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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

I hate Matrix chat so much. Every now and then, some nerd explains why we should all be using Matrix for group chat. It happened a lot with the E2EE project. But Matrix is what you get when you leave the engineers alone in a room for too long. Its “everything but the kitchen sink” design […]

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

www.valuepaths.com/activation/churn… I’ve loved useronboarding.com (now valuepaths.com) since the dotcom days. It’s always filled with common sense (if slightly sales-ey) views on how to improve onboarding, retention, and make software genuinely more useful to newbies […]

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Wow. #FOMOForum is real today. I want to attend at least three discussions at each #FediForum session today. I’m gonna have to jump in and out of *every* single time slot.

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Today, I built out a per-user integration between Emissary and MailChimp. Just edit your profile settings, choose “Connections” and all new email I recognize most #Wagoneers probably won’t need this. It’s for a separate project I had to complete. But, that’s […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

New Rule: FEP-161f Swear Jar Every time someone complains about another person on the Fediverse, they have to donate $5 to IFTAS

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I pick my work music for the day by going to Bandwagon and playing the first album that comes up on shuffle. Life is always richer for it. Today’s Bandwagon Roulette: bandwagon.fm/679889adab0b1adf832628…

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Bandwagon.fm - Embracing The Illusion

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I don’t know much about Brazilian politics, but this is a pretty strong case why everyone should own their social network — especially politicians. www.reddit.com/r/Brazil/comments/1w… If Facebook can take sides in your election […]

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." -- John Shedd, Salt from My Attic (1928). My good friend @ozoned shared this quote with me. It's my reminder to not hold my work too tightly, but to be brave and put it out there. It's terrifying. Always. But we can't stay […]

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Stefan @stefan.gardenstate.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

China Found Something Better Than Oil by Maxinomics www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXLGV0Sj0n8

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Friday has rolled around again, so it's time for another #FollowFriday. Once again, in no particular order, a bunch of accounts I generally enjoy seeing in my feeds; @irix @jrdepriest @trashpanda @deutrino @davemosk @ireneista @DoomsdaysCW @lilithsaintcrow @appassionato @benpate […]

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I'm thinking *a lot* about "Implicit Feudalism" these days - the idea that mods and admins (in the #Fediverse and elsewhere) are like feudal lords, wielding the only true power in online spaces - the power to silence other's voices. That leaves regular users to be like serfs - bound to the land […]

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Lety Does Stuff @lety.doesstuff.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

shoutout to all the open source devs who wake up in the morning and don't choose to be filled with hate underrated sleeper build

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Did you know that your name on #Bandwagon *is* your domain name? When you share your link Want an example? Check out some #Acousmatic sounds from jeanvoguet.bandwagon.fm

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 02/09/2026

We've been working hard on FedCM to make it work better for the decentralised web! These new designs should enable us to support the Atmosphere (AT Protocol) and Fediverse (ActivityPub) better, including parity with centralised identity providers.

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 21/08/2026

It's been almost a year since I last worked on this project so glad to announce 6 new icons added to #FediverseIconography at iconography.fediverse.info #μpub by @alemi (fedi.alemi.dev/web/about) #SquidCity by @robey (bot software that runs […] [Original post on social.wake.st]

a screenshot of iconography.fediverse.info showing the icons for url.life, Ibis, μpub, SquidCity, Bandwagon, ties, ProFed and frequency

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

After publishing the results of Discovery Week, we can now give you a first sneak peak at Mastodon 5.0, our next big version. It will bring a new visual look to your screens, a refreshed and calmer layout, as well as a new composer […]

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

I'm a software developer working on a bunch of #Fediverse things: #Emissary, #Bandwagon, and bandwagon.fm - with several more in the pipeline. It's a pretty strange mix that doesn't really fit today's Fediverse, but it makes sense when you see the end goal. I got an opportunity at #Fedicon to […]

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