iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Matt Ram @mattram.life · 30/09/2026

Have you tried Proton Pass? I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on it

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 29/05/2026

Does @wordpress.com’s Jetpack Podcast upload service support Podcasting 2.0 features?

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IOIII - Tom Schillinger @pxnd.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Pelican waking up from a nap #birds

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 08/05/2026

Yayyyyy congrats. Such a relief to finish exams

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dame @dame.is · 06/03/2026

it sounds hella cheesy/corny, but we really gotta focus hard on cultivating hope and resisting slipping into hopelessness... it's one of the most vital things we can be doing right now

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dame @dame.is · 16/04/2026

i’m a big fan of holding space for multiple things to be true at the same time, highly recommend giving it a go

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 07/04/2026

Glad you came across it! After reading Joost's and Ryans latest updates on the project, I wanted to hear their, yours & @tk.gg's thoughts. I think it would make sense to bring @joost.blog @rmccue.io @marucchi.com into the conversation to discuss further. What do y'all think, potential for something?

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Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg @knotbin.com · 23/08/2025

This one was quick and a bit loose but I think there's something there.

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Wherever you get your Podcasts

Language in a decentralized future.

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 21/03/2026

“The subject is interesting. The interviewer is credentialed. They agree with each other at length. Nothing is at stake. No one is surprised. You finish reading and feel vaguely full but can’t say what you ate….You know people are doing interviews to accumulate symbolic capital, not insight.” @om.co

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How Not to Interview (Interesting People)

As a photographer who is primarily a writer, I like reading about photography so I can learn from those who create. I do that by reading photo magazines and listening to podcasts. One such magazine…

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 21/03/2026

Awesome piece, thank you! When you think of someone who consistently adheres to these principles, are there any podcast interviewers who come to mind—someone you can expect a solid interview from in any domain, regardless of your own knowledge of the guest or subject matter?

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 13/03/2026

@justinmezzell.bsky.social you tried building a new Digg without the compelling differentiator of being an open social app. Now try building on the AT network! You have to give up control over users' identity+data but you can build a great app and make money at scale: bsky.app/profile/jaco... GL!

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"A Hard Reset, and What Comes Next
Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team. This wasn't a decision made lightly, and it's important to say clearly: this is one of the strongest groups of people we've ever had the privilege of working with. This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding product-market fit in an environment that has fundamentally changed."

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 11/12/2025

Someone should be trying to convince Kevin Rose and the people building the new version of Digg to build on AT protocol. Reddit needs to be replaced and nothing would improve the new Digg’s chances like being an open alternative. They’ll have serious funding so will have the best shot by default.

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 21/03/2026

Let’s goooooooo!!!!!! Thanks for sharing. Excited to see if they can really expand down this path

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

DLSS 5 off / DLSS 5 on

photorealistic zuckerberg looking from outside a window

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 18/03/2026

@matthewdgreen.bsky.social Curious if you have any thoughts. From my understanding, Meta AI is integrated on Instagram (not sure the extent). I wonder if the encryption/passkey foundation built with Confer would extend to Instagram logins at a base layer. Maybe a path to encrypted DMs down the line?

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 18/03/2026

Just as we're learning about the end of DM encryption on Instagram, Moxie announced he's integrating Confer's privacy technology to underpin Meta AI. Full circle—the architect returns to implement encryption at scale on a new platform. Chapter two: exciting to witness, though it feels strange.

confer.to

Confer is bringing foundational AI privacy to Meta

I started building Confer because I saw how amazing LLMs are, and as a result, how much of our data is flowing through them. Already, AI chat apps have become some of the largest centralized data lake...

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 10/03/2026

If you want to hear more random thoughts from a yoga teacher that is very excited and passionate about humanity, let me know. We’re not all feeling doomed on the internet. I’m online for the good and to amplify the great. From my nook, this looks like a way to open the floodgates and carry the tide.

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 10/03/2026

@ma.tt don’t let Zuck and Substack take modern publishing, cook their asses bro. You've been on this tip for years. Now your foundation and ecosystem pays off, democratize 2.0. Tumblr, Woo, Pocketcasts, Beeper, Gravatar (DID passport). I repeat, cook them. Open atmosphere, lead the way. Do it again.

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 10/03/2026

Please feel free to obliterate me if I’m naive, I’m not the most technical and likely not considering the technical hurdles of this. It just sounds gnarly y’all, it makes me hype. Demolish these incumbent distributors, let us be them ourselves. Publish to my own storage and boom, internected… 🪐

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 10/03/2026

Imagine hosting/posting your own music and podcast episodes and appviews surface it by filtering for audio (like flashes). I’m assuming there could be a way for users to dictate, “music” or “episode” and then app views can separate the two in their own way (would this be a lexicon?).

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 10/03/2026

This feels like a new frontier for hosting providers and cms companies. They can unleash their user-base that already pays for hosting/domains and get this shipoppin. Paid content, memberships, all the usual “website stuff”, hooked up to the atmosphere. No lack of ecosystem, no lack of social reach.

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 10/03/2026

I’d love to pay for a simple way to manage my data and hosting from a single entity. Imagine the ability to upload my own photos, videos, music, podcast episodes, and know that it’s all being shared, stored, and backed up through a service I “own” (in the same sense of owning my own website).

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 10/03/2026

@toni.bsky.team @jay.bsky.team @ma.tt @pfrazee.com I’d love to hear if you envision some sort of Wordpress integration. I dream of a world where we have an easy way to publish and manage our own content; sovereignly! Wowza, I feel like a Wordpress PDS or an atproto CMS is where things get bonkers!

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Ryan McGinnis @ryan-steele-mcg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Beautiful golden light through the forest.

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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Autumn Relic

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 05/02/2026

(2/2) It would be nice to natively connect our domains to your services, especially if the social web keeps moving in the direction of atproto, Activitypub, or nostr. I’ve heard Andy describe email as our key to digital identity, why not secure one of the things most central to it?

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 05/02/2026

(1/2) Have you ever considered being a domain registrar? It would be cool to purchase and custody domains through your infrastructure, especially since we already trust you with other things so central to identity.

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IOIII - Tom Schillinger @pxnd.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I waited 2 years for them to come back to our Eucalyptus. And then BOTH show up at the same time!!!! Just sitting there next to each other 🦉😍 Western Barn Owl AND a Great Horned Owl #birds #wildlife #owls 🦉🪶

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Jos Buurmans | New Zealand @josbuurmans.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Layers of Wharariki Beach - Tasman Region, New Zealand. #photography #landscape #nz

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Chris Thorogood @christhorogood.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

WE FOUND IT! We trekked day and night through tiger-patrolled Sumatran rainforests accessible only under permit for this: Rafflesia hasseltii. Few people have ever seen this flower, and we watched it open by night. Magic.

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Cass Kolkjen @ck-photography.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Playing around at the coast last night.

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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Tendresse : Ce n’est pas seulement besoin de tendresse, c’est aussi besoin d’être tendre pour l’autre… ~Roland Barthes

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Cass Kolkjen @ck-photography.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

A couple snaps from a Redwood adventure this week.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 13/11/2025

if you can't embrace the fact that you suck at a thing and keep being bad at it until you get good enough that you stop being bad at it, you'll never get good at anything

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 13/11/2025

it's impossible to get good at something new without sucking at it first

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

"edit: never mind, i figured it out"

A weary knight slouched on a rock next to a skeleton. The caption reads: me and the one guy on Reddit that had the same problem as me 10 years ago.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Not the worst place to watch a sunset.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Anemonoides blanda, the Balkan anemone, Grecian windflower, or winter windflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. The species is native to southeast Europe and the Middle East.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Mother nature is the finest artist; the sky is her canvas. #photography

The right half of a remarkably-sculpted mesocyclone of a supercell thunderstorm, photographed at night and illuminated by lightning. The clouds have a clear bell shape to them, indicative of where horizontal air is pulled upward into the storm's updraft. Striations in the clouds hint at the rotation within. While this photo was taken, twin tornadoes were in progress beneath. Central Oklahoma, April 2023.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Our dynamic planet in monochrome, pt. 5. #photography

An aerial view of Shiprock - a volcanic neck quite literally sticking out of the barren landscape like a sore thumb at Sunrise. An exposed dike serves as a leading line, drawing your eyes from the bottom of the image toward Shiprock in the distance. Light from the just-rising sun is caught on the right side of Shiprock and the dike, while the left side of them remains dark. Clear skies are overhead.

A look down a long Icelandic canyon, with two prominent waterfalls. The first waterfall is near the camera on the right of the image and cascades hundreds of feet down to the canyon floor. In the far distance, at the end of the canyon, is a second waterfall of similar height. This one has numerous smaller waterfalls above it, with a little mountainous peak above.

A look along the columnar jointing on display at Studlagil canyon in Iceland. Large hexagonal pillars bracket both sides of a river fed by a glacier not far upstream. Partly cloud skies are overhead.

A massive wedge tornado churns over fields in central Oklahoma. A very well-defined clear slot wraps around the circulation. There is a cow grazing in the foreground, seemingly unaware of the monster behind it. Ah, to be so blissfully unaware...

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Our dynamic planet in monochrome, pt. 2. #photography

An aerial image above the summit of Guatemala's Fuego volcano during a particularly powerful eruption. A large eruption column extends above the summit, with gasses swirling around the vent. An incredible number of pyroclastic debris (rocks and chunks of lava) is blasted outward in all directions, peppering the entire frame of the image.

The towering, rocky column of Shiprock sticks out of the ground at sunrise, with hazy pastel color skies and clouds above, and a very distant mountain in the background.

A photograph looking straight down the center of a road - between brown to yellow fields - that points toward a massive glacier that reaches up into the patchy clouds. The wall of ice has a somewhat wavy appearance, with brown, rocky cliffs on either side.

A large, distant tornado chewing up dirt and kicking up dust in far west Texas, with dark swirling clouds overhead and a row of powerlines leading toward the storm.

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Matt Ram @mattram.life · 09/02/2025

Just a heads up, "Advanced anti-censorship features" is not properly linked to its corresponding section in the article. The path in the anchor link is missing the domain

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