It's so disappointing that #Bluesky decided to make a brand new protocol instead of going with the established standard - #ActivityPub. I hope they at least make #ATProtocol interoperable with the #fediverse in the future.
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@mmasnick.bsky.social The only X that went anywhere was MIT's Athena project (started in 1986) and even that is dying.
Elon Musk's legacy I think is permanent now… unless #Twitter pull a rabbit out of a hat (e.g. #ActivityPub or #ATProtocol integration), it'll fade into irrelevance very soon.
The problem with #Bluesky is they came to be during a time when decentralization was en vogue, so they decided to just be that.
But, it's marketing.
Ten, fifteen years ago Bluesky would've branded itself as "modular" or having a robust API like App dot Net.
They want to be the internet's common infrastructure. Of course they do. What for-profit company wouldn't want that?
I maintain that #ATProtocol is interesting. But it's not a noble pursuit.
Anyway, I deleted my BS account.
X, 3 günde iki kere çökmüş sanırım şaşırdık mı şaşırmadık tek merkezden yönetilen sosyal medya platformlarına insanlar bu kadar çok güvendikçe bu devam edecek.
#X #Twitter #ElonMusk #merkeziyetsiz #BlueSky #Mastodon #ActivityPub #nostr #pixelfed #ATProtocol #SocialMedia #sansurunkarsisindadur #sansur
Destroying Autocracy – May 22, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Featured Item(s)
Hamish Campbell writes:
We need to keep highlighting an old but still urgent tension: the intersection of technology and social change. In this too often unspoken divide, one side leans heavily on practical, technical problem-solving. They want working code, functioning systems, and tangible results, not abstract debates. To them, critiques about capitalism shaping code sound like distractions from the “real work.”
The other side insists that technical problems are social problems. They argue that all code is written by people, shaped by culture, power, and history. Ignoring the social dynamics behind technology guarantees we repeat the same failures.
The Open Media Network isn’t just about media, it’s about building the social soil
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, TechnoFeudalism, and other douchebaggery
The European Council of the European Union reports:
Wired reports:
/e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It
You really should. I love it on my Fairphone.
Tuta shows us:
Best private Google alternatives: The ultimate list to De-Google your life in 2025.
Bert Hubert shares:
What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech
Lionel Dricot has a:
The Center for Democracy and Technology reports:
CDT Advocates for Counter-Drone Authorities that Protect Civil Liberties
EuroNews reports:
EU to provide €5.5 million in emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat
BleepingComputer reports:
European Union sanctions Stark Industries for enabling cyberattacks
US indicts leader of Qakbot botnet linked to ransomware attacks
TechCrunch reports:
Fortnite returns to the US App Store after a five-year gap
Signal says:
By Default, Signal Doesn’t Recall
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
Micah Flee reports:
DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage’s archive server
TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more
Tech Policy reports:
Proposed Moratorium on US State AI Laws is Short-Sighted and Ill-Conceived
Pariah States
EuroNews reports:
Poland’s Tusk says Russian hackers attacked party websites ahead of presidential election
The Register reports:
Russia’s Fancy Bear swipes a paw at logistics, transport orgs’ email servers
The Kyiv Independent reports:
UK accuses Russian GRU of carrying out cyberattacks targeting logistics, technology organizations
BleepingComputer reports:
Russian hackers breach orgs to track aid routes to Ukraine
Chinese hackers breach US local governments using Cityworks zero-day
DarkReading reports:
Pandas Galore: Chinese Hackers Boost Attacks in Latin America
AP reports:
Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza
Big Media
404 Media reports:
Viral AI-Generated Summer Guide Printed by Chicago Sun-Times Was Made by Magazine Giant Hearst
Calmatters reports:
Google follows Newsom in reducing support for California local news
Big Tech
Bloomberg reports:
Google Decided Against Offering Publishers Options in AI Search
MIT Technology Review reports:
By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible
The Guardian asks:
Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us understand – and resist – the hard right?
It can’t hurt, but if you want to take action that will resist it, read our Manifesto via the link in the navigation.
Runbox reports:
Outlook stores email in Microsoft Cloud – what you need to know
TechCrunch reports:
Judge pressures Apple to approve Fortnite or return to court
Grok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’
404 Media reports:
‘Configuration Issue’ Allows Civitai Users to AI Generate Nonconsensual Porn Videos
Ars Technica reports:
Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections
Renée DiResta has:
We’re all trying to find the guy who did this
The Register reports:
‘Close to impossible’ for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers
Discouraging, but you can always do something locally.
Terror
404 Media reports:
Student Makes Tool That Identifies ‘Radicals’ on Reddit, Deploys AI Bots to Engage With Them
Cybersecurity/Privacy
404 Media reports:
Telegram Gave Authorities Data on More than 20,000 Users
Reuters reports:
So-called newspaper, The Washington Post reports:
Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
The Register reports:
CISA has a new No. 2 … but still no official top dog
On a more encouraging note, It reports:
FBI, Microsoft, international cops bust Lumma infostealer service
The Internet Society reports:
Encryption Under Threat: The UK’s Backdoor Mandate and Its Impact on Online Safety
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Decentralisation as a shifting mental framework
Ben Wermuller says:
Let’s fund the open social web
IFTAS examines:
A New Social announces:
Ghost has:
Magic Pages has:
TechCrunch reports:
Open social web browser Surf makes it easier for anyone to build custom feeds
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Fediverse Report has:
Leaflet Lab announces:
We’re making a social publishing platform built on Bluesky
Kind of like Ghost with ActivityPub.
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Blacksky and the Future of Community with Rudy Fraser
What if your social media experience weren’t controlled by an algorithm or a corporation, but by your community? That’s the idea behind Blacksky, a decentralized project built on the AT Protocol — the same infrastructure powering Bluesky. Though their names contain the same suffix, it’s important to know that Blacksky is not hitching its wagon to the Bluesky app, team or platform. The community, helmed by founder and CEO Rudy Fraser, is charting an independent and ideally […]
Free Our Feeds - Update #2, May 2025. #ATprotocol
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Free Our Feeds · Free Our Feeds - Update #2, May 2025A lot has happened since our last update in February: loads of activity in the ATProto ecosystem and, of course looking at the bigger picture, the Trump administration’s policies have upended geopolitical relations.
Technology is at the forefront of these changes – it’s become clearer than ever that having
Destroying Autocracy – May 15, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Featured Item(s)
Cory Doctorow has:
Who Broke the Internet? Part II
It’s not who you think.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, TechnoFeudalism, and other douchebaggery
The Verge reports:
Pope Leo XIV names AI one of the reasons for his papal name
Tech Policy has:
Europe’s Digital Sovereignty is a Democratic Imperative
Building the Eurostack: Can Open-Source Save Europe’s Tech Future?
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has:
Call on European Parliament to push for data enforcement to defend democracy
EuroNews reports:
Dutch competition agency launches two probes under EU Digital Markets Act
The Register reports:
Europe plots escape hatch from the enshittification of search
The ‘End of 10’ is nigh, but don’t bury your PC just yet
Wired reports:
North Korean IT Workers Are Being Exposed on a Massive Scale
Neutral
The Free Software Foundation Europe shares:
Legal Corner: The threshold of originality for copyrightable source code
Government Techology asks:
Does the Federal Government Have a Right to States’ Data?
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
The FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public Airwaves
IRS-ICE Immigrant Data Sharing Agreement Betrays Data Privacy and Taxpayers’ Trust
404 Media reports:
License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows
TechCrunch reports:
FTC delays enforcement of click-to-cancel rule
White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans’ sensitive data
The Verge reports:
Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
Propublica reports:
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
It’s not just Africa either.
Pariah States
TechCrunch reports:
Five things we learned from WhatsApp vs. NSO Group spyware lawsuit
The Kyiv Independent reports:
Poland detects foreign-funded election ads amid fears of Russian interference
BleepingComputer reports:
Moldova arrests suspect linked to DoppelPaymer ransomware attacks
DarkReading reports:
North Korea’s TA406 Targets Ukraine for Intel
Turkish APT Exploits Chat App Zero-Day to Spy on Iraqi Kurds
Big Media
So-called newspaper, The New York Times reports:
A Free People Need a Free Press
No shit, fuckers. Why have you been laying down on the job the last few years?
EuroNews reports:
UK to allow foreign states to own 15% stake in British newspapers
Big Tech
Privacy Guides shares:
The Register reports:
Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
Meta’s still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb
ArsTechnica reports:
Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says
Report: Terrorists seem to be paying X to generate propaganda with Grok
Jesus.
404 Media has:
Why Did Grok Start Talking About ‘White Genocide’?
Fuck me.
ArsTechnica reports:
Report: Terrorists seem to be paying X to generate propaganda with Grok
Jesus.
404 Media has:
Why Did Grok Start Talking About ‘White Genocide’?
Fuck me.
Tech Policy reports:
Racialized Grooming Gangs: How Musk and X Amplified Islamophobia and Racism in the UK
Cybersecurity/Privacy
MIT Technology Review reports on:
How a new type of AI is helping police skirt facial recognition bans
The Register reports:
Feds disrupt proxy-for-hire botnet, indict four alleged net miscreants
You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs
As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database
Martin Fowler.com has:
Coding Assistants Threaten the Software Supply Chain
AI is still 95% horseshit.
W3C announces:
Privacy Principles is a W3C Statement
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Hamish Campbell opines:
We do need tools to share to help people on the path back onto the #openweb
The Library of Alexandra says:
Moderating Communities is Not a Burden
It just seems to be for tech bros.
Dead Superheron shares:
We Distribute reports:
Mastodon: Giving Journalists Options Away From Big Tech
ActivityPub for WordPress has:
5.9.0 – Easier Onboarding for Your Fediverse Experience
Ghost has:
Sciety announces:
Sciety secures funding from NLNet Foundation to help build discourse around preprints
Lemmy has:
Lemmy Development Update April 2025
TechCrunch reports:
Threads now lets creators add up to 5 links to profiles, track clicks
More enshittification from the c^nts at Meta.
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Fediverse Report has:
Taking Control of Your Timeline – in Different Ways
Free Our Feeds shares:
Free Our Feeds – Update #2, May 2025
Bluesky gives an update on:
The Dabbler has:
I updated my Bluesky PDS and it stopped working. Here’s how I fixed it.
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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At SXSW's Fediverse House, it didn't matter which platform or protocol you preferred — everyone was focused on the singular goal of building a better internet. We've uploaded videos and highlights of key conversations from the event and rounded them up in one post. Here you go:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/fediverse-house-2025-roundup/
About Flipboard · No Walls, Just Vibes at SXSW’s Fediverse House
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Destroying Autocracy – May 08, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Featured Item(s)
Hamish Campbell writes:
The world we live in is shaped, created by 40 years of entrenched pushing of #neoliberalism and #postmodernism, both of which have systematically dismantled radical change and challenge paths that used to exist.
To reclaim our path, we now need to reject the illusions of “common sense” fed to us by the #deathcult and reboot our social view from a place of clarity.
This is where the #hashtags come into use, acting as conceptual tools for navigating, understanding, and breaking free from the mess we’re in.
Decoding the Hashtags: A Roadmap for Social Change
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, TechnoFeudalism, and other douchebaggery
The Christian Science Monitor reports on:
Origins of Ukraine’s drone creativity
The Kyiv Independent reports:
Book on Soviet dissidents wins Pulitzer Prize
DarkReading reports:
Countries Begin NATO’s Locked Shields Cyber-Defense Exercise
Euronews reports:
‘We are less protected’ due to AI, says Cambridge Analytica whistleblower on protecting our data
Libre Office announces:
Germany committing to ODF and open document standards
Benjamin Hollon envisions:
The Guardian reports:
OpenAI reverses course and says non-profit arm will retain control of firm
TechCrunch reports:
FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12
US DoJ wants Google to sell two of its ad products
MacRumors reports:
Apple Faces Developer Lawsuit After Defying App Store Injunction
404 Media reports:
GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked
Tuta announces:
Bert Hubert has a European:
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
Gizmodo reports:
With Its Destruction of Government Data Silos, DOGE Is Building a ‘Surveillance Weapon’
The Register reports:
India ready to greenlight Starlink – as long as it lets New Delhi censor, snoop
Fascist capitalism at its finest.
Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate’s Waltz was apparently an insecure mess
Unicorn Riot reports:
Pariah States
Micah Flee shares:
The Register reports:
Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp court battle
From Russia with doubt: Go library’s Kremlin ties stoke fear
The Kyiv Independent reports:
Poland faces ‘unprecedented’ Russian interference ahead of presidential election, minister says
The Guardian reports:
Pro-Russian hackers claim to have targeted several UK websites
DarkReading reports:
‘Lemon Sandstorm’ Underscores Risks to Middle East Infrastructure
Big Media
The World Association of News Publisher reports:
Media outlets worldwide join call for AI companies to help protect news integrity
Yeah, right.
Platformer shares:
Big Tech
The Register reports:
Infosec guru Schneier worries corp AI will manipulate us
Futurism reports:
Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
404 Media reports:
Well, Well, Well: Meta to Add Facial Recognition To Glasses After All
Cory Doctorow has:
Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025)
People wonder why I’m a misanthrope.
Tech Crunch reports:
NSO Group must pay more than $167 million in damages to WhatsApp for spyware campaign
Forbes reports:
200 Million X User Records Released — 2.8 Billion Twitter IDs Leaked
If you are on shitter at this point, you get what you deserve.
Terror
Tech Policy reports:
From Incels to Mercenaries: When Online Hate Becomes Real-World Violence
Cybersecurity/Privacy
404 Media reports:
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
Senator Demands Investigation into Trump Admin Signal Clone After 404 Media Investigation
The Register reports:
Altman’s eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America
RSA Conf wrap: AI and China on everything, everywhere, all at once
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has:
BleepingComputer reports:
Police takes down six DDoS-for-hire services, arrests admins
Germany takes down eXch cryptocurrency exchange, seizes servers
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Tim Bray looks at:
Mastodon has:
Coxy has:
Reclaiming the web: Mastodon and the decentralised social movement
Ghost has:
NodeBB asks:
What would cross-posting between instances look like in ActivityPub?
Peertube has:
AlternativeTo reports:
Kagi adds PeerTube video search results, enhanced Assistant UI, and translation upgrades
The Social Web Foundation is:
Reflecting on Our First Year: The Social Web Foundation’s 2024 Annual Report
Bem Werdmuller shares:
Bonfire has:
Slow Software for a Burning World
TechCrunch reports:
Instagram Threads is getting video ads
Sigh.
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Fediverse Report has:
Bluesky has:
Finally some (small) progress on decentratiztion.
Arxiv features:
Self-moderation in the decentralized era: decoding blocking behavior on Bluesky
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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Blacksky has officially deployed their on Relay powered by their own software! So much is happening! https://bsky.app/profile/rudyfraser.com/post/3lo7xk2szvs2b #Bluesky #ATProto #ATProtocol
Bluesky Social · Rudy wants revolution. (@rudyfraser.com)The @blacksky.app feeds and moderation service are now powered by our own atproto relay wss://atproto.africa 🌍
One of (if not Thee 1st) from-scratch, full-network relays 🏆
Sync v1.1 compliant ✅
Backfill window + plc cache 🧳
Built in #rustlang 🦀 in 3 weeks by @utkarshgupta137.bsky.social 🏎️
#ATDev
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Destroying Autocracy – May 01, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Happy May Day! Cast off your chains.
Featured Item(s)
Cory Doctorow writes:
The point of AI isn’t to make workers more productive, it’s to make them weaker when they bargain with their bosses.
Tech workers are workers, and they once held the line against enshittification, refusing to break the things they’d built for their bosses in meaningless all-nighters motivated by vocational awe. Long after tech bosses were able to buy all their competitors, capture their regulators, and expand IP law to neutralize the threat of innovative, interoperable products like alternative app stores, ad-blockers and jailbreaking kits, tech workers held the line.
There’ve been half a million US tech layoff since 2023. Tech workers’ scarcity-derived power has been vaporized. Tech workers can avoid the fate of the factory, warehouse and delivery workers their bosses literally work to death — but only by unionizing.
In other words, the workers in re-shored factories and tech workers need the same thing. They are class allies — and tech bosses are their class enemies. This is class war.
The enshittification of tech jobs
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, TechnoFeudalism, and other douchebaggery
Tech Policy reports:
Labor Unions Can Counterbalance the Big Tech Oligarchy, But Only If They Rediscover Their Power
Expats Czechia reports:
Court rules that Czechia collects phone data illegally in landmark decision
Mashable reports:
Elon Musk’s X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
Calyx Institute: A Case Study in Grassroots Innovation
EFF Leads Prominent Security Experts in Urging Trump Administration to Leave Chris Krebs Alone
EuroNews reports:
EU governments discuss action on disinformation over climate policy
Fast Company reports:
How Big Tech’s Faustian bargain with Trump backfired
Framablog has:
The Verge reports:
A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store
The Register reports:
Cook’d: Judge says Apple lied to court in Epic case, asks Feds to mull criminal charges
Double awesome.
Neutral
The Register reports:
DARPA to ‘radically’ rev up mathematics research. And yes, with AI
The Journal of Online Trust and Safety has:
Science and Causality in Technology Litigation
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
TechDirt has:
Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
Ars Technica reports:
Trump’s hasty Take It Down Act has “gaping flaws” that threaten encryption
The Register reports:
DOGE may help Elon Musk’s biz empire dodge $2.4B in liabilities – Senate probe
Framablog looks at:
L’État artificiel : la vie civique automatisée
Pariah States
BleepingComputer reports:
France ties Russian APT28 hackers to 12 cyberattacks on French orgs
Pro-Russia hacktivists bombard Dutch public orgs with DDoS attacks
DarkReading has:
Putin’s Cyberattacks on Ukraine Rise 70%, With Little Effect
Adversaries Are Toying With US Networks & DC Is Short on Answers
Billbug Expands Cyber-Espionage Campaign in Southeast Asia
The Register reports:
China now America’s number one cyber threat – US must get up to speed
Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users
Big Media
NPR reports:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting sues Trump after he tries to fire board members
The Daily Beast reports:
MAGA Billionaire Leads L.A. Times to Lose $50 Million
Ars Technica reports:
CBS owner Paramount reportedly intends to settle Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit
Big Tech
Semafor reports:
The group chats that changed America
The Guardian reports:
Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators
Meta slowest to remove scam content, says City watchdog
TechCrunch reports:
Report finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minors
OpenAI is fixing a ‘bug’ that allowed minors to generate erotic conversations
404 Media has:
Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
Mbin or PieFed, peeps.
This Is Palantir’s Justification for Building ICE’s Master Database
Instagram’s AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists
The Markup reports:
Kids should avoid AI companion bots—under force of law, assessment says
The Center for Democracy and Technology reports:
Report – In Deep Trouble: Surfacing Tech-Powered Sexual Harassment in K-12 Schools
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Lawfare covers:
Advancing Secure by Design through Security Research
404 Media reports:
The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
The Markup reports:
How California sent residents’ personal health data to LinkedIn
BleepingComputer reports:
Hackers ramp up scans for leaked Git tokens and secrets
FBI shares massive list of 42,000 LabHost phishing domains
Tech Policy Press reports:
Reverse Keyword Search Warrants and the Threat to Online Privacy
The Jacobin reports:
Big Tech Wants Free Rein to Sell Your Data
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Fosstodon has more on its drama:
ActivityPub for WordPress announces:
V5.8.0 – If it’s on the Fediverse, you can embed it.
ActivityPods shares:
Key learnings from building social apps with ActivityPods
Forgejo has:
Forgejo monthly update – April 2025
The Social Web Foundation has:
Steps Forward in Long-form Text
Mastodon is:
Matthew Tift has:
Finding an Ethical Path Through Social Media: Why I Choose Mastodon
PieFed has:
PieFed development update Apr 2025 – S3, OAuth, Federation retry queue, Stripe
NodeBB has:
NodeBB v4.3.0 — Remote Categories are a go!
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
WinBuzzer reports:
Bluesky’s Decentralized Network Faces Major Outage Caused by Centralized Servers
The Internet Review asks:
Where Does Bluesky Go from Here? What is the Bluesky of 2036?
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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TurtleIsland.blogRequest TurtleIs.land Bluesky PDS Invite Code - TurtleIsland.blogSaabe Dream by Mishiikenh KweUsed with permission ©Mishiikenh Kwe https://www.instagram.com/mishiikenhkwe TurtleIs.land is a Native/Indigenous Bluesky PDS TurtleIs.land PDS is not an open signup Bluesky PDS. That said, it is easy to join and many are welcome. You will need to get an invite cod
Migrating to/from the TurtleIs.land PDS is not currently an option
Part of the great future promise of the Bluesky AT protocol is true and complete account portability including content. Accent on the word future. As you can see from Bluesky:
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https://turtleisland.blog/migrating-to-from-turtleis-land/
TurtleIsland.blogMigrating to/from TurtleIs.land - TurtleIsland.blogSaabe Dream by Mishiikenh KweUsed with permission ©Mishiikenh Kwe https://www.instagram.com/mishiikenhkwe Migrating to/from the TurtleIs.land PDS is not currently an option Part of the great future promise of the Bluesky AT protocol is true and complete account portability including content. A
Claiming My Identity on Bluesky
Tired of handing your identity to platforms? I was too. Here’s why owning your identity matters, and how a simple DNS record makes it possible. #OwnYourIdentity #IndieWeb #BlueSky #DNS #DID
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Bluesky’s Decentralized Network Faces Major Outage Caused by Centralized Servers
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If you use Bluesky, you may be interested in today’s news that now you can publish Surf feeds to Bluesky. 
We’d love for you to test with us if you want! Here's more details:
Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?
On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant outage, leaving users unable to load the app on both the web and mobile devices for roughly an hour.
Despite the platform’s decentralized nature, the majority of Bluesky users today interact with the service via Bluesky’s official app, powered by the AT Protocol.
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/wait-how-did-a-decentralized-service-like-bluesky-go-down/
TechCrunch · Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down? | TechCrunchIt turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too. On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant