This is a Connected Places blog post, published using leaflet and viewed via the Anisota Bluesky client, which is remarkable (see Dame's post).The blog uses the Mississippi ban to explain how clients (like anisota) are viewed "as the point where regulation happens. See also their new ToS, which also makes it clear that this is only for their clien…

There are a lot of reasons to use Substack: apart from doing "all the basic things of a newsletter writing platform well", it's free to get started and - crucially - helps you build an audience. But "Substack makes it hard to leave when you want to leave the platform", as they're pursuing a classic lock-in strategy. Any competitor must provide sim…

The always good Laurens on the ActivityPub-ATproto open letter: "There is a large group of people who are actively moving the space forward, and who have signed the open letter that calls for mutual respect and working together for a better open social web. The number of people who voiced objections and concerns is minimal, but by focusing on proc…