Richard Reisman

The arc of reality may bend slowly, but bends toward biting back.

Maybe an ecosystem that supports a handful of well-resourced shared services is the solution that satisfices?

What most people think of as @bsky.app is just the tip of the @atprotocol.dev iceberg -- and this iceberg is growing -- from the top and bottom!

Very nice explanation of why @bsky.app and @atprotocol.dev really matter, by @danabra.mov.

Bluesky Custom Feeds - Built By You Design, deploy, and grow custom feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.

We're excited to share the new Graze! Completely redesigned look, same powerful tooling. Check it out at graze.social ✨

Thoughts for the Global Free Speech Summit (10/3-4/25) I look forward to attending the  Global Free Speech Summit  on October 3-4 in Nashville, with an impressive slate of speakers.  These are tr...

Some initial thoughts going in, for a piece I plan to write soon after: ucm.teleshuttle.com/2025/09/thou...

Looking forward to the Global Free Speech Summit on October 3-4 in Nashville, with an impressive slate of speakers. Here are some thoughts going in, as I hope for added insights at the Summit. Thanks to @futurefreespeech.org and @mchangama.bsky.social. #FreeSpeechSummit2025

Happy to see renewed attention to the innovative ideas of #FairPay revenue strategies in this thread by @kissane.bsky.social & @bmann.ca (with some comments added by me).

And FairPay encompasses value exchange of all kinds, in both directions—so can include non-monetary forms of value, such as “like & subscribe,” into its highly customizable “reverse metering.”

Yes, I often use the term “patron” as more appropriate than customer or consumer. It signifies potentially ongoing relationship, the key to #FairPay.

So Last Century! - It's Time to End the Tyranny of Set Prices FairPay: Adaptively Seeking Win-Win - Customer Dialogs about Value, Personalized Pricing -- a win-win way to resolve the revenue crisis for digital

…and this older one explains why the fixed, pre-set pricing we take as a given is actually unnatural and an artifact of mass retail. www.fairpayzone.com/2014/12/so-l...

The FairPay Zone FairPay: Adaptively Seeking Win-Win - Customer Dialogs about Value, Personalized Pricing -- a win-win way to resolve the revenue crisis for digital

My latest post on FairPay notes that the expected rise of Personal AI agents (PAIs) promises to make FairPay far easier and intuitive to apply.
www.fairpayzone.com

Thanks @kissane.bsky.social for citing my post, & @bmann.ca for tagging me & the excellent #ProtocolsforPublishers.

My work explains why it is not subs or micropayments, but fixed prices that cannot be value based—and that digital enables a process for value-based relationship pricing.

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Early days. A high level “feed mixer” and an ecosystem of “branded” curation services could make customizing feeds as simple and intuitive as a newsstand (as I describe in the linked blog post).

Delegation, Or, The Twenty Nine Words That The Internet Forgot | TechPolicy.Press Section 230 language regarding user control over what information is received is crucial, write Richard Reisman & Chris Riley.

…and all 4 installments in the Delegation Series with @mchrisriley.com explore this nuance, reflexivity, and sociotechnical dynamics.
techpolicy.press/delegation-o...

That is temporary and being addressed by Free Our Feeds and related efforts to open and catalyze the ATmosphere to create filters and friction to limit such problems.

Beyond the State of the Art in Social Media (and AI) -- Cruising Your "Vibes" with a Feed Mixer -- on "Bicycles for Our Minds" Context : I have been thinking and writing about this future of "bicycles for our minds" for decades in ways that look well beyond the gener...

More at ucm.teleshuttle.com/2025/08/beyo.... And an early example is Blacksky: blog.rudyfraser.com/an-internet-...

We should be less doomerist (or defensive) on skew in initial Bsky communities, & use Bsky as leverage to build an open pluriverse that can offer whatever vibe you want. We have only short window to build that before openness to diverse communities of interest/values may become impossible.

As open ATproto ecosystem grows & better feed mixer services emerge, you will be able to compose feeds for whatever vibe you want any given time. This composable ecosystem will grow to be a “shmoo” (a cartoon creature that wants to be eaten & tastes like whatever you want it to).

Blueskyism: Nate Silver's argument (pro AND con) about the “vibe” of Bluesky as a "wokeist" “lib Twitter” misses the really important potential of Bluesky/ATproto's intrinsic ability to “Free Our Feeds” to let every user to filter for their own vibe - now in just early stages of emergence.🧵

Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

Filtering for Serendipity -- Extremism, "Filter Bubbles" and "Surprising Validators" [ The Augmented Wisdom of Crowds:  Rate the Raters and Weight the Ratings ,  (2018)  puts this in a much broader framework and outlines an a...

Right! ...a start in that direction from 2012, now being picked up as "bridging systems."
ucm.teleshuttle.com/2012/10/filt...

Looking forward to an interesting day of discussion and new ideas/perspectives with a great group - and follow-up after. cc: @chadkoh.com @bmann.ca @ivansigal.bsky.social @devingaffney.com @werd.io @bnewbold.net

FairPay: an Innovative, Win-Win Customer-First Revenue Model Framework for Social Media, AI, and Other Digital Services FairPay: Adaptively Seeking Win-Win - Customer Dialogs about Value, Personalized Pricing -- a win-win way to resolve the revenue crisis for digital

...and biz models for AI info agent services:
www.fairpayzone.com/2024/11/fair...

Three Pillars of Human Discourse (and How Social Media Middleware Can Support All Three) | TechPolicy.Press Human discourse is a social process, writes Richard Reisman, that depends on three pillars: agency, mediation, and reputation.

..the bigger picture dynamics of online discourse:
www.techpolicy.press/three-pillar...

Making Social Media More Deeply Social with Branded Middleware This vision of social media future is meant to complement and clarify the vision behind many of my other works (such as  this , see list of ...

...for publishers:
ucm.teleshuttle.com/2024/10/maki...

Beyond the State of the Art in Social Media (and AI) -- Cruising Your "Vibes" with a Feed Mixer -- on "Bicycles for Our Minds" Context : I have been thinking and writing about this future of "bicycles for our minds" for decades in ways that look well beyond the gener...

...for protocols, capabilities I hope to see (5 year horizon?):
ucm.teleshuttle.com/2025/08/beyo...

Thoughts for discussion at 2nd day of #protocolsforpublishers, as perhaps the one thinking about these directions longest (for what it's worth) - some links 🧵:
- Directions for protocols
- Directions for publishers
- Big picture dynamics of online discourse
- Biz models for AI info agent services