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mike

@mike@flipboard.social

Co-founder and CEO, Flipboard https://flipboard.com/@mike

Interests: #Climbing #Backpacking #Photography #Sailing #ActivityPub #Startups #Design

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mike, to random
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One of my all time favorite SNL sketches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk

mike, to random
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I love the user names in the fediverse:

molly0xfff, to fediverse
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I had such a great chat with @mike on his Dot Social podcast, where we talked about the future of the web and why I'm a web optimist, why everyone should be a blogger, digital ownership, and decentralized social media.

The full episode is available here https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/molly-white/ and on PeerTube/YouTube/the usual podcast feeds!

mike,
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@freezr @molly0xfff We do have a bad habit in the tech world of calling people "users" and stories "content" and artists "creators". This kind of shorthand is often used to make it easier when building or discussing products but risks overly simplifying or categorizing.

When I use the phrase "content creator" I'm referring to people like bloggers, vloggers, and podcasters who often tell stories in a way that is deeply rooted in their passion or expertise. I think these are people who I think should be celebrated in the fediverse and given an opportunity to subsidize their work so that can be sustainable.

mike, to fediverse
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Molly White is one of the most thoughtful writers and thinkers on the web today. In addition to being a high functioning crypto critic, @molly0xfff is a believer and practitioner in crafting the next era of the web.

Molly believes that human connections are an inextricable part of the web and sees a bright future ahead as those connections move from walled gardens to the open web.

Check out this fantastic conversation with her on the latest episode of #DotSocial on our #PeerTube instance or wherever you get your #podcasts.

https://flipboard.video/w/ovAsDRovkgbihkZa3wMcUA

mike,
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@underlap @molly0xfff I agree. One of the best. Molly is so good. Thanks for listening.

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The antidote to AI destroying the web is to strengthen human connection and to make those connections a fundamental part of the open web. Quickly.

mike,
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@andresmh yes. thankfully!

mike,
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@mike I think Bing is also all-in on AI. We're going to need a totally new way to discover and navigate the web that is fundamentally better than a search engine. I believe trustworthy people recommending quality content to others who share an interest will be a fundamental part of the solution.

mike,
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@opny721 So true. It's be degrading for a long time. AI is a massive accelerant.

mike,
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@uriel @mike Yes I've used it and I think it's where Google and Bing are headed. Perplexity is essentially forcing Google to move much faster. OpenAI will soon release something similar. All paths lead to the same result: subsume all the content on the web in order to satisfy the search on site and minimize the need to link out to the web.

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"A quarter-century into its existence, a company that once proudly served as an entry point to a web that it nourished with traffic and advertising revenue has begun to abstract that all away into an input for its large language models."

https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

mike, to random
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@caseynewton Love the new Platformer logo.

mike, to fediverse
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I talk about the #fediverse in this episode of Technically Optimistic, a terrific podcast by Raffi Krikorian and Emerson Collective. The topic: How to Save Social Media

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technically-optimistic/id1689164209?i=1000654155177

mike, to random
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He's baaaack.

imdavidpierce, to random

Threads’ moderation system: not doing so hot, y’all

Excited to start ranting and raving about censorship in Installer every week

mike,
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@imdavidpierce at least it was federated!

mike,
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@jedi @imdavidpierce that’s coming soon. We can make fun of him in the meantime.

mike,
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@thisismissem @imdavidpierce Totally. Threads' and Meta's scale are massive so it's hard for them to cover all these cases with a person. I think that's where decentralized moderation like what we see on Mastodon could have a huge advantage, especially if aided by shared moderation lists and ML tools that automatically flag problematic posts to actual people.

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