Whoops, pressed save before I edited the working title.

Anyway, new blog post:

https://jaz.co.uk/2025/07/01/digital-equity/

Hello Mastodon, we now have a live, production, full-network independent #Bluesky AppView :] https://bsky.app/profile/futur.blue/post/3lsc2tzfsys2f #ATProto

@quinn banned already‽

@quinn Working for me over in the bay area rn

We just shared our monthly engineering update from May - some big under-the-covers updates as we got ready to ship the first beta of Mastodon 4.4. Plus, a selection of links to cool projects from our community members. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/trunk-tidbits-may-2025/

It should be said, and doing this in their free fucking time as a volunteer effort too.

> And we ordinary people are all out here in the feeds trying to piece it together in our heads.
https://mas.to/@kissane/114558323930891999

I don't think it's possible to be where we are in #uspol (and in the global authoritarian slide) without our information ecosystems being such a mess.

There's a ton of work to do on the distribution side of the problem, but also on the info-making side: Even great newsrooms aren't built to make the kind of knowledge we need in this moment, bc what they make are endless streams of atomized stories.

And we ordinary people are all out here in the feeds trying to piece it together in our heads.

@shollyethan has a great list of self-hosted alternatives that I'm going through.

https://selfh.st/alternatives/read-later/

Happy to hear where others are migrating! (Self-hosted or not!)

Hey, do any #alamtg or #oakmtg or #eastbay folks in general know what's going on with the old Holy Names University campus?

Wiki says it was sold to a property management company two years ago, anyone know recent developments?

Live at 10am PT, join @ted and myself for HAN TO HON COMBAT Episode 4: ATProto, a Human Human-Powered Internet, and how to deal with AI

* on ATProto at https://stream.place/knowtheory.net
* on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/knowtheory
* on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/QR6saJ64aew?feature=share

Folks, there is 0 evidence that Steam passwords have been breached. Unless and until credible evidence occurs, please do NOT urge people to change their login credentials and please do NOT boost other people's toots doing the same. Creating unjustified anxiety about a non event does a disservice to us all.

Please boost for visibility.

@fugueish @danhon I sold dan on it based on the name alone 😂

In 15 minutes at 10am PT, @danhon and I will be streaming Han to Hon Combat live, our completely amateur podcast about all things ATProto:

* on ATProto at https://stream.place/@knowtheory.net
* on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/knowtheory

It lives!!! We can officially embed an ATProto guestbook in a web page using an iframe. Next up, we'll build up to posting, then to other ways to display guestbook submissions!

🎒Check out the repository: https://github.com/fujowebdev/lexicon-guestbook
📺 Catch up with the series on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/collections/OdaSBo9XORgtPQ

@gumnos Things that happen when your institution is the literal embodiment of the existing and historical status quo 😬

@gumnos Yeah! Absolutely, always interested in others' thoughts on the space

@gumnos @mackuba It was recorded, but i don't know if/when they're going to post it. This was the event: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/bluesky-open-social-media-tech

@gumnos @mwl Yeah, it's still early days, but there are folks who've been working on running various flavors of stack independently! Check out this thread:

https://bsky.app/profile/bad-example.com/post/3loe7iy2gdc2c

Also we've got a working group that's working on various notions of what it means to run an independent ATProto stack: https://atproto.wiki/en/working-groups/indiesky

@gumnos @mackuba I have a hard time taking NoBadDays's scoring seriously. Despite knowing a lot of technical people, I know very few who run their own email servers. Email's a great example of a service provider economy. It's also heavily oligopolistic and pretty byzantine for normal people to get right despite that. 🤷

@gumnos @mackuba Paul Frazee talked earlier today about their PDS hosting costs rn, and also ballparking some costs for randos like us on PDS hosting.