How can we create a funding model that allows startup founders to build terrific products that people love on the open social web? My answer: let’s not do that.

How to migrate a Wordpress instance with ActivityPub followers using the export and import tools. And, why that doesn’t work.

Arguing that at least some ActivityPub servers should act more like email servers, allowing clients to communicate data that doesn’t fit into the server’s data model.

I wonder about the definition of “decentralisation”, and realise that the political meaning of the term is far more important than the technical or mathematical senses preferred by Fedinerds.

People panic that the latest Twitter wave is going to BlueSky not Mastodon. But they are chasing different “wins”.

The Matrix Board was elected, overwhelmingly white male. It’s widely understood that this needs to be fixed. I propose some actions.

3000 words explaining that it’s actually about ethics in social media journalism.

I propose the one true distinction between ActivityPub “article” and “note”. Articles are intended to be read on their own. Notes are part of a conversation.