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··· 1 1 --- 2 2 title: A Quick Update 3 3 pubDate: 2024-09-30T22:17:49.000Z 4 4 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrdppas2m" 4 5 --- 5 6 6 7 Hi folks!

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src/content/posts/bridges-the-last-network-effect.md

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··· 2 2 title: Bridges & The Last Network Effect 3 3 pubDate: 2024-11-08T20:48:47.000Z 4 4 tags: open social web, social media, social web, activitypub, at protocol, bluesky, fediverse, ghost, flipboard, mastodon, threads, x 5 5 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrda3as2m" 5 6 --- 6 7 7 8 © [Roman Eisele](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aristeas) / [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) via [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/)

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src/content/posts/but-first-interoperability.md

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··· 2 2 title: But First, Interoperability 3 3 pubDate: 2025-06-13T19:08:01.000Z 4 4 tags: activitypub, at protocol, bluesky, fediverse, flipboard, ghost, mastodon, open social web, social web, threads 5 5 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrct2b22m" 5 6 --- 6 7 7 8 20th Avenue NE Bridge (Ravenna Park Bridge), Seattle, WA, U.S., 1914, © [Seattle Municipal Archives](https://www.flickr.com/people/24256351@N04)

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src/content/posts/ghost-substack-discoverability.md

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··· 3 3 pubDate: 2024-04-22T22:33:07.000Z 4 4 tags: activitypub, fediverse, social media, ghost, newsletter, threads, mastodon 5 5 description: Ghost's Fediverse integration will have larger implications for the newsletter landscape. Namely, I think this will eventually bring the slow death of another social silo, Substack. 6 6 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrg65yk2m" 6 7 --- 7 8 8 9 Ghost just announced that they'll be joining the Fediverse. I'm obviously very excited about it and if you want a deep dive into the features they'll be rolling out, I wrote about all of them in [my debut piece for We Distribute](https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/ghost-implements-activitypub/).

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src/content/posts/google-danced-will-apple.md

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··· 3 3 pubDate: 2024-05-24T19:46:01.000Z 4 4 tags: generative-ai, google gemini, apple, wwdc, chatgpt, openai, google 5 5 description: Boy, did they make Google dance. 6 6 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrfsc4c2m" 6 7 --- 7 8 8 9 Screencap of Apple's [Technologic iPod Ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raXZelsYxKk) from 2004

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··· 3 3 pubDate: 2024-05-23T16:43:24.000Z 4 4 tags: human generated content, activitypub, fediverse, social media, llm, google gemini, google i/o, youtube 5 5 description: This issue, Nilay Patel talks to Google's Sundar Pichai on AI, chriswaves and Mike Masnick each explore the managed decline of the web, and Molly White and Mike McCue chat about building a new web inspired by the old one. 6 6 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrfyak22m" 6 7 --- 7 8 8 9 Hello! Welcome to the first issue of Human-Generated Content!

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··· 4 4 date_updated: 2024-06-06T18:37:46.000Z 5 5 tags: human generated content, fediverse, generative-ai, activitypub, chatgpt, social media, openai, llm 6 6 description: Publishers are seeing two very different futures for their businesses. Is the future of media aggregated and summarized or is it direct-to-audience? 7 7 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrfakq22m" 7 8 --- 8 9 9 10 Hello, again!

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··· 2 2 title: Human-Generated Content 3 3 3 pubDate: 2024-06-20T18:39:10.000Z 4 4 tags: human generated content, activitypub, apple, fediverse, generative-ai, social media, elonmusk 5 5 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrf2mcc2m" 5 6 --- 6 7 7 8 > "My goal for the next issue is to not talk about the Fediverse."

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src/content/posts/human-generated-content-4.md

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··· 3 3 pubDate: 2024-07-03T17:07:47.000Z 4 4 tags: human generated content 5 5 description: Human Generated Content, Issue 4 6 6 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqreqlyc2m" 6 7 --- 7 8 8 9 On June 24th, Paramount Global announced that it's [shutting down MTVNews.com](https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website-archives-pulled-offline-1236047163/), erasing over two decades of cultural history recorded by people passionate about preserving important cultural moments through their crucial journalism.

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src/content/posts/human-generated-content-6.md

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src/content/posts/human-generated-content-7.md

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··· 2 2 title: Escaping the Rigged Internet - Human-Generated Content #7 3 3 pubDate: 2024-08-28T18:40:39.000Z 4 4 tags: human generated content, activitypub, creator economy, fediverse, ghost, flipboard, mastodon, llm, generative-ai, chatgpt, openai, social media, threads, youtube 5 5 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrdwmwk2m" 5 6 --- 6 7 7 8 > "User-generated content continues to be tremendously undervalued by the platforms that distribute user-generated content" - John Green

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··· 2 2 title: The Vibes Are Insecure - Human Generated Content #9 3 3 pubDate: 2025-06-01T16:15:40.000Z 4 4 tags: generative-ai, llm, vibe coding, human generated content, newsletter, google i/o, bluesky 5 5 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrczff22m" 5 6 --- 6 7 7 8 Hey there! It's good to be back on the blog.

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src/content/posts/im-moving.md

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··· 1 1 --- 2 2 title: I'm moving 🚚 3 3 pubDate: 2026-02-25 4 4 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrbmiuc2m" 4 5 --- 5 6 Well, not me, really. This blog is moving. 6 7

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src/content/posts/patreon-fediverse.md

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··· 3 3 pubDate: 2024-06-03T20:31:55.000Z 4 4 tags: patreon, threads, activitypub, fediverse, social media, creator economy 5 5 description: Patreon needs to become Threads before Threads become Patreon. 6 6 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrfgn2s2m" 6 7 --- 7 8 8 9 There's a famous quote by Reed Hastings, former CEO of Netflix, that always sticks with me:

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src/content/posts/pov-the-ray-ban-meta-glasses.md

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··· 1 1 --- 2 2 title: "POV: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses" 3 3 pubDate: 2024-03-08T16:45:55.000Z 4 4 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrgrwsk2m" 4 5 --- 5 6 6 7 Every once in a while I use a device that reminds me how delightful technology can be when it fades into the background until you need it. And when it's not there you wonder why you didn't bring it along in the first place.

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··· 3 3 pubDate: 2024-04-19T21:36:19.000Z 4 4 tags: activitypub, fediverse, mastodon, social media, threads 5 5 description: I think Post's greatest miss was not interoperating with complementary products like Flipboard, Artifact, WordPress, Medium, and Ghost to build out a cross-platform network of creators, curators, and consumers. 6 6 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrgdzik2m" 6 7 --- 7 8 8 9 Today, the social platform [Post](https://post.news/) announced [its official closure](https://post.news/@/noam/2fJw4PYRFjya343RpiToiyEQr0x). While it may not have received the excitement you see behind other similar services, it was clear that the team was deeply interested in what a post-Twitter world could look like for journalism. The service had a lot going for it: microtransactions to read single-serve paywalled content, topic tags right out the gate, and a polished user experience - especially for a product so new.

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src/content/posts/the-everything-account.md

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··· 3 3 pubDate: 2026-02-04T18:57:50.000Z 4 4 image: /assets/the-everything-account.jpg 5 5 tags: at protocol, atmosphere, atproto, bluesky, open social web, social media, social web, blacksky 6 6 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrcg2ak2m" 6 7 --- 7 8 8 9 I've been thinking a lot about our accounts lately. We all have an ever-growing pile of digital identities scattered across the web, many forgotten after a brief stint with a random service we found in an app store.

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src/content/posts/the-threads-creator-paradox.md

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··· 2 2 title: The Threads Creator Paradox 3 3 pubDate: 2024-07-12T18:45:41.000Z 4 4 tags: threads, social media, fediverse, creator economy 5 5 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrekkms2m" 5 6 --- 6 7 7 8 It's been just over a year since Meta launched Threads, a microblogging platform built upon Instagram's foundation. While still in its infancy, the team has quickly added features that present itself as a viable alternative to its contemporaries, the most important being a [TweetDeck-like desktop UI](https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/30/24168059/threads-tweetdeck-style-redesign-rollout).

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··· 1 1 --- 2 2 title: hello 👋🏼 3 3 pubDate: 2024-03-01T21:38:28.000Z 4 4 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrgykps2m" 4 5 --- 5 6 6 7 Hi there! Thanks for dropping in.

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··· 3 3 pubDate: 2024-04-10T19:15:08.000Z 4 4 tags: threads, mastodon, social media, activitypub, fediverse, phanpy 5 5 description: This is my journey that started as an experiment to see how my Threads feed would look like on Mastodon and ended with me finding experiences that went above and beyond my expectations. 6 6 + atUri: "at://did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/site.standard.document/3mgnqrgm4bs2m" 6 7 --- 7 8 8 9 Last month, Meta's Threads took its [first step into the Fediverse](https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/), a promise they made to users at launch. While I don't want to dive too far into the technology, which is something I will do in a future post, this basically means I can follow Threads users that opt-in to Fediverse integration through my Mastodon account.