@tchambers@indieweb.social

· 1w ago

Not suprising in the least but disappointing to see Reddit move the wrong way. Less open, killing public API, ending RSS. #enshitification commences in a speed run. Looking forward to #Piefed and rest of #Threadiverse to work to take advantage of this moment. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/

TechCrunch

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 6d ago

Replying to

@dansup@mastodon.social Great to see Signal support. You might also consider @delta@chaos.social suppport too...

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

Meta's Muse.ai is impressive enough to me to really prove that such Agents can be mass market offerings - and makes me deeply hopeful for a purely private, and/or self hosted offering that is as easy to use to come along.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.bsd.cafe

@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe - for #LittleFedi have you thought about using the same technique or even the say relays as #HolosSocial and #HolosDiscover to have the micro single users server speak to and see the larger Fediverse better?

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Learn about how hashtags federate...(and how different servers see this).... https://tag-federation.online/#tag=lastfourwatched&servers=mastodon.social,musician.social,indieweb.social

How Widely Do Hashtags Federate?

See how far a Mastodon hashtag spreads: compare how many tagged posts different servers can actually see.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

Wow this has been a busy and long several weeks, but I can see the light at the end of a tunnel at an important work project. 🤞

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

To the contrary: If Bluesky wins, or if Nostr or some new open, decentralized social platform wins, that only benefits the whole. The open social web is ONE web. I get prefering one, but being religious over ActivtyPub, vs ATProto vs Nostr protocols is silly and like POP3 email vs SMTP email etc, when in reality it was all ONE email system. Just so, the whole open social web benefits and is enriched by ANY of the other succeeding.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116777926060900347 #HolosDiscover continues to evolve into the privacy respecting search engine the #Fediverse has needed for some while now....

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Fedilab Apps

@apps@toot.fedilab.app

#HolosDiscover now indexes #PeerTube videos. You can find them in search and timelines, but the way they look still needs some work. A video is not the same kind of #ActivityPub object as a normal post. A post is a short text made to be read in the timeline. A video has a title, a long description, and a media file, so it should be shown as a video card with a thumbnail and a link, not as plain text. That part is coming next.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

“We have traded a free internet for a collection of walled gardens. Today, a handful of digital landlords use algorithms to dictate our reality, while closed AI threatens to change the ways we connect. We are at a breaking point: we can either let gatekeepers continue to consolidate their power, or we can reclaim the open source spirit that built the web in the first place.” https://zeldman.com/2026/07/02/the-human-story-of-the-open-web/

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - The Human Story of the Open Web - State of the Web

STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: The members of an extended family spend years curating a shared online photo album. Then the website they posted on vanishes, flushing their collective memories away forever.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

".....What will be left? And I don't think either side of that equation has had a good answer.” From The Vergecast: You can't ignore Google Zero anymore, Jul 24, 2026🔗 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vergecast/id430333725?i=1000778222947&r=445 #GoogleZero 🧵 2/2

Apple Podcasts

You can't ignore Google Zero anymore

Podcast Episode · The Vergecast · July 24 · 1h 34m

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@poleguy/116840233192142775 I like this idea. #Collections

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poleguy looking for lost tools

@poleguy@mastodon.social

@mackaj@mastodon.me.uk @Mastodon@mastodon.social Until there is a built in discovery feature, can I suggest people creating collections post them under a hashtag? Maybe #collections?

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

"Mr. Chambers said that his clients were thinking about “needing to rebuild their websites for machines as much as for humans,” and considering how to show up in chatbot queries posed in multiple languages." (3 of 3)

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

#indiweb ftw! https://zeldman.com/2026/07/29/a-permanent-home/

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - A Permanent Home - Indieweb

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@benpate@mastodon.social @zzepposs@chaos.social @deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org Can't wait to see...

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

"The Next Information War Is Already Here" - Check out this article I co-wrote with @WillRobinson@indieweb.social... We work to frame very big changes coming to the political digital landscape faster than most think. Up for any thoughts, notes, and appreciate all... #AI https://substack.com/home/post/p-208238499

substack.com

The Next Information War Is Already Here

AI systems are consuming false, misleading, and manipulated content from across the internet - and increasingly presenting it as authoritative answers to millions of users.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to on atomicpoet.org

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org Am a huge fan of #holosdiscover and actually the entire #holossocial project.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk Huh, sometimes giant slabs of concrete and hoists can functionally act as batteries.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@wjmaggos@liberal.city I undertand having a preference. For me, I think Nostr has an insufficient means for content moderation (which they would say is a feature not a bug) however, the whole open social web is improved by them being bridged into it, and my posts here improve (I think) Nostr by the fact that I can bridge my posts to them. Gopher actually does still exist and ties into and benefits one web. (An extremely tiny part but I suppose it meets that communities needs) https://gopher.fyi

gopher.fyi

Gopher - Take back the web

The original internet protocol is back as the engine for a faster, leaner, more performant web.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@mattmaison@mastodon.world Very true that. And it would set back the overall social web by years to decades.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social So sad to see.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@pip@infosec.exchange @jakehamilton@hachyderm.io - so for the first two, would @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net and say Duck Duck Go get you there? Third one is getting more rare still.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

I now fully believe that the open social web will be more key to the agentic web than folks think. #AgenticWeb

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 1w ago

Replying to

@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org That tracks.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@jodsclass@indieweb.social @openvibe@mastodon.social Thank you!

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

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@dansup@mastodon.social Thank you for your service….

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

“In this talk, I am going to try and inspire you to make things that would be literally impossible to make on the centralized web. I am going to talk about both the advantages and disadvantages of doing this kind of thing. Expect to hear concrete examples of software that already exists, and also examples of software that could conceivably exist in the very near future.” https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/lets-play-and-win-our-own-game/953

SocialHub

Let's Play and Win Our Own Game

I’m Darius Kazemi (@darius) @darius@friend.camp, and I’m an independent researcher, programmer, and artist. I’m the maintainer of Hometown, a fork of Mastodon with community-enhancing features, and I added AcitvityPub support to the open source event organizing software Gathio. I was a Mozilla Open Web Fellow in 2018-2019 As creators of federated social software, we have a choice: we can compete with social media giants on their own terms, or we can play our own game, one that’s impossible f

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@tasket@infosec.exchange Where do you think the analogy fails specifically?

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Pro-Russian groups are seeding AI chatbots with propaganda ahead of midterm elections, European officials warn https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/europe-warns-russian-groups-seed-ai-chatbots-propaganda-rcna351233

NBC News

Pro-Russian groups are seeding AI chatbots with propaganda, European officials warn

As Kremlin-friendly content seeps into popular chatbots, senior European officials warn that democracies must act together — or risk letting AI quietly shape what voters believe.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

The open social web - both #Fediverse and #Blusky /#Atmosphere owe @samir@m.fedica.com and @FedicaHQ@m.fedica.com a ton for their forward looking tools embracing the social web. Excited to see them launch 2.0 and am checking it out. https://www.producthunt.com/products/fedica?launch=fedica-2-0&__cf_chl_tk=55WEp6xTv7ocCzGLpguXXc4cDYMt00XZHI1sMFpQc8A-1784920780-1.0.1.1-bAtG01LtyEjzppCRHQ4UqfraR6piypIURfHOUpep224

producthunt.com

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.social

@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social With cause.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2w ago

Replying to

@zhenyi@mastodon.social Dig that this also has family sharing.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 5d ago

My team studied every competitive House, Senate and Gov camapiagn sites: neither side is even trying on AI. But there is still time to change the one thing they have direct control on to inform AI Answers. https://substack.com/home/post/p-218699607

substack.com

On AI: Nobody Is Minding the One Thing a Campaign Actually Controls

Tim scanned every campaign website in the 2026 battleground. Both parties are equally unprepared for the AI systems now answering voters’ questions - but this a problem you can fix in an afternoon

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@JanMiksovsky@fosstodon.org @davew@mastodon.social Interesting.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.social

@cheeaun@mastodon.social Chee Aun is this... "As the link is not the same as currently-logged-in instance, it'll be "unfurl"-ed, almost like how we "guess" the post links, then fetch the remote API call. On a *collection* page itself, it's possible to use search API to unfurl the federated local collection ID, so switching between them is possible." Related to this...? https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/116772213826199488

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Tim Chambers

@tchambers@indieweb.social

RE: https://mastodon.online/@ercanbrack/116756297944126863 One UX issue, when users link to their #collections on web UX, it links to it as a full path url... which makes sense, but that forces any other users who click on it from outside that server into a "remote server interactions hell" issue. is there any potential future work around on that? cc: @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social @imanijoy@mastodon.social

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

“While Google still dominates the search market, users are increasingly turning to "No-AI search" alternates. The trend picked up speed in the weeks since Google I/O, where the search giant announced it would be putting more AI in the forefront.” https://cnb.cx/4eyRGm8

CNBC

Google’s online dominance is showing signs of cracking in AI era

While Google remains in a position of strength in the eyes of Wall Street, the AI era is complicating the company's story.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@pip@infosec.exchange @jakehamilton@hachyderm.io @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Hmmm. What do you not trust on Chromium browser? Vivaldi has stripped out nuetered any of the Google advertising and surveillance code.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

Agreed. The trust question is the whole ballgame for the agentic web. An agent is only useful if you hand it your inbox, calendar, and wallet, so the bet is who would you trust this with? Not Meta. Not Google. Not AI tech. Watching this one closely. https://defcon.social/@ai/117238342121057622

DEF CON Social

AIagent.at 🤖 AI News (@ai@defcon.social)

Meta has launched Muse, a new personal AI agent that requests access to users email, calendars, payments and health services. The companys biggest consumer AI bet yet tests whether people still trust Meta with their data. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-its-muse-ai-agent-will-consumers-trust-it/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #ConsumerAI

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to on flipboard.com

@AxiosNews@flipboard.com @axios-AxiosNews Wasn't that the plot of the Matrix Reloaded?

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.social

@cheeaun@mastodon.social cc: @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social @renchap@oisaur.com

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@ilust606@mastodon.social Fully agree that grassroots person to person organizing is one absolutely necessary part of how to respond to this.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai I thought of that analogy too

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

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@verge@mastodon.social Oops.

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

Very proud of the work my team did with Innovating for the Public Good here. There is still time - even with just weeks to go - for organizations to put inoculation to work fighting against the disinformation we know is coming as we head to the polls this midterm. And time to start planning for beyond. https://www.psgconsulting.com/research-publications/countering-disinformation