@cypherhippie
Worked in academia for a while, mostly on interference mitigation in open communication systems. Now it's time for some more hands-on action. Main account on ActivityPub/Mastodon: https://chaos.social/@cypherhippie
"Your research institute on the Atmosphere", my @atproto.science workshop late Friday pm, before #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, is open for speakers.
Would you like to get involved? 🧵
atscience.leaflet.pub/3mfz526irfs2...
Super geniale Sache!
Als Medienwissenschaftler liegt mir besonders diese Frage am Herzen:
"Wie können wir Medienstrukturen schaffen, die Unabhängigkeit und Chancengleichheit fördern?"
Aber ich kann leider nicht vor Ort sein.
Wird aufgezeichnet/veröffentlicht?
Let <C> be citizenship status of those that are in control of the organization.
Let <J> be jurisdiction the organization is registered within.
For people who care more about changing J than about changing C this switch seems to make sense, doesn’t it?
Honestly this weekend was when OpenAI jumped the shark for me. I was willing to extend them benefit of the doubt right up to the point where they signed a contract with the government that allows autonomous weapons, while telling everyone that it prohibits them.
Breaking news: @eurosky.social is a 🕵️♀️ CIA psyop taken down by a €2.95 request to a Dutch chamber of commerce. Sources have revealed that one of the team is... 🫨 American
Not sure if the ‘Lack of Patriotism’ and ‘Enemy Within’ narrative will work in this context.
Goering claimed that it always does:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave...
Historically, we know that even zen priests can be whipped up like that, but what about those that are chronically dopamine depleted?
THIS.
What could ‘Anti Proprietary Media’ mean?
Any form of mass communication that is ‘based on infrastructure’ that ‘cannot be owned privately’?
Seems feasible in all modern non-police-states, doesn’t it?
We've released a self-hostable reference implementation of a PLC read-replica service to make the Atmosphere ever more decentralized. @retr0.id has details on what this all means.
atproto.com/blog/plc-rep...
Incredible
www.instagram.com/reel/DUtTdIz...
👀
Join us for an informal AT Protocol meetup February 24, 2026 in Berlin! We'll share project updates, demos, and lessons learned building on ATProto.
Please RSVP: smokesignal.events/did:plc:oals...
Location:
Bitcrowd offices
Köpenickerstr 126
10179 Berlin
A graphic with the same info in the post + a picture of people at DWeb Camp joining their hands.
✨ 𝗗𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 + 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 🛸
Sat 28 Feb we’ll meet at @c-base.org, Berlin with @brewster.kahle.org, @internetarchive.eu, and many new and long-time DWeb allies!
Join us to contribute shaping #DWebCamp 2026 🏕️
Free attendance, limited spots!
🎟️ All info + RSVP
‘protocol survival’ sounds a bit like a category mistake to me. So maybe this question doesn’t make much sense, but:
What would be the ‘survival rate maximizing strategies’ in this context?
This separates ATP from Bluesky dependency. If Bluesky fails, the protocol survives as internet standard. Same level as HTTP or TCP/IP, not application layer like programming languages.
RFC publication takes time. But the charter shows serious commitment.
Just learned about FediSky, a project by @msonnberger.com that adds an ActivityPub instance sidecar to a PDS.
Think Bridgy Fed except hosted by the PDS owner or Wafrn except reversed.
Still in early dev, but keeping an eye on this space 👀
Afaik: Fakes werden durch Initiativen wie en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content... vermutlich besser handhabbar - „wenn keine korrekte Signatur = vermutlich Fake“
Der Haken daran: sobald das in unseren Kameras zur Anwendung kommt entsteht Folgeproblem:
*Anonymes* Whistleblowing wird deutlich aufwendiger 🤷🏻♂️
Additionally to Canada & EU - who would probably like to join in on some serious (media focused) anti-authoritarian-backsliding action?
Let’s do a map for strategic coalition building 😎
Will you be at #atmosphereconf?
Check out @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy at #39c3:
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-pos...
Panel mit Lea Susemichl, Helge Fahrenberger, Luisa Niemann und Christian Jungwirth
Walter Strobl (Presseclub Concordia)
Publikum im Presseclub Concordia
Voller @concordia.at bei der Gründungsveranstaltung des Netzwerks für gemeinwohlorientierten Journalismus in Österreich - zu Webseite mit Abo-Option für (low-traffic) Newsletter: gemeinwohljournalismus.wordpress.com
My colleague and I wrote a piece about the urgent need for Europe to partner with Canada in building a digitally sovereign ecosystem—one that can withstand the threats posed by US tech authoritarianism:
This reminded of the talk by Jen from @gandersocial.bsky.social in Berlin a few weeks ago. AFAIK she tried to make a similar point?
Let’s build more Canadian-European projects
bsky.app/profile/free...
Am 14. Jänner 2026 laden wir, das Netzwerk für gemeinwohlorientierten Journalismus in Österreich, ab 18 Uhr in die den Presseclub Concordia zu Vortrag und Diskussion anlässlich unserer Gründung. Nach einem Impulsvortrag von Walter Strobl (Presseclub Concordia) über die juristischen Grundlagen und Grenzen von gemeinwohlorientiertem Journalismus, diskutiert ein Panel über praktische Chancen und Herausforderungen: • Lea Susemichel (an.schläge) • Helge Fahrnberger (Kobuk) • Christian Jungwirth (Okto) Moderation: Luisa Niemann (VORLAUT Kollektiv) Eingeladen sind alle, die sich für gemeinwohlorientierten Journalismus interessieren. Eintritt ist frei.
Im neuen Netzwerk Gemeinwohljournalismus sind Medien, die ihre journalistische Arbeit vor Gewinnabsichten stellen - auch wir.
Am Mittwoch stellt die Initiative sich im Presseclub Concordia vor. Wir freuen uns über euer Interesse an und auf den Austausch.
gemeinwohljournalismus.wordpress.com
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from 66 international bodies, including the Freedom Online Coalition. With this move, the US has formally stepped away from a core part of its leadership of the global Internet norms it once helped build, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.
I just submitted to present at #ATmosphereConf on the topic of "Advocating for Digital Sovereignty: 🇪🇺 Experiences and Global Lessons"
Hope to see you soon in #Vancouver #Canada 🇨🇦
Announcing our first conference!
#ATscience March 27, 2026 will happen in conjunction with #ATmosphereConf 2026 in Vancouver, Canada.
atproto.science/events/atmos...
Speakers will be announced in the new year
Congrats 👍
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Right now at house of tea. Look for table with person wearing light blue beany, right next to coffeenerds
Yo #atproto #atmosphere #bluesky folks at #39c3 \o/
Who’s up for an adhoc get-together?
How about:
#houseoftea
Starting around 0:30 tonight
(aka early morning of day 4)
seqre.dev
burrito.space
retr0.id
wills.co.tt
filippo.abyssdomain.expert
Alternative proposals welcome 🙏
Hellooo there 🙋🏻♂️
Any idea where other atp folks may gather?
Four public-interest researchers have been barred from the US for holding tech companies accountable. When governments target researchers, journalists and watchdogs, it is an assault on free speech and we should call it out as such.
Researchers are not censors. They are being censored.
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