Matt Terenzio

@librenews
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Director of Engineering at Subtext. I've been a CMS developer for over twenty years, mostly for newsrooms

Digg founder Kevin Rose on the need for trusted social communities in the AI era https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/digg-founder-kevin-rose-on-the-need-for-trusted-social-communities-in-the-ai-era/
Digg founder Kevin Rose on the need for trusted social communities in the AI era | TechCrunch

Now again under Rose's control, the new Digg is creating a place for people to socialize and connect online within communities, similar to Reddit, but it has different ideas about how such a platform should work at a time when bots are nearly indistinguishable from humans.

TechCrunch
Snapchat makes its first open prompt AI Lens available for free in the US https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/snapchat-makes-its-first-open-prompt-ai-lens-available-for-free-in-the-us/
Snapchat makes its first open prompt AI Lens available for free in the US | TechCrunch

Snapchat is expanding access to its AI-powered โ€œImagine Lens,โ€ allowing all users to generate and edit images with custom prompts for free.

TechCrunch
Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait
You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile
On the bright side to the fact that they claim there is nothing wrong with Signal chats is that they can't outlaw encryption on us right?
I'd say Maple Sugar season is officially over in Southern Connecticut
Happy to see us (Subtext) listed as #4 innovative companies in media and news https://www.fastcompany.com/91269631/media-news-most-innovative-companies-2025 Congrats to the team!
The most innovative companies in media and news for 2025

Fast Company's 2025 list of the 10 Most Innovative Companies in media and news includes Minnesota Star Tribune, Dropout, Beehiiv, and more.

Fast Company

Exciting: The Ghost team has just released the beta version of its ActivityPub support for people using their hosted service

https://activitypub.ghost.org/social-web-beta/

The social web beta is here

You can now try out ActivityPub on Ghost(Pro)

Building ActivityPub

John Wunderlich (@privacycdn.bsky.social) is coming to FediForum and wants to talk about:

Federated id

Join us April 1-2, online?

More info and registration: https://fediforum.org

FediForum

FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward

FediForum
New domain, blog and site to catalogue some ongoing work https://feeds.social
feeds.social