Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University. My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@rwg, follow @ap.brid.gy to interacthttps://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gyhttps://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvn6zutcqbf2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] []... https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com #MoveSlowlyAndBuildBridges #bot16 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvn6zutcqbf2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvkudmoef4n2If you develop software that has had a specific notification sound for the past decade or so, and you decide to change that sound to something else, you need to put a huge warning screen up to alert end users. Otherwise, they will go crazy trying to figure out what that weird little sound is […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11727558369857225715 Sep 2026 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkudmoef4n2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvkoksrlere2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] At the heart of this is a clash between Rochko and many Mastodon contributors. This has been framed as a tension between open networking – which would build up the nascent Mastodon federated network, a goal of Rochko’s – […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11727517799027539715 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkoksrlere2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvi63xvvxlt2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] The Fediverse and Noncentralization... https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com #MoveSlowlyAndBuildBridges #bot14 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvi63xvvxlt2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvgksfmlyzr2Self-regulation?!? What a novel solution to these problems. Self-regulation always works! https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/11726580341114743413 Sep 2026 21:42 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvgksfmlyzr2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvfnn3hjaff2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] Overall, 2017 was a heady time for Playvicious. Marcia was leading conversations into complex cultural topics. Ro remained positive about Mastodon and the fediverse. “I love the fediverse,” he wrote on Patreon that year […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11726385336636248713 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfnn3hjaff2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvdxafycjrt2I needed some good news, so I wrote a blog post about happy things in my professional life as an academic who gets stuff done with FOSS: https://fossacademic.tech/2026/09/12/dogged-FALD.html It praises LibreOffice, how easy it is to migrate infrastructure if you work at it, and Zotero! […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11726002581405344412 Sep 2026 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdxafycjrt2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvd56jqga3q2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] I argued that GNU social and other alternative social media “are doing more than decrying what they see as the problems of mainstream social media; they are working to build better systems.” […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11725819104647273712 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvd56jqga3q2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvbblwxlpad2Friends, it's my pleasure to announce that my new, completely customizable, revolutionary new Linux distro, Ohmunchie, is now available for download. Let the MunchieAgent(TM) customize your experience on your behalf. Join me in the future of technology. I am accepting donations.11 Sep 2026 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbblwxlpad2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvatr5uzlw52[uspol, 9/11] The main thing I've learned in these past 25 years is that 9/11 was a machine built to generate thought-pieces titled "How we failed to learn the lessons of 9/11"11 Sep 2026 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvatr5uzlw52https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvamoxkvmpj2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] If degrowth thinkers and solarpunks are successful in transforming the fediverse into a more green technology, the covenantal fediverse could put an end to the infinite scroll.... https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11725252873697540611 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvamoxkvmpj2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv7mk6ll5m32I know others have said this, but... the web sucks now. Used to be I could read a dozen bespoke blog posts about niche topics, but now it's 10000 SEO ready slick lookin' posts that say nothing in 1500 words. And I can't find the answer I was looking for.11 Sep 2026 03:24 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv7mk6ll5m32https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv6vx7ickbf2I get that we don't have jetpacks or any other future tech, but come on. I thought that the one benefit of #generativeAI was that the email spam would be better. Why is it just as bad as ever?10 Sep 2026 20:40 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6vx7ickbf2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv64a3fmhsq2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] Like all the other struggles – for privacy for marginalized people, for codes of conduct, for the ability to block, and resisting the growth logics of digital capitalism – blocking Meta has not come easily. As vanta texted […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11724686642733892010 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv64a3fmhsq2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv52ysixzsq2I *think* I may have just migrated completely away from #DigitalOcean. Amazing what one can do when one is motivated.10 Sep 2026 03:05 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv52ysixzsq2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv3lrcprndu2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] This was quite disappointing to Ro. In light of the toll that racist trolls were taking on moderators like Marcia, he could not understand why safety features, such as importable instances blocklists, were not being […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11724120408889834109 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3lrcprndu2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muz3csfclr62[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] Two groups fought back against the “federation is not going to happen” view: Christine Lemmer-Webber and her allies within the SocialWG, and queer and trans Mastodon developers outside of the SocialWG […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11723554182633261508 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3muz3csfclr62https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muxhg7pclec2I don't often drink beer, but when I do, it won't be Sapporo https://flipboard.com/@bloomberg/bloomberg-television-7u2t9r7fz/-/a-5BbR-ZVuRbmgL5ZWvq33aA%3Aa%3A3195391-%2F007 Sep 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3muxhg7pclec2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muwkteevrhf2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] In April of 2023, not long after Elon Musk bought Twitter, I asked ActivityPub co-author Evan Prodromou how he was feeling. I assumed he’d be feeling triumphant. After all, he had been working on federated social media for […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11722987950912565307 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwkteevrhf2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muu2evbq4um2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] Awoo.space was initially set up in 2016 by Eugen Rochko, the original creator of Mastodon, as a way to test out moderation techniques and technologies. Awoo.space took that mandate and went in a unique direction […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11722421719209673006 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3muu2evbq4um2