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laurenshof.online
I care about an ethical internet. I write about Bluesky and the ATmosphere at fediversereport.com 🇳🇱, mostly post in English
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Every week I send out an email newsletter with the articles I wrote. It also has some extra analysis not published in the article. For this week's intro, I wrote some reflection on @garbageday.email recent article about building mass appeal platforms, republished here: whtwnd.com/laurenshof.o...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

fascinerende parallel met hoe mensen hierop reageren met "ja maar het gaat om de inhoud niet om de esthetiek" met hoe nederlandse publieke organisaties zeggen dat we met zn allen naar mastodon moeten gaan ipv X, en ook niet rekening houden met de esthetiek van mastodon

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New: Last Week in Bluesky I wrote about how the rapid shift into authoritarianism in the US affects Bluesky, and how that impacts other projects on ATProto as well Plus, a look at all the news and updates for image and video apps for Bluesky fediversereport.com/last-week-in...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Nederlandse overheid te afhankelijk van Amerikaanse techbedrijven, waarschuwen experts: 'Donald Trump kan ons chanteren' - onderaan pagina filmpje met @kimvsparrentak.bsky.social, @bartgroothuis.bsky.social en mij! eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/item/nederla...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Listen to @aoc.bsky.social, and then watch this video explaining how we can dramatically reduce the number of zeroes in that bank account she's talking about. We can resist, but we can also hit back at the one place it actually hurts: all that paper wealth built on fraud. youtu.be/L-Imw_s1aaI?...

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The day has finally arrived... @cred.blue is here! 🍥 It let's you generate a @bsky.app "credibility" score, helps you understand your @atproto.com data footprint, and let's you vibe check strangers/new accounts. The beta starts today with much more planned! Get your score here: cred.blue 🦋

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

language is an interesting one here, i dont think weve ever seen a conflict play out since the age of social media where both parties speak english, and are some of the dominant voices in social media more broadly

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

a similar dynamic here in europe as well. There is a lot of power up for grabs if you can become the de facto face of european politician that stands against trump and musk

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