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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Or maybe not. This post mu.social/profile/ronf... made it into this feed (mu.social/profile/did:...) despite failing every test in an Any of These block embedded in an All of These block. What am I missing?

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Talking of work, here's me trying to get something out of @graze.social ... I clearly don't understand what I'm doing. cc @byarielm.fyi

testing a post against a Graze Social custom feed. The post is given a text similarity score of -.005, and needs to be at least 30%, and it passed...

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

You liked every conspiratorial bullshit post mentioned here, so I hope you don't mind as I'm genuinely curious: do you actually believe EuroSky is backed by "big government intelligence agencies" operating from "behind darkened screens"?

But what interests me most of all is W's users: the replies to W's statement were dominated by themes like "MAGA and Russians bots", "big government intelligence agencies", "bigger interests behind darkened screens", although a few

montage of the conspiracy theory meme and various posts from wsocial and its user, some redacted, with red arrows linking them. It's a bit silly.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Exactly. But you're probably preaching to the converted here. I've been thinking about how to reach everyone else in the walled gardens, and hit an algorithbrick wall. mathewlowry.leaflet.pub/3mnz4qm75tk26

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post sharing similar news of meta meddling in Brazil: "Please do keep using Meta products, it's really helping (the extreme right)."

It's only had 34 impressions, and LinkedIn says I have to pay to reach my network.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

One question, @standard-reader.app: why are the Bluesky posts sharing the post not displayed?

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

I started vibe coding my content pipeline onto the Atmosphere in August, and the only reason I haven't finished is because I quickly realized that if I give it a few more weeks all the pieces I need will be built by other people who, unlike me, probably know what they're doing. 😄 Case in point...

Content pipeline: local development path, see https://mathewlowry.leaflet.pub/3mxgh342lsc2a

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Funnily enough, Friday morning I wrote about this, and the demo @vdbdavid.eurosky.social (Athumi) and @robin.berjon.com (@eurosky.social) are doing later this month at the Digital Flanders Fair. mathewlowry.leaflet.pub/3mxgh342lsc2a

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Love Joshua's take, below, and thinking it's maybe time to develop this image into a blog post and pissing off my entire Brussels Bubble network just a little bit more.

Photo of Hannah Arendt with her quote "Evil doesn't always look like a monster. Sometimes, it looks like someone just following orders", but the last word has been crudely edited to read "others".

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Given you want my children raped, I think I'll pass on that kind offer, thanks. But I'm curious: is anyone helping you? Or are you alone?

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

... up and unacceptable! I hope you're both OK, as I've also been on the receiving end of unhinged conspiratorial accusations when I launched BlogActiv 20 years ago (link in alt), back when Brexit was a feverdream and noone had heard of trolls. But you *have* come across as parano today...

Screenshot from https://myhub.ai/items/hello-world:

"... the Stalinists be damned. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I take notice of what any government tells me to say or not say. ... - kg

... red-blooded passion ...

I d love to hold the stake, that is driven through their black heart. - FU

and sheer unalloyed hatred ...

Mathew, I’ve checked out your nice little EU sanctioned site and quite frankly you and everything you’re doing disgusts me. It reminds me of having a pro-Hitler forum ... I despise everything the EU stands for and nothing will convince me otherwise and anyone who can be persuaded by your site that everything is all above board is a tool and deserves the prison state they’re going to find themselves in. - Aurora

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Great thread. For me the saddest part of this story are their fanboys: people who seem to seriously believe in them, and also in the idea of an anti-W conspiracy, despite the evergrowing mountains of evidence. The cognitive dissonance is impressive.

Drake Hotline Bling Meme:

Frame 1: You're doxing by reshaping
someone's private data!

Frame 2: It was ok to publish that data in the first place!

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Seeing some truly impressive cognitive dissonance in this thread on this weekend's #Wsocial microdrama. All happened a few hours after I cautiously welcomed some of their recent moves. Sigh.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

What an inflammatory accusation. It's not doxing when you share information freely published *by the person concerned*. re: fake outrage, a few hours earlier I literally posted that "WSocial's Constitution looks like a welcome step in the right direction" (mathewlowry.leaflet.pub/3mxgh342lsc2....

WSocial's red flag collection
This is all in sharp contrast to WSocial, which admitted as they recently published their Constitution that their (leaky) servers do actually store their users' ID documents, directly contradicting their PR manager, who assured me at their launch party in Brussels that each WSocial users' identity scans "never leave their device".

WSocial's Constitution looks like a welcome step in the right direction, as is their recent introduction of a migration service away from WSocial, finally making credible exit a reality for their users. But they're still storing your verification scans, so I hope they keep working at removing the red flags they've been picking up since launch.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

It took a while to find a wsocial account with content that wasnt their leadership (to whom this doesn't apply? See wdonthavetime.tngl.io/wsocial-wned...), but eventually I found @jan.wsocial.eu, whom I met at Atmosphereconf in Vancouver. Jan, I know you work there, but are you really OK with this?

Screenshot showing public data wsocial displays
https://wdonthavetime.tngl.io/wsocial-wned/#/@jan.wsocial.eu

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

First time anyone on EuroSky has ever blocked me. Inevitable, but kinda sad, given we've never interacted in any way.

Screenshot: "@rhythmandseven.eurosky.social has blocked you"

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

... I go to @roomy.space, where @ronentk.me, @wesleyfinck.org, @byarielm.fyi, @emily.space, @gui.do, @tgoerke.bsky.social & everyone else in #atscience hangs out, to tell them about the Belgian railstrike and... has my phone been hacked, or are the trains really out to get me?????

error message: "Not Found
The train has not arrived at the station.

Please check your network settings to confirm that your domain has provisioned.

If you are a visitor, please let the owner know you're stuck at the station.

Request ID:
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Go to Railway"

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Getting things on in the garden today, and I'm not alone.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

80 years after WW2 and people are still finding ways of being even more stupid about it than their (grand)parents ever were.

Screenshot from hacker news, with the last sentence highlighted:

So, we have that you differ in opinions, and you'd prefer not to work with him. That's fair, you don't have to work with everyone. But if I understand you right, you'd happily build something with someone who disagrees with you, say, a patriot of another country who'd put their own nation above all, Switzerland included. So what is it about "Hitler did nothing wrong" specifically that puts it on the other side of a line that one doesn't cross?

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Greetings from the Ardennes in drought.

Photo of a chateau on a river. The water level is low

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm no SEO expert. Why, when I googled "wsocial is a european truth social leaflet prendergast" (lmgtfy.com?q=wsocial+is...) to write the post below, @renderg.host's post from *June* didn't appear in pages 1-10 of SERP? Not referenced in the AI summary, either.

Search engine result page 1 for the search mentioned in the post.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

This doesn't just apply to usage of AI, but also X, Meta, Substack, etc. We have over 40 million Atmospherians who moved away from those properties in disgust. But we won't get the next 400 million by shouting at or shaming them (I occasionally have difficulty restraining myself here, tbh).

Screenshot, https://experiments.myhub.ai/permanent_versions/atproto/bluesky_adoption_challenge

Create value worth paying for

At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious: we won't meet the adoption challenge without something it makes sense for people and organisations to adopt.
The past few months have demonstrated that only a small percentage of X users will move to Bluesky in disgust at the prospect of
continuing to reinforce the influence of the world's richest Nazi. If this didn't get them to make the move, what on earth will?

(photo of musk giving a nazi salute)

In a better world, perhaps, people and organisations (companies, governments, civil society, etc.) would adopt Bluesky simply

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Oh, I know! If my Hub is my well-organised public library, the wiki contains my evolving, pre-distribution notes, from which I repost to share. That's changing, hopefully...

Screenshot from https://experiments.myhub.ai/myhub_on_the_atmosphere

"Two development paths

I want to both develop the myhub.ai platform to support this and provide credible exit to local-first alternatives, so two development paths are required:"

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Getting strong "On a Plate" vibes...

the on a plate cartoon, described here: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/35816251

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

Intermo definitely a concept in need of a logo, but this ain't it.

Bad AI cartoon of five people at a table with their moustaches intertwined in a complex web. It's shit.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

A new take on the banality of evil for the 21st century?

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

Seen from a platform perspective your fear is understandable. But this is a protocol, where: - anyone can create any labeller - the only people who see a label are those who chose to subscribe to it. I subscribed to the labellers who put these labels on my profile, and I can appeal them:

Screenshot of the appeal window against my Thaumaturge label.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

That's kind, but I don't want to lose the content pipeline I've got going, so I need to upgrade the publishing end of it, put the entire thing on the atmosphere.