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Non-bluesky Public Hosted PDSs Existing public hosted PDS options. This also has some things I hope that anyone hosting a PDS will look at. (Backups, account creation and migration will be covered separately.)

Non-bluesky Public Hosted PDSs - an existing short list as well as the way I've been approaching looking at this. Some pieces I think may prompt some conversations too. 😎

"does this llm have original sin" feels like a much more relevant question than "does it have a soul" (/"is it conscious" or whatever secular rewording is used)
i am strongly on the "yes" side & think "no" is incredibly dangerous

YouTube video by The Mountain Goats - Topic Jeff Davis County Blues

vibes today

I feel like they may have skipped a few steps.

Saskatchewan storytellers shared and celebrated their art during Indigenous Storytelling Month.

Read the full article from CBC News to learn how increasingly vital Indigenous storytelling is during times of geopolitical and ecological uncertainty: buff.ly/OQeqQ06

I can enjoy Bluesky properly now that @incompleterules.bsky.social is here.

Nava Strata: Open Source Government Technology 💻🏛️ - Civic Tech Chat We’re joined by Ed Mullen, Technical Solutions Director and Lauren Ciferri Director of Product, over at Nava PBC. We’ll have a conversation about open source...

Check out the latest Civic Tech Chat episode where we talk open source. I’m joined by Edward Mullen and Lauren Ciferri to talk about their work with Nava Strata, open software meant to help aid and accelerate public projects.

civictech.chat/2026/02/nava...

Less than 2 weeks left in the crowdloan!

What activities would you like to do in Bordel? You can come and start your project, it's a do-cracy

Couple of things we are planning:
> Hosting infra for community, running nodes and providing private RPCs
> Workshops on setting up selfhosting software

Support Rifai Sicilia on Artizen during their season 6 where buying our artifact (a digital collectible) directly funds our regenerative work AND unlocks match funding as we grow a bioregional commons and ecological economy with web3 and AI.

💚See link below👇

Volunteer opportunity at ERC Regen in Puglia (Italy) work on some of the many activities going on at the farm such as gardening, building, designing, cooking, help hosting our guests

Syntropic Agroforestry Volunteer Opening | Puglia, IT

Transform 2.5ha from monoculture to biodiverse food forest. 150+ species integration project.

EU residents 18-30y

www.ecosystemrestorationcommunities.org/2025/03/20/v...

#RegenerativeSystems #Agroforestry

from saas to sus in under 12 month :D

This is a HOT take that I will only share once, but I think Bluesky would be better if all the people complaining about the quality of their replies, thereby making the rest of our main feeds more boring and depressing, would simply stop reproducing the very boring they complain about

“you can just do things“ includes learning

(experimenting with a thing)

ok TIL webgl is cool

example: zzstoatzz.io?PARTICLE_COU...

fun on mobile: zzstoatzz.io?PARTICLE_COU...

fun on desktop: zzstoatzz.io?PARTICLE_COU...

Excited to announce our next big step - build @agoracitizen.network on #ATProto!

Thank you @bmann.ca and @pujaohlhaver.bsky.social for inspiring our work.

@atprotocol.dev @atproto.com

Long overdue but we're excited to share this case study from a pilot with UNESCO in October!

www.agoracitizen.network/blog/unesco-...

Our first post on Bluesky is the blue sky over the blue waters.

This is the view from the front yard of “Sharewood Forest” a 1 acre wood which we purchased as a legal decentralized autonomous bioregional association with crypto contributions from the community. Our goal is to regenerate the land.

Your heart isn’t the only thing that needs protection. Your personal data, chats, and images do too!

Encourage your friends to think before they click and report suspicious activity. Let’s make love, kindness, and safety go hand‑in‑hand this #SaferInternetDay.

DWeb Camp Cascadia, Aug 8-10th, Salt Spring Island DWeb Camp Cascadia takes place August 8th to 10th, 2025, at the Salt Spring Island Farmers' Institute in the Southern Gulf Islands, BC, Canada. Join us for an outdoor, camping-focused gathering of re...

I am running around doing final packing for #dwebcampcascadia

It’s a small ~50 person event on Salt Spring Island that the @dwebyvr.org and friends crew put together.

Yes, it’s actually camping, although power, Internet, & running water are all available dwebyvr.org/camp/

(sold out BTW)

A swirling orange, lava graphic that says: stop copaganda, surveillance tech copaganda tool kit, a new resource for storytellers to clap back at encroaching fascism. It features logos from Fight For The Future and compost magazine.

For the past year, I've been working with dozens of my most admired humans on the planet to put some new thoughts to think with out in the world.

Storytellers, may I present the uncensorable, decentralized Stop Surveillance Tech Copaganda Toolkit: stopcopaganda.compost.digital

Photo of Brewster Kahle speaking.

c-base logo

📣 Co-create #DWebCamp 2026 in #Berlin next week!

Join the Unconference + Meetup exploring #decentralization & the future of public knowledge in Europe. Meetup features a live fireside chat with Brewster Kahle.

📅 Feb 28, 2026
📍c-base in Berlin
🎟️🆓 dwebcamp.org/berlin-2026/

🧵1️⃣/2️⃣

Super looking forward to meeting people in Berlin and getting #DWebCamp organized. July's going to be great!

Three pieces of writing released over the past month!

You may be on the train "Burning Man is just bunch of SF tech bros getting high on acid" BUT it started as a grassroots gathering 40!! years ago. If Ethereum community and pop-up cities want to learn about how community culture is maintained and how it evolves it's from people like Marian.

Hypercerts Community Call · Luma Join us for a community update where we introduce our new infrastructure built on the AT Protocol, showcase the tools we’ve been building, and explore how you…

📣 Hypercerts Community Call

Join us for an introduction to our new infrastructure on @atproto.com, a walkthrough of our latest tools, and how you can start building with hypercerts.

🗓 5 March
⏰ 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET / 20:30 IST / 00:00 SGT

👉 Join: luma.com/kvdj8lq8

Letter from Exile #3 of 52 for 2026 Finding Certainty in an Uncertain World - and other wisdom.

Letter from Exile #3 of 52 for 2026
open.substack.com/pub/indignif...

let's make "app modality" happen (as terminology)

suuuper cool and fascinating. didn't realize mp4s were so non-deterministic. Also plays into perceptual hashing which @hypha.coop has got me interested in and will likely be really important going forward in identifying AI generated/modified video content.

Really looking forward to this Bread Cooperative webinar this week: 💚🌱

Picture of Prof. Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky with the text below: "Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky is Chair in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bristol's School of Psychological Science, and a globally recognized cognitive scientist whose work sits at the intersection of human cognition, misinformation, and societal responses to scientific evidence.

Poster for the CBC 2026: Conference on Connecting Biodiversity, Climate and Human Behaviour Sept 21-24, 2026 Leipzig, Germany organized by: UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Universität Leipzig

🌍 𝗖𝗕𝗖 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝗿 - has the honor to have as a keynote speaker: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗸𝘆 (@lewan.bsky.social 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗹 @bristoluni.bsky.social)