For those who have .social or other premium domains.
How can I be sure, that the registration company is not making a premium domain from 200$ a year to 2000$ a year?
It would be bad, if you think, 200$ a year is fine, and register it and building a community in it, but then it's too high and you still have to pay the 2000$ for it, as you can't lose the community?
Any idea how that works?
With social and search traffic declining, publishers need new ways to connect with readers.
In this #DotSocial episode, @mike talks with @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler and @ProPublica's @ben about the benefits of decentralization.
"I think what's really missing is the human-to-human connection and the human curation ... Our informal tagline is 'by humans for humans.' We really just want someone to look at our stuff and send it to their friends in a group text or talk about it out loud or add it to a stream on the fediverse," Jason says.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/
OK! It's identity and communities by a country mile (and in a tie).
Excited to talk about these topics with some great community builders and identity pioneers in the next season of #dotsocial
Which topics do you most want to delve into with future episodes of #dotsocial?
Do you want to chat about Dot Social, and connect with the guests that have appeared on the podcast? @mike has created a Surf feed that includes all episodes, any posts tagged with #DotSocial, and the profiles of past guests including @Gargron, @jasonkoebler, @tchambers. @kissane, @cubicgarden, @molly0xfff @j12t @pluralistic and many, many more.
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jyqbv2607cxrwm8qvg9szxk8
If you're not in the beta, sign up for the waitlist here, using the invite code SurfDotSocial.
What drew you to ActivityPub?
This question was asked by @mike@flipboard.social on Dot Social's latest episode about the blogosphere on Fedi.
@johnonolan@mastodon.xyz: "we wanted to connect Ghost blogs to each other, but then we discovered ActivityPub"
@pfefferle@mastodon.social: "we wanted to connect WordPress blogs to each other, and ActivityPub has been the most successful attempt"
[paraphrased for brevity]
Did you catch the subtext? Both those answers, and my own answer with NodeBB contain the same seed idea... that we originally wanted to connect our software with itself only. We went through years of building a company and vying for profitability that it never occurred to us to work towards cross compatibility with anyone besides out own software.
Then ActivityPub came along and quite literally expanded the potential for the entire endeavour a hundred-fold, because not only are you connecting your own software to each other, but every other ActivityPub enabled software in existence. Blogs, microblogs, forums, image boards, etc. all with a built-in user base ready from the get-go.
It's no wonder that after discovering AP, it becomes the protocol to utilise.
Planning out the next season for Dot Social. Who would you most love to hear from? Which topics do you really want us to go deep on?
In this latest episode of #dotsocial I have an inspiring conversation with @johnonolan and @pfefferle who are bringing the best ideas of the blogosphere to the open social web. You'll love their vision and plans for gathering people around great stories and storytellers in the fediverse.
Check it out here on our PeerTube instance or wherever you get your podcasts:
New Dot Social Episode!
I see a new episode of Dot Social by @mike@flipboard.social has dropped!
Excellent timing, now I have some grade A content for my flight back home!
Ghost’s @johnonolan and WordPress’s @pfefferle want to help blogs and long content thrive on the open social web. Meet “the longformers,” who chatted to @mike for the latest edition of Dot Social.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/john-onolan-and-matthias-pfefferle/
Rediscovering the Magic of the Blogosphere, with John O’Nolan and Matthias Pfefferle
Social networks were built on short posts designed for speed and scale. But what if the next era of the web was built for something deeper?
Two of the social web’s “longformers” are working on this. John O’Nolan, the founder and CEO of Ghost, and Matthias Pfefferle, the developer behind the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, are at the forefront of integrating social features with blogs, newsletters, essays — anything that doesn’t fit in a box of 500 characters or less.
In […]
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/john-onolan-and-matthias-pfefferle/
@bammerlaan @_elena
I was inspired by someone who did some similar posts but I put those together. And these. This was my effort to get people to move here from #Meta and #Twitter
#SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #DotSocial
"As with blockchain, 99% of all conversations about AI are non-consensual."
#CoryDoctorow, 2025
https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/cory-doctorow-GZCk_wnN
The latest two episodes of the #DotSocial podcast are among my favorites. (see my last two boosts)
I'm still not sold on Bluesky itself, but I'm intrigued by #Blacksky now that I've learned more, particularly for how Fraser is approaching it from a few different angles.
Meanwhile, @molly0xfff 's take on digital sovereignty is right up my alley, including caveats about moral purity. (We're ALL making compromises online.)
Kudos to @mike for highlighting both of them!
Thanks to the open web, it’s more viable than ever for creators to take back ownership and control of their livelihoods. @molly0xfff joined Flipboard CEO @mike at SXSW 2025 to talk about building an ethical, creator-first internet. That fireside chat is now available as a Dot Social episode. Listen in full!
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/molly-white-sxsw-2025/
I loved talking with @rudyfraser.com for this episode of #dotsocial
Rudy is one of the most visionary builders and thinkers of the social web today. He helped me realize that the success of the social web is not about killer apps. It's about killer communities. Once you internalize this insight, the entire world looks different.
Check it out here on our PeerTube channel or wherever you get your podcasts.
They may share a suffix (and a protocol), but Blacksky isn’t hitching its wagon to the Bluesky app or team. Founder and CEO @rudyfraser.com is creating a new, fiercely independent playbook for communities — one made possible because of the flexibility of the open web. We're excited for you to hear the latest episode of @mike's Dot Social podcast:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/blacksky-rudy-fraser/
#DotSocial #Podcast #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Federation #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Blacksky #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #RudyFraser #Technology #Tech #Bluesky
When mike@flipboard.social interviewed @chrismessina on the Dot Social podcast;
https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/chris-messina-nhUtOY8h
... they briefly criticised "hashtag stuffing". OK, guilty as charged.
But on the fediverse, hashtags are what we use for discovery instead of serendipity generators ("The Algorithms"). Along with community timelines, and now keyword searches, they are ways to browse the pool of posts your server has from everyone someone follows.
