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Hi!!! I’m a strategist/entrepreneur/software engineer/activist, focusing on the intersection of justice, equity, and software engineering. I also run the Nexus of Privacy newsletter -- https://thenexusofprivacy.net and @[email protected]. I've been on the fediverse for a long time, so you may know me from accounts like @jdp23 @jdp23, @jdp23, and @[email protected]. I'm very excited about GoToSocial, so decided to take the jump and run my own instance -- although I'll also be keeping my blahaj.zone account active (it's a great community).
As well as decentralized social networks, privacy and civil rights activism and disinfo fighting, some of my other interests include intersectionality, psytrance and darkwave music, and tarot. I live in Washington state, and over the last few months I've gotten to enjoy some great aurora -- see the attached pic.
I've written about decentralized social networks since 2010. A few highlights
- Lessons (so far) from Mastodon for independent social networks (2017),
- Mastodon, a partial history (DRAFT) (2022)
- A (partial) queer, trans, and non-binary history of Mastodon and the fediverse (2023)
- Don't tell people "it's easy", and seven more things Kbin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon
- Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! and Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the Fediverse
- Mastodon and today's ActivityPub Fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default, Blocklists in the fediverse and Steps towards a safer fediverse, three parts of a series-in-progress on Golden opportunities for the fediverse -- and whatever comes next
- Strategies for free fediverses, a work-in-progress for those who want to build fediverses that reject Meta – and surveillance capitalism more generally
- 5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people
- I for one welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS ARMY, and millions of Brazilians to the fediverses!