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David Imel @davidimel.com · 24/01/2026

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Rebble @rebble.io · 18/11/2025

Our negotiations with Core Devices have broken down, and we need your help, as the community, to decide what to do next: rebble.io/2025/11/17/c... (Aside: Ugh. This is probably the least pleasant thing we have ever had to write. We're incredibly sad it went this way, and sorry to have to post it.)

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Rebble · Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work

This is a post that we don’t take any joy in writing. When we wrote last month about our agreement with Core Devices, we went into it believing that coopera...

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

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Signal @signal.org · 03/10/2025

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 06/08/2025

the roll out age verification in the UK has clearly been devastating (clear examples of censorship & discrimination, & they’re scanning young people’s faces) but if platforms are also now blocking VPN workarounds that’s the end of the ability to “freely travel” online

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

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Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 15/06/2025

Hey btw. Use signal

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 09/06/2025

Starting #WWDC with an Apple TV+ ad. Fitting...

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Quinn Nelson @snazzylabs.com · 13/05/2025

The internet is an essential public utility and should be treated as such. Fiber networks should be (a) municipally owned, (b) funded by bonds and repaid by subscriber fees/dues, (c) leased to many different ISPs to ensure the lowest prices possible. It works. That is all.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 07/04/2025

The tariffs have just led an innovative U.S. company to scale back sales of its own goods in its home market. Who does this help? What sort of “medicine” is this?

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

Going to start a #BuildInPublic dev thread for my Sly Cooper #PebbleOS watchface. I started it as part of the 2nd @rebble.io Hackathon, and I’ll share some updates of what’s been going on so far as part of this thread so that I can look back at it if I want, and people can follow along if they want

Mock up of the square color watchface. The watchface is predominantly a light blue background with a picture of Sly Cooper in the center. It features the time above it in the title font from the Sly Cooper games, as well as the date below it in the title font from the Sly Cooper Games. There is an orange wedge coming from behind Sly that will show the battery health of the watch

Mock up of circle color watchface. The watchface is predominantly a light blue background with a picture of Sly Cooper in the center. It features the time above it in the title font from the Sly Cooper games, as well as the date above the time in the title font from the Sly Cooper Games. There is an orange wedge coming from behind Sly that shows the battery health of the watch

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is inaccurate. There is no known vulnerability with Signal's core tech. The memo was discussing phishing attempts, which Signal has worked to mitigate. And it was hastily reported. It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It's really crucial to understand how badly framed this is. There is no Signal vulnerability. The Pentagon email did a bad job explaining a Google report from a month ago and NPR repeated it. This is like saying because you got a phishing email at your Gmail address, there's a Google vulnerability.

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Signal @signal.org · 25/03/2025

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 15/03/2025

The #Rebble and #Pebble community hosted a hackathon last week. I made a Sly Cooper watchface for it. It's based on the "Thief Meter" (health bar) from Sly 2 and 3. I plan on continuing to work on it, but for now it has a picture of Sly, shows the date in addition to the time, and the battery life

Square screenshot of watchface. The watchface is predominantly a light blue background with a picture of Sly Cooper in the center. It features the time above it in the title font from the Sly Cooper games, as well as the date below it in the dialogue font from the Sly Cooper Games. There is an orange wedge coming from behind Sly that shows the battery health of the watch

Circle screenshot of watchface. The watchface is predominantly a light blue background with a picture of Sly Cooper in the center. It features the time above it in the title font from the Sly Cooper games, as well as the date above the time in the dialogue font from the Sly Cooper Games. There is an orange wedge coming from behind Sly that shows the battery health of the watch

Square screenshot of watchface. The watchface is predominantly a black background with a black and white picture of Sly Cooper in the center. It features the time above it in the title font from the Sly Cooper games, as well as the date below it in the dialogue font from the Sly Cooper Games. There is a white wedge coming from behind Sly that shows the battery health of the watch

A screenshot showing the original Thief Meter from Sly 2. It is a light blue oval with Sly Cooper's face in the middle. There is an orange wedge coming from behind Sly's face that shows how much focus he has to use gadgets and abilities

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 29/01/2025

OpenAI scraped the internet and copyrighted material, and now it’s suddenly concerned about plagiarism ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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404 Media @404media.co · 08/01/2025

Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship 🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 03/01/2025

Elon Musk never really open sourced the X algorithm, let alone kept it open source. He had his employees upload some of the code but it was never complete and didn't reveal how they actually used it in production. I'm really beginning to think he's a bit of a hypocrite.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 03/01/2025

Forcing users to accept a single algorithm is bad. Having it be closed source is even worse. The reason TikTok, X, and Meta keep their algorithms secret is not because they contain magic AI technology. It's because they don't want anyone to see the control they're exerting over society.

@elonmusk tweet "Facebook is manipulating the public almost everywhere on Earth.

That is why they won’t open source their algorithm."

GitHub page showing Twitter's 2 year old "algorithm" code which was never complete

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 02/12/2024

This came up in the context of orgs setting subdomains for their members. There ARE effects to doing that. Web links to your profile or posts depend on your username. But I did want to make it very clear, it only affects your username. An org-given username does not hand over control beyond that.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 26/11/2024

@myke.social listening to connected and you mentioning the issue with your Bluesky URL. You can add a redirect so if someone types myke.social into their web browser it’ll go to your Bluesky account. (Looks like that’s your mastodon server, you might be able to do bluesky.myke.social)

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 15/11/2024

💡 Tip: You can set your website as your username on Bluesky! This is one form of self-verification, and we especially encourage official organizations and brands to do this! Examples include @npr.org @react.dev @duolingobrasil.com.br. Here's our guide for how to do this:

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How to set your domain as your handle - Bluesky

Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 15/11/2024

New Dev thread for the Post Composer on my native iOS Bluesky client Horizon that may never ship

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 13/11/2024

Bluesky stuns in new App Store ranking

Bluesky Social as the #1 free app in the App Store rankings

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 06/11/2024

if you want to chat about something sensitive, you can use Bluesky DMs to exchange contact info, but I would recommend moving the conversation to Signal. Bluesky DMs are private, but they are not (yet) E2EE. Signal is hardened, focused, and does privacy/security best.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 22/10/2024

Started another dev thread for Horizon. This time I had the main post from the @dev.horizon.holme.tech account, and I responded with my personal. This way that account still has the figurehead, but is still discoverable by people who follow me. Let me know your thoughts on this format vs the first

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 22/10/2024

Got an @skyfeed.app question. I have a list of people I just want to see their latest post from. Similar to @why.bsky.team 's Latest From Follows, but for a specific list rather than your follows. How would I do that?

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 21/10/2024

@pfrazee.com @samuel.bsky.team @haileyok.com is it possible to get the previews inside @signal.bsky.social working better? I think it’s up to the individual website. Anytime I share a post it has a big blurry picture of the butterfly which takes up a lot of space and doesn’t look great.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 20/10/2024

Another week another Patriots offensive line combination

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 20/10/2024

Would love to get people’s thoughts on this. Should I keep posting updates on this separate account as threads? Post smaller updates on my main account? Make the start of the thread there and then comment on my main account? Or is something like @whtwnd.com better suited for this?

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Horizon Dev @dev.horizon.holme.tech · 19/10/2024

Work on Horizon has been going on for a little bit now. This thread will serve as a “catch up” to show where it started and where it is now 🧵 #BuildInPublic

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 19/10/2024

Doing something new for me. I've been working on a side project of a native iOS client for Bluesky. I'm going to post progress updates for those who are interested @dev.horizon.holme.tech. As a fair warning, the app might not ever ship, and there are absolutely no timelines

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 18/10/2024

@bsky.app and @atproto.com now has more users than ActivityPub according to @jaz.bsky.social’s bsky.jazco.dev/stats and @dansup.bsky.social’s fedidb.org

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A screenshot of FediDb showing 11,585,107 total users on ActivityPub

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 13/10/2024

Drake Maye with a 40 yard bomb for the first TD of his career

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 11/10/2024

"Unsupervised FSD in Tesla and California next year" Now where have I heard that before? 🤔 #Tesla #WeRobot

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 11/10/2024

Tesla and starting presentations late, name a more iconic duo

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 16/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #117,315!

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 13/09/2024

@davidimel.com @adammolina.com now that Bluesky has video you guys should make a waveform account and post the teasers here too

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 12/09/2024

Celebrating getting access to video by posting the first touchdown of the Post Bill Belichick Era™ #Patriots

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David Imel @davidimel.com · 28/08/2024

New episode of the Waveform Podcast about Federation, ActivityPub and Bluesky is out! Been a long time coming. Thanks @jay.bsky.team and @snarfed.org for the interviews and help with the episode! Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R9C...

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Protocol Wars - The Fediverse Explained!

YouTube video by WVFRM Podcast

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 26/08/2024

Hey @videah.net is skybridge still being worked on? Would be cool for support for lists to be added instead of just feeds. I migrated some of my feeds to user lists to not have to manage a feed anymore, but “lists” in skybridge are feeds currently. Maybe we could have them live there side by side?

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David Imel @davidimel.com · 21/08/2024

Social Web episode of Waveform coming next week

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