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Sarah Perez 💙 @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/alternative-app-store-altstore-raises-6m-connects-with-the-fediverse/

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Mike McCue @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Hello fediverse,

The AltStore is federating! It’s time to give developers and users an open platform to directly connect with each other while drastically improving app discovery. I believe so much in this mission that I joined their board to help.

More here from @rileytestut […]

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Riley Testut :fatpikachu: @rileytestut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

So in order to grow the team, I’m thrilled to announce AltStore has received an investment of $6 million USD from @cpaik! Chris was an early investor in Patreon & Twitch, and we’ve been close ever since he sideloaded the manga reader Paperback with AltStore years ago

Additionally, Flipboard CEO […]

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Riley Testut :fatpikachu: @rileytestut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Yes it’s true, AltStore is joining the Fediverse 🥳

Developers can now federate apps, updates, and news alerts to the open social web via our custom Mastodon server, and all likes, boosts, and comments will appear natively in AltStore.

We plan to release this officially soon — but you can check […]

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 4d

NEW: Judge Immergut BLOCKS Trump's federalization of the Oregon National Guard, writing that the govt has "made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CONCLUSION
For the above reasons, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 6, and temporarily enjoins Defendants' September 28, 2025, Memorandum ordering
the federalization and deployment of Oregon National Guard service members to Portland. The
TRO expires in fourteen days on October 18, 2025, and the parties are ORDERED to comply with the attached TRO. The Defendants' request to stay or administratively stay the Temporary Restraining Order, see Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining
Order, ECF 35 at 41, is DENIED.
IT IS SO ORDERED
DATED this 4th day of October, 2025 at 3:40 p.m. pacific daylight time.
/s/ Karin J. Immergut
Karin J. Immergut
United States District Judge

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 4d

Your regularly scheduled reminder

An image that says "people not platforms" and "a new social"

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Anton Gorlin @antongorlin.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 6d

The rocks catching the last rays of the setting sun. Soft breeze whispers its secrets and the waves keep trying to sprinkle me. This is the kind of conversation that I enjoy. Sometimes I feel just a breath away from understanding it all.

#seascape #landscape […]

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a square seascape with rocks on 3 sides and a separate bunch of rocks in the very middle of the photo surrounded by the water. The sky is full of horizontal stripes with late evening peach colours. The rocks catch the last rays of sun painting them orange.

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Geoffrey Giebelhaus @geoff-eg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

From one of my favourite local #vancouver #forests to explore, this image of a Maple Vine tree reaching for the light is one of my favourites.

To get the compression I wanted I had to stitch about 9 frames together to get the full image in one shot. Moving […]

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A lush forest scene, with a multi trunk maple vine leaning at an aggressive angle across the panoramic scene towards the brighter sunlit area on the right. The yellow leaves of the tree contrast strongly against the dark greens. Some haze from mist obscures the background forest slightly.

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Mike McCue @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

@sturmsucht I really appreciate hearing your perspective as well as from others on this thread. This is a great example of how social media can be useful. Sometimes things can seem so simple when in fact they're not. I think people are making a good point in this thread that the people of […]

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Mike McCue @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 18d

Now more than ever, this needs to happen. For my friends in the EU, do you think this is realistic?

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5209014-kick-hungary-out-of-the-european-union/

Expel Hungary from the European Union

Orbán’s semi-authoritarian regime openly flouts freedom, democracy, the rule of law, minority rights, pluralism, tolerance and justice.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

This summarizes the situation better than anything else you will read. There, saved you a lot of time. #charliekirk https://youtube.com/shorts/tg7GgCQvaTI?si=lEnaKXSg9WEPvQYu

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Reminder: Any report on Trump's insane lawsuit against the New York Times that includes the absurd, demanded amount of damages is PR for Trump.

And journalistic malpractice.

Why? Anyone can sue anyone for any amount of money. They put in ridiculous amounts to get the media to do PR for them.

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Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

It's Signal. It's worth using. Good interview with @Mer__edith
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-09-14/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-in-technology-its-way-too-easy-for-marketing-to-replace-substance-thats-whats-happened-with-telegram.html
h/t

#signal

Signal president Meredith Whittaker: ‘In technology, it’s way too easy for marketing to replace substance. That’s what’s happened with Telegram’

The app best known for respecting privacy looks to grow, despite anti-privacy efforts

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Mike McCue @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

I've been a founder pretty much my entire adult life and my definition of "founder mode" is more of a "founder loop" which is quite simple:

Try best to craft product for customers/users; Meet and talk with them to gather feedback; Debrief with team to strategize and sequence changes; Repeat for […]

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Mike McCue @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d

@Mastodon Love this. I will quote post this post as soon as possible!

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27d

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5 […]

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Mike McCue @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 27d

Thoughts and prayers.

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Mike McCue @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d

@thisismissem yes, thank you. I'm @mike and @mmccue.bsky.social

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6

Recently there has been a lot of discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol which has been quite dividing and heated.

Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting (the group that maintains the ActivityPub and related specifications), I proposed releasing a statement that counters the narrative that […]

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Mike McCue @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

@samvarma Totally. I'm a sucker for Atari 2600 games.

Mike McCue @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

@thisismissem Hi Emilia, Loved your post on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Proto. You can count me in also as a co-signer.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

First real study of #Threads-#Fediverse interop at scale. Key bits: Fedi→Threads replies dominate (likely due to current UX on Threads for fedi), surges tied to rollout events, steady growth, & interop didn’t worsen convo tone. Early but encouraging data: https://arxiv.org/html/2502.17926v2

Fediverse Sharing: Cross-Platform Interaction Dynamics between Threads and Mastodon Users

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Flipboard Tech Desk @techdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

Last year, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation" was released. The book about how smartphones and overprotective parenting damage children's mental health has sold over two million copies. Jon Severs writes for the TES about academics' problems with the book: Shaky […]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

NewsGuard - Despite a year of technical advancements in the AI industry, generative AI tools fail at a nearly doubled rate when it comes to one of the most basic tasks: distinguishing facts from falsehoods. https://www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/august-2025-ai-false-claim-monitor/

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Mike McCue @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

I wrote a game called Night Mission when I was 16 and I just saw a gameplay video for it while using Surf tonight. How cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvu8mZ1lHB0

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