Darius Kazemi

Findings Report: Governance on Fediverse Microblogging Servers Research report on Fediverse microblogging server governance: risks and mitigations, moderation, server leadership, federated diplomacy, and governance tooling.

Yup. For anyone interested, here's interview-based research I did on open vs closed registration with @kissane.myatproto.social: fediverse-governance.github.io#1.-registrat...

(it's on fedi servers but applies to PDSes as well)

Hometown for atproto 🤘🏾

Pretty good, pretty good 💪🏼

The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - Vertex Dispenser We're joined by droqen (The End of Gameplay, Starseed Pilgrim), Darius Kazemi (Tiny Subversions, Harvard Applied Social Media Lab), and Tara Macalister (mathematician, composer) to discuss Vertex Disp...

All Systems Brough - Vertex Dispenser

Rob and Andy are joined by @droqen.bsky.social, @tinysubversions.bsky.social, and Tara Macalister to discuss the second game in our yearlong coverage of @smestorp.bsky.social's work.

secretlives.games/all-systems-...

Yeah! It's just like... this is an open SOCIAL ecosystem. Can we please spend serious time thinking through social consequences of our actions

#WeCanJustReapThings

It's a good video

Stopping by to post my cover of Toby Fox's "Third Sanctuary" I made using the browser live-coding tool Strudel. #deltarune

tinysubversions.com/s/#third

Stopping by to post my cover of Toby Fox's "Third Sanctuary" I made using the browser live-coding tool Strudel. #deltarune

tinysubversions.com/s/#third

anything going on over here? no? ok see ya later

This is such an important skill to teach and like... almost no one teaches it. So glad to see.

Totally! I'm tracking Rudy's work in particular, and slices seems awesome from what I've read.

Aw thanks! Yeah, I put out some software today to help devs with Fediverse interop, but I would love to see someone run with this model in other ecosystems like ATP too!

In a single pull request I was able to transform gath.io (an open source e-vite thing) into AP/Mastodon compatible software. I did this by changing how routes in the webapp responded to certain requests. No new services needed.

PR: github.com/lowercasenam...
Demo video: friend.camp/@darius/1033...

I miss my game dev folks, I've been out of that social circle for too long (though maybe it's been long enough that I'm remembering it a little more fondly than warranted lol)

Hi!! What I'm up to these days is building a different but parallel social media world so I'm mostly over on that one haha. I even somehow managed a job at a fancy research lab to do it. But I check in here from time to time!

The meme for "how to draw an owl" where the steps are 1. draw some circles 2. draw the rest of the fucking owl The circles are overlaid with the text "PDS, Relay, Feed gen, Labeler". The complex owl is overlaid with the text "AppView"

How to draw an ATProto

I logged in to add: I believe that "Power" was Kanye West's take on the genre

hey just wanted to let you know I deeply appreciated the video, as a freak on a similar level and of a similar age

omg nice!!!!!

The lives and afterlives of community-created bots on Twitter: A minor history - Dominique Carlon, Jean Burgess, Kateryna Kasianenko, 2025 This article presents a minor history of the beneficial community-created bots that once flourished on Twitter, showcasing their important but overlooked role i...

Remember when social media was sometimes good, thanks to users and what they built? We do! Please check out this 'minor history' of Twttr and its community-created bots from @domcarlon.bsky.social @kkasianenko.bsky.social & me, out now in Convergence journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hi pals, I've been trying out bridging my Fediverse account to Bluesky. If you want more frequent updates from me, try following me at this account; even replies to posts there should get to me:

bsky.app/profile/dari...

Hi pals, I've been trying out bridging my Fediverse account to Bluesky. If you want more frequent updates from me, try following me at this account; even replies to posts there should get to me:

bsky.app/profile/dari...

The truth is that I often search my own tweets for references and @tinysubversions.bsky.social 's archiving utility makes it all very easy:
tinysubversions.com/twitter-arch...

no ill will to anyone here but I gotta be over on the network that I'm helping build friend.camp/@darius

I'm Joining the Applied Social Media Lab! Big news in my world: I am starting soon as a Senior Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center.

Time for my ~yearly update here: I'll be joining the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center! They exist "to reimagine, rebuild, and reboot social media to serve the public good." Which is kinda my whole deal and I'm excited to make it my job.

tinysubversions.com/notes/joinin...

Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps The Ford Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund will be funding Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi to study how prepared the Fediverse is to face the intrinsic and extrinsic risks that come with network gro...

Just dropping by Bluesky for like the fourth time ever to say that @kissane.bsky.social and I have been funded by the Ford Digital Infrastructure Insight Fund to run a project called Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps!

More here: tinysubversions.com/notes/ford-d...

hello, this is the second time I have logged in here

lol I am hardly on this site (I think this is my second post ever?) but here is a highly relevant panel I was on

https://blog.archive.org/2021/04/30/event-recap-why-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job/