B. Prendergast

@renderg.host

🌀 Socialist building a social web at @eurosky.social 🌿 UX strategy+design for early stage startups 🧀 Making unfinished art to understand myself 🌶️ ND rudeboi learning to live healthily 🧶 Writing about culture, design, people, tech and the messy margins

@gui.doReposted by @renderg.host

Why wait for your database to be hacked if you can just publish private passport data to a public PDS straight away?

@robin.berjon.comReposted by @renderg.host

We have a great model for European tech — shared infrastructure, democratic governance, an actually-free market, free movement of people across the digital landscape, social verification, pluralism and subsidiarity — and it doesn't involve copying American fascists.

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I think this was a problem never fully solved with Endlesss and AT gives the framework to realise these really great artist<>artist and artist<>audience and audience<>audience relationships.

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.and authorship and collaborations would get really interesting when, thanks to persistent IDs, I could, for example, export tracks to @plyr.fm , or listeners tracked a play on @teal.fm and it's all consistent and connected

@jason.energyReposted by @renderg.host

we don’t need to explain atproto. we need to move the Overton Window to get people asking why it’s considered normal that a company can unilaterally control (and destroy) part of our identity and we just… let them

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What’s interesting as I wasn’t even using Firefox at the time. It was running in the background, but I didn’t have any tabs open. I only use it as my backup browser now then.

@jimray.bsky.teamReposted by @renderg.host

GM. It’s not that atproto is illegible to devs or even civilians but inscrutable via the systems of power that have taken over the internet. The sin of social media wasn’t technical but aligning with the desires of established power and ours is the long hard work of breaking that alignment.

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#Cynefin talks about Good Practice and Best Practice. While paid consultants love to promise the "one simple way", the truth is that in complex scenarios, there are usually many ways to skin a cat, and whatever works works.

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