Mathew Lowry
@mathewlowry.eurosky.social
Another example of how to do #verification, this time from our friends across the pond. Be great to see an #atmosphereconf2027 session with @gandersocial.ca, @vdbdavid.eurosky.social from @athumi.eu, @eurosky.social & @aster.id exploring this.
Gander Social
@gandersocial.ca
We just launched another Human Check option: a $2 Interac e-Transfer. The full $2 CAD goes to Food Banks Canada.
Gander never sees, much less stores, your banking details.
Our very smart advisor Blaine Cook had the idea. Making it work took some doing.
Full blog:
gandersocial.ca/a-toonie-to-...
Mathew Lowry
@mathewlowry.eurosky.social
What #resilience looks like:
a) post an idea for using open, shared infrastructure in a more resilient way
b) people read it and make their services more resilient *within hours*, because open and shared.
rpg.actor
@rpg.actor
Saw this comment yesterday and it seemed so obvious that we immediately added a cascading fallback interface for every #atproto service that rpg.actor uses, which makes it easy to add more providers.
If one goes down, it moves to the next one!
Feels good knowing @bad-example.com is our failsafe. 😊
Robin Berjon
@robin.berjon.com
Do you:
🎃 Like spooky Halloween stuff?
👻 Enjoy voting on stuff & cool competitions?
🧛♀️ Have fun drawing? ON YOUR OWN FACE?
👹 Want more whimsy in your life?
Then head over to mu.social — we even have a companion haunting.
mu
@mu.social
👻👻 Join in with your Halloween costume and collect candy - only on mu. Just login with your Bluesky account 🎃🎃 mu.social/profile/mu.s...
Robin Berjon
@robin.berjon.com
I have ideas about how to launch a search engine. If you have money, now's a very good time to reach out!
Financial Times
@financialtimes.com
Breaking news: Alphabet shares tumbled 13% on Thursday after the Google owner revealed that 'AI mode' searches were threatening profits at its core advertising business. ft.trib.al/g8Q9IPx
Robin Berjon
@robin.berjon.com
Are you building social things? Do you like interoperability and kicking tech monopolies in the ass? Do you have users in Europe (without necessarily being there yourself)?
Then ping Sherif below :)
Sherif EA
@sherif.mu.social
Hey everyone. We’re putting forward a joint position paper to the European Commission to advance interoperability and user control. This is timed to coincide with discussions on the Digital Fairness Act, which is the major legislative opportunity to enact change we will have for a while.
Robin Berjon
@robin.berjon.com
The people building social media in Europe need an industry association so that our voices can be heard by policymakers as they regulate our industry.
We now have one: the European Social Association! It's launching next week in Berlin and guess what: you're invited!
atmo.rsvp/p/bjoernsta....
The Launch of the European Social Association
Social media’s impact on society and citizens clearly shows the need for change. European social media companies and civil society are joining forces to move away from large monopolistic platforms to ...
atmo.rsvp
Fabien
@ricafabi.eurosky.social
I swear after the last 2 fucking months, I will rest until end of the year and follow the goddamn job description to the letter (i won't)
Robin Berjon
@robin.berjon.com
I remain a chronological feed guy, but I do regularly switch to fu to see things surfaced to me, and it's really good.
Anders Puck Nielsen
@anderspucknielsen.dk
Many people here enjoy the chronological feed and being free from algorithms, but if you're looking for an algorithmic feed, I can recommend trying @mu.social's fu-page (yes, that's what they call it, but apparently it's "For you"). I find it very useful for surfacing interesting posts.
Steven Vandevelde
@tokono.ma
I still don’t know what the best approach is regarding user friendliness. But personally I think all web pages should follow the system color, and the browser should provide a way to override it in case you do need it (I think @zen-browser.app allows this)
dietrich
@burrito.space
i can only read @leaflet.pub posts during the day because their bright whiteness jumpscares me at night, so i've learned not to click (thanks embeds!)
is that a setting people aren't using, or lack of support for system color scheme?
Fabien
@ricafabi.eurosky.social
Ça m'a tellement plu que j'ai écrit une petite critique, tiens
frica.codeberg.page/blog/james-l...
James, le nom rend l'homme libre
Critique du livre de Percival Everett
frica.codeberg.page
