We’re proud to be partnering with PublicSpaces to present The Next Socials — sessions on developing new platforms and products for the open web — at their conference in Amsterdam on June 4-6. Please save the date! More info to come very soon.

Excited to announce that I'm a speaker in MIT Media Lab's upcoming AHA Seminar Series! I'll be presenting on @blackskyweb.xyz's moderation and how we are navigating the nuances around automated content moderation that is community-governed

Excited to invite you to a panel I'll be on next week w/ @richardsever.bsky.social @joelchan86.bsky.social! We’ll discuss the future of open-access, new modular research tools (eg @discoursegraphs.bsky.social) and the role of social media in scientific discourse (@cosmik.network @atproto.science ..)

The open social web is vibrant, dynamic, and full of amazing apps and websites! At the PublicSpaces Conference in Amsterdam, we just gave out the #OpenSocialAwards. We’re excited to introduce you to these impressive, inventive winners. 🧵

Attending my first #IC2S2 at Burlington, VT! I’ll be presenting my poster on July 30 (Thursday), 1:15-2:15 pm at Davis Center @uvmvermont.bsky.social If you are attending @ic2s2.bsky.social & interested in bias auditing, please stop by. Thanks @vcsi.bsky.social for sponsoring registration #ic2s22026

Thank you @steefjan.bsky.social for this nice write-up of my keynote at QCon London this week: infoq.com/news/2026/03/qcon-local-first… My slides are now up as well: speakerdeck.com/ept/mitigating-geopolitical-r…

We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be working with @eurosky.social to help to define and develop open social web infrastructure for the AT Protocol! igalia.com/2026/03/18/Advancing-the-AT-P…

So exciting! Huge props to @bnewbold.net, @dholms.at, et al for making this happen. Definitely still a long journey ahead but this is a huge step! 👏

Progress update on what we're building. There's a lot happening and we'll have big updates in the coming weeks. Your contributions are making this possible. There's more to do and all your support really helps 💙

We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be working with @eurosky.social to help to define and develop open social web infrastructure for the AT Protocol! igalia.com/2026/03/18/Advancing-the-AT-P…

Just launched at Public Spaces in Amsterdam, The European Social Stack Open Declaration! A set of common principles agreed by complementary technology leaders 🫶 Read the declaration, add your signature, and share: european.social #EUSocialStack #Europe

I recently had the honour of speaking at @publicspaces.net — an amazing community — about what we can do and how we can hope. It's called "We Build On Hope" and the video is now online: video.publicspaces.net/w/e4FiBfh23Xp2MivCLws79W?star…

I'm excited to announce another guest post on the atproto.com blog! This time, we're featuring @spacecowboy17.bsky.social, the maintainer of the popular For You Feed (bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.so…)! atproto.com/blog/serving-the-for-you-feed