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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yes, I would like to purchase the rights to turn this saga into a tv series: Script for 3rd episode will be about how exactly #Wsocial owners managed to convince a handful of EU officials to ‘support them in building a trusted platform’ - on a completely incoherent concept of ‘trust’… 🙈

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

‘for now, at least’ You seem to anticipate that this may age like Milk. — IMO Elon never offered a coherent concept: According to his own words, he wants to enforce a ‘link-in-bio’/shadowban treatment for all serious competitors. Works like a charm in 🇨🇳 (which he uses as an example)

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Isn’t this global? Here in Austria, the comms director of ex-chancellor Kurz wrote a book ex post on: How to stay in power by being able to push aside important topics by flooding the zone with what he calls: ‘strategically necessary nonsense’ Let’s all read Herman Chomsky Propaganda Model again

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have been waiting for THIS moment my entire adult life. Not a joke. ‘categorical incoherence is the epistemological basis of tyranny’

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thesis: there is no advancing culture without applying metaphors based on conscious category mismatching at some point But also, that when that mismatch is forgotten/overlooked/repressed over time - suffering follows My fav example: www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

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1877: Anti-Duhring

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I bet weets are always nice tho

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

culture clashing along protocol fault lines?

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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 28/09/2026

want to know what cool updates have been happening to fediverse software in the last 3 months? I've got you covered! connectedplaces.online/fediverse-ne...

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Fediverse News – Summer 2026

Fediverse software updates, summer 2026 edition

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Congrats! Makes my current ap-at advocacy work a lot more fun 😎 IMO, it would help if the rationale for choosing Switzerland is shared in some detail (people seem to be discussing weirdest sounding theories about it). And, can I do a PR for typos I’ve found on web.plc.directory somewhere?

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did:plc Directory

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You’re living in/around Vienna and are a fan of atproto, activitypub, matrix, nostr, dsnp … looking for likeminded folks? Come join the party at the next Open Social Web Meetup! When? Monday 5th of October, 18:00 Where? Rathausstr 6 Who? All creatures welcome 🤗

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 28/09/2026

Hello World from the PLC organization (plcred.org)! The org was soft-announced back in March at AtmosphereConf. We've been working through logistics step by step and now have a public web presence we can point to.

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First steps of the PLC organization

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

etwas weniger reißerisch und eher analytisch fand ich Max Kasy (Oxford) hier: caiml.org/dighum/summe... Er spricht von "Ideological Obfuscation" - und das halte ich für sehr treffend...

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 03/08/2026

Changing your phone provider = changing your atmosphere provider → keep your phone number = keep your identity (username) Changing your phone = changing what app you use* → keep your contacts & photos = keep your followers, following, posts, etc. You can change providers without changing phones.

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘PLC can do whatever it damn well pleases’ Wouldn’t such a change of method fundamentally break self authentication? In other words: how can one update a did:plc doc without access to keys?

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 07/09/2026

ever pirated a movie

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

„Mensch muss durch strenge Herrschaft in Schach gehalten werden, weil Mensch Todestrieb hat“ Freuds eindeutig pseudowissenschaftliche Dualtrieb-Theorie wird seit mehr als 4 Generationen zitiert um den eigenen Kulturpessimismus zu legitimieren. Wie kann das Basis für eine „linke Position“ sein? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

1. Meta buys Bluesky 2. Meta creates did:plc identities for all ~4 billion users and invites everyone to get a copy of the database 3. Shortly afterwards, aliens show up and congratulate us to this civilizational achievement 4. Meta shareholders are invited on a trip to alien planets Win Win Win

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did:plc Directory

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 01/09/2026

Just today I was thinking of my fav fish meme (as one does 😅) and I realized that "organize" has roots in the word "organ", eg organize literally means "To furnish [a body] with organs", "to endow with capacity for the functions of life" en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organize

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Anyone interested in doing a prez today?

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What? Open Social Web Meetup When? Today 18:00 Where? #Metalab Rathausstr 6 Who? All creatures welcome 🤗

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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 30/08/2026

If you are into atproto network stats, here's the stats page I build to see how big the atproto network in The Netherlands is: atproto.nl/community-si...

atproto.nl

AT Protocol has no country field, so we publish two numbers: the Dutch accounts we can point to, and a modelled total of around 230.000.

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 30/08/2026

Glad you raised this. I shared the post since the overall message was still one of social-web solidarity, but I do think it’s incumbent on @malteengeler.de & colleagues to update their priors on atproto, which is far more mission-aligned with the Structural Integrity agenda than it gets credit for.

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Slightly provocative take: The atproto ecosystem needs a constant (but not overwhelming) influx of ‘bad faith projects’ to demonstrate what ‘credible exit’ actually means. Without them the whole project would not make sense. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Feels to me like this kind of stuff is part of the system prompt for all serious attention merchant systems nowadays.

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Anti harassment and spam mitigation tooling like this is a necessary ingredient for future peaceful coexistence. I really do think so! Elmo has no idea what’s coming.

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

hm, I think I see that differently, so let me ask: when do you feel that kind of darkness started?

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

‘nobody will be held accountable’ sounds a bit too dark for me. I’m confident that the same kind of contempt that we feel for fascist regime collaborators nowadays will be projected onto key businesses like these: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchan...

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Merchants of Doubt - Wikipedia

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’ve met key people involved in W and they haven’t convinced me *at all*. But I would guess most people currently hosted on W pds have no clue what’s going on. I guess I’m not a big fan of the defederation debate, which may be the reason when I spend more time in atproto based UIs.

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

No worries, I’m just having inside joke fun with friends. This is the quote if was referring to blacksky.community/profile/did:...

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ok, this seems to be shitposting thursday, sorry for the distraction! This one is titled: ‘KERI Mastermind Sam Smith and Bluesky CEO @toni.bsky.team agreeing on terms they don’t like’ Specifically crafted to entertain my DID Method buddies @bumblefudge.com @peacekeep3r.bsky.social @goat.navy

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

‘Reinventing fedidrama from first principles’ By @bumblefudge.com

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

‘theories of change don’t necessarily need to be more coherent than any given poem’ Is that a position a person can take and still be considered an ‘honest leftie’? After years contemplating and discussing this inside and outside of academic circles, it still seems very impossible to me.

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

‘Notably, back in 2024, founder Sam Altman described ads as a business model of “last resort” for AI.’

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Step 1: fork government Step 2: prove that the fork works better Step 3: force government to merge it back heavily inspired by @audreyt.org au.civic.ai/p/mission-no...

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Mission, Not Race

Notes from the Wikimania 2026 panel on the state of Wikimedia and AI

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

'Zuckerberg understood this from the start' So, I guess he probably also 'understands from the start' that mainstream adoption of open ID systems (like did:plc where this kind of capture becomes structurally impossible) WILL put an end to this seemingly natural monopoly.

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

'Facebook reached the top thanks to stable code and “network effect”: the phenomenon by which a system of connections grows in value with the number of its users. Zuckerberg understood this from the start.' 'The Attention Merchants' by @superwuster.bsky.social scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/64/

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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate commodity. In nearly every moment of our waking li...

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Choose your universal comment sorting option in life: Most Recent Most Liked Most ‘Relevant’ Most ‘Gooning’

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Rob Ricci @ricci.io · 01/08/2026

Of the ~13k accounts on multi-user non-bluesky PDSes with their own rotation keys, here are the top ones: eurosky.social: 11,127 (83.7%) blacksky.app: 1,070 (8.0%) ds.raceef.com 428 (3.2% selfhosted.social: 109 (0.8%) at.app.wafrn.net: 67 (0.5%) npmx.social: 64 (0.5%) all others: 317 (2.3%)

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Rob Ricci @ricci.io · 22/07/2026

I updated my census of rotation keys on the atmosphere: rob.leaflet.pub/3mr7vhdonuk2i "In total, I found 15,029 recently-active users (0.299%) who have strong control over their identity. This is an increase of about 10x over my earlier census ...

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Rotation Key Census, July 2026

Census of rotation keys and other ways of asserting strong control over identity on the Atmosphere

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The position paper on 'A single digital educational identity' contains this sentence: 'in education, SSI in its purest form is not applicable, because complete control over one’s own data is not possible for a learner.' Anyone knows whats going on here? www.surf.nl/files/2026-0...

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

‘The loop closes when the people who spoke can see what their words changed’ This reminds me of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salutog... Comprehensibility Manageability Meaningfulness When we comprehend how to improve what is dear to our hearts, and when we have the capacity to keep going, stuff happens.

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Salutogenesis - Wikipedia

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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · 03/08/2026

Digital democracy is a garden we tend — together!🤝 ⿻Plurality, co-creation & #CivicAI🌱 are our tools. Humanism, love & trust are our soil.🫂 Read my Digital Democracy Summit 2026 closing remarks.🙏 ▶️ audreyt.org/dd Learn more.💡 civic.ai #LLAP🖖

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ループを、閉じる ——DD2026 · オードリー・タン

Audrey Tang's closing remarks at Digital Democracy Summit 2026, with written answers to all 266 Slido questions across 18 rooms: a receipt anyone can inspect.

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What’s the best way to ensure resiliency of the open web? ‘build something that people love so much that they would revolt if it ever went away’ is IMO a very coherent theory of change, thanks @dholms.at for pointing it out. #dwebcamp was magic, I’m still processing. inter communal spirit ❤️

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Afaik worked very well for early adopting podcast creators (eg @tim.pritlove.org) I believe in atp contexts micro-donation/funding schemes are way easier to implement and way harder to shut down by platform operators. But key thing for me is still: remove the ‘is worth this price?’ cognitive load.

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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I loved it because it removed the cognitive load of a buying decision: “how much is this worth to me?” Instead: “do I want to support this creator?” If payment rails are in place, why not offer that monetization mode to creators who don’t like paywalls? For podcasters it worked wonders back then!

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