N-gated Hacker NewsDec 24
Ah yes, Tim Chambers, the #Nostradamus of the Open Social Web, graces us with yet another set of tepid #predictions that even a sentient toaster could muster. 🔮📈 How generous of him to "shine a spotlight" on #trends that everyone with a pulse already sees coming. 😂 Let's all meditate on his "quantifiable" prophecies and pretend we're impressed. 🙄
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/my-open-social-web-predictions.html #TimChambers #OpenSocialWeb #Mediocre #HackerNews #ngated
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions - Tim Chambers

Predictions for 2026 include growth forecasts for various social media platforms, advancements in federated technologies, and anticipated shifts in how …

Tim Chambers
David Fleetwood - RG AdminSep 15, 2025
Increasingly I am viewing #IFTAS as beyond redemption as members of their board espouse problematic and privileged views or excuse harmful behavior. The latest is #TimChambers, a white man, tone policing people who have had to survive #CharlieKirk's form of stochastic terrorism or similar from the far right, telling them how they should react to his death. Previously #EmeliaSmith dismissed the coordinated attack on a trans anarchist as "drama" and defended those involved.
David FleetwoodSep 12, 2025
Watching liberals like #TimChambers lecture people directly impacted by #CharlieKirk and his ilk as to how they 'should' react to his death has been a good refresher that #liberals & #progressives are not real allies to the marginalized. Even people who had been directly targeted have attempted to tell them the horrific impact on their lives but there is a refusal to permit people the right to their own feelings and reactions.

Charlie Kirk intentionally terrorized broad swaths of society, ranging from the LGBTQ community, to black, indigenous and people of color, to higher education professors (for whom he maintained a hit list) and many, many more.

It is utterly rational, and requires no defense that those on those lists or those who have any empathy for them would celebrate the fact that someone took him out. That does not mean they are calling for violence, it means they have had to live under threat for years, more than a decade in many cases, never knowing when one of his crazed followers would try to harass, assault or murder them and now that person is no longer there to incite such violence.

#TonePolicing those who have to live under such oppression is wrong, it is the opposite of ally-ship and makes clear that as we sink into further oppression they will NOT have anyone's back.
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Dec 17, 2023

@si_irini
You really ought to read #TimChambers article again.
Massive data extraction through #screenscraping has been happening for years:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111575306870943698

The only real defense is complete anonymity and deleting old posts after a week or so (the latter being unacceptable to me.)

Someone has been creating a meta-#searchengine for the #Fediverse. He respects #nobots (and something else.)

Don't recall the name @ present.

@OlDude82 @mina @evelynefoerster @MaJ1

@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differentlyJul 8, 2023

#Meta #Threads #ContentModeration

#Reuters 07-07-2023:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-friendly-threads-collides-with-unfriendly-internet-2023-07-07/

#MediaMatters 07-07-2023:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-friendly-threads-collides-with-unfriendly-internet-2023-07-07/

#TheVerve 07-07-2023:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/7/23787334/instagram-threads-news-politics-adam-mosseri-meta-facebook

Content Moderation Problems with #Threads vs. #ActivityPub incoming 📨
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/7/23787548/threads-might-run-into-some-moderation-issues-when-it-integrates-with-activitypub

#Substack #InternetTalk 07-08-2023
https://internettalk.substack.com/p/i-am-drowning-in-mutes-please-help

#Techcrunch 07-06-2023
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/you-cant-post-ass-threads-is-doomed-meta-instagram-twitter/

#Engaget 07-07-2023 :
https://www.engadget.com/all-the-questions-we-still-have-about-threads-153059430.html

#ArsTechnica 07-06-2023
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/threads-attracts-30m-users-in-24-hours-despite-design-flaws-privacy-concerns/

#ThemUS 07-07-2023 :
https://www.them.us/story/threads-moderation-nudity-lgbtq-users/

#KSLCom 07-07-2023 :
https://www.ksl.com/article/50681971/twitter-vs-threads-showdown-highlights-political-differences-on-content-moderation

#Quartz 07-06-2023 :
https://qz.com/threads-feels-just-like-twitter-and-not-always-in-a-goo-1850609075

#EthanZuckerman 07-07-2023 :
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2023/07/07/competition-for-twitter-is-good-threads-thus-far-is-not/

#GitHub 07-08-2023
https://github.com/dmytrostriletskyi/threads-net

#Axios 07-07-2023 :
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/07/zuckerberg-threads-halo-twitter

#TheGuardian 07-05-2023 on No EU #Threads :
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/05/meta-delays-eu-launch-of-twitter-rival-threads-amid-uncertainty-over-personal-data-use

#TimChambers 07-08-2023 :
https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/07/08/threads-and-activtypub.html

#Patrick on how #federation works 07-08-2023
https://infosec.exchange/@raccoon@mastodon.world/110680270402977492

#Medium https://medium.com/@DamjanLukic 07-07-2023

https://medium.com/@DamjanLukic/how-metas-new-platform-threads-compares-to-twitter-61ad2defbe34

#ArsTechnica 07-08-2023
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/how-threads-privacy-policy-compares-to-twitters-and-its-rivals/

#ArsTechnica 07-06-2023 👩‍⚖️
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/musk-and-zuck-may-fight-in-court-twitter-threatens-to-sue-meta-over-threads/

#CNN 07-06-2023
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/tech/instagram-threads-app-explained/index.html

#Archyde 07-07-2023
https://www.archyde.com/twitter-threatens-to-sue-meta-over-instagrams-threads-launch-latest-news-updates/

Will update with more as more #news orgs publish about #Threads <(￣︶￣)↗

Analysis: Meta's 'friendly' Threads collides with unfriendly internet

Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta's Twitter copycat app, Threads, as a "friendly" refuge for public discourse online, framing it in sharp distinction to the more adversarial Twitter which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk.

Reuters
@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differentlyMar 19, 2023

🔎 A great article on #IEEE by #TimChambers about #web3 #decentralized #SocialMedia due to #BusinessModelsExposed of the big players and how their platforms are used primarily for #FinancialCrime & #malware spreading. 🔍

#Twitter #Meta Meltdown

Citation:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/mastodon-social-media

Decentralized Social Media Rises as Twitter Melts Down

The Fediverse—including its Twitter-like Mastodon service—is a decentralized collection of servers that communicate over an open protocol. The idea isn’t new, but it’s gained traction as centralized social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Tiktok find themselves mired in controversy.

IEEE Spectrum