Paul Fuxjaeger

🎉 The Fediverse is meeting IRL at FediCon in 4 days!

That's right, FediCon is in 4 days.

Talks. Demos. Panels. Real humans.

🎟️ Get your tickets now ⬇️
https://lu.ma/p4bbb941

🌐 FediCon
📍 Vancouver (Canada)
🗓️ August 1-2

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🥳 Also, there are 2 After-Parties:

• Friday 6pm to 8pm […]

@bumblefudge poking around selfhosted style? what’s cool about gts?

Dead Internet Theory

‘The % of fake online activity is higher than typically assumed - almost everything is actually generated with the intent to be mistaken as authentic representations of human expression’

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What if we could all ‘easily and regularly’:

1) ‘personally meet’ holders of […]

Can we please haz more fierce anti-big-tech battle calls like this:

'DMA is an instrument for addressing structural imbalances.

It MUST NOT BE ALLOWED to become a geopolitical manoeuvre'

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Back in the year 2022 when the Twitter Migration was happening —

I asked people on Twitter who tried to join Mastodon but gave up — WHY they gave up

By far, the most common complaint I heard was — picking a server instance

It seem like a very important […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

@daryll Hi Daryll, I'm curious, what made you become interested in meshes? Any chance your session notes/slides will be published?

PS: I'm with the @battlemesh crowd - we like meshtastic stuff too :)

Schedule #teardown2025 @crowdsupply looks awesome 😊

Will main track will be streamed? 👉👈🤓

Discussions on sovereignty at #ngiforum25 make me wonder which year we are in?

I'd like to thank @renchap for his concise and coherent statements:

We need to focus our efforts on funding and supporting public value network infrastructure ...

... THAT CANNOT BE BOUGHT 💪

'A (physical) bridge should probably NOT have a business model'

by @senficon, Director of Developer Policy at GitHub at #ngiforum25

~“We need an EU commissioner in charge of tech sovereignty. In a time of global crises and gatekeeper platforms, we don’t need vague platitudes about AI. We need strong leadership who understands the power of tech and can bend that power towards democracy. They need convening power to bring […]

~“We need to think beyond open source and interoperability. They are necessary, but not sufficient. Open source solves one chokehold. Open standards solve chokehold of product lock-in. There are other chokeholds.

How about changing procurement rules to require a label that companies fund open […]

Things stated by panelists as “not sexy” but essential for the digital commons:
• incorporating non-profit in the right EU country
• updating software dependencies
• writing documentation
• difficult cryptographic infrastructure

#NGIForum25

What’s a ‘Pico Peering Agreement’ (PPA)?

‘minimum baseline template for a peering agreement between owners of individual network nodes’

https://picopeer.net/

It encapsulates ethics and philosophy of community wireless mesh networks (and maybe also the […]

[Original post on chaos.social]

‘friends help friends out of epistemic polycrisis’

If not this, what else?
If not now, when?

#meditiation #poetry #aaronswartz

@thisismissem I'm kinda fascinated by this question, recently.

If there seem to be no 'significant drawbacks', then I would assume that most open networks that do not adopt it will wither away soonish...

@thisismissem thanks for the hint towards swicg!

may I ask what your current take on the content addr question would be?

My goal is to become a Zucker Vegan* by the end of the year!

*coined by @pluralistic !

#FediForum

@andypiper cognitive overload of the best kind, right?

#Serbia is showing us the way:

The core of the current protest movement has been built by committed students and professors, across all disciplines.

They are calling for:

‘International Academic Solidarity’

https://academicsolidarity.net/about

Let’s build […]

[Original post on chaos.social]

Congratulations to our friends at A New Social who launched their new Bounce tool today at #FediForum, and got a nice writeup on Techcrunch!

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/introducing-bounce-a-tool-to-move-your-follwing-between-bluesky-and-mastodon/

The Upcoming ‘Bifurcation of Culture’:

Current (Reactionary) Frame: ’Doom’

Future (Emancipatory) Frame: ‘Doom = Oppressive Frame’

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Why do I believe this?

It seems ‘self evident’ to me that ANY oppression can be overcome IF its fundamental injustice can be exposed to anyone who is willing […]

hi there!

@vortex @vgrass

is there a way for me to participate remotely in your workshop on Sunday?

"Does the marriage of Freifunk and Fediverse give us decentral resilience against trumpification and enshittification?"

sounds very close to my project work at univie.ac.at […]

@BjornW thanks, yes I am interested in all opportunities to contribute to discussions/sessions where the topic ‘how to deal with recent ATproto developments‘ is relevant.

In Vienna, a group is forming that wants to focus on translation and bridging, and whenever appropriate: convergence.

We […]

@BjornW Hi Bjorn, I believe we met last year at publicplaces after the Fediverse session?

If that’s correct, I would like to ask if you‘re participating this year too and if you aware of a session in the program that may shine a light on structural differences and commonalities of ActivityPub […]

How about we try to enforce some kind of ‘Polarization Tax’?

Concept was mentioned during keynote on ‘AI and democracy’ by Lawrence Lessig (@lessig) and Moshe Vardi ( @vardi) at this event:

https://dighum.wien/programme/

#DigitalHumanism
#digihum
#AaronSwartz
#Fediscience

The Ghost ActivityPub dashboard with federation switches for Threads and Bluesky, the latter of which uses Bridgy Fed

Looks like @index just added the switch that federates your blogs/newsletters to Bluesky directly via Bridgy Fed!

https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/114354514790616278

And it is done 🎉
(although still not that pretty 🙈):

Here is the always up-to-date sheet with more than 1000 official accounts by media organizations that you can follow from #Mastodon & everywhere else in the #Fediverse.

➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

There is a powerful […]

@dangillmor what role does international solidarity play in this?

What does the ‘global academic community’ need to do now?

What role do the emerging open social network projects play in this?

What happens to current #DNS infrastructure in case ALL root servers within US jurisdictions start to fail, like permanently?

Asking for a friend - who was originally wondering:

What happens to the #blueksy #DID directory …

… in case the operators of this seemingly central infrastructure […]

I'm finally unveiling the #ActivityPub project that has been consuming my weekends: Encyclia, an #ORCID bridge that will make ORCID records followable and interactable on the fediverse. 🙂

It's early-stage and the ORCID following function is not publicly available yet. We're seeking community […]