8 years ago I started building @pixelfed
That wasn't enough.
So https://fedidb.com and https://fediverse.info launched in 2021 and 2022.
Pixelfed shipped its first mobile app beta in 2022.
Then in 2024, I released the Loops beta, and later open sourced the full platform in 2025, along with this website https://joinloops.org
I've been obsessed with building ethical alternatives, and thanks to your support, it's become my full time job.
Thank you ❤️
Loops feels ripe for another viral moment.
It's been a long road. No VC. No selling out. No compromising on the mission. Just a stubborn belief that short video could be built differently — and a community that showed up to prove it.
Join the short video revolution ⬇️
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#Kimchi. A full dose. #Gettin #korean #bankholiday
So happy our #nottinghamtrentuniversity “ground breaking” #photography course that expands the definition of what #photographers might be is getting some results and recognition - thank you #nikon and than you to #gettyimages
https://amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo-news/shooting-for-gold-the-groundbreaking-course-training-tomorrows-sports-photographers-is-producing-incredible-results/
RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@jtonline/116413043384610202
I believe this is something akin to the “process knowledge” that @pluralistic refers to frequently.
(Filed for future reference)
“The GP who listens to a patient describe fatigue and quietly decides not to ask about mood yet, who files something away for a later question, who notes a hesitation as clinically significant: this is not inefficiency. This is the craft.
The ambient scribe passively records all of this without understanding any of it.”
The late great David Graber had it right. The value of someones work should be defined as the amount of care a person does at work.
For example:-
I work in IT for a massive multi-national corporation. I have what Graber famously described as a Bullshit Job. Hardly anything I do has any impact on the rest of the world. I certainly don't do anything that could be described as care as part of my job. My salary puts me in the top 5% of earnings in the UK.
My wife works in a council owned day center for people with many different disabilities both physical and mental. She basically makes people happy for a job. This means that she gets paid a tiny fraction above minimum wage.
Under Graber's formulation our pay rates would be reversed. Or my job would be deemed entirely unnecessary and I would be made redundant (yet again)
I think Graber would have said that so called "AI" is useless as it cannot care for humanity. The people running the AI dog-and-pony show certainly don't care for humanity.
Revealing piece on the scale and scope of AI-induced psychosis:
"There seem to be three common delusions [..]. The most frequent is the belief that they have created the first conscious AI. The second is a conviction that they have stumbled upon a major breakthrough in their field of work or interest and are going to make millions. The third relates to spirituality and the belief that they are speaking directly to God. “We’ve seen full-blown cults getting created”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/26/ai-chatbot-users-lives-wrecked-by-delusion
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/116100649068550383
Could not agree more.
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