Thank you for writing down the definitive explanation of this topic that should be obvious so that I can point disingenuous shitbirds at it forever. x.com/nomadj1s/statu…

The more I think about it, these platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) aren't "social" and they aren't agnostic "publishers" they are something I can only describe as "Network Effect Arbitrage Machines." [Thread]

She calls for collective coordination and interoperability, so we’re not stuck recreating network effects every time. Many respond “Join Mastodon” or “Join SSB”...

1/ decentralization is a myth. we use "decentralized" without any specificity as to what that *actually* means. let's untangle the idea of decentralization. i developed a basic grid that breaks it down at the protocol, network, and app layer (dated april 2018)

Ready for liftoff? Time to board the Mozilla Hacks rocketship—in today's #DWeb post we invite you on an InterPlanetary (Filesystem) Journey to explore how IPFS, a distributed P2P protocol could make internet traffic safer, affordable and more equal! 🚀 hacks.mozilla.org/2018/08/dweb-b…

The future of finger photography is now w/ Lucas Rizzotto Darragh Dandurand #MadeWithUnity #MadeWithMagicLeap #MadeWithMagicLeapOne #AR

OH in Philadelphia: “I heard there’s a big gay scene in Madison. Cheesemaking lesbians.”

Landing with Michelle Lee (@mosh.bsky.social) and @eefahy at #LWTSUMMIT NYC hosted by LWT

Watching a succession of amazing speakers opening #lwtsummit NYC @ Stage 48 instagram.com/p/Bnq4ak3l4dJ/…

Today Cloudflare goes InterPlanetary with our new IPFS gateway. Details: blog.cloudflare.com/distributed-we…

Cloudflare now runs an IPFS gateway! A fast, reliable bridge 🌈 between the traditional web and the distributed web. More on how it works (and how to connect your IPFS content) in the blog👇🏽

My new research group @ MIT, the Knowledge Futures Group, is designing new ways to build societal knowledge. If you've been dreaming about public knowledge graphs, let me know. #Wikidata #Freebase UnderlayProject

Facebook made WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton a billionaire and he has mixed feelings about it. Great story. “I sold my users’ privacy to a larger benefit. I made a choice and a compromise. And I live with that every day.” forbes.com/sites/parmyols…

Lesson from a Glasgow gay bar: classic girly burlesque doesn’t work when only 2 people in the room are attracted to women.

Wow! melodysheep made a video about Protocol Labs where I’ve worked on @IPFSbot libp2p and decentralizing the web since 2016

I 💗 the JS IPFS release announcements. They're always overflowing with personality.

Holidays with the family means quality down time with the_motley_fool @ Boston, Massachusetts instagram.com/p/BqkvU8LFiGX/…

Hey internet, Here is my statement on the event-stream issue: gist.github.com/dominictarr/9f… Thanks to everyone who sent me friendly emoji ;) I'm okay. But this is really a much bigger issue (the viability of open source). I'm glad that this incidence is raising awareness!

2021: Year of the Love-In? flyingzumwalt.com/2020/12/02/202…

Wordle 282 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It’s actually disappointing when this happens.