation immigrant background, and Mastodon’s userbase includes many people from marginalized communities.
Mastodon’s decentralized approach that allows communities to self-govern according to their needs has enabled those marginalized communities to create safe spaces for themselves where previously they were reliant on big companies like Twitter to stand up for them, which these companies have often failed to do.” (Rochko 2019)
It was precisely decentralisation and federation that brought about a social protocol as a solution. On the one hand, many Mastodon admins had already decided to block Gab, including mastodon.social, which is operated by the Mastodon gGmbH itself. On the other hand, rules have been made explicit for the servers listed on joinmastodon.org, which is also operated by the gGmbH. With the Mastodon Server Covenant, server operators commit to
1. Active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia,
2. Daily backups,
3. At least one other person with emergency access to the server infrastructure,
4. And to give users at least 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down. (Mastodon: Covenant)
There is no technical switch against Nazis. Although there have been discussions about inserting code into the clients to prevent them from logging into Gab servers, such changes can be easily reversed. The copyright licence also does not allow Nazis to be excluded from using one’s own software. There is a long debate about banning use for military purposes, for example (Kreutzer 2006). In practice, restrictions on use by licence violate the definition of free software and have not become established.
Nazis can set up their own Fediverse servers. However, the Federation’s code of conduct, the Covenant, ensures that these instances remain isolated, like Gab and Truth Social, and do no harm in the Federation. For newcomers, this level is less visible than the policies of the individual instances. However, it is crucial for the information space as a whole.
Regulations are only as good as their enforcement. Block lists for accounts and instances are maintained as tools for the daily work of admins and moderators (e.g. Oliphant). The moderators have joined forces in the IFTAS (Independent Federated Trust & Safety) forum.
Looking back at research on “alternative social media” (ASM), Robert W. Gehl (2025) notes that the widespread assumption that ASM are progressive had a blind spot: they can just as easily be used by the political right. The deplatforming of right-wing radicals on the mega-platforms increased the pressure to build their own places for radical freedom of speech. Now the research has turned into the opposite and reduced ASM to ‘alt-right social media’. However, Gehl sees an advantage in the fact that an aspect that was largely missing from the earlier literature has since been addressed: governance. ‘Much of the earliest scholarship focused on how technical elements such as free and open source software and decentralized architectures would shift power away from corporate social media to end users, but had less to say about how those users might govern themselves.’ (ibid.)
Threads and Bluesky: Federation Washing?
The next invasion of the Fediverse threatened to come from one of the mega-platforms that the alternative was up against. Meta wanted to capitalise on the Twitter exodus following Musk’s takeover and planned a text-based companion app to Instagram. Threads launches with fanfare on 5 July 2023. Thanks to Instagram’s more than two billion users, the new service gained 100 million users within five days, except in Europe, where a data protection clarification delayed the launch until December. Threads also began integrating the ActivityPub protocol in December 2023 (The Verge 2023).
The bridge from Instagram to the Fediverse has triggered even more heated debates than Gab, including reciprocal death threats. Above all, there were fears about the well-known strategy of embrace, extend, extinguish. From this camp, the tried and tested instrument used against Gab was brought up: a campaign for the collective exclusion of threads from the federation, which was followed by many instances.
Conversely, Fediverse stakeholders welcomed threads because they see interoperability between platforms as a major step forward. ‘We’ve been advocating for this for years,’ wrote Rochko (2023) on the day of the threads launch. In his blog post, he addresses accusations (data tracking, advertising, being overwhelmed by huge servers, embrace-extend-extinguish, moderation). However, he describes the lock-in of the social graph as the biggest problem, which prevents users from switching platforms if they do not want to lose all their contacts.
“The fact that large platforms are adopting ActivityPub is not only validation of the movement towards decentralized social media, but a path forward for people locked into these platforms to switch to better providers. Which in turn, puts pressure on such platforms to provide better, less exploitative services. This is a clear victory for our cause, hopefully one of many to come.” (ibid.)
Prodromou also welcomed the mega-platform’s access so that the Fediverse can quickly grow and become a powerful alternative. If there are problems, every site and all users are free not to connect to the newcomers. ‘Choice is part of the strength of the Fediverse.’ (Prodromou 2024)
Another invasion came from Twitter, specifically from its co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey. In 2019, he launched an initiative that gave rise to the AT Protocol and Bluesky Social. The platform with the look and feel of the original Twitter was launched in 2023. In January 2025, Bluesky claimed to have 30 million users (BNO News 2025).
Technically, the AT protocol allows decentralisation. In fact, the system is currently neither decentralised nor federated, as Lemmer-Webber (2024) discusses in detail. Furthermore, venture capital financing, not least from blockchain circles, raises doubts about sustainable freedom.
Conclusio: Small is Beautiful
The mega-platforms must continue to be rendered less hazardous through legal regulation. Buying oneself free is not an option. Rather, building alternatives is crucial. Decentralisation from above leads to a Fedi-Washing that only looks like it. The inherently decentralised network of protocol-connected nodes that has grown over the years and organises itself from below is sustainable. Last but not least, the Fediverse offers an opportunity for Europe. Many of the developers and more than twice as many Fediverse servers are in the EU (8,818) than in the USA (4,275) (Fediverse Observer, April 2025).
The non-profit nature and small size of the communities are clearly positive features of the Fediverse. Kissane & Kazemi (2024) have investigated how governance is organised on individual servers and between servers. Their conclusion: ‘Fediverse governance as we encountered it in our research conversations is emergent, unevenly distributed, and often reactive.’ The majority of Fediverse servers are operated by individuals or small groups. Medium-sized servers offer uniquely favourable conditions for community self-governance according to local norms and allow for very direct, context-dependent moderation that is superior to that of centralised platforms. ‘The Fediverse’s combined emphasis on the sovereignty of local norms and a federated form of network diplomacy can offer a real and optimistic challenge to the dead end of centralized content moderation at scale’ (ibid.).
To summarise: local, manageable communities form the basis, create diplomatic networks and grow organically into a fediverse that is more than the sum of its parts. Small is Beautiful as a prerequisite for Bigger is Better.
Literatur
Berners-Lee, Tim et al. (2016). Solid: A Platform for Decentralized Social Applications Based on Linked Data, 2016, http://emansour.com/research/meccano/solid_protocols.pdf.
BNO News (2015). Twitter alternative Bluesky hits 30 million users, 28.01.2025, https://bnonews.com/index.php/2025/01/twitter-alternative-bluesky-hits-30-million-users/.
Cramer, Florian (2017). Meme Wars: Internet culture and the ‘alt right’, at FACT Liverpool, 07.03.2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiNYuhLKzi8.
FediDB: Software (o.J.). https://fedidb.org/software.
Fediverse Observer (o.J.). Server nach Land, https://fediverse.observer/stats.
Gehl, Robert W. (2025). A Brief History of Alternative Social Media Scholarship, 07.02.2025, https://www.socialmediaalternatives.org/2025/02/07/asm-scholarship-history.html.
Kahle, Brewster (2016). Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Decentralized Web, Juni 2016, https://archive.org/details/LockingTheWebOpen_2016.
Kissane, Erin & Darius Kazemi (2024). Findings Report: Governance on Fediverse Microblogging Servers, https://fediverse-governance.github.io/.
Klemens, Ben (2023). Mastodon – and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers, Ars Technica, 02.01.2023, https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/.
Kreutzer, Till (2006). Open-Source-Software zwischen Moral und Freiheit, iRights, 15.08.2006, https://irights.info/artikel/open-source-software-zwischen-moral-und-freiheit/6219.
Lemmer-Webber, Christine (2024). How decentralized is Bluesky really?, 22.11.2024, https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/.
Lemmer-Webber, Christine (2025). Toot, 19.01.2025, https://social.coop/@cwebber/113856458328842294.
Mastdon: Covenant (n.d.), https://joinmastodon.org/covenant.
Mastodon (2025). The people should own the town square, 13.01.2025, https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/.
Prodromou, Evan (2024). A Bigger Better Fediverse, presentation at Berlin Fediday 2024, 14.10.2024, https://berlinfedi.day/2024/.
Rochko, Eugen (2019). Gab switches to Mastodon’s code. Our statement, 04.07.2019, https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork-of-mastodon/.
Rochko, Eugen (2023). What to know about Threads, 05.07.2023, https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/.
SWF (2025). The Social Web Foundation announces its membership in the World Wide Web Consortium, 11.2.2025, https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/02/11/the-social-web-foundation-announces-its-membership-in-the-world-wide-web-consortium/.
The Verge (2023). Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration, 13.12.2023, https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-activitypub-test-mastodon.
Woźniak, Michał “rysiek” (2025). Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives, personal blog, 05.04.2025, https://rys.io/en/177.html.
#Fediverse #FreeCulture #Internet #mediaScience #publicSphere
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Mastodon Follow Pack Directory 1.7
Follow entire groups of accounts listed below or simply click on accounts to view their profile page and follow them from there.
This directory includes notices, instructions and follow pack directory listings.
Notices
NOTIFICATION NOTICE: If you receive this federated WordPress blog post in your Notifications, your account may be included in one or more packs.
OPT-OUT NOTICE: If your account is listed in any Follow Pack and you do not want it to be, please message @[email protected] and refer to the pack from which you would like your account removed.
BRIDGE ACCOUNT NOTICE: Packs that include accounts that bridge outside the Fediverse will be identified with a special notice.
REPLIES ON MASTODON SPAM NOTICE: Replies include all named accounts. To avoid spamming, please edit any replies to remove addresses you do not intend to send the reply.
Follow Pack Instructions
Download the pack .csv file and import into Mastodon to follow all accounts:
– Click on a FollowPack .csv file link to download
– Click on Preferences (gear) icon on bottom right
– On mobile or narrow desktop click top right “hamburger” button
– Click Import and Export >>> Import
– Import type dropdown: Select “Lists” (NOT “Following list”)
– Verify that ‘Merge’ is selected (IMPORTANT)
– Click Browse… button >>> Select “[file name] – list.csv”
– Upload >>> ConfirmFollow Pack Directory
ASTRONOMY & SPACE
Pack: Astronomy
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on astronomy and space.
Size: 60
List: Astro
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationClick to download Astronomy-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRA5Aef7KPIlw6unflo2V1DairG-4B7SNgko3Rs3WScj-2BXSqVeksf_-_qmhWdly69jOm8oju6a6Co/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@65dBnoise, @AkaSci, @apod, @astrobin_iotd, @astrocamp, @AstroHyde, @astrokiwi, @astroland, @Astromeg, @astron, @astronomerstel, @AstronomieNL, @astroptere, @badastro, @benknispel, @bibianaprinoth, @coreyspowell, @CosmicRami, @cosmos4u, @cplberry, @crawfordsm, @dburke, @dstndstn, @ec_euclid, @elizabethtasker, @evilscientistca, @franco_vazza, @fraser, @GravityGrinch, @hannorein, @hausderastronomie, @hfalcke, @IRAP, @JohnBarentine, @kellylepo, @LIGO, @markmccaughrean, @megschwamb, @mpi_astro, @mpi_grav, @mpsgoettingen, @nasa, @NSFVoyager2, @OJ_Astro, @PhilStooke, @pomarede, @rubymoonbeams, @setiinstitute, @skrishna, @spacegeck, @starstryder, @startswithabang, @sundogplanets, @telescoper, @thomasconnor, @vicgrinberg, @VRubinObs, @weltraum, @mustapipa, @emilydoesastro*************************
AV GEEK
Pack: AVGeek
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on aviation.
Size: 31
List: AVGeek
Admin: @rpmikClick to download AVGeek-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQwIpsX88KPWBfCW0WxpdqfFzg6QUII8k5baqVbdReu3E4H-Hu-eCSZwZMzjDYLvPZM4Isa70XAFQ5d/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@ai6yr, @AirlineReporter, @alexf24, @aligorith, @andybrwn, @AstroHawk, @[email protected], @Aviation_Librarian, @clemensv, @CosmicTraveler, @cvvhrn, @elanhead, @ErrolNZ, @[email protected], @gb0n, @hypeav, @ikluft, @JetTip, @JohnOCFII, @jp, @mancavgeek, @midendian, @ottergoose, @photoJDL, @photoJDL, @[email protected], @rpmik, @thebaldgeek, @TheSnoopySnoop, @User47, @[email protected]*************************
BRAZIL FALANTES
Pack: BrazilFalantes
Criteria: Selected Brazilian accounts.
Size: 43
List: BrazilFalantes
Admin: @augustoccClick to download BrazilFalantes-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSix8DugkdH9Q4cK663XToZ1hCcPmuPqBva0s2Q6Jh6RdnKZtParEjiHsEF156yVk5mpjh4SbCNUlPj/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@dudagc@mstdn.social, @ACarolaRodrigues, @adolfoneto, @alexmelo, @alter, @althieme, @Bruiserzinha, @CaetanoCosta, @caironoleto, @cajuuh, @caparica, @d_nho, @diegopds, @duran, @evaristoramosarte, @fabiocosta0305, @faconti, @felipesiles, @gfpreger, @gutocarvalho, @jimi, @kianda, @kiff, @lffontenelle, @liaamancio, @malcontato, @mari, @msmelo, @not_that_barb, @paulohrpinheiro, @pensadorlouco, @Pitico, @rafael, @retinadesgastada, @Roneyb, @sergiovds, @Tati, @tiagojferreira, @Valdemar1986, @vitordelucca, @vitu, @wag, @[email protected]*************************
CLIMATE
Pack: Climate
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on climate change and climate science.
Size: 40
List: Climate
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationClick to download Climate-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRDIriRmHiv7LNZcvSvCpWlSZEvBTrEATlcOkEAZYz9_vbeYLFz3gFtsatI9pwi4o2ozHFQoFQoXXtj/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@AlaskaWx, @allochthonous, @andrewdessler, @Bellingen, @bethsawin, @breadandcircuses, @CelloMomOnCars, @ClimateNewsNow, @Climatologist49, @clive, @CopernicusEU, @ct_bergstrom, @davidho, @douglasvb, @DrEvanGowan, @drsimevans, @GeraldKutney, @greeneralia, @gwagner, @helenczerski, @IcooIey, @janrosenow, @jphuston, @MichaelEMann, @petergleick, @PeterRu, @rahmstorf , @ProgGrrl, @Ruth_Mottram, @ScientistRebellion, @seaice, @SheDrivesMobility, @Snoro, @steve, @W_Lucht, @whatzaname, @weatherwest, @WmOrcutt, @wolfgangcramer, @ZLabe*************************
CYBERSECURITY
Pack: Cybersecurity
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on cybersecurity, hacking and digital threats.
Size: 50
List: Cybersecurity
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationClick to download Cybersecurity-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT1kwhmiytfhp6vhsE1bKGrigQBHgeNhRaPjIjem4vgl5ejviQhsuh1RR39P49mAtFDPKEqmuouG8nq/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@adamshostack, @adulau, @Ange, @botconf, @briankrebs, @catsalad, @charlesmok, @circl, @cryptax, @decalage, @deviantollam, @drwhax, @eff, @Em0nM4stodon, @ericfreyss, @evacide, @F_kZ_, @fr0gger, @futex, @GossiTheDog, @hacks4pancakes, @hasherezade, @haveibeenpwned, @jerry, @josephcox, @justicerage, @kimzetter, @malwaretech, @mattblaze, @metacurity, @nopatience, @petersuber, @qutluch, @r00tbsd, @SecurityWriter, @Sh0ckFR, @SheHacksPurple, @shellsharks, @shodan, @spaf, @SteveD3, @SwiftOnSecurity, @talossecurity, @tychotithonus, @virtualabs, @VirusBulletin, @Viss, @volatility, @williballenthin, @zackwhittaker*************************
HUMOR
Pack: Humor
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly jokes and humor.
Size: 60
List: Astro
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationClick to download Humor-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ–hRKJff-OrgWcqc0U41Oh2v-1bcAlkD_4VO_tH0y5VmiAtlT3Y5JygUjm8R8wUm5529Rr8hwuIzC/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@abnormalmemery, @AbsoluteMemery, @dadjokes, @Daily_Twerk, @DailySBMemes, @funhouseradio, @humortimes, @johnnyd_cm, @kittencaboodle, @LaffGaff, @lowqualityfacts, @MarkoTheComic, @newsthump, @nicbest, @rooniecomics, @s8n, @sushvee*************************
INFOSEC PRO
Pack: InfosecPro
Criteria: Curated list of people “identifying” as information and cybersecurity people. See https://github.com/cstromblad/infosec_mastodon/blob/main/README.md for a full description of the methodology and criteria used for inclusion.
Size: 143
List: InfosecPro
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@[email protected]Click to download InfosecPro-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQZmhqzGFSp-UoamD7l1jJGZDWC2TVXuNXS3g-kHLhm8wOkixnLzujDj5KxASEPWy-BuwCQLkNfG6nk/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@_dm, @againsthimself, @agent0x0, @albinowax, @AlesandroOrtiz, @alethe, @amuse, @andreamm, @andygreenphd, @atoponce, @barbie, @bascule, @bittner, @bknudtson, @bluecat, @bogo, @brynet, @catileptic, @catsalad, @charlesdardaman, @chetwisniewski, @chetwisniewski, @ChocolateCoat, @ChrisJohnRiley, @christophetd, @CommieGIR, @Crudge, @darkoperator, @Dave_von_S, @DavidJBianco, @Dcuthbert, @decalage, @dhw, @dmnk, @dostalcody, @dragosr, @droe, @eljefedsecurit, @enoclue, @epixoip, @ewj, @fj, @Folini, @ForiamCJ, @Foxboron, @fsmontenegro, @fullyabstract, @g0tmi1k, @gcluley, @glennpegden, @Gorka, @gynvael, @hal_pomeranz, @HalvarFlake, @hatr, @hdm, @helma, @hughsie, @Imlordofthering, @insiderphd, @itm4n, @itspeterc, @Janterpstra, @jaybeale, @john, @JohnTimaeus, @jomo, @JosephMenn, @jrenken, @jschauma, @jtk, @jullrich, @kennwhite, @kevincollier, @kravietz, @krelnik, @lattera, @lcamtuf, @lennyzeltser, @liampomfret, @ljrk, @lkarlslund, @LukaszOlejnik, @mainframed767, @maldr0id, @markschultz, @matthew_d_green, @MrMeritology, @mttaggart, @nasko, @nono2357, @nopatience, @nw, @patrickcmiller, @paulasadoorian, @percepticon, @pgl, @phretor, @pixelnull, @PrivacyDigest, @psiinon, @quaithe, @raptor, @redford, @reitinger, @rene_mobile, @ret2bed, @RGB_Lights, @ric, @robert, @ryanc, @ryanc, @sawaba, @Schuldberg, @securestep9, @Secvalve, @seecurity, @sharedsecurity, @Sikorsky78, @SonarResearch, @spacerog, @stevenseeley, @sundhaug92, @Tarah, @tek, @teksquisite, @thegrugq, @theJoshMeister, @timcappalli, @tomchop, @troed, @tsudo, @tweedge, @vanhoefm, @vcsjones, @vinoth, @volt4ire, @williballenthin, @WPalant, @xabean, @Xavier, @xntrik, @z_edian*************************
LEGAL
Pack: Legal
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on the law, criminal justice and other legal matters
Size: 31
List: Legal
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationClick to download Legal-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQlxhRYLmA_OW_JrK_y0B5WXI3ENc4nj84XWA8CsDL4m5Z1WybynqcmZjAnFVMnn95tIvhjudI30VWo/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@1br0wn, @alysondecker, @andreamm, @andrew, @annmlipton, @AustinB, @austinkocher, @bespacific, @chargrille, @chrisgeidner, @cmorris, @copyrightlately, @D_J_Nathanson, @davidallengreen, @design_law, @drrimmer, @evacide, @FrankPasquale, @heidilifeldman, @icymi_law, @karlauerbach, @KProfsBlog, @lawfare, @LeftistLawyer, @LeslieBurns, @molly0xfff, @pdxlawgrrrl, @petersuber, @SteveBellovin, @Teri_Kanefield, @trabern*************************
MISCELLANY
Pack: Miscellany
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on a varying and wide range of topics.
Size: 46
List: Miscellany
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationClick to download Miscellany-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSdl9t0EDx6igJi7TXyOutp2LedZvtMNnE2m0pxfcEWXVJVUL1uZn4z6Z_OcEbaEYFVjda9d1Lw8UJl/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@Alice, @amydiehl, @AnneTheWriter1, @augieray, @billyjoebowers, @Catvalente, @chris, @clive, @CStamp, @dansinker, @Daojoan, @donni, @emilymbender, @ErickaSimone, @flexghost, @futurebird, @GhostOnTheHalfShell, @godpod, @grimalkina, @hildabast, @inquiline, @jalefkowit, @jawarajabbi, @jaykuo, @jessamyn, @karlauerbach, @kims, @Lana, @lowqualityfacts, @luckytran, @mattblaze, @mcc, @mckra1g, @mekkaokereke, @MostlyHarmless, @paninid, @peterbutler, @RickiTarr, @rysiek, @skeletor, @skinnylatte, @SmudgeTheInsultCat, @Strandjunker, @strypey, @tess, @VeroniqueB99*************************
MOSTLY DOGS
Pack: MostlyDogs
Criteria: Selected accounts that post mostly dogs and some cats.
Size: 60
List: MostlyDogs
Admin: @moxxiClick to download MostlyDogs-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSsBqVEiKBn8QQKG94q31P48wgATL8pvLCWGwoZXipT1OuVx455h3rDgy0a75CTuue5YRdYmap9idJO/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@amyfou, @bark_maul, @DerPitcher, @DogWatson, @effies, @flicka, @hopper, @howisyourdog, @huskify, @iris, @ixi, @JoergBM2, @JulietAndJones, @kotetsu, @LisaKalayji, @lumi, @masayuki60, @michaelmeckler, @moxxi, @nicegnome, @PaulaTheSausage, @pieceofthepie, @reggie, @rexi, @Saltywavedog, @simmagolda, @sunguramy, @theclementinecorgi, @TheDoodletons, @thisistheworldofollie, @tykesitsfunny2*************************
NEWSLETTERS
Pack: Newsletters
Criteria: Selected Mastodon accounts who also publish a non-Substack newsletter or blog.
Size: 8
List: Newsletters
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationClick to download Newsletters-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ724vJjsQ4RP0KAywj4yhsJ06N9LsVargAapcrepQeqjoWZi9BmARnKOYPA1-LXrp7udY0qYqy-iiD/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@caseynewton, @dangillmor, @Daojoan, @democracydocket, @kissane, @molly0xfff, @pluralistic, @wendysiegelman*************************
OPEN SCIENCE
Pack: OpenScience
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly from the Open Science Community on Mastodon (https://germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon-OpenScience/).
Size: 110
List: OpenScience
Admin: https://fediscience.org/@rupdecat, https://nerdculture.de/@rmrahalClick to download OpenScience-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQrNf9konejxz71w-_DZ4THfRXLmGtt9W1YyaGhZOySwMaQ_ImiTPKVQa5PeWETBKZsU5Tg7j-rVxZV/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@aeryn_thrace, @allysonlister, @antikemagie, @askopenscience, @Bibliothecaris, @brembs, @cark, @Centre_Mersenne, @CharlesO, @chartgerink, @christof, @clementaubert, @cnsyoung, @da5nsy, @danielskatz, @datacite, @Datendealerin, @david_colquhoun, @dcanalitica, @dstephenlindsay, @dylanvanassche, @dylanwre, @egonw, @EJWagenmakers, @ElenLeFoll, @ElineVG, @EMarinus, @enroweb, @EuroMathSoc, @EvoMRI, @flavioazevedo, @floe, @FORRT, @forschungsdateninfo, @FrederikAust, @fresseng, @fuzzyleapfrog, @GermanRepro, @gin, @GuidoScherp, @hardyschwamm, @hauschke, @HeidiSeibold, @HelmholtzOpenScienceOffice, @hildabast, @HughShanahan, @hye, @ignactro, @improvingpsych, @jcolomb, @JeffreyRStevens, @jesper, @joerglohrer, @joeroe, @JohannesBreuer, @joshmoore, @jscaux, @juancommander, @julsraemy, @kbroman, @kevinmoerman, @kirk, @ktoddbrown, @kuf, @LeaMariaFer, @leonido, @lgatto, @lnnrtwttkhn, @LudwigHuelk, @Luke_Drury, @MalikaIhle, @marind, @MarkHanson, @MarkRubin, @matherion, @meliimming, @mob, @mostlyphysics, @MsPhelps, @ndporter, @nicebread, @oberman, @OpenScienceNL, @owlyph, @paul4kant, @pcirr, @petersuber, @philipncohen, @prereview, @PublicKnowledgeProject, @re3data, @ReproducibiliTeaGlobal, @researchsoft, @rmounce, @rmrahal, @rob_models, @rupdecat, @saraemilyburke, @SarahHLib, @schochastics, @smirandafield, @SusannAuer, @thofel, @Tontrug, @tullney, @twm, @uwuttke, @veit, @wendympatterson, @zuphilip*************************
SCIENCE
Pack: Science
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on Science.
Size: 49
List: Science
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationClick to download Science-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQCFmo86nezpwPhO4b0t9GpueZAjyqn6XTnbYiMuGq6CuSWIZzNnFYDOoozDlhVcDtdmA3cSn0u1XMq/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@[email protected], @Adrenochrome, @AkaSci, @BG_Grace, @bojacobs, @BorisBarbour, @BorkLab, @brembs, @CarveHerName, @ChemistryViews, @coreyspowell, @davidho, @drmambobob, @eLife, @etschopp, @firefoxx66, @furqanshah, @futurebird, @GrrlScientist, @j2bryson, @jby, @JenLucPiquant, @johncormier, @justinmponcet, @KnowableMag, @LingLass, @llewelly, @luckytran, @MarcAbrahams, @markwitton, @memerman, @miekeroth, @mike, @mok0, @mpi_grav, @PaoloViscardi, @PeerCommunityIn, @PeterFalkingham, @physics, @rahmstorf, @rewildingmag, @RSPB, @Ruth_Mottram, @ScienceAlert, @ScienceDesk, @Sheril, @STCmicrobeblog, @weatherwest, @ZLabe*************************
TRANSIT&URBANISM
Pack: Transit&Urbanism
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on Transit and Urbanism.
Size: 49
List: Transit&Urbanism
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationClick to download Transit&Urbanism-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSmigGLmwHF5gg8eRmzdxuLTG8Fga3_niqoxcdRulfSbuH7AoPVjWGAvRsoV4iuRNFBgUKrEpU2Nzns/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@Alon, @Andres4NY, @BenRossTransit, @bikegridnow, @BMWSB_Bund, @capntransit, @CelloMomOnCars, @citylab, @cityobs, @danielbowen, @davidzipper, @enobacon, @ggwash, @gwagner, @heartlandurbanist, @IndyPedCrisis, @Iragersh, @JasonThorne, @kkavee, @mattcaff, @mobileharv, @[email protected], @notjustbikes, @ohtheurbanity, @OlivierRazemon, @paige, @parkingreform, @PedestrianError, @pedestrianist, @reece, @rivoluzioneurbanamobilita, @shifter, @sub_urban, @TheOverheadWire, @TheWarOnCars, @tmstreet, @urbanistorg, @waeiski*************************
US POLITICS
Pack: USPolitics
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on US Politics.
Size: 57
List: USPolitics
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationClick to download USPolitics-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSK9Jj_AwwHOFnoHnkYFeM8F2FVQ5n9dyo-GrNT8NvWHRkaKQL9V7f2KblNGXFjyXLY-gBz5T29e8Kk/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@AnarchoNinaWrites, @anneapplebaum, @atrupar , @austinkocher, @benroyce, @bjmendelson, @blogdiva, @Brandi_Buchman, @briankrebs, @carnage4life, @cathygellis, @charlesgaba , @courtcan, @dangillmor, @dansinker, @darnell, @davetroy, @DemocracyMattersALot, @dworkin, @eloquence, @evangreer, @gleick, @GottaLaff, @heidilifeldman, @indivisibleteam, @inthehands, @jaykuo, @jeffjarvis, @JuliusGoat, @KimPerales, @kims, @knittingknots2, @lawfare, @LindaCollins11, @lolgop, @mattsheffield, @mckra1g, @mekkaokereke, @molly0xfff, @Nonilex, @Npars01, @palafo, @pbump, @Pineywoozle, @QasimRashid, @rbreich, @skykiss, @StillIRise1963, @TheJen, @timkmak, @TomWellborn, @tzimmer_history, @velshi , @w7voa, @wdlindsy, @wendysiegelman, @z_everson*************************
US POLITICS BOOSTERS
Pack: USPolBooster
Criteria: Selected accounts that boost and post a lot of US Politics content.
Size: 25
List: USPolBooster
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationClick to download USPolBooster-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQRbos9d6LHWT9_vqZSRuxiDWXMeSzc0mN16L_bz4eEZi-KtBkvv7KCQGVr8nXPoyjccvF26b3XtXhv/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@Americanist4u, @blogdiva, @Catawu, @courtcan, @dannotdaniel, @DemocracyMattersALot, @futurebird, @Hey_Beth , @inthehands, @Jessicascott09, @JonChevreau, @katrinakatrinka, @Lazarou, @lolgop, @lupus_blackfur, @NewsDesk, @Nonya_Bidniss, @Npars01, @Pineywoozle, @PJ_Evans, @Remittancegirl, @rightardia, @soc_i_ety, @TCatInReality, @TonyStark*************************
US POLITICS MEDIA
Pack: USPolMedia
Criteria: Selected media accounts that post coverage of US Politics.
Size: 34
List: USPolMedia
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationClick to download USPolMedia-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTAnZ4TuG716HNsSf4VmLDNPvFn_bAdc8Bq3J9eMPWnW6XKOIol-wZnYj2-ZrFj28zNQQ1fwxgtHURj/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@19thnews, @404mediaco, @AssociatedPress, @Bellingcat, @BNONews, @bolts, @coloradosun, @crooksandliars, @csmonitor, @damemagazine, @DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss, @freedomofpress, @Grist, @igd_news, @indybay, @Inoreader, @MotherJones2021, @msfreepress, @NewsDesk, @npr, @podnews, @ProPublica, @RollingStone, @TeenVogue, @TexasObserver, @TheAtlantic, @TheConversationUS, @TheSeattleTimes, @theverge, @TucsonSentinel, @UnicornRiot, @uspolitics, @vanityfair, @VOANews*************************
US POLITICS THREADS
Pack: USPolThreads
Criteria: Selected accounts that post about US Politics from Threads visible on Mastodon.
Size: 20
List: USPolThreads
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigrationSPECIAL THREADS NOTICE: Following these Threads accounts could lead to your information being shared with Meta as per their privacy policy.
Click to download USPolThreads-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTKAP6T49TEB6Fk9ebBBtIAlaQUkuAtfAdtld78KPDW0VQLZ9o5enoE29MWH09TvI8Mmk9XwQgMaMPr/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@adamparkhomenko, @brianstelter, @bulwarkonline, @chris, @gtconway3, @jbouie, @jefftiedrich, @jerilryan, @jojo.fromjerz, @joyannreid, @keithedwards, @lorakolodny, @[email protected], @meidastouch, @mollyjongfast, @newrepublic, @personality_of_colt, @rudepundit, @stonekettle, @therobarcher, @wonderofscienceofficial*************************
WEATHER
Pack: Weather
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on weather.
Size: 60
List: Weather
Admin: @ai6yrClick to download Weather-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQG_Xr1yoogcxupTstRynN_KIpcccv5p7fnmaqHJ59xI1x3CGYZxoed70ggV8YAU5xNISvksYWdS3HE/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@ai6yr, @AirlineReporter, @akrherz, @AlaskaWx, @austinburkeswx, @bretthoover, @chswx, @Climatologist49, @copacetic_vibe, @DeniseGutzmer, @geravitywave, @GWESOfficial, @ianlivingston, @IdahoFireInfo, @ikluft, @ingalls, @jared, @jreineron7, @kathhayhoe, @lckrohjr, @LexMAWeather, @mattlanza, @MichaelEMann, @nadocast_bot, @nadocasthail_bot, @nadocastwind_bot, @nwstornado_bot, @paulknightly, @petergleick, @philbaker1, @rahmstorf, @robmayeda, @rpmik, @RustyMehlberg, @rustywx, @Ruth_Mottram, @rvaweather, @spann, @srmullens, @stormdig, @technodad, @theeyewallwx, @User47, @WeatherGoddess, @weathermatrix, @weatherwest, @wxstory_bot, @ZLabe, @zoom_earth*************************
Revisions
11/20/2024 Rev. 1.0: Published
11/21/2024 Rev 1.1: Astronomy2 Pack Added
11/24/2024 Rev 1.2: Consolidated Astronomy packs, Added accounts to USPolitcs, USPoliticsBoosters and Miscellany Packs
11/29/2024 Rev 1.3 Added to Astronomy, Miscellany and USPolitics packs. Added CyberSec and Legal packs
11/29/2024 Rev 1.4 Added InfosecPro pack
12/2/2024 Rev 1.5 Added to Cybersecurity and USPoliticsBooster packs.
12/3/2024 Rev 1.6 Added Science, Open Science and Transit&Urbanism Packs
12/22/2024 Rev. 1.7 Added AVGeek, BrazilFalantes, Humor, MostlyDogs, Weather. Added accounts to Climate______________________________
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> CNBC compiled a list of 23 S&P 500 firms across multiple sectors and industries to see how their stocks fared following layoffs linked to AI. As of May 15, 13 of those companies, or 56%, have traded in the red from the time of their layoff announcements.
> Of the companies whose shares fell after their AI-linked layoffs, the average decline was about 25%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/17/ai-related-layoffs-a-boost-for-stocks-not-necessarily.html
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> Pracownicy Telewizji Republika skarżą się na opóźnienia w wypłatach. Z nieoficjalnych relacji wynika, że część załogi od miesięcy nie otrzymuje wynagrodzeń. Prezes stacji Tomasz Sakiewicz w rozmowie z portalem wirtualnemedia.pl przyznaje, że próbuje przyzwyczaić zespół, iż nie pracują w typowej firmie.
https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/to-nie-jest-typowa-firma-sakiewicz-o-braku-pensji-w-tv-republika-7288629898819744aPanie Areczku, regularne wypłaty wynagrodzenia to są dla zarządu. Dla pana jest duma narodowa i satysfakcja z dobrze wykonanej pracy. 🫡🇵🇱
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Fun fact: Icelandic horses actually can speak Icelandic, but they only ever say "no".
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Pizza Hut's AI system caused 'cascading' problems and $100M in damages, franchisee alleges in new suit
https://www.businessinsider.com/pizza-hut-ai-system-dragontail-lawsuit-franchisee-2026-5> A top Pizza Hut franchisee says the chain's rollout of an AI-powered delivery system turned once-speedy pizza orders into a cold, late-arriving mess — and cratered a business that had been outperforming nearly every other operator in the system.
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Pizza Hut's AI system caused 'cascading' problems and $100M in damages, franchisee alleges in new suit
https://www.businessinsider.com/pizza-hut-ai-system-dragontail-lawsuit-franchisee-2026-5> A top Pizza Hut franchisee says the chain's rollout of an AI-powered delivery system turned once-speedy pizza orders into a cold, late-arriving mess — and cratered a business that had been outperforming nearly every other operator in the system.
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Independent audit confirms my analysis of Telegram's protocol from last year:
https://istories.media/en/stories/2026/05/18/independent-review-confirms-critical-telegram-vulnerability/The audit was ordered by one of the main characters of IStories' investigation into Telegram's network infrastructure, man called Vedeneev. My analysis was done in connection with that journalistic investigation.
Presumably, Vedeneev ordered the audit in order to discredit my analysis and Istories' investigation. Instead, the report confirms my findings. :blobcatcoffee:
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Nie ma weryfikacji wieku bez filtrowania Internetu:
https://rys.io/pl/183.htmlWeryfikacja wieku online jest problemem wysoce nietrywialnym. Jest też po prostu złym pomysłem.
Nawet z najlepszym, najbardziej chroniącym prywatność systemem, weryfikacja wieku nadal będzie pomagała identyfikować nas w sieci.
I wreszcie: nie da się wdrożyć skutecznej weryfikacji wieku bez filtrowania Internetu. A ten temat w Polsce wałkowaliśmy już tak wiele razy, że naprawdę powinniśmy wiedzieć lepiej.
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Nie ma weryfikacji wieku bez filtrowania Internetu:
https://rys.io/pl/183.htmlWeryfikacja wieku online jest problemem wysoce nietrywialnym. Jest też po prostu złym pomysłem.
Nawet z najlepszym, najbardziej chroniącym prywatność systemem, weryfikacja wieku nadal będzie pomagała identyfikować nas w sieci.
I wreszcie: nie da się wdrożyć skutecznej weryfikacji wieku bez filtrowania Internetu. A ten temat w Polsce wałkowaliśmy już tak wiele razy, że naprawdę powinniśmy wiedzieć lepiej.
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Nie ma weryfikacji wieku bez filtrowania Internetu:
https://rys.io/pl/183.htmlWeryfikacja wieku online jest problemem wysoce nietrywialnym. Jest też po prostu złym pomysłem.
Nawet z najlepszym, najbardziej chroniącym prywatność systemem, weryfikacja wieku nadal będzie pomagała identyfikować nas w sieci.
I wreszcie: nie da się wdrożyć skutecznej weryfikacji wieku bez filtrowania Internetu. A ten temat w Polsce wałkowaliśmy już tak wiele razy, że naprawdę powinniśmy wiedzieć lepiej.
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Nie ma weryfikacji wieku bez filtrowania Internetu:
https://rys.io/pl/183.htmlWeryfikacja wieku online jest problemem wysoce nietrywialnym. Jest też po prostu złym pomysłem.
Nawet z najlepszym, najbardziej chroniącym prywatność systemem, weryfikacja wieku nadal będzie pomagała identyfikować nas w sieci.
I wreszcie: nie da się wdrożyć skutecznej weryfikacji wieku bez filtrowania Internetu. A ten temat w Polsce wałkowaliśmy już tak wiele razy, że naprawdę powinniśmy wiedzieć lepiej.
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Shot:
CloudFlare fires 20% staff claiming it's because of "AI"-related productivity gains
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/cloudflare-says-ai-made-1100-jobs-obsolete-even-as-revenue-hit-a-record-high/Chaser:
Since that announcement CloudFlare stock lost 22% of value.
Even investors seem to not be buying the "AI productivity gains" bullshit anymore. :blobcatcoffee:
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Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.
But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:
> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
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If anyone knows of any decent write-up on securing ZooKeeper / ClickHouse Keeper, I am very interested.
Documentation of both is really crap I find, and security seems to be a complete afterthought.
I would love to be proven wrong on that last bit.
:boost_ok:
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Jakiś czas temu portale niusowe zaczęły wymuszać zgody na śledzenie (chyba, że się wykupi subskrypcję) – co o ile mi wiadomo jest niezgodne z RODO.
A od niedawna zaczęły wyświetlać animację z serduszkiem jako "podziękowanie" za te wymuszone zgody.
Ależ to jest obrzydliwa bezczelność! 🤬
Nie tylko wymuszają zgodę, ale jeszcze plują człowiekowi w twarz i marnują czas (animacja trwa kilka sekund) "dziękując" za to, że człowiek dał na sobie tę zgodę wymusić!
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Jakiś czas temu portale niusowe zaczęły wymuszać zgody na śledzenie (chyba, że się wykupi subskrypcję) – co o ile mi wiadomo jest niezgodne z RODO.
A od niedawna zaczęły wyświetlać animację z serduszkiem jako "podziękowanie" za te wymuszone zgody.
Ależ to jest obrzydliwa bezczelność! 🤬
Nie tylko wymuszają zgodę, ale jeszcze plują człowiekowi w twarz i marnują czas (animacja trwa kilka sekund) "dziękując" za to, że człowiek dał na sobie tę zgodę wymusić!
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Jakiś czas temu portale niusowe zaczęły wymuszać zgody na śledzenie (chyba, że się wykupi subskrypcję) – co o ile mi wiadomo jest niezgodne z RODO.
A od niedawna zaczęły wyświetlać animację z serduszkiem jako "podziękowanie" za te wymuszone zgody.
Ależ to jest obrzydliwa bezczelność! 🤬
Nie tylko wymuszają zgodę, ale jeszcze plują człowiekowi w twarz i marnują czas (animacja trwa kilka sekund) "dziękując" za to, że człowiek dał na sobie tę zgodę wymusić!
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Jakiś czas temu portale niusowe zaczęły wymuszać zgody na śledzenie (chyba, że się wykupi subskrypcję) – co o ile mi wiadomo jest niezgodne z RODO.
A od niedawna zaczęły wyświetlać animację z serduszkiem jako "podziękowanie" za te wymuszone zgody.
Ależ to jest obrzydliwa bezczelność! 🤬
Nie tylko wymuszają zgodę, ale jeszcze plują człowiekowi w twarz i marnują czas (animacja trwa kilka sekund) "dziękując" za to, że człowiek dał na sobie tę zgodę wymusić!
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Jakiś czas temu portale niusowe zaczęły wymuszać zgody na śledzenie (chyba, że się wykupi subskrypcję) – co o ile mi wiadomo jest niezgodne z RODO.
A od niedawna zaczęły wyświetlać animację z serduszkiem jako "podziękowanie" za te wymuszone zgody.
Ależ to jest obrzydliwa bezczelność! 🤬
Nie tylko wymuszają zgodę, ale jeszcze plują człowiekowi w twarz i marnują czas (animacja trwa kilka sekund) "dziękując" za to, że człowiek dał na sobie tę zgodę wymusić!
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At this moment, please send #HugOps to folks at DENIC. They are dealing with a really bad and stressful situation and I am sure they are doing their best to resolve it as soon as possible.
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Hey @molly0xfff @web3isgreat are you tracking the #Zondacrypto debacle in Poland?
It's really something.
Zondacrypto is an Estonia-registered cryptocurrency exchange. It sponsored the Polish National Olympic Committee some months ago. It is now going bankrupt. For a while the CEO was claiming "technical difficulties" with payments, then claimed that their cold wallet contains 4.500BTC but is inaccessible because the private keys are in the hands of a co-founder who went missing 4 years ago. 🤡
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CW: crude, trump, uspol
I know I should have stopped myself, but I just #wouldnt.
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If anyone is following what's going down in #Minnesota and has some resources they'd like to share to support folks there, here's a bunch of mutual aid links sent in by a friend of a friend, who is there on the ground:
https://linktr.ee/mplsmutualaidThere are so many causes to support, so many people hurting around the world who need aid. Folks in Minnesota are among them.
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If anyone is following what's going down in #Minnesota and has some resources they'd like to share to support folks there, here's a bunch of mutual aid links sent in by a friend of a friend, who is there on the ground:
https://linktr.ee/mplsmutualaidThere are so many causes to support, so many people hurting around the world who need aid. Folks in Minnesota are among them.