Posts by tchambers@indieweb.social
(DIR) Post #B5HDIMT0oZx3OAPb9c by tchambers@indieweb.social
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@apps Why block Bridgyfed? They have a very similiar policy to your own respecting permission and conscent for briding Bluesky accounts to the Fediverse?
(DIR) Post #B5HEssWlByDTCZ8q00 by tchambers@indieweb.social
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@apps Hmmm. I thought It is opt-in. You must follow @ap.brid.gy on Bluesky to activate your bridge. So by definition if they are bridged, they opted in, even if ATproto doesn’t have that setting. Did I get that wrong?
(DIR) Post #B5e6mWMmLJLVjf0bLc by tchambers@indieweb.social
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This is precisely correct."The difference from corporate social media comes down to incentive structures. Platforms designed around narcissism & parasocial relationships produce content optimized for engagement. A federated network w/ no central owner produces something closer to actual knowledge-sharing, because nobody profits from making it addictive."https://boingboing.net/2026/03/06/why-mastodon-matters-now-more-than-its-creators-imagined.html
(DIR) Post #B5eqkqUX8vTrSrm7Jw by tchambers@indieweb.social
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Great news about an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic #cancer, in early trials. It looks like patients who responded are still alive 6 years later. That's a huge deal. Am super hopeful for MRNA cancer vacines for a host of our deadliest cancers. #Science🔗 https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-vaccine-shows-lasting-results-in-an-early-trial/ar-AA21czSE
(DIR) Post #B61eucmUF6zJ1Y9CK0 by tchambers@indieweb.social
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We are going to run out of sites for our training data pretty soon at this rate. "Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created (🔗 https://ai-on-the-internet.github.io/?ref=404media.co) since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchers—which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive—published their findings online in a paper titled “The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the… 🧵 1/2
(DIR) Post #B61eudXdPohZNmCqoK by tchambers@indieweb.social
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…Internet.” (🔗 https://ai-on-the-internet.github.io/?ref=404media.co) 🔗 https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/ 🧵 2/2
(DIR) Post #B61eudkkd3C42SLKFs by tchambers@indieweb.social
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Thanks to @deadsuperhero for the collaboration on this update to my article from last summer. As Sean put it: "It's a way to reflect on how things have changed over the past six months, with clear ideas on where things are headed." Hope like the last time, this sparks good conversations and further motion.The Seven Deadly #Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card https://wedistribute.org/2026/04/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux-sins-a-redemption-report-card
(DIR) Post #B61eueBL2CSdMumYhE by tchambers@indieweb.social
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@deadsuperhero we highlight work from @Mastodon @renchap @mellifluousbox @dansup @rimu @HolosSocial @evan @newsmast @imanijoy @snarfed.org @quillmatiq @surf @mike & many more. Very up for discussion, corrections, notes from all ….
(DIR) Post #B6KepxJSAdG7G1ZzcW by tchambers@indieweb.social
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@apps Sounds like that will solve the issue of lost phone = lost account?
(DIR) Post #B6f3JF3M3NlY6IUouu by tchambers@indieweb.social
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I know that in some quarters of both the Bluesky and Fediverse side of the #OpenSocialWeb there is a justifiably allergic reaction to AI. I get it and share it. But I'm becoming more convinced than ever at this: if we in the open social web space don't build our own healthy, safe and fair versions of #AgenticWeb interactions here, it will be defined and done for and to us. The big platforms are already building agentic features: social enabled agents that read your feed, draft your… 🧵 1/3
(DIR) Post #B6f3JMDBREmsIo9Gi0 by tchambers@indieweb.social
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…replies, manage your presence. Those are shippping soon. Sooner than you think. And the open social web protocols are well, open by definition to these. They'll do it in ways that serve engagement metrics, not people. If the open social web cedes this ground, the definition of what "AI agent + social" means will be written by the same companies we built alternatives to escape. We have something they don't: open protocols, user-owned data, and communities that actually debate what's… 🧵 2/3
(DIR) Post #B6f3JNAjroQTHW0pXM by tchambers@indieweb.social
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FYI, I only dabble in #Nostr so not sure what communities there think of the idea of the #agenticweb - I'll watch rectiions to this post there: https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8lxfk6vheah745fhjwrwkvvr6a78fktycn4cfhj2432z5pfm7hecpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzypg4tlu7du03q97v5qzyq9l3mvup8f55p4yec549e0ssrxqcpjnf52jvv47
(DIR) Post #B6f3JVKbX14SaQgp1c by tchambers@indieweb.social
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…acceptable. That's exactly the right foundation for building agentic tools with consent, transparency, and human review at the center. The question isn't whether agents are coming to social; it's whether we shape them or they shape us. That ends my Ted Talk. 🧵 3/3
(DIR) Post #B6lmeAt0P2O68zlpxI by tchambers@indieweb.social
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A keen observation from Laurens, and the #OpenSocialWeb needs both of these: "If you read that statement with the fediverse and the atmosphere in mind, this is almost a diagram of the two ways the project can fail. Subsidiarity without solidarity is fragmentation: a thousand instances each guarding their own place, with no shared obligation or collaboration, with no place to maintain the commons that is the network itself. This is exactly what we see in the fediverse right now:… 🧵 1/3
(DIR) Post #B6lmeBhLNseaf7K2Pw by tchambers@indieweb.social
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…sure there are a lot of servers, but the collaboration between instances on things like moderation is virtually nonexistent. There is no form of federated diplomacy, or even a mental framework on how servers should interact, besides defederation when you get too annoyed with another server. Solidarity without subsidiarity is the benevolent provider of infrastructure: one big network that takes care of everyone and quietly removes their agency." 🧵 2/3
(DIR) Post #B6lmeC7vn1v9zZlGrI by tchambers@indieweb.social
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🔗 https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr164-the-pope-on-defederation/ 🧵 3/3
(DIR) Post #B6nXmzFpuPAHg975ZQ by tchambers@indieweb.social
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RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116659010227090745@apps #HolosDiscover just keeps getting better. Definitely think all fediverse apps should keep an eye on this and look to pay for enterprise access to integrate it and keep it growing.cc: @ivory @MonaApp @newsmast @openvibe @IceCubesAppRT: https://toot.fedilab.app/users/apps/statuses/116659010227090745
(DIR) Post #B6qaXOIfu6xG3nZkwa by tchambers@indieweb.social
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Like this Tim Berners-Lee quote in this article. It applies to the web, the social web and now #theagenticweb:"Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments. We see ubiquitous algorithms that are addictive by design and damaging to our teenagers’ mental health. Trading personal data for use… 🧵 1/3
(DIR) Post #B6qaXOWV4i0ukg2nUe by tchambers@indieweb.social
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…certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web. On many platforms, we are no longer the customers, but instead have become the product. Our data, even if anonymised, is sold on to actors we never intended it to reach, who can then target us with content and advertising. This includes deliberately harmful content that leads to real-world violence, spreads misinformation, wreaks havoc on our psychological wellbeing and seeks to undermine social cohesion." 🧵 2/3
(DIR) Post #B6qaXOkgDzM9Seg7ay by tchambers@indieweb.social
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Link: 🔗 https://www.jonathanburdick.com/words/breaking-up-with-google 🧵 3/3