Reposted by Theia HendersonEthan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026"The loyal client" is a concept that's been important to our lab over the past five years as we've tried to make social media better: it's the idea that the tools you use to access social media should meet your needs, not those of the platform owner. Spencer Lane wrote a great paper on this as part 193
Theia Henderson @theias.place · 08/03/2026Boston-area folks: I'm hosting a "build your own social app" hackathon next saturday @ MIT. No coding experience required! Learn about our vision for a "malleable social web" and help shape the new ecosystem :) Register here: social.wiki/Social.Wiki/... 141
Theia Henderson @theias.place · 27/09/2025I'm headed to #UIST2025 🇰🇷 to present our 🏆 Best Paper (!!!), "Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications" @karger.bsky.social and David Clark doi.org/10.1145/3746...doi.orgGraffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications | Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 3247
Reposted by Theia Hendersonxuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) @xuanalogue.bsky.social · 29/06/2025learned how to sing like 100 gecs from @theias.place 041
Theia Henderson @theias.place · 15/05/2025I've been messing around with the AT Protocol and it seems like I've bricked my test account, @graffiti-garden.bsky.social ... and if you follow it, your follow feed can be bricked too! 🥰🧱(don't worry, unfollowing the "bad" account fix it) 120