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Polls For ActivityPub
Fediverse compatible polls. The development of this plugin was funded by the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet.

#protocolsforpublishers #atproto #mcp #webapplets | Chad Kohalyk
Web publishing is facing its next challenge: a new iteration of centralizing platforms. BUT there is also a new wave of open protocols and standards that can help us gain our independence. Next month in NYC we are gathering a group of frontier technologists and popular web publishers to discuss how we can sail into this next platform shift as captains. #ProtocolsForPublishers Learn more and sign up here: https://pfp.unternet.co We will be hosting talks on #atproto #mcp #webapplets and web payments, and give publishers the opportunity to interact directly with developers working on these frontier technologies. Thank you to Unternet, Graze Social, Free our Feeds, and betaworks for their support.
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used this method to conduct a preregistered 10-day field ...

“No One’s Coming to Save Us. Why Communities Must Build Their Own Internet” -Rudy Fraser, Blacksky
‘Unbelievable how accurate’: How paid influencers hype Polymarket’s odds
The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.

Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation - Bluesky
Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets a team of moderators or curators collaboratively review reports, create labels, and inspect content on the atproto network. Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.

Supporting People and Ideas | Bodhi Ventures
We are committed to discovering new approaches to coordination and inspiring creativity, unlocking the full potential of web3. We focus on decentralised crypto networks and the web3 stack built around it.

Seed Round - Vylit - Crunchbase Funding Round Profile
Discover innovative companies and the people behind them.
Bridging-Based Ranking
There is significant concern about the engagement-based ranking systems used by TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, etc. to recommend content. Bridging-based ranking systems can address one of the most dangerous aspects of such algorithmic recommendations—the push toward polarization and divisiveness that is tearing nations apart—and do so without reducing anonymity or increasing censorship. This report explores what bridging-based ranking is, how it helps (overcoming downsides of chronological feeds and middleware), addresses common objections, and provides early examples of its use and benefits in the wild. The report concludes by providing next steps for platforms, governments, funders, and researchers in order to accelerate the deployment of bridging.

Crowdmatching for Public Goods — Snowdrift.coop
We support works that everyone can use, adapt, and share freely. But as public goods, anyone can freeride. And that presents a dilemma in getting funded. Our innovative platform brings people together to address this problem.
ATProto Reputation
Self-declaration of what you are. Published once, describes your nature. Necessary but not sufficient.
Bluesky needs its own complete YC atproto stack - accelerator, seed funding, founder network, investor pipeline, mentorship, demo days, startup discovery ATproto-native, so the ecosystem becomes the distribution, reputation, intelligence, and funding layer for the next generation of open social web
Bluesky needs its own complete YC atproto stack - accelerator, seed funding, founder network, investor pipeline, mentorship, demo days, startup discovery ATproto-native, so the ecosystem becomes the distribution, reputation, intelligence, and funding layer for the next generation of open social web
The ATProto community built a ton of great features and products over the past year. For our next trick, let's mature them into products and businesses.
Mosh Lee
(2/n) A feature solves one problem well — even delightfully well. But features get copied easily or absorbed into larger products. They have no distribution or adoption model. If your whole thing can become a pane in someone else's app, it's a feature.
This shit is why I’m a Journalism On ATProto extremist. We need to own the distribution layer.
nilay patel
Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-ne…

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