Richard Reisman

Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers

Paging Dr. Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy) also fighting this).
Enshittification is keepin' me waitin'

Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...

"Consumers sour" "Investors Feel Good"

A Tale of Two Economies -- What is wrong with this picture? (@wsj.com today)

Panel: Rebuilding Value Chains for the Open Web Panel: Rebuilding Value Chains for the Open Web with Rose Wang (Bluesky); Christophe Leclercq (Europe MédiaLab); Erik Bugge (Kobler); Moderated by Sherif…

@rose.bsky.team, Christophe Leclercq, @erikbugge.bsky.social and @sherifea.com explored the the business models and economic opportunities emerging from decentralized technologies. vimeo.com/1140580861?s...

Politics meets protocols in Berlin What happens when you put politicians, media businesses and protocol engineers in the same room to discuss European sovereignty?

Huge shoutout to the @eurosky.social team for last week's #EuroskyLive in Berlin. Here's my "one week later" first take: mathewlowry.medium.com/politics-mee...

I write about some interesting developments in the ATmosphere (and the broader universe of decentralised and federated social media). Very intrigued by #Eurosky, especially the idea of shared moderation infrastructure. I will be following (and hopefully writing about!) this with a lot of interest.

Growing energy for @freeourfeeds.com. #FreeOurFeeds!

Growing energy for @freeourfeeds.com. #FreeOurFeeds!

Yes! "This is super cool, and a real validation of the ecosystem," via @mmasnick.bsky.social and @graze.social.

YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama Deliberative Polling and Democracy

What is deliberative democracy and how can it help?
youtu.be/IkTMr9Z6Kjk

“Who controls your attention?” Battles rage over freedom of EXPRESSION, but in the digital era, the real problem is freedom of ATTENTION. Everyone desiring freedom and democracy should be fighting for that!
Thanks to @frankfukuyama.bsky.social for supporting this movement. #FreeOurFeeds

Thank you @frankfukuyama.bsky.social for inspiring and supporting the movement toward open, interoperable social media and AI that restore control of our attention to individuals (and their communities) – and my efforts to advance that. #FreeOurFeeds!

“Who controls your attention?” Battles rage over freedom of EXPRESSION, but in the digital era, the real problem is freedom of ATTENTION. Everyone desiring freedom and democracy should be fighting for that!

Thanks to @mchangama.bsky.social at @futurefreespeech.org for inviting this. #FreeOurFeeds

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-...