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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

The threat landscape appears to have fundamentally changed. united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ru…

Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Download software from Broadcom qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment. For example, after countless disjointed screens, the actual download icon is so far to the right on screen that unless you make your browser window very unusually wide, you will never see it.

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Für die deutsch Sprechenden, die ein bisschen was von Musik verstehen und sich um die Demokratie in Deutschland sorgen.

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I always thought Pippin the Short (king of the Franks in the 700s) was the best name of a nobleman. But today I come across Frederick the Bitten and Albrecht the Degenerate (both counts around ~1300) Wikipedia is great!

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

RE: w3c.social/@socialcg/11722128145106… Sometimes there seems to be a belief in some places that #ActivityPub standardization stopped years ago. True, it was in a lull for some time. But in recent years, it has become quite active again. Check out this table.

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

"Cancer Capital", ha! Great phrase by @anildash. When people in the Fediverse complain about VCs and Venture Capital, I think they mostly complain about that Cancer Capital, not so much traditional VC. We didn't have that term before, and it's a very useful distinction. Now we need one for […]

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

So Meta's Threads apparently has a feature called "Black Threads" now. I'll eat my hat if that wasn't "inspired" by @rude1.blacksky.team Blacksky in some fashion. www.threads.com/search?q=Black%20Th…

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Another set of large companies get extra rules and scrutiny by the EU. www.engadget.com/2247513/chatgpt-re…

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

The first real exception to the seemingly unstoppable march of age verification laws. At least that I have seen […]

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Some websites are so badly broken that even if you paid me, I would have no idea how to create a mess like that.

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Once there was a Leningrad. And an Aelia Capitolina. And a Karl-Marx-Stadt. And apparently the Gulf of America has been joined by Lake America. Temporarily, I would think, just like these others. Of course, the name changer in chief would not know enough history to understand that this movie […]

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

"... alleged that Meta estimated hiding like counts [for teens] would reduce its advertising revenue by 1 percent and then declined to make the setting the default." www.platformer.news/meta-child-safe…

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Today's hydroponics issue: One beet managed to grow inside the pipe, not above as it was supposed to, and -- unbeknownst to me, as I could not see it in the pipe -- grew so big in the pipe it completely plugged it. Remedy: laparoscopic beet surgery.

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

$18 billion! Some of this money should go to fund better alternatives. www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/tech/meta-st…

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FediForum @fediforum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

FediForum Fall 2026 is in just 6 weeks, and people who have registered are again proposing topics they want to run sessions about, or discuss. We are again publishing the topics on our website. Here is the 1st batch: fediforum.org/2026-10 Sounds interesting? Join us online […]

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Is it just me who cannot shake the idea that Natalie Harp is somebody’s very, very talented operative?

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

So if I understand this correctly, Bluesky is essentially giving each community its own (simplified) version of an ATProto network with a simplified protocol in what they call "Atproto Spaces" atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alp…. "You can think of an atproto space as a miniature […]

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

OH: "The global townsquare is showing cracks."

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221… The "Powered by Mastodon", putting the identity of the instance ahead of the software, is the exact right direction to go. It conveys "this is the xyz neighborhood of an overall network", and conveys a sense of locality and local culture […]

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Rabble is having fun! Divine is clearly wanting to be a mainstream social media product (Taco Bell!) but still avoid the negative parts of commercial media! about.divine.video/blog/divine-app-…

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

One thing I'd love to discuss at the next #FediForum is how well we do in the Fediverse and the ATmosphere on the issues that Meta is now being sued over for hundreds of billions of dollars in California court. I hope we are doing well.

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

The fact that this gigantic lawsuit exists and all the attention that will be paid to it ($200 billion in damages! Maybe over a trillion if Meta is right!) represents an amazing promotion opportunity for all of us working on better forms of interacting online than closed social media platforms. 1/5

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

It would be worthwhile to go through the Meta charges in this mammoth lawsuit one charge at a time and determine where various open social web projects stand in comparison. And if we do well — which I hope — use that to promote what we do as better alternative […]

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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Hey everyone who just followed me from the workshop! #SWF is hosting a #Fediverse #meetup TONIGHT Aug 14, 2026 at 7PM at the Irish Exit inside Penn Station. Come by and hang out with other Fediverse fans. Look for the crudely-drawn F3DIV3RS3 sign and #ActivityPub logo. (Others in NYC, please […]

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Mark Zuckerberg writes: "Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened has not led to safe or positive outcomes." Count me speechless. www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Hadn’t been sure I needed a bowl to bring when getting the eggplant from the back yard. Well!

A blue bowl filled with various peppers, including an eggplant, a red bell pepper, and several green chili peppers, is placed on a table.

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

What will happen when Trump realizes he / the US is now subject of blackmail by the Iran regime forever due to the mess he got us all in? Because I don’t think he realizes this yet and nobody has had the guts to tell him.

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

In a Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan movie we would consider this non-credible. "An airport employees noticed the drone... He got the drone to crash from the air into the ground by [wait for it] kicking it with his foot." […]

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Very interesting tidbits from the research @imanijoy performed recently. Such as: "Respondents said they still commonly use other platforms often seen as antithetical to the fediverse – including YouTube (61%), Instagram (34%), WhatsApp (30%), and Facebook (15%)." What if we designed our open […]

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Interesting interview with new Bluesky CEO @toni.bsky.team@bsky.brid.gy by The Verge. www.theverge.com/podcast/974387/blu…

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

"Worse on Purpose" is great. It focuses on consumer products, and their relentless decline in quality as brands get absorbed by enshittification-happy financial manipulators. But the site also tells you who's NOT wrecking things -- who you can still trust. www.worseonpurpose.com (I'm […]

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

The number of needed trips to the hardware store is always N+1.

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

I'm looking at NLNet's site, and it seems the fund that has funded so much of Fediverse development is no more and has not been replaced by something similar. Am I reading this right? nlnet.nl/funding.html

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

I'm attempting to figure out what exactly France is banning for minors. Facebook etc? Mastodon? Bluesky? Forums? ...? I found the legal text www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/t… but it references a bunch of definitions in other places which I've […]

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

My (single) slide from the panel at the EU office in San Francisco yesterday. It must have resonated because the other panelists also kept referring to it in their remarks!

Graphic. Left column: "From: centralized, autocratically governed, global-scale social media platforms" showing a prototypical but unnamed commercial social media platform with lots of users. 1 platform for the world, 1 approach to T&S, 1 leader in charge, 1 economic model (ads.
Right column: "Towards: locally run and governed, connected communities on the Open Social Web.." showing a federation with nodes with some random Fediverse and ATmosphere logos, with local communities around each of them. Thousands, millions of communities, T&S / governance / economic models by and as appropriate for the community. List of some key enables, and some term definitions.
And if you read it this far, I'm glad I took the time :-)

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Made a slide. Collected some thoughts. Have handouts. Seems I’m ready to talk to the policy people at the San Francisco office of the European Commission tonight about all the marvelous things the community is building that address the needs and wants of what people want from social media, but […]

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

At the hardware store waiting for a long time for the only person trained to cut a plywood sheet. Who then proceeded, and i kid you not, to attempt to cut the sheet with the saw blade at 90 degrees from the direction of the cut. And was very surprised that the blade would make contact but […]

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Every year we ask admins, moderators, community builders, to tell us how things are going, what they need, and generally take the pulse of the open social web. So far this year we've had responses from 22 countries. If you're not on the list, nudge your admin to take the 5 minute survey today […]

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