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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I’m in Berlin, Germany but Bluesky has decided I need to do KYC to comply with Texas laws. This social media future is both Kafkaesque and Orwellian.

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 05/06/2026

"Fediverse has completely 'radicalized' me in four years. [...] The more I learn about the culture of the fediverse, the more empowered I feel." @_elena conference.publicspaces.net/en/live… conference.publicspaces.net/en/sess… #fediverse […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Divine 1.0.14 is live on iOS. Three weeks of work since 1.0.12 — more control, cleaner loops, fewer weird edges. This one’s for the people who notice the details. Creator tools got serious: clip speed controls, timeline volume editing, local audio imports, audio extraction from your own clips […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

There are so many vine compilations from the old classics. Now there are compilations of all the new divines! youtu.be/QPbvsTsryhU

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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

I joined @rabble on the Revolution.Social podcast to talk about the intersection of technology and media. We discussed venture capital and media economics, the Indie Web, how newsrooms are approaching AI, and why the systems we build should support communities rather than extract from them. We […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

Verifying that I control the following Nostr public key: "npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240"

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

This week on my revolution.social podcast I talk to @mike of Flipboard, the dot.social podcast, and former Netscape executive. We go through the way we created an open internet on the web and how that was lost in the social media smartphone era, concluding with the struggle to restore an open […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

Great to hear @rabble doing the lord's work on MediaWatch; www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?sh… He mentions diVine, their decentralised reboot of Vine - the original short video app - using the Nostr protocol. In the fediverse we have Loops (or we […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

How do we stop the enshittification of the internet? I sat down with @pluralistic at Web Summit in Lisbon. youtu.be/CpLudlrwS_g

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

I'm building an ai-free social video app called divine.video and it's gotten a lot of attention. So i decided to record an interview explaining the who, what, where, and why of it all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf5iOWAfsm0

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william ⁂ maggos @wjmaggos.liberal.city.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

Great episode with @rabble and @mallory. In this new age of our government going after even big media creators, we need to reach out to them to help fund #SocialWeb decentralized distribution (that thus nobody can squeeze). That will also require a decentralized funding solution like […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

I miss Vine. I miss authentic human social media instead of AI slop. Being able to choose who you follow rather than being force fed content by adversarial algorithms. So I built a thing to bring the idea of Vine back […]

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Rabble @rabble.nz · 08/11/2025

@audreyt.org was incredibly gracious and simply moved on to focus on the real topics at hand. But come on, what a disrespectful way to “welcome” a community leader.

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Rabble @rabble.nz · 08/11/2025

For fucks sake. @julie-brill.bsky.social managed to completely screw up @audreyt.org’s pronouns while introducing them and then dismissed it by saying “whatever”. @mozilla.org why have someone moderate a #mozfest panel on the main stage who can’t get basic pronouns of trans panelists right?

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

This week’s episode of revolution.social is with @harper we’re we talk about social media for AI agents to talk to each other, how he went from a nomadic anarchist circus performer to being CTO of the Obama re-election campaign where they developed radical new forms of targeting voters […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

How do social media algorithms shape language and culture? Adam Aleksic talks with me about it and the open alternatives like the fediverse, nostr, and Bluesky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpkW8JhqcgY

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Rabble @rabble.nz · 15/09/2025

Apparently TikTok is suppressing the the term groyper.

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

Activist, Technologist, and Author @pluralistic took time to talk to me about the future of social media, protocols, resisting enshitification, bluesky, the fediverse, and the world we're trying to build together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=exvpetQRSVo

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

Medium has been around for so long we might forget it’s important role in the social media ecosystem. @coachtony, CEO of Medium, talked with me about Medium’s evolution, AI, their Reddit like content moderation system, and how they differ from substack […]

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william ⁂ maggos @wjmaggos.liberal.city.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

The idea of the "cicada" is great. People who only write occasionally when they have something important to say. It acknowledges that much of what the #substack puts out is filling space. To justify a paid subscription. I'd say the same with podcasts that aren't about processing the weekly news […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025

My talk from #why2025 about the need for fundamental freedoms similar to those we have for free software but for social media is online. youtu.be/DIsNPMHWKSI

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025

Giving a talk about bitchat, nostr private groups with MLS, and what we’re doing with andotherstuff.org at #why2025 in an hour at 7pm CET. Watch the stream streaming.media.ccc.de/why2025/delp…

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025

Are fediverse clients blocking users and federation with UK users and servers? Or are they hoping they’re too small to face charges under the UK OSA? Or going full KYC on all of their users and servers? I mean how do you tell if someone has made a post about a knife in a dangerous way? It seems […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

Substack has changed the world of journalism, making it easy for journalists to directly charge for a newsletter. Now they're growing in to a whole platform with algorithms, video, podcasts, microblogging... I sat down with their CEO Chris Best to talk about it just as they announce they've […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2025

How do we moderate the fediverse? I talked to @yoyoel for an hour about everything related to social media and the struggle to create trust and safety. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_cXVrkyVE

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

Radio New Zealand did a piece on homelessness and an elderly woman called in to talk about living in her car. The radio program was then flooded with people calling to offer a place for her to stay. New Zealand isn’t perfect but, it still strives to be humane.

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025

I sat down to interview @karaswisher on my revolution.social podcast where she is scathing in her critique of social media and the executives who founded and run the platforms. youtu.be/Lv820srV64k?si=cyx0F35tukc…

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

We deserve better & we can build it! Using social media we should demand these basic rights! Don't use systems that don't uphold these rights. Don't build systems that go against our interests and users. Why we need a social media bill of rights! […]

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Sarah Perez 💙 @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/jack-dors…

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

I’m launching a podcast talking about how social media got to where it is today and how we can build a better future, social media built on protocols. Revolution.social

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

Breaking news. As part of an effort to decriminalise drugs, New Zealand is legalising the pharmacy over the counter sale of melatonin! I genuinely was snuggling melatonin in to the country from overseas. This is removing a stupid rule. Small victories […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025

Just discovered a second podcast called Decentered (the name of the @wedistribute podcast). Listening to their fantastic interview with @rabble from Nos. social. Where he talks a lot less about the history of Titter, and a lot more about the history of Indymedia, and his more recent work with […]

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Rabble @rabble.nz · 07/06/2025

The fediverse / atmosphere bridge seems to be working well. I’m following myself.

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2025

Comparison at a very high level between Bluesky, ActivityPub (fediverse), and Nostr soapbox.pub/blog/comparing-protocols

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2024

Posters at protests are now created to go viral as a meme & amplify the movement. Take the recent Hīkoi defending Aotearoa New Zealand’s founding treaty. Posters weren’t mass produced, instead there were tons of different ones each with their own message […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2024

@mike nice interview with @kissane and @darius I'm super curious about your research in to / hearing from folks who want groups / privacy and are frustrated. Is this antidotal or are you seeing more trends / research on this? I think privacy and groups is not what bluesky has focused on. I […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2024

Listening to Harris campaign leadership reflect on the campaign. They knew Harris needed a strong break from the Biden administration to define how she disagreed and would do things differently. Harris refused and fundamentally believed loyalty was more important than winning. The blame for […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2024

If Trump really does impose broad and high tariffs then it’ll cause domestic inflation. What will it due the USD visa vi other currencies? Will it cause inflation elsewhere?

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2024

The new version of primal.net is hot. the first time a Nostr app is good enough for newbies. Watch Paul outline what they’ve done. primal.b-cdn.net/media-upload?u=htt…

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2024

I went to the Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti today in Pōneke. It was a nation wide march from both ends of the country to the capital demanding that the government uphold the Te Tiriti Waitangi treaty upon which New Zealand’s government was founded. The march was huge and inspiring. This is how we win.

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2024

I find it funny that Americans are very focused on the 13 British colonies that joined the United States of America and nobody ever even acknowledges the 10 others which did not. It feels like a massive blind spot. The only time they’re even obliquely referenced is related to the war of 1812 […]

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2024

My sister and her wife asked about moving from Arizona to Uruguay because reasons. I went to look up the expat forums and they’re full of families with trans kids who have moved from the US or are considering it.

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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2024

Elon did such a bang up job when taking over Twitter, I’m sure he’ll do great with those exact same methods and people with the US Government. archive.is/MLxVu

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