Technology Podcast · The founders of Germ Network, Tessa Brown and Brett Duboff, talk to guests and community members about the ethics, technologies, and communities that make social media—for better and worse.
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My hobby: scraping entire podcasts into open source wikis.Then decomposing them into skill.md files, articles, and short books for my personal consumption only.https://t.co/1hKjJICJ16Then rebundling the skills into topic-specific pluginsSo much gold to mine. pic.twitter.com/T2h8DYIcEj— Charlie Deist (@chdeist) April 3, 2026
On open-science research labs on discord, and getting more people.
Note that the audio doesn't follow the post verbatim;it's still essentially the same content though. (audio version below) …
Open Social Network Cookbook
The Open Social Network Cookbook is the collective product of the Open Social Incubator, a cohort that MEDLab hosted from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025. At the heart of our work together was the question: How can the online communities that we participate in use tools that truly reflect our values?
A New Computer
A podcast about the end of personal computers as we know them, and what comes next. Each episode we talk with people who are doing work at the frontier of computing, people who are challenging assumptions about what computers are and what our relationship to them should be.
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Integrating Germ with AT Protocol — Germ Network
End-to-end encrypted Germ DM is now a Bluesky messenger. In this technical post, we introduce the architecture of Germ’s integration with AT Protocol. From the beginning, Germ has been building for an interoperable E2EE ecosystem, and this extends to our integration with AT Protocol. We’ll define th
Decentralized Pairwise MLS — Germ Network
Today, MLS is predominantly used in a centralized context, where a central entity hosts group state. Germ now leverages this powerful technology for decentralized 1:1 conversations, by letting users cooperatively advance group state.
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
Why the dark forests of the internet — podcasts, newsletters, and other private channels — are growing, and why might that pose a problem
Amazon Gets Into The AI Podcast Slop Business
Late last year we wrote about a new startup that was flooding the internet with AI-generated podcast slop. Featuring fake hosts having fake discussions, the startup proudly stated it was creating a…
Just found this on @stream.place and I'm a big fan of it. Also, @tessa.germnetwork.com needs to publicly speak more 😄 Maybe even a podcast or short-form podcasting😉😆 Check out "Radical Pragmatism - @tessa.germnetwork.com - atproto nyc community day 2026" on Streamplace! stream.place/atproto.nyc/video/3mtyot3tqhw…
Radical Pragmatism - @tessa.germnetwork.com - atproto nyc community day 2026
stream.placeAs promised, here's a takehome from my workshop with @tessa.germnetwork.com and @anna.germnetwork.com at @atmosphereconf.org
Dive into research resources
leaflet.pubMade a few critical edits to the Germ collage and it's up with our latest blog post now. Miss you all! germnetwork.com/blog/germ-is-a-social-media-m…
Germ Is a (Protocol-Native, End-to-End Encrypted) Social Media Messenger — Germ Network
www.germnetwork.comPeople ask me if Germ is social media. Is anything anymore? Maybe we need new language for what we do, with each other, on the internet.
People, Not Posts
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