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Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps
I gave this presentation at [[Fedicon]] 2025 in Vancouver.My goal was not to do a protocol deep dive, but rather showcase all of the beyond microblogging app...

If I ever create a microblogging platform, I'd call it "The Void".
Posts would be "shouts". Comments would be permanently disabled. Likes would just add an ever increasing number of eyes around the edge, staring at what you wrote from every angle 👀

Two years ago, I wrote a piece promoting the Fediverse to a Bosnian (and global) audience. Some of the key players in this movement were there to help me tell that story.
Since then, I feel like the Fediverse is growing. We have exciting new products like loops.
But for this to truly succeed, we need to stop autopilot mode and actually try. Also, I'm posting this on the wrong social network; I need to go to Bluesky :D
Give this article a read and share it with those int…

Fediverse: The archipelago of digital freedom
Something went sour on social media, and it became clear when billionaire Elon Musk took over the microblogging platform Twitter. His moves like firing engineers and teams who worked on ethical matters led to technical issues, a rise in discriminatory policies, denial of scientific achievements and intensified hate speech.

And another question: Say I want to watch, comment and share videos from #Peertube (and nothing else like microblogging). Where should I create an account, which platform/software has @… in mind? It's not Peertube itself, right? Because that's for publishing…

Mastodon 4.4.0 looks interesting:
* Add reminder when about to post without alt text in web UI
* Add a warning in Web UI when composing a post when the selected and detected language are different
* Add option to remove account from followers in web UI
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r

Releases · mastodon/mastodon
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - mastodon/mastodon

Anyone tried https://www.itter.sh/ here? The concept seems quite cool. It's a microblogging platform entirely run over ssh on a server. From their page:
itter.sh is your escape from the noise. It's a micro-blogging platform accessed entirely via SSH. No web browser. No JavaScript. No endless scroll of algo…

I’ll be attending and speaking at Fedicon, as well as being at the #CoSocialCa members meetup right after.
My working title is: Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps
https://cosocial.c…

User Location Disclosure Fails to Deter Overseas Criticism but Amplifies Regional Divisions on Chinese Social Media
Leo Yang Yang, Yiqing Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03238

User Location Disclosure Fails to Deter Overseas Criticism but Amplifies Regional Divisions on Chinese Social Media
We examine the behavioral impact of a user location disclosure policy implemented on Sina Weibo, China's largest microblogging platform, using a high-frequency, real-time dataset of uncensored user engagement with 165 leading government and media accounts. Leveraging a natural experiment result from the platform's sudden rollout of location tagging on April 28, 2022, we compare millions of time-stamped observations of user behavior in the comment sections of these accounts before and after the …