Someone from the audience told them that BlueSky has become very popular in New Zealand because Musk killed a widely loved national Secret Santa project that used to run on Twitter.

www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/c...

The researches @sammy.bsky.social and @clockwerks.bsky.social from @newpublic.org who think about how to design healthy digital public spaces, gave a talk about building a social network for local neighborhood communities.

There was a talk by Olivia Tai, a human-AI relational researcher.

The tech world is shifting from the “attention economy” to the “intimacy economy”, trying to solve the loneliness problem that the attention economy itself created.

oliviatai.com

There was a talk by @imaginaries.bsky.social a Catalan researcher on hype: the mechanisms behind it and how to deconstruct it, to see technology and the social process as separate things.

They even have a whole Hype Studies Lab dedicated to this.

hypestudies.org

My favorite talk at MozFest was about 15MapRato (now @xnet-x.net), a dozen hackers, led by a theater director, managed to get 65 bankers and politicians jailed.

They collected anonymous evidence in a WikiLeaks-style tool and later proved it in court.

es-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/15MpaRa...

You can play Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 for free this weekend (or grab it with a nice discount).

Highly recommend it. It’s my favorite game of the year.

www.deepsilver.com/gb/games/kin...