You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.
Substack writers, you need a website!
Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you …
Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.
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On Thickets, Enclosure, and Leaving
Every platform I left, I left for the same pattern: enclosure by othering — systems that define what is shameful, create targets, and point an aggressive majority at them. Substack's AI-detection turn is the latest, and it is Dark Forestry in action. The escape is spatial: go where the platforms ar…
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'
Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.
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Expectations and preferences around community contributions/interactions · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #36552
There is a long-running pattern of conversations on issues/PRs around some features getting quite heated and sometimes turning into personal insults, venting frustrations, borderline conspiracy acc...
Inside the Harness: Four Months of Being Wrong About pi | Nick Nisi
I tried pi in March, talked a coworker out of it in July, and rebuilt my entire agent stack on it in August. The thing I'd missed was that everything I'd been building around my harness could live inside it.
Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse
In a wide-ranging interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of the decentralized social network Mastodon, Rochko shared why Threads federation fell flat, why ActivityPub and ATProto will likely never merge, and what it will take to grow the fediverse.
Bluesky is doubling down
I’m currently in Vancouver for ATmosphereConf 2026, surrounded by people who care deeply about things like data portability and unparalleled seismic activity on the Alaskan coast. If that sounds weird, don’t worry. All you really need to know is that this conference is nerdy, it’s niche, and
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
An alternate path for Staff+ engineers that optimizes for systems over spotlights and stewardship over fungibility.