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@OhMyGod
> fediverse.party page misses some of the new platforms/apps on the landing page like castopod, bookwyrm, wordpress, nodebb, mobilizon, flohmarkt we already see in the app-listDo you mean some of the projects listed here;
https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/
... are not also on the landing page? That's a design choice. Too many logos would be visually confusing, especially on mobile.
But feel free to open an issue and we can chat about it;
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#FediNews è una pagina che riporta tutte le discussioni delle comunità di @feddit @poliverso e #citiverse
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#Kubernetes
#Docker
#StreamliningSo I am trying to figure out how to streamline my Linode setup. Currently using 4 Shared server VPS for email, nextcloud,Mastodon, NodeBB, and Drupal builds.
Kinda want to see if I can setup something that is easily maintainable while maybe save some costs. Or get better performance for what I am currently paying for.
Thoughts?
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#Kubernetes
#Docker
#StreamliningSo I am trying to figure out how to streamline my Linode setup. Currently using 4 Shared server VPS for email, nextcloud,Mastodon, NodeBB, and Drupal builds.
Kinda want to see if I can setup something that is easily maintainable while maybe save some costs. Or get better performance for what I am currently paying for.
Thoughts?
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#Kubernetes
#Docker
#StreamliningSo I am trying to figure out how to streamline my Linode setup. Currently using 4 Shared server VPS for email, nextcloud,Mastodon, NodeBB, and Drupal builds.
Kinda want to see if I can setup something that is easily maintainable while maybe save some costs. Or get better performance for what I am currently paying for.
Thoughts?
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#Kubernetes
#Docker
#StreamliningSo I am trying to figure out how to streamline my Linode setup. Currently using 4 Shared server VPS for email, nextcloud,Mastodon, NodeBB, and Drupal builds.
Kinda want to see if I can setup something that is easily maintainable while maybe save some costs. Or get better performance for what I am currently paying for.
Thoughts?
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@fedidb well done and a good new contact point for interested people 👍
Good advice is certainly not possible on the basis of a single question, but it is a good start.
The details certainly need to be improved, for example:
If you select ‘Forum Discussions’ for ‘What type of content do you want to see or share?’, #NodeBB, Lemmy, mbin, #Piefed and #Lotide are then recommended. That fits well.But if you select ‘Social Media Post + ’Forum Discussions", #Mastodon , #Misskey and other microblogging services are recommended, as well as #Lemmy. But not #mbin, which actually offers exactly this combination, and also not #Friendica, which can do micro-/macroblogging, but also offers forums/groups and events and federates best with both directions.
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Sarò breve: bad ending ragaxxi. L’intera giornata di oggi mi è scivolata tra le mani, avendola passata davvero tutta appresso a questo fatto della BBS, mentre dovevo fare chissà che altro. Il testing di ieri è andato benissimo apposta per farmi sviluppare false speranze, perché ecco che oggi, cercando di assemblare il vero setup finale, anche superate ore di peripezie, alla fine c’è ancora qualcosa che non va, ed è sempre così alla fine con il software #alpha. 🥲️
Mi ci è voluta più di mezza giornata per girare mia testa attorno al come cavolo gestire l’importazione dei vecchi post ed utenti da phpBB a NodeBB e, ironia della sorte, credo che proprio questa sia la cosa che dovrò lasciar andare, perché è l’unica differenza che riesco a riconoscere tra l’ambiente di deploy di ieri sera che funzionava… e questo di oggi sul server, dove funziona tutto, tranne il fatto che il server non risponde a richieste dei dati sui post per ActivityPub, sia i vecchi che quelli creati al volo. Credo che il processo di usare una versione di #NodeBB di 5 anni fa, l’unica compatibile con un plugin di migrazione non aggiornato da 3 anni, per poi aggiornare tutto all’ultima alpha, abbia messo il database in uno stato buffo, anche se errori non ne tira. Controllato permessi, cancellato cache… di tutto, un bel niente. 🤐️
Purtroppo sono a corto di alternative, e allora in qualche modo questa roba devo farla funzionare, se voglio un forum che non rimane a marcire. Ciò che proverò domani sarà di riconfigurare il #software pulito, come ieri su PC, e gran pazienza se gli utenti dovranno ri-registrarsi e i thread migliori dovranno essere ri-proposti a mano; tanto, comunque, le propic non si sono importate per magia, le firme sono del tutto distrutte, e la formattazione dei post è più miss che hit, considerando che la conversione da BBCode a Markdown non funziona, il plugin per avere i BBCode nemmeno (è vecchio di troppi anni anche lui), e un plugin che posso usare per implementare sostituzioni testuali arbitrarie ha dei limiti per quel markup scassato. Ripartiamo da zero e speriamo bene. 😔️
In ogni caso, il vecchio forum phpBB rimarrà sempre aperto per permettere la lettura perfetta dei vecchi post, tanto non mi costa niente e in ogni caso non posso evitare, al massimo lo sposto su un sottopercorso/old/(con redirect per non creare link morti…). Finché rimane in stadio di testing, quello nuovo sta su bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/; è ancora online la versione spaccata di oggi, magari fatevi un giro finché ci sono ancora tutte le centinaia di post corrotti, per prendere confidenza con l’interfaccia come in foto… 🥵️Comunque, se volete ridere: a me sembra che a tratti ‘sto NodeBB, che tanto millanta essere fatto per il web moderno, da mobile funge peggio di phpBB. Ho visto parti della pagina che shiftano, fanno cose brutte, e persino la schermata di scrittura è più scomoda per come viene scalata (mentre quella di phpBB sarebbe perfetta, se solo non obbligasse ad usare il BBCode per la formattazione, che è oggettivamente scomodo). Nulla che io non possa sistemare con un po’ di CSS, però non lo so, fatevi un giro sul /new/, ditemi se condividete quello che penso oppure è un problema mio.
https://octospacc.altervista.org/2024/07/23/7996/
#ActivityPub #bug #software #forum #SpaccBBS #testing #new #BBS #NodeBB #alpha
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Sandra, I'm really glad I had the opportunity to catch your review, or rather, observation of POSSE, especially the long term ramifications from the PoV of #DeSoc.
For quite some time now, I've been advocating for something that describes a not so dissimilar modus operandi for extricating subjugated chattel from that of the #Borg_Collective.
POSSE has merit, being a partial design for disrupting the deprecated monolithic silos, but IMO actually falls short by only seeking to coexist with it, instead of completely obviating them.
As a dedicated FOSS and Privacy Advocate, here's my take on how we can follow a best practices modus operandi, achieving what can eventually relegate today's monolithic silos into the marginalized zone, sending them into the abyss of downtrodden insignificance.
The model can work from any Fediverse platform, but platforms that support a rich feature set with longform authoring capabilities work best, having the greatest impact. For those stuck using masto for the time being, their impact will be less dramatic, but nonetheless still valid.
The model I've been advocating goes like this:
1. ) Create original content on Fediverse enabled properties you own, or cite (link to) content NOT residing in the deprecated silo space (Twitter, Medium, TikTok, InstaSPAM, YouTube, Faceplant, Reddit, Linkedin, Etc.). You can do this from pretty much any Fediverse platform - even masto, with its paltry 500 character limit. A paragraph or so as a rule of thumb, just a teaser/headline to create interest for the reader to follow the link.
2. ) Optional: For added impact and if you have any, from your traditional silo account(s), as well as from less capable clones like masto, offer up a teaser, perhaps a paragraph or so, with a link to the URL of this original content.
3. ) If you're merely pointing to an article or resource created by someone else that exists independently, that's it. Well done! If you created your original content in long form on a more capable Fediverse platform than masto - there are many excellent Fediverse platforms for doing this. A few of those are:- Streams
- Mitra
- Misskey, Iceshrimp, Cherrypick, Firefish, and Others
- Pleroma, SoapBox, and Akkoma
- Friendica
- Hubzilla
- WriteFreely
- WordPress (with the ActivityPub plugin)
- Ghost (reportedly coming soon)
- GoToSocial
- Socialhome4. ) Endeavor to never publish any actual content (articles, news, photos, videos) on platforms in the deprecated monolithic silo space. Instead, it is preferable to publish your photos, videos on demand, and textual content on a Fediverse Platform well suited to this. i.e., PeerTube for VoDs, Pixelfed for images, and one or more of the platforms mentioned above for textual or multimedia based content such as news articles, HowTo's, tutorials, recipes, Etc.
5. ) Occasionally, you may find it necessary to link to content in the deprecated silo space - a video on YouTube, for example. You may be able to clone videos (depending on licensing) to a PeerTube server, but if not, then make sure you sanitize those videos by using tools such as Invidious that shield the viewer from tracking and other privacy disrespecting constructs built into those silo systems.The philosophy here is to ensure that anything posted into the deprecated monolithic silo space entreats the reader/viewer to leave that space in order to consume the content.
This practice insures that the consumer of that information does so in a protected, privacy respecting place, presumably built on FOSS, and in the Fediverse. It further serves to familiarize the consumer in an easy and unassuming way, with Fediverse platforms that do not track them or mine their privacy.
For the Fedizen however, it provides a one way transit - anyone seeing a teaser/headline/intro on say, Twitter or Faceplant, is immediately catapulted away from those denizens of commodification that packages and inventories the consumer as the product for sale, depriving those platforms of the necessary revenue that sustains them - death by atrophy. No blissful coexistence, every single post inside the deprecated monolithic silo space is in fact an egress point bringing the consumer into a free and privacy respecting environment.
Obviously, an article on the New York Times website isn't ideal, but it isn't strictly one of the monolithic silo systems listed above either. In this case specifically, it's a walled garden however, so you're directing the consumer to a place where they'll be privacy mined anyway, which offers three other possibilities:
- You can, and should unless you feel you absolutely must, elect not to send someone to that resource
- You can, under certain circumstances, copy that data verbatim elsewhere and provide a link to that place where you copied the data.
- You can also probably check with the AP, since we're talking about a newspaper outlet, most of which actually pull their news from the Associated Press and other similar networks that provide free access, which you can link to instead.There's simply no way to completely ensure being so mindful of your consumers without precluding yourself from linking to some forms of interesting content - but the point here is that almost without exception, you're not sending anyone into the deprecated monolithic silo space - you're sending them into the Fediverse, where they'll begin to become comfortable with, eventually creating their own accounts here.
I recently had some discussions with a few folks who completely turned their back on things like Twitter, which is good because it is one of those social networking systems that engages in tracking and privacy mining. Those individuals have made it easy for themselves by simply putting the existence of those privacy disrespecting resources completely outside the real of consideration - it's not like anyone is going to suffer because they didn't visit Faceplant. They may suffer a bit of withdrawals, but bear the following in mind:
There are liquor stores on virtually every corner in the real world. They sell booze at liquor stores. An alcoholic must come to terms with this and learn to live with this fact, making a conscious choice to buy, or not to buy booze in those stores, or even go outside where the temptation is even greater.
That's not the greatest metaphor I know, or maybe I just didn't deliver it well. Either way, I hope that in understanding this death by atrittion model, that people can make better informed decisions about privacy for themselves and others.
I'd love to hear your comments and thoughts on the matter, and any tools that help assist folks in addressing privacy concerns. Please feel free to share this by boosting to raise awareness within the Fediverse (and beyond) of all the excellent platforms available to everyone in the Fediverse. I realize I left out large sectors of the Fediverse that can be factored into this formula - the link aggregators and forums like #NodeBB, #Lemmy, #Kbin, #Mbin, #Discourse, and more. I didn't even directly address the purpose built single user instance platforms. Maybe we can give them some coverage in a later edition :)
All the best!
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Z ciekawości, bo ktoś mnie zapytał o podobną rzecz - które silniki forumowe mają połączenie z Fediverse? Dobrze kojarzę NodeBB oraz Discourse?
I drugie pytanie o innym charakterze - czy istnieją znane usługi pozwalające postawić osobie nietechnicznej forum za darmo lub drobną opłatą? Kiedyś były dla phpBB by Przemo, ale fora też były duże częstsze.
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April 12th (third day I have missed this month)
April 13th #thingaday / #bugaday
`add Audon icon`
https://codeberg.org/FediverseIconography/pages/issues/42`PieFed project name clarification`
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/155`remote ActivityPub representation of Category "avatars"`
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/12507`add NodeBB icon`
https://codeberg.org/FediverseIconography/pages/issues/43`wrong css added around the url in remote fediverse post`
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Tonight, we take a look into the open source world of, NodeBB. Exploring its offerings and more. Not part of the community?! Join us at 2tonwaffle.com today. Right now!!
Exploring NodeBB - Deep Dive
#streaming #guilded #indiegames #videogames #contentcreation #mmo #ecammlive #macmini #apple #owncast #steam
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Searching for news that doesn't suck is an often futile task, but today I found this. Hope it eases the blood pressure for a few minutes.
https://apnews.com/ae50b8af1a71454092c006179f11be52
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@agturcz @m0bi13 @miklo @ftdl @rysiek @74 @kalisz79 @pawelszczur @kuna
Wyjścia są dwa, jeśli chodzi o
#prywatnosc #privacy :
1. AP (publiczny) + coś prywatnego (np. #matrix )
2. Stawianie serwisów w oparciu protokół #Nomad (dawniej #Zot ), czyli #Streams lub #Hubzilla – w ramach tego użytkownicy/instancje mogą gadać ze sobą bezpiecznie i prywatnie lub publicznie, jak zechcą i przyłączać AP, jak zechcą
• Problem1 – Żadne z tych rozwiązań nie jest wystarczająco proste dla normalsów.
• Problem2 – Integracja w ramach AP idzie w kierunku zgodności z Masto. Np. ostatnio próbowałem szerować #wydarzenia z #mobilizon do #Friendica – czasem się wprowadza do kalendarza, czasem nie, cholera wie dlaczego, a proste info dla Masto jest zawsze poprawne. Co ciekawe, zauważyłem projekty integracji #Flarum #Nodebb #Discourse z AP i już myślałem, że będziemy mieć sfederowane fora, co byłoby super ciekawe (patrz obrazek). Niestety, to też idzie w kierunku integracji z Masto, który pewnie będzie alternatywą dla emaila (nic ciekawego).
WNIOSKI. Podstawą integracji w AP długo będą proste komunikaty Mastodona. Chyba najlepiej używać czegoś zaawansowanego w tym formacie. Obecnie #FireFish – obsługuje #grupy i #grupyprywatne (prywatność umowna) plus do tego co kto chce. Wybrańcy mogą używać #Streams . -
#question of the day (moment?): what #discussion #forum #software do you think is best? #Discourse? #Flarum? #SMF? #NodeBB? #MyBB? #phpbb?
I've personally been a fan of Discourse even though I think it's a bit of a beast and not always as intuitive as old school options - but curious to hear if anyone has found anything better?
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#Fediverse #Statistics 2026.05.16
Number of active instances: 19 082
Number of new instances last 24h: -7
Number of users: 15 654 554
Number of new users last 24h: 4 074
Mastodon domination: 68.55 %
Help me keep stats and server running! 💻📊 Even a small monthly contribution makes a big difference. Support here: #^https://www.patreon.com/FediverseStatistics 🙏
Hubzilla Statistics
Friendica Statistics
Pleroma Statistics
Akkoma Statistics
Mastodon Statistics
Misskey Statistics
Diaspora Statistics
Peertube Statistics
Pixelfed Statistics
Lemmy Statistics
Kbin Statistics
Writefreely Statistics
Plume Statistics
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Week in Fediverse 2026-02-27
Servers
- Bookwyrm v0.8.5
- Gush! v0.0.31
- Hollo v0.7.4
- flohmarkt v0.16.0
- Mastodon v4.5.7
- Wafrn v2026.02.02
- GoToSocial v0.21.0
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.10
- Ktistec v3.3.1
- Mitra v4.19.0
- Stegodon v1.8.0
- Hometown v1.2.0
- gathio v1.6.1
- Castopod v1.15.5
- NodeBB v4.9.0
- PieFed v1.6.7Clients
- Pachli v3.4.0
- tooi v0.22.0
- Summit v1.78.1
- Photon v2.3.0
- Blorp v1.10.3
- Phanpy changelogTools and Plugins
- Poduptime v6.2.1
- Fediverse invitationFor developers
Protocol
- FEP-a427: Server Domain Migration
- FEP-fc48: Generic ActivityPub serverArticles
- Self-Hosting Pixelfed: Federated Instagram Without the Algorithm
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019c7c6f-742a-7930-2413-73b1d9611c99
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If anyone with some CFD/CAD experience was wanting to contribute to our open-source battery project at https://fbrc.dev, this would be a great way - the Forner-Cuenca group at TU/E released some software for modeling porous electrodes in flow batteries, if it could be adapted to our geometry, we could reduce pressure drop/improve flow uniformity, etc. Forum post with relevant links here: https://fbrc.nodebb.com/post/591
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EDIT: I’m changing some of my language, but leaving the original in square brackets and placing the new text in curly braces (you can always see these things in edit history, but I think this is fairer). Further editorial notes or comments will be in parentheses and prefaced with “Ed."
{So, I really don’t like how on nodebb federated posts are represented, in my view, as being posted by nodebb users.}
[So, pretty gross scraping going on by nodebb.org.]
They’re [scraping some] {reproducing federated} content [from here], and posting it on their website as if it were posts by users there.
Ick.
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I link here to one of my posts there, which only shows “europlus” as the author. Maybe it feels too unwieldy to them to put the full fedi handle the way masto does. To me, that feels more honest about local vs federated content, especially on a forum.Clicking the author link takes you to the “user” URL, whether you are logged in to the site or not (also different behaviour to masto).
At least there the full fedi handle is displayed.
}}[I link here to “my” user profile on their site, which is just a rehash of my profile here, and it has 8 of my posts. Not many, but I find this highly distasteful.]
(Ed. this is similar to profiles here from other sites and server types, but it’s not clear till you click on a username on a post that you’re seeing an external listing)
[You can try to see if your “user” profile is there, but I’m not sure if it pulls it across upon the URL being requested, or only if it’s already scraped your account here, so beware.]
{Your profile may or may not be shown there, likely based on if there’s any federated posts from your account.}
[Maybe block first then check (and please let me know if you find it has perhaps previously found your account).]
{I’ll leave it to you to decide, of course, if you’re happy with this sort of obfuscation. I’m currently undecided, but certainly not a fan.}
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I can see one of @ApplesauceFluxes' boosts of another account has made it over there, too. [So it’s not just your own posts it might be scraping!]In fact, I can see whole conversations there!
Looks like most of the scraping in relation to my posts/replies/boosts has happened over the last month, and is certainly *not* comprehensive in that timeframe.
]](Ed. yes, that’s how federation works. My ignorance of nodebb’s federated nature led in part, but only in part, to my distaste.)
[I’m going to block the relevant domain (community.nodebb.org) here, and report them to the admin of my alt account asking they do the same.]
{I’m reconsidering my block, and will reply when I’ve made a final decision.}
Hat tip to @vga256 for bringing this to my attention.
[Spread the word, I’m seeing many instances’ users over there, and likely none (or very, *very* few) have any idea it’s going on.]
{If you also find the way federated material its represented on nodebb not to your taste, I suggest you contact them as I have (and I’ll be letting them know of this edit).}
#MastoAdmins #MastoAdmin [FediScrapers NoScrapers]
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connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/
On the complexities of protocol governance.There are only two organisations that are active in the fediverse that are a paid member of the W3C: Meta and the Social Web Foundation.
With the Social Web Foundation also receiving funding from Meta, the company that built Threads now has more institutional standing in ActivityPub governance than any of the organisations actually building open fediverse software.
Mastodon gGmbH, Framasoft, and others are not W3C members and cannot participate in the Working Group unless they are invited.
#CHATONS #fediverse #fedivers #ActivityPub #w3c #Mastodon #Peertube #Lemmy #mBin #Piefed #NodeBB #Iceshrimp #Pixelfed #Loops -
@Tor Iver Wilhelmsen For starters, making it a hard technical requirement on the server side would exclude and discriminate against- actually blind or visually-impaired people who do post images regardless
- neurodivergent people who, due to their disability, are incapable of turning images into words
Besides, what's "the platform"? Only Mastodon or the whole Fediverse?
Just in case you didn't know: The Fediverse server applications that can send posts with images and other media onto your timeline include, but aren't limited to:- Mastodon
- Glitch
- Hometown
- Pleroma
- Akkoma
- Misskey
- Calckey
- Firefish
- Iceshrimp-JS
- Iceshrimp.NET
- CherryPick
- Sharkey
- Meisskey
- GoToSocial
- snac
- Hollo
- Tootik
- Mitra
- micro.blog
- Smithereen
- Socialhome
- Friendica
- Hubzilla (that's what this comment came from)
- (streams)
- Forte
- Pixelfed
- Vernissage
- PeerTube
- Loops
- Plume
- WriteFreely (needs an external image host, but still)
- WordPress
- Ghost
- nodeBB
- Lemmy
- /kbin
- Mbin
- PieFed
If "the platform" means something with one development team, it's only Mastodon. And everything else I've listed above, and then some, is free to keep alt-text optional.
If "the platform" means the whole Fediverse, this means that well over 100 Fediverse server applications, all being developed independently from another and especially from Mastodon, often working vastly differently from Mastodon, would have to make it impossible to post images without alt-text. This, by the way, is next to impossible to implement on at least some of them due to the way they handle images and therefore alt-text.
And you can be certain about one thing: If the Mastodon developers add something to Mastodon, it's very unlikely that Mario Vavti and Harald Eilertsen, the Hubzilla developers, and Mike Macgirvin, inventor of Friendica and Hubzilla and still developer of (streams) and Forte, will follow suit. Other server applications won't because they're dead in spite of still having running servers (Calckey, Firefish, /kbin etc.), they're in maintenance mode which means they won't get new features (Iceshrimp-JS), or their development is on hold (Plume).
CC: @Dgar
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #Neurodivergent #Neurodivergence -
Destroying Autocracy – November 27, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future (and smaller) home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Developing the OMN.
You can sign up now and for 2025 get an email with links to each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with their featured articles. And you’ll be set with TPF after the fusing in January.
We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev and original website content will start in 2026.
Featured Item(s)
The Atlantic writes:
Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X rolled out a feature that had the immediate result of sowing maximum chaos. The update, called “About This Account,” allows people to click on the profile of an X user and see such information as: which country the account was created in, where its user is currently based, and how many times the username has been changed.
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said the feature was “an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square.” Roughly four hours later, with the update in the wild, Bier sent another post: “I need a drink.”
Almost immediately, “About This Account” stated that many prominent and prolific pro-MAGA accounts, which signaled that they were run by “patriotic” Americans, were based in countries such as Nigeria, Russia, India, and Thailand.
@MAGANationX, an account with almost 400,000 followers and whose bio says it is a “Patriot Voice for We The People,” is based in “Eastern Europe (Non-EU),” according to the feature, and has changed its username five times since the account was made, last year.
On X and Bluesky, users dredged up countless examples of fake or misleading rage-baiting accounts posting aggressive culture-war takes to large audiences. An account called “Maga Nadine” claims to be living in and posting from the United States but is, according to X, based in Morocco. An “America First” account with 67,000 followers is apparently based in Bangladesh. Poetically, the X handle @American is based in Pakistan, according to the feature.
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
Just FYI, December 25th will be the day I stop exploring the stupidity of our current timeline and the last Destroying Autocracy post. Again, see the notes above about The Fulcrum.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
EuroNews reports:
Life after chatbots: Meet the ‘AI vegans’ refusing to accept a virtual reality
Kagi is:
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Fucking awesome if you use Macs.
TechPolicy Press reports:
Why Civil Society Is Sounding the Alarm on the EU’s Omnibus Rollback
The Guardian reports:
European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s
The Free Software Foundation Europe shares:
Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty
Wikimedia announces:
Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
Decidim reviews:
Decidim Fest 2025: Collective energy, digital sovereignty and a common roadmap
The Conversation reports:
Mullvad reports:
An important victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control.
Ploum says:
Fiona Fokus says:
I don’t care how well your “AI” works
Abso-fucking-lutely.
Neutral
The Guardian asks:
Has Britain become an economic colony?
England always makes sure to ape the shitty parts of America.
W3C shares:
Preventing Abuse of Digital Credentials
Ben Werdmuller covers:
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
Heise reports:
Analysis of the Digital Sovereignty Summit: Open Source Gets Scolded
We Are Solomon reports:
Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI program
The Intercept reports:
The FBI wants to use Surveillance Drones with Facial Recognition Technology
How Corporate Partnerships Powered University Surveillance of Palestine Protests
The Counter Offensive reports:
Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice
Pariah States
The Register reports:
CISA warns spyware crews are breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts
DarkReading reports:
DPRK’s FlexibleFerret Tightens macOS Grip
Big Media
The Columbia Journalism Review reports:
Could Public Skepticism of the Press Actually Be Good for Democracy?
It could since most Big Media is owned by right-wing c^nts.
ProPublica shares:
ProPublica’s May-August 2025 Impact Report: Independent Investigations That Spur Change
Big Tech
Sage Journals
Renée DiResta reports:
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a MAGA influencer… in Lagos
The Daily Beast reports:
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
404 Media reports:
America’s Polarization Has Become the World’s Side Hustle
The Register reports:
Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers
MM+M reports:
What healthcare marketers need to know about Meta’s censoring of abortion ads
The Markup reports:
How American Big Tech guards the profits it extracts around the world
Cybersecurity/Privacy
BleepingComputer reports:
Cox Enterprises discloses Oracle E-Business Suite data breach
Hmm, cable companies are literally shit at everything.
Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs
DarkReading reports:
Infamous Shai-hulud Worm Resurfaces From the Depths
The Register reports:
FCC guts post-Salt Typhoon telco rules despite ongoing espionage risk
Fediverse
Terence Eden has:
Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!
Ghost has:
RadWeb Hosting shares:
How to Host Your Own Mastodon Server on a VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)
How to Install Pleroma on Ubuntu VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)
NodeBB announces:
NodeBB v4.7.0 — category boost fixes, remote media/emoji in chats, and more!
Slightly Decentralized Social Media
Connected Places has:
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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Trotz knapp 100 politischer Filter haben sich politische Themen jetzt bis in meine engste Bubble vorgekämpft wie ein Geschwür. Ich kan dem auch mit Filtern kaum noch einhalt gebieten.
Da ich eh gerade wieder stiller bin, werde ich das mal wieder zu einer Fedi-Pause ausweiten. Hier im Acc. vollständig und drüben im anderen Acc. gibts nur das tägliche Futterfoto.
Ansonsten werde ich vorerst nur aus meinem NodeBB am Fediverse teilnehmen.
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@mradcliffe The danger in this, however, is that another Fediverse feature that's way older than Mastodon and at the same time absent from Mastodon would be reappropriated as something else, making Mastodon even more incompatible with the rest of the Fediverse.
In 2017, Mastodon introduced its content warning field. Ever since, almost everyone on Mastodon has been fully convinced that Eugen Rochko had invented that field from scratch. (Be honest, how about you?)
However, Mastodon's content warning field is actually a summary field that has been used by StatusNet, Friendica and Hubzilla as such since 2008, 2010 and 2012 respectively. Mastodon hadn't had any support for that summary field at first, for you don't need a summary for 500 characters. And I guess that coder from the demo scene who submitted the merge request that reappropriated the summary field as a content warning field was blissfully unaware that Mastodon was actually connected to something that did use the summary field as such.
And now you have Mastodon users scolding Friendica users because the latter allegedly misuse the CW field for "like a subject or smth idk", unaware that the self-same field has been the abstract field on Friendica for five and a half years longer than Mastodon has even existed and some seven years longer than Mastodon had its CW field.
Today, in 2025, next to nobody on Mastodon knows that the Fediverse already has group actors, and probably neither do many on the *keys. Neither Mastodon nor Misskey nor their respective forks have or support groups in any way.
If they go and reappropriate group actors as starter packs, this will break compatibility with Friendica groups, Hubzilla forums, (streams) groups, Forte groups, Lemmy communities, /kbin magazines, Mbin magazines, PieFed communities, NodeBB forums etc., all of which can be and often already are being followed by Mastodon and *key users right now. And again, they've all had group actors since their respective inception.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Lemmy #/kbin #Mbin #PieFed #NodeBB #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #Group #Groups #GroupActor #GroupActors #FediGroups #FediverseGroups -
Destroying Autocracy – September 11, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future (and smaller) home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Developing the OMN.
You can sign up now and for 2025 get an email with links to and featured articles for each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with their featured articles. And you’ll be set with TPF after the fusing.
Featured Item
Dave Rupert writes and asks:
I think my answer to “Why would anybody start a website (in 2025)?” is the same answer for the content creator in the age of AI problem: I don’t know, but you gotta want to.
Money sweetens the deal when making content or websites, but we’ve shaken the money tree pretty hard over the last couple decades and it’s looking bare.
Increasingly, you’ve got to find other sources of inspiration to make a website – which by the way are still the coolest fucking things ever.
Why would anybody start a website?
To join the Open Media Network for one.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
Speaking of websites, the Columbia Journalism Review has:
Tom Ley Thinks More People Should Experience Worker-Owned Journalism
The Next Web reports:
Reclaiming the stack: Europe’s bid for digital sovereignty
The Register reports:
Big clouds scramble as EU Data Act brings new data transfer rules
Heisse reports:
400 scientists speak out against chat control
Europe is better than anywhere else, but it isn’t perfect.
The Guardian reports:
‘It is a war of drones now’: the ever-evolving tech dominating the frontline in Ukraine
Lawmaker calls for French criminal investigation into TikTok
EU fines Google nearly €3bn for ‘abusing’ dominant position in ad tech
Speaking of, Tech Policy reports:
Empowered Workers Are a Bulwark Against Illegal Monopoly
Ars Technica reports:
Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”
Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.
Ben Werdmuller examines:
This is the type of content we will feature in The Programmer’s Fulcrum in 2026.
Make Use of shares:
I stopped using Gmail for this built-in client and now Gmail feels stuck
Here is a TAM lite tool for you.
Mojeek announces:
Mojeek is Not an Answer Engine
Tuta shares:
Chat Control is back & we’ve got one month to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans.
The Counterforce has a guide:
Signal For Punks (it has Stories now!)
I describe myself as 25% intellectual, 25% bohemian, 25% hillbilly, and 25% punk so this appeals to me. 😉
Neutral
The Observer reports:
Nick Clegg and Tim Berners-Lee: the battle for the soul of the internet
Tech Policy reports:
Washington and Brussels Vie for Control Over Big Tech
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
404 Media reports:
ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People ‘Assaulting’ Officers
The Kyiv Independent reports:
US steps back from joint efforts to combat misinformation, FT reports
TechDirt reports:
UK Age Verification Data Confirms What Critics Always Predicted: Mass Migration To Sketchier Sites
Pariah States
BleepingComputer reports:
Czech cyber agency warns against Chinese tech in critical infrastructure
The Christian Science Monitor reports:
Why some Israeli journalists only now are turning a lens on Gaza devastation
DarkReading reports:
Chinese Hackers Allegedly Pose as US Lawmaker
Big Media
The Guardian reports:
‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model
TechDirt reports:
Big Tech
Tech Policy reports:
How Big Tech’s ‘Invisible Hand’ Reaches Latin American Regulators
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms
The Register reports:
It’s AI all the way down as Google’s AI cites web pages written by AI
The Guardian reports:
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Impact of chatbots on mental health is warning over future of AI, expert says
Meta hid harms to children from VR products, whistleblowers allege
The BBC reports:
Meta to stop its AI chatbots from talking to teens about suicide
404 Media reports:
Instagram Account Promotes Holocaust Denial T-Shirts to 400,000 Followers
Ars Technica has:
Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”
EchoStar to sell spectrum to SpaceX after FCC threatened to revoke licenses
AI vs. MAGA: Populists alarmed by Trump’s embrace of AI, Big Tech
Even blind fascist squirrels find a nut sometimes.
SAN reports:
Not so secret: X’s new encrypted chat feature puts users at risk, experts say
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Signal announces:
Introducing Signal Secure Backups
La Quadrature reports:
In France, the eternal return of facial recognition
The Register reports:
Drift massive attack traced back to loose Salesloft GitHub account
In crypto bro FAFO news, BleepingComputer reports:
Hackers hijack npm packages with 2 billion weekly downloads in supply chain attack
DDoS defender targeted in 1.5 Bpps denial-of-service attack
Fediverse
Connected Places has:
Fedihost looks at:
PeerTube announces:
Mastodon has an update:
NodeBB shares a:
Progress update for Conversational Contexts
A New Social announces:
Launch: Notifications from Unbridged Users
RSS
Buttondown remembers:
The story of how RSS beat Microsoft
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
Connected Spaces opines:
On discourse and decentralisation
Personally I view Bluesky as only slightly better than Shitter (drastically fewer c^nts) with a 97.4% chance of becoming enshittified. However, Blacksky has given me a little hope for ATProto at least.
I would also like to point out 96.525% of people on the Fediverse don’t give a fuck about Bluesky and 99.912% of people on Bluesky don’t give a fuck about the Fediverse.
TechCrunch reports:
Bluesky adds private bookmarks
Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
- That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.
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Keep fighting!
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Follow me on the Fediverse#ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bluesky #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Mastodon #NodeBB #Peertube #RSS #Signal #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism
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CW: Mastodon's previews for Article-type objects still link to the original instead of rendering the content itself, but now they also include the summary along with the title; CW: long (over 3,000 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, quote-post
Okay, while this is not optimal, I'd say it comes close enough to an improvement to be of importance.
Some of us know what it's like to send Article-type objects (and long-form content should always be these according to the ActivityPub spec) to Mastodon. Now, Mastodon's handling of long-form content has changed, believe it or not. Something that neither Friendica nor Hubzilla nor (streams) nor Forte could ever achieve happened under pressure from Flipboard (commercial player), Ghost (quickly growing Substack alternative that's trying to attract professional and commercial users), Automattic (the owner of WordPress) and NodeBB (fairly big bulletin-board forum player that added ActivityPub a while ago).
So much I should say in advance: No, Mastodon does not fully render Article-type objects in their full HTML-formatted glory from the title to dozens of embedded images. Mastodon's own Web interface isn't geared towards that, and neither is any Mastodon app, official or third-party.
Instead, Mastodon still handles Article-type objects by linking to the original like it used to. But it used to show only the title if there was one. If there was no title, all that Mastodon showed was a plain URL. If there was a summary, Mastodon did as Mastodon always does and has been done since 2017, regarded it as a content warning and hid the whole "post" with the title (if there was one) and the link behind it.
What Mastodon does now is finally acknowledge that some software out there actually uses the summary field as a summary field. The preview with the link to the original now also contains the summary, along with the title. If there is either, of course.
So if you're on something that can send or always sends Article-type objects (specialised blogging software, Friendica, (streams), Forte), it's well worth adding a summary to those posts that go out as Article-type objects.
(Speaking of Friendica: Dear Friendica users, please substitute any use of "summary" in this post with "abstract" if you don't know what I'm talking about.)
julian wrote the following post Sat, 09 Aug 2025 05:31:48 +0200Re: Long-form articles
The long form content "movement" (of which I'm adjacent to but not fully involved) started up because two big implementors, Ghost and WordPress, were running into the same issues AP devs have been seeing this whole time, that Mastodon reduces articles to a title and link.
The difference is devs got together and pushed for changes, and got them done. Mastodon no longer treats articles the way they used to.
Now you can send in a summary that is used, and that gets you heaps closer to a better UX than what came before.
The long form text FEP aims to provide a way to send an alternative representation for the ubiquitous microblog software on the fediverse, in the form of a note, while still maintaining the use of other objects types (e.g. article)
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #QuotePost #QuoteToot #QuoteBoost #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #LongFormContent #ArticleType #Summary -
CW: Mastodon's previews for Article-type objects still link to the original instead of rendering the content itself, but now they also include the summary along with the title; CW: long (over 3,000 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, quote-post
Okay, while this is not optimal, I'd say it comes close enough to an improvement to be of importance.
Some of us know what it's like to send Article-type objects (and long-form content should always be these according to the ActivityPub spec) to Mastodon. Now, Mastodon's handling of long-form content has changed, believe it or not. Something that neither Friendica nor Hubzilla nor (streams) nor Forte could ever achieve happened under pressure from Flipboard (commercial player), Ghost (quickly growing Substack alternative that's trying to attract professional and commercial users), Automattic (the owner of WordPress) and NodeBB (fairly big bulletin-board forum player that added ActivityPub a while ago).
So much I should say in advance: No, Mastodon does not fully render Article-type objects in their full HTML-formatted glory from the title to dozens of embedded images. Mastodon's own Web interface isn't geared towards that, and neither is any Mastodon app, official or third-party.
Instead, Mastodon still handles Article-type objects by linking to the original like it used to. But it used to show only the title if there was one. If there was no title, all that Mastodon showed was a plain URL. If there was a summary, Mastodon did as Mastodon always does and has been done since 2017, regarded it as a content warning and hid the whole "post" with the title (if there was one) and the link behind it.
What Mastodon does now is finally acknowledge that some software out there actually uses the summary field as a summary field. The preview with the link to the original now also contains the summary, along with the title. If there is either, of course.
So if you're on something that can send or always sends Article-type objects (specialised blogging software, Friendica, (streams), Forte), it's well worth adding a summary to those posts that go out as Article-type objects.
(Speaking of Friendica: Dear Friendica users, please substitute any use of "summary" in this post with "abstract" if you don't know what I'm talking about.)
julian schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Sat, 09 Aug 2025 05:31:48 +0200Re: Long-form articles
The long form content "movement" (of which I'm adjacent to but not fully involved) started up because two big implementors, Ghost and WordPress, were running into the same issues AP devs have been seeing this whole time, that Mastodon reduces articles to a title and link.
The difference is devs got together and pushed for changes, and got them done. Mastodon no longer treats articles the way they used to.
Now you can send in a summary that is used, and that gets you heaps closer to a better UX than what came before.
The long form text FEP aims to provide a way to send an alternative representation for the ubiquitous microblog software on the fediverse, in the form of a note, while still maintaining the use of other objects types (e.g. article)
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #QuotePost #QuoteToot #QuoteBoost #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #LongFormContent #ArticleType #Summary -
CW: Mastodon's previews for Article-type objects still link to the original instead of rendering the content itself, but now they also include the summary along with the title; CW: long (over 3,000 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, quote-post
Okay, while this is not optimal, I'd say it comes close enough to an improvement to be of importance.
Some of us know what it's like to send Article-type objects (and long-form content should always be these according to the ActivityPub spec) to Mastodon. Now, Mastodon's handling of long-form content has changed, believe it or not. Something that neither Friendica nor Hubzilla nor (streams) nor Forte could ever achieve happened under pressure from Flipboard (commercial player), Ghost (quickly growing Substack alternative that's trying to attract professional and commercial users), Automattic (the owner of WordPress) and NodeBB (fairly big bulletin-board forum player that added ActivityPub a while ago).
So much I should say in advance: No, Mastodon does not fully render Article-type objects in their full HTML-formatted glory from the title to dozens of embedded images. Mastodon's own Web interface isn't geared towards that, and neither is any Mastodon app, official or third-party.
Instead, Mastodon still handles Article-type objects by linking to the original like it used to. But it used to show only the title if there was one. If there was no title, all that Mastodon showed was a plain URL. If there was a summary, Mastodon did as Mastodon always does and has been done since 2017, regarded it as a content warning and hid the whole "post" with the title (if there was one) and the link behind it.
What Mastodon does now is finally acknowledge that some software out there actually uses the summary field as a summary field. The preview with the link to the original now also contains the summary, along with the title. If there is either, of course.
So if you're on something that can send or always sends Article-type objects (specialised blogging software, Friendica, (streams), Forte), it's well worth adding a summary to those posts that go out as Article-type objects.
(Speaking of Friendica: Dear Friendica users, please substitute any use of "summary" in this post with "abstract" if you don't know what I'm talking about.)
julian schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Sat, 09 Aug 2025 05:31:48 +0200Re: Long-form articles
The long form content "movement" (of which I'm adjacent to but not fully involved) started up because two big implementors, Ghost and WordPress, were running into the same issues AP devs have been seeing this whole time, that Mastodon reduces articles to a title and link.
The difference is devs got together and pushed for changes, and got them done. Mastodon no longer treats articles the way they used to.
Now you can send in a summary that is used, and that gets you heaps closer to a better UX than what came before.
The long form text FEP aims to provide a way to send an alternative representation for the ubiquitous microblog software on the fediverse, in the form of a note, while still maintaining the use of other objects types (e.g. article)
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #QuotePost #QuoteToot #QuoteBoost #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #LongFormContent #ArticleType #Summary -
Fedinews.it ha cambiato veste e ora include anche le categorie di citiverse.it
Grazie a @skariko de @lealternative abbiamo rinnovato la veste grafica di #fedinews che oggi può integrare non più soltanto i feed dell'istanza #Lemmy feddit.it ma anche i contributi pubblicati su citiverse.it e potenzialmente di qualsiasi altra istanza del #Forumverso (Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, NodeBB, etc)
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Destroying Autocracy – July 3, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Next week I will be on holiday so there won’t be an issue. I will probably boost some things on the Fediverse though.
Featured Item
DevCollaborative writes:
The Trump administration and its supporters are attacking dissenting views on a terrifying scale. With so much of online communications compromised and censored, independent websites are a critical piece of social movement infrastructure that we need to promote and defend.
If your nonprofit has a website, you are part of this essential communications work.
There are looming threats of financially independent nonprofits being censored under the guise of fighting “terrorism” or “sedition.”
Protecting Nonprofit Websites from a Hostile Government
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
Time has a profile:
How Signal President Meredith Whittaker Took on Signal-Gate
The Register reports:
Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open
The Register reports:
Huawei can’t wriggle out of Iran sanctions trial, judge rules
Tara Tarakiyee explores:
Digital Sovereignty in Practice: Web Browsers as a Reality Check
TechPolicy reports:
EU Disinformation Code Takes Effect Amid Censorship Claims and Trade Tensions
Politico reports:
The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France
BleepingComputer reports:
Hikvision Canada ordered to cease operations over security risks
Germany asks Google, Apple to remove DeepSeek AI from app stores
Raconteur has:
‘You need to be a little bit crazy’: Nextcloud CEO on confronting the hyperscalers
Nextclound reports on:
Why organizations migrate from Microsoft 365 in 2025
TechCrunch reports:
ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism
Ars Technica reports:
Meta, TikTok can’t toss wrongful death suit from mom of “subway surfing” teen
Ted Cruz plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote
The Markup has more:
State AI regulations safe after Senate strips moratorium from ‘big, beautiful bill’
MIT Technology Review reports:
Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites
Cloudfare has the details:
The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers
Neutral
CNBC reports:
The AI-boom’s multi-billion dollar blind spot: Reasoning models hitting a wall
Dries Buyaert (of Drupal fame) writes:
The web’s broken deal with AI companies
Dries, you say you may be naive. You are if you think anything other than politics (regulation or huge boycotts) are going to fix the problem.
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
The Guardian opines:
Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans
TechDirt reports:
Supreme Court Cripples FCC Further, Making Robocall Enforcement Likely Impossible
The Supreme C^nts strike again.
The Guardian reports:
Trump officials create searchable national citizenship database
TechPolicy reports:
Countering the Politics of Deservingness in the Fight for Digital Equity
How US Firms Are Weakening the EU AI Code of Practice
Pariah States
TechCrunch reports:
US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation
DarkReading reports:
Scope, Scale of Spurious North Korean IT Workers Emerges
Silver Fox Suspected in Taiwanese Campaign Using DeepSeek Lure
Russian APT ‘Gamaredon’ Hits Ukraine With Fierce Phishing
The Kyiv Independent reports:
US sanctions Russian IT company Aeza Group over ransomware operations
Big Media
The PressGazette reports:
How SFGATE is making local news pay and filling California’s news gaps
Ars Technica reports:
NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court
Torment Nexus reports:
Why Substack shouldn’t be the future of online publishing
CNN reports:
After settling with Trump, CBS News staffers fear what comes next
There are cowards, and then there are cowardly c^nts.
Big Tech
TechPolicy reports:
Tech Oligarchs and the Rise of Silicon Valley Pronatalism
The Guardian reports:
Fears AI factcheckers on X could increase promotion of conspiracy theories
Ars Technica reports:
Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes
TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google’s Veo 3
Android Authority reports:
You’re not alone: This email from Google’s Gemini team was concerning (Updated: Google statement)
Tuta asks:
“Sovereign cloud” or “sovereign washing”? A Trojan Horse at Europe’s digital gates.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
Flock Safety’s Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe
The Register reports:
AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren’t AI at all
AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about
The Verge reports:
Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
TechCrunch reports:
Meta users say paying for Verified support has been useless in the face of mass bans
TechCrunch reports:
Meta has found another way to keep you engaged: Chatbots that message you first
I guess if you are amoral enough to use Meta products and you are a moron who talks to AI, this is what you deserve.
PC Gamer reports:
Cybersecurity/Privacy
The Verge asks:
How vulnerable is critical infrastructure to cyberattack in the US?
Bleeping Computer reports:
FBI: Cybercriminals steal health data posing as fraud investigators
BleepingComputer reports:
Spain arrests hackers who targeted politicians and journalists
Fediverse
Connected Places has:
Mastodon has:
Dead Superher looks at:
Mitigating the “7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins”
Jaz-Michael King shares:
Digital Belonging: Why Language and Locality Matter
Viger has:
TechCrunch reports:
Automattic puts Tumblr migration to WordPress on hold
Ghost has:
The Longformers: Ghost, WordPress, Flipboard, Fediverse
NodeBB asks:
Longform content has the best chance to grow the Fediverse, IMHO.
IT Notes shares:
FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands
Forgejo has its:
Forgejo monthly report – June 2025
ActivityPub for WordPress announces:
HTTP Signature Upgrades Coming Soon
TechCrunch reports:
Not everyone is thrilled with Threads’ DMs
RSS
Preslav Rachev shares:
From Outbound to Inbound and Back Again: The Hidden Power of RSS Feeds
Great stuff. RSS is still my main curation source. So, get an RSS feed on your blog, handle, etc. 🙂
Slightly Federated Social Media
Connected Places has:
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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