Posts by mike@flipboard.social
(DIR) Post #ApYJmfGQQ9I3q30kSG by mike@flipboard.social
2024-12-29T23:01:44Z
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@frappe beautiful! Nice to meet you!
(DIR) Post #ApYNZ0tnaKfAhWAqSO by mike@flipboard.social
2024-12-29T23:44:06Z
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@tito_swineflu nice to meet you. a folding kayak sloop sounds pretty awesome!
(DIR) Post #Apd5FZp5CarPq6Ll9U by mike@flipboard.social
2025-01-01T06:12:28Z
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@benpate awesome!!!
(DIR) Post #Apd5JtYhlb06CukSpc by mike@flipboard.social
2025-01-01T06:13:11Z
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@Gargron happy new year Mastodon
(DIR) Post #Apqx2ed7wGdRZ0WXRI by mike@flipboard.social
2025-01-07T22:46:25Z
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Today reminds me once again why I love it here. My Mastodon timeline is an awesome, well moderated blend of people who are posting with Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, Pixelfed, Misskey, Bluesky and Lemmy. It’s just the people I care about without all the noise, toxicity and link bait.
(DIR) Post #AprL0NHpqdj05w0iWG by mike@flipboard.social
2025-01-08T03:14:57Z
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@jjude yes I follow a number of Bluesky accounts via the bridge. Can’t wait for more people to bridge.
(DIR) Post #AprSo2cZeh449zLCaG by mike@flipboard.social
2025-01-08T04:42:21Z
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Don Jr. flew into Greenland today as his father was telling reporters he plans to take it by force if necessary.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0bLKef5yIU
(DIR) Post #AprTQGMD28BdlXub7A by mike@flipboard.social
2025-01-08T04:49:15Z
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@kboyd hah!
(DIR) Post #ApthzHBdjDsk9GTgWW by mike@flipboard.social
2025-01-09T06:41:52Z
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New fire in Hollywood Hills.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OPsCkfpLuqQ
(DIR) Post #Aq06AiNc2rzGJ9eSo4 by mike@flipboard.social
2025-01-12T08:41:06Z
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@j4ck At the time, Steve was talking extensively with Zuck (and I think also Jack) about integrating social media more deeply into iOS. Ultimately Steve concluded that Facebook and Twitter were just "spam machines" so this was as far as things ever went.
(DIR) Post #Aq0D2jjroAvlswCh2O by mike@flipboard.social
2025-01-12T09:58:06Z
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@kechpaja yeah the bots on Bluesky are super challenging right now. Unfortunately bots are an inevitability for any growing platform these days. Mastodon's fully decentralized model seems to have dealt with bots pretty effectively so far.
(DIR) Post #ArwG6bWSKgjiHChLn6 by mike@flipboard.social
2025-03-11T03:59:31Z
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@liaizon @pixelfed @peertube I absolutely love both of these services.
(DIR) Post #AtteDFjBgBdK89Yx4S by mike@flipboard.social
2025-05-08T21:21:59Z
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@mastodonmigration @wjmaggos fwiw I think making money on public social media for writers, developers etc is entirely feasible and the optimum path. The hard part is getting everyone to agree on the same path/model for monetization.
(DIR) Post #Atu3sDUZOW6PvJM5x2 by mike@flipboard.social
2025-05-09T01:26:30Z
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@mastodonmigration @wjmaggosI understand your concerns here. While not waving away your legit questions like viability of true federation with AT Proto, I do think it's important to work from a baseline of what I believe the facts are regarding Bluesky's ownership and motivation. I think this will help us triangulate better on legit technical/implementation questions.First, regarding who owns the company, I think it's highly likely that it is still majority owned by the employees at this stage in their startup's life. While I don't have any inside information here, based on what I know about startup financing, Jay Graber and her team are almost certainly the ones in control of Bluesky and making the decisions for its future. And while the firm that invested in Bluesky has also invested in crypto businesses, that does not mean that somehow Bluesky is a bunch of crypto bros or is planning to go deep into crypto. The closest thing they've done here is embrace DIDs (a W3C standard) which I actually think is a smart move for account portability.Second, based on my conversations with Jay and her team I can vouch that they are quite genuine about their belief in advancing the open social web. More importantly they've demonstrated that with the work they've shipped so far and the support they've given to developers big and small. While there are reasonable technical questions re: their protocol decisions, etc. I think their integrity as people is high and their heart is in the right place.Third, the developer ecosystem on AT Proto is quite vibrant and working toward the same goals as the ActivityPub developer ecosystem. Check out some of the talks from the Atmosphere conference to see this. I especially recommend Rudy Fraser's talk about Blacksky. It's inspiring.Finally, while it's quite unfortunate Bluesky elected to build their own protocol rather than build from ActivityPub, I believe they did so for what they believed are legitimate scaling and technical concerns. They've since innovated in some clever ways (account portability, custom feeds, composable moderation) that are useful to understand for anyone building on the open social web. The reality is that both protocols have their strengths and weaknesses and I hope we can learn from both as we further build on our shared vision.
(DIR) Post #Atu3sEWjXxQZ8JNKxk by mike@flipboard.social
2025-05-09T02:08:40Z
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@mastodonmigration @wjmaggos good question re: the Bain capital round. I don't have any inside information on this but it's entirely possible the round never happened or has dragged on (there could be a long closing process) and has not closed yet. I guess it's also possible the round happened and they've not yet disclosed it though that would be a bit odd as these things are ultimately a matter of public record. Could be that this deal finally closed a few weeks ago and that they will announce it in conjunction with some other news. Again, I'm totally speculating here. I agree with you that transparency around their financing situation is pretty important to establish trust.
(DIR) Post #Atu42L2cBKt6ET6dZA by mike@flipboard.social
2025-05-09T02:17:02Z
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@wjmaggos @mastodonmigration I need to learn more about this. Will ask next time I speak with them.
(DIR) Post #AvG9y1CquB1Z79DsVU by mike@flipboard.social
2025-06-18T15:59:00Z
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@wjmaggos thanks for flagging. I’ll look into this
(DIR) Post #Aw0gWJ5VBiabMRVtey by mike@flipboard.social
2025-07-11T02:04:50Z
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Mastodon is so awesome.
(DIR) Post #Aw2t0JFwiJEAKxOJma by mike@flipboard.social
2025-07-10T17:12:57Z
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Which topics do you most want to delve into with future episodes of #dotsocial?
(DIR) Post #AyyAoP3Vi1TJDYCOoa by mike@flipboard.social
2025-10-07T14:55:36Z
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Hello fediverse,The AltStore is federating! It’s time to give developers and users an open platform to directly connect with each other while drastically improving app discovery. I believe so much in this mission that I joined their board to help.More here from @rileytestuthttps://rileytestut.com/blog/2025/10/07/evolving-altstore-pal/