wells is making a social media co-op
@wells.bsky.social
critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI
all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan. catch me staffing at anime cons!
pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️
all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan. catch me staffing at anime cons!
pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️
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Introducing Luddenites
Playing off both LUDENS and LUDDITES, LUDDENITES is envisioned as a collective whose goal is to counter oppressive technologies like surveillance tech and generative AI, instead seeking communal infra...
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Introducing LUDDENITES: a collective whose goal is to counter oppressive technologies like surveillance tech and generative AI, instead seeking communal infrastructures in service of CONSENTFUL PLAY and CREATIVE JOY.
blog.wellssanto.com/luddenites/
blog.wellssanto.com/luddenites/
discord is spyware
February 10, 2026 at 2:49 AM
discord is spyware
if i did a research study on performing asianness online, would any asian / asian american streamers here wanna be interviewed for that?
February 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM
if i did a research study on performing asianness online, would any asian / asian american streamers here wanna be interviewed for that?
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@discord.com how can we trust that you'll keep our data secure if you force us to upload our IDs?
February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
@discord.com how can we trust that you'll keep our data secure if you force us to upload our IDs?
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Hey @discord.com I have been a Nitro subscriber and have hosted a streaming community for 5 years now.
Happy to pull the plug on all of that and swap to a competitor if facial ID is required. I do not trust you to keep my community's data safe. Reconsider...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Happy to pull the plug on all of that and swap to a competitor if facial ID is required. I do not trust you to keep my community's data safe. Reconsider...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.
www.bbc.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Hey @discord.com I have been a Nitro subscriber and have hosted a streaming community for 5 years now.
Happy to pull the plug on all of that and swap to a competitor if facial ID is required. I do not trust you to keep my community's data safe. Reconsider...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Happy to pull the plug on all of that and swap to a competitor if facial ID is required. I do not trust you to keep my community's data safe. Reconsider...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
how do grifters get so successful, like who is funding their grifts... this is a post about alllll the ai slop and funding that's gone towards it
February 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
how do grifters get so successful, like who is funding their grifts... this is a post about alllll the ai slop and funding that's gone towards it
i feel like i've made so many mistakes that nothing feels safe for me to fail at anymore
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 AM
i feel like i've made so many mistakes that nothing feels safe for me to fail at anymore
i can't help but feel like i made a mistake going back to school when i probably should have been advancing my management skills... folks told me it's never too late to go back, but after all these years i wonder who'd want to even hire someone like me again
February 9, 2026 at 6:02 AM
i can't help but feel like i made a mistake going back to school when i probably should have been advancing my management skills... folks told me it's never too late to go back, but after all these years i wonder who'd want to even hire someone like me again
this is why we need a co-op model that distributes governance!! we keep chasing technical solutions for organizational challenges & end up in situations like this. open and distributed don't mean much if it's just a few making the final calls
Imagine begging Bluesky for features, having your PRs sitting unmerged and ignored for months, and then turning around and saying that EYEEE am the centralizing influence around here.
February 8, 2026 at 9:12 PM
this is why we need a co-op model that distributes governance!! we keep chasing technical solutions for organizational challenges & end up in situations like this. open and distributed don't mean much if it's just a few making the final calls
how do you turn a dream into reality
February 8, 2026 at 7:07 PM
how do you turn a dream into reality
my (self-)oc moodboard except i have no idea which artist to find to turn it into a reality
February 8, 2026 at 5:17 AM
my (self-)oc moodboard except i have no idea which artist to find to turn it into a reality
I have 0 publications, and even though I'm in academia at the moment, I fear that maybe I'll never have any publications. Maybe that's fine? But it also feels like I'm not doing, or even capable of doing, anything.
February 8, 2026 at 1:39 AM
I have 0 publications, and even though I'm in academia at the moment, I fear that maybe I'll never have any publications. Maybe that's fine? But it also feels like I'm not doing, or even capable of doing, anything.
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
is there even tech that isn't ensnared by capitalism or libertarianism, or is that an oxymoron
February 6, 2026 at 7:59 PM
is there even tech that isn't ensnared by capitalism or libertarianism, or is that an oxymoron
content is sometimes better when it's written just for the people who'll get it
February 6, 2026 at 2:35 PM
content is sometimes better when it's written just for the people who'll get it
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The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
February 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
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✨I’m on the academic job market ✨
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
Cella M. Sum –
cella.io
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
✨I’m on the academic job market ✨
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
what if we made a textual social media that showed posts only to mutuals in 2026
February 4, 2026 at 5:53 AM
what if we made a textual social media that showed posts only to mutuals in 2026
i just need you all to know this is what i spent my time on today (one quarter of a 1200 piece puzzle)
February 4, 2026 at 1:40 AM
i just need you all to know this is what i spent my time on today (one quarter of a 1200 piece puzzle)
dang, my reviewers for this paper are pretty good lmao, i'm out here like, "you right, you right" 😂 i'm scared to revise my paper now cause these reviewers were on point
February 2, 2026 at 10:52 PM
dang, my reviewers for this paper are pretty good lmao, i'm out here like, "you right, you right" 😂 i'm scared to revise my paper now cause these reviewers were on point
a lil upset at myself that all these grifters can raise funds so easily but i'm over here trying to build something without a clue 😭 so many apps have been made and yet i'm still stuck just talking about it
February 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
a lil upset at myself that all these grifters can raise funds so easily but i'm over here trying to build something without a clue 😭 so many apps have been made and yet i'm still stuck just talking about it
I have two degrees that tell me I should know how to code, and yet I can't get myself to start on the simplest of coding projects anymore. I know it's been almost a decade, but it still makes me really sad to think about
February 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
I have two degrees that tell me I should know how to code, and yet I can't get myself to start on the simplest of coding projects anymore. I know it's been almost a decade, but it still makes me really sad to think about
Someone needs to pull a Sokal except for all these LLM/superintelligence talk, cause so much of this is straight up nonsense disguised as complex academic work, and it's harming actual academic work
February 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Someone needs to pull a Sokal except for all these LLM/superintelligence talk, cause so much of this is straight up nonsense disguised as complex academic work, and it's harming actual academic work
something i wrote last november that i still think about; talk to me if you wanna make better online communities
blog.wellssanto.com/can-social-m...
blog.wellssanto.com/can-social-m...
can social media apps connect us in real life?
I've been having more conversations about the possibilities (and failures) of social media lately, especially since I've been telling more folks about LUDDENITES. A large part of me does think it's ab...
blog.wellssanto.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:49 PM
something i wrote last november that i still think about; talk to me if you wanna make better online communities
blog.wellssanto.com/can-social-m...
blog.wellssanto.com/can-social-m...
I haven't written for fun in a while, and at this point I'm afraid I don't even know what that looks like anymore
February 1, 2026 at 6:43 AM
I haven't written for fun in a while, and at this point I'm afraid I don't even know what that looks like anymore
remember when we formed real connections in online spaces again? when the internet truly felt like a third space we could have fun in?
February 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
remember when we formed real connections in online spaces again? when the internet truly felt like a third space we could have fun in?