A sitting MP just named Loops on stage.
@AwetTesfaiesus — who joined the community three months ago — gave us a shoutout in front of a live audience. Photo via @mellifluousbox.
When elected officials publicly back federated, community-owned platforms over corporate surveillance feeds, it sends a signal. So honored to have her here.
Presenters say that Weber State University’s legal team adopted a narrow construction of a state law designed to withhold funding from public institutions suspected of practicing DEI.
https://www.404media.co/how-a-universitys-censorship-conference-got-censored/
Loops Creators: Studio is coming to our mobile app!
Studio brings rich insights and management with Analytics, Profile Links and Posts.
Shipping soon!
Imagine empowering admins with fine-grained ACL for core features like creating videos, following accounts, liking content, making reports, creating or using Starter Kits and sending DMs.
Now imagine being able to enforce that for both local and remote/federated accounts.
With an audit log and easy reversal.
It's not a dream, you can do all of this and more with Loops.
Safety and security shouldn't be an afterthought.
It should be prioritized and integrated with easy access.
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Algorithmic feeds on the fediverse? Controversial. I get it.
But here's the thing: we can build them ethically. Transparent. Opt-in. Default to reverse-chron followers (and local, if you want it).
Did it with Loops. 1M+ unique video views in 4 months.
Build healthy. Keep users happy. Listen to your community.
From Sabine's email for the day:
Researchers from OpenAI have put forward an industrial policy for artificial intelligence and it’s quite a read. They propose a legally recognised “Right to AI,” meaning broad public access to powerful systems, backed by government-funded compute resources so that researchers, startups, and public institutions can run models themselves, rather than rely on a few companies.
To make this reality, they want to see an expansion of electricity supply for data centres by fast-tracking nuclear and renewables. They also suggest a national wealth fund that captures a share of AI-driven profits and redistributes it to citizens, alongside taxes or levies on highly automated systems, effectively a “robot tax”.
Of course none of that has any chance of happening, but OpenAI can now claim they care about the common man.
Congratulations to the #mastodon team for getting a substantial grant from the #sovereigntechagency !
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/
I'm working on a YouTube mini series explaining the Fediverse!!
Who are the most knowledgeable people in this realm who I should definitely talk to?
What do you think is important to include in my series? I want to hear thoughts!!
I'm joining OpenAI at the end of the month, and I can't wait to get started!
After 10 years with the amazing Glose team and 5 years at Medium, it was time for me to embark on new adventures!
I'll be working on everything related to Codex, bringing what I learned building Codex Monitor and my 20 years of experience with iOS and macOS.
I'll be joining the developer experience team!
I have so many ideas, and I'm very excited to bring them to life as soon as I start!
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