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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 11h

I've been living off that cream since the late 90s, please get off my turf or hear from my lawyers.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 13h

I've now trademarked the phrase "The EU Must Wake Up."

Every time someone uses it, they must pay me €1. I will use the proceeds to finance digital infrastructure for the entire continent.

a cat is laying on a bed with its head on its paws and looking at the camera .

Alt: Kitten falling asleep.

media.tenor.com

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 14h

I didn't think today's legacy social media platforms could get much worse.

Should know better I guess.

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

Imagine being fooled into entering a hologrammatic prison filled with make-believe personalities that know everything about you and can gaslight you into doing anything from buying products to making up a spiritual delusion to killing yourself

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 15h

Great feed but I'm curious: am I seeing posts here that don't have the hashtag? Do you add then manually, or have additional logic?

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 15h

You know @anisota.net , right?

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 15h

Morning update from America:

We've started teargassing babies. Now, let's talk about the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 1d

this weeks fediverse news, with some more on Tumblr-like platform Wafrn. it connects natively to both the fediverse and Bluesky, and you can now migrate your Bluesky account to a Wafrn server

connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

Fediverse Report – #138

A closer look at the Tumblr-like platform Wafrn, and Loops is getting closer to federating.

connectedplaces.online

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

More than anything else: help this guy. bsky.app/profile/davi...

And that inter alia means making it super easy to create custom feeds. Right now that crucial differentiator is not only hidden - it's hard to use when you find it.

David A. Conrad, Ph.D. @davidaconrad.bsky.social · 2d

Except I don't know what that means or how to do it, and I'll never learn - neither will most humanities folks. I'd simply give up all social media first. We need the managed platform, and we need it to be run on our behalf.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

Integrated with the top 5 Class, I hope?

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

Not just creators. People use social for news and professional information. So governments and civil society should crosspost, as a first step towards transitioning themselves and their audiences from other places to here.

I wrote this to help them.

mathewlowry.medium.com/x-strategy-o...

X Strategy or eXit Strategy? A cost-benefit analysis framework

Some considerations to help you clarify your eXit Strategy.

mathewlowry.medium.com

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

100%. For me, the game changer was seeing one account open up multiple apps, all interconnecting seamlessly. whtwnd.com/mathewlowry....

Want to chat? Bluesky.
Want to essay? Whitewind (or Leaflet)
Want to chat about an essay? Your Bluesky post appears as a comment on the essay.

Mind blown.

Thinking transparently in the ATmosphere | Mathew Lowry

This post was extracted from the draft of my December newsletter and published on Whitewind, demonstrating how a new array of apps on the ATmosphere - the ecosystem built with ATProto, Bluesky's proto...

whtwnd.com

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brendan @schlage.town · 2d

atmospheric attractor acceleration assembly:

if you could spend time and/or $ in new ways to accelerate migration from twitter to bluesky (+ github to tangled, substack to leaflet, etc!) what would you try?

experiments, incentives, rhetorical strategies? drop your wildest ideas; let's try em!

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

1) demonstrate how newsrooms can build website-based communities by integrating with ATproto in general and Bluesky custom feeds in particular (for every section, a feed)

2) create interuniversity sci. communities coupled with custom feeds and @cosmik.network's Semble app

bsky.app/profile/math...

Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

Currently looking at how newsrooms could coopete, eg by building a custom feed together which each integrates with their own online community/mu-blog.

Same architecture works for universities, particularly in Europe where they've been collaborating on EU-funded research projects for 40 years.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

I hear you. But if you want things done for you, without paying, then you have to accept whatever shitty experience Musk et al provide to maximise their profits and meet their political goals. Agency takes effort. But I agree it must be made easier.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

Except it's not just a site, there's a protocol. Even if the company disappears, microblogging on atproto Will continue. If you don't like their moderation, you can use another app, roll your own, etc.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

10th resource to add to my collection.

All the Stuff I Like or Do or Think about Everything tagged science & bluesky, Anytime: myhub.ai/@mathewlowry...

Mathew Lowry's Hub | MyHub.AI

myhub.ai

Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

"I read somewhere that..."

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

Get support on discord!

Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

Morning update from America:

We used to be a serious country.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

Things get really interesting when you realise friends can pool tags and add similes. Combined with autocomplete, we'll build a functional semantic social web.

We'll know we've won when "Join my tag pool" becomes a thing.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

Tag everything, and give users the ability to make and share any collection they like - eg All the Stuff I Like or Do or Think about Everything tagged ux & online architecture, Anytime: myhub.ai/@mathewlowry...

Mathew Lowry's Hub | MyHub.AI

myhub.ai

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

Currently looking at how newsrooms could coopete, eg by building a custom feed together which each integrates with their own online community/mu-blog.

Same architecture works for universities, particularly in Europe where they've been collaborating on EU-funded research projects for 40 years.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 3d

Great idea, and please keep me posted - I'd love to integrate it into my presentation at eurosky.social in Berlin next month.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 3d

This is the way. Has anyone written this up for non-Bostonians, or even non-Americans?

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