Freddie Johnson
@freddiej.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy
Foundation Ambassador at Newsmast & Patchwork
[bridged from https://newsmast.social/@FreddieJ on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://newsmast.social/@FreddieJ on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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The investigative newsroom I work for, @ProPublica, is raising money right now. This is the last few days of our pledge drive.
We report on abuses of power in the public interest. We reported on who works for DOGE and revealed Clarence Thomas’s conflicts of interest.
It was the first outlet to […]
We report on abuses of power in the public interest. We reported on who works for DOGE and revealed Clarence Thomas’s conflicts of interest.
It was the first outlet to […]
Original post on werd.social
werd.social
September 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The investigative newsroom I work for, @ProPublica, is raising money right now. This is the last few days of our pledge drive.
We report on abuses of power in the public interest. We reported on who works for DOGE and revealed Clarence Thomas’s conflicts of interest.
It was the first outlet to […]
We report on abuses of power in the public interest. We reported on who works for DOGE and revealed Clarence Thomas’s conflicts of interest.
It was the first outlet to […]
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
The most piratical thought at FediCon was presented by @j12t Ernst:
Stop battling oligarch-owned big-tech walled gardens in their own space, where they have all the power. Move away, to open, unexplored territories.
The big question of life, the Fediverse and everything, is how pioneering […]
Stop battling oligarch-owned big-tech walled gardens in their own space, where they have all the power. Move away, to open, unexplored territories.
The big question of life, the Fediverse and everything, is how pioneering […]
Original post on newsmast.social
newsmast.social
August 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The most piratical thought at FediCon was presented by @j12t Ernst:
Stop battling oligarch-owned big-tech walled gardens in their own space, where they have all the power. Move away, to open, unexplored territories.
The big question of life, the Fediverse and everything, is how pioneering […]
Stop battling oligarch-owned big-tech walled gardens in their own space, where they have all the power. Move away, to open, unexplored territories.
The big question of life, the Fediverse and everything, is how pioneering […]
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
Newsmast x Bonfire
We’re excited to share that Newsmast and @bonfire are working together!
We’re collaborating across several key areas:
🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire
🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels app and Bonfire […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
We’re excited to share that Newsmast and @bonfire are working together!
We’re collaborating across several key areas:
🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire
🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels app and Bonfire […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
July 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Newsmast x Bonfire
We’re excited to share that Newsmast and @bonfire are working together!
We’re collaborating across several key areas:
🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire
🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels app and Bonfire […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
We’re excited to share that Newsmast and @bonfire are working together!
We’re collaborating across several key areas:
🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire
🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels app and Bonfire […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
🚨 Alert 🚨
There is a new scam wave spreading across Mastodon.
If you see a post like the one below, do not interact with it. SImply report to your server admin.
Server admins, if you are able, now may be the time to temporarily turn off open sign ups.
As […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
There is a new scam wave spreading across Mastodon.
If you see a post like the one below, do not interact with it. SImply report to your server admin.
Server admins, if you are able, now may be the time to temporarily turn off open sign ups.
As […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
July 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🚨 Alert 🚨
There is a new scam wave spreading across Mastodon.
If you see a post like the one below, do not interact with it. SImply report to your server admin.
Server admins, if you are able, now may be the time to temporarily turn off open sign ups.
As […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
There is a new scam wave spreading across Mastodon.
If you see a post like the one below, do not interact with it. SImply report to your server admin.
Server admins, if you are able, now may be the time to temporarily turn off open sign ups.
As […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
The media is broken and it’s breaking us.
Owned by billionaires, wired for division, built to distract.
But around the world, rebels & reformers are rising.
This is the #mediarevolution
🌀 Join the countdown to 5 Nov: Media Liberation Day.
🔗 http://mediarevolution.org
Owned by billionaires, wired for division, built to distract.
But around the world, rebels & reformers are rising.
This is the #mediarevolution
🌀 Join the countdown to 5 Nov: Media Liberation Day.
🔗 http://mediarevolution.org
July 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The media is broken and it’s breaking us.
Owned by billionaires, wired for division, built to distract.
But around the world, rebels & reformers are rising.
This is the #mediarevolution
🌀 Join the countdown to 5 Nov: Media Liberation Day.
🔗 http://mediarevolution.org
Owned by billionaires, wired for division, built to distract.
But around the world, rebels & reformers are rising.
This is the #mediarevolution
🌀 Join the countdown to 5 Nov: Media Liberation Day.
🔗 http://mediarevolution.org
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
Good rule of thumb: don't spend your hard-earned time on any social platforms that do not have end users like @_elena creating videos like this about them. :fediverse: Very worth viewing and sharing:
https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01JXCDST00FXKN9KCAQJ1QCMRJ
#elefedivideos.
https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01JXCDST00FXKN9KCAQJ1QCMRJ
#elefedivideos.
Post by Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂, @elena@aseachange.com
Dear Fedi friends, I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/ In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great...
aseachange.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Good rule of thumb: don't spend your hard-earned time on any social platforms that do not have end users like @_elena creating videos like this about them. :fediverse: Very worth viewing and sharing:
https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01JXCDST00FXKN9KCAQJ1QCMRJ
#elefedivideos.
https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01JXCDST00FXKN9KCAQJ1QCMRJ
#elefedivideos.
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just had a fabulously productive meeting with @FreddieJ and @newsmast - talking about the great #fireexit and #buddysystem - offering a hand to folk ready to cross the bridge into the #fediverse 🌉 ✨
Excited to get my hands on the Newsmast tool and take it for a test drive, I think it could be […]
Excited to get my hands on the Newsmast tool and take it for a test drive, I think it could be […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
June 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
just had a fabulously productive meeting with @FreddieJ and @newsmast - talking about the great #fireexit and #buddysystem - offering a hand to folk ready to cross the bridge into the #fediverse 🌉 ✨
Excited to get my hands on the Newsmast tool and take it for a test drive, I think it could be […]
Excited to get my hands on the Newsmast tool and take it for a test drive, I think it could be […]
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
“Since the early 2010s, social media has been identified with protesters. In the early days, social media was an effective tool for activists to organize and communicate with one another and directly with the public, providing counternarratives to the ones laid out in popular coverage.” No […]
Original post on indieweb.social
indieweb.social
June 13, 2025 at 5:01 AM
“Since the early 2010s, social media has been identified with protesters. In the early days, social media was an effective tool for activists to organize and communicate with one another and directly with the public, providing counternarratives to the ones laid out in popular coverage.” No […]
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
A "Mastodon and friends" photo from the audience at #pubconf2025 @bjoernsta @samvie @FreddieJ @laurenshof @_elena
June 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A "Mastodon and friends" photo from the audience at #pubconf2025 @bjoernsta @samvie @FreddieJ @laurenshof @_elena
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
Here's my writeup of #fediforum, in which I ask the question: is the fediverse making meaningful progress vs. centralized platforms? The post includes @_elena's excellent video and has discussion of @cwebber's presentation, Bounce (by @quillmatiq & @snarfed.org), Surf (by @mike & @marci) […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
June 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Here's my writeup of #fediforum, in which I ask the question: is the fediverse making meaningful progress vs. centralized platforms? The post includes @_elena's excellent video and has discussion of @cwebber's presentation, Bounce (by @quillmatiq & @snarfed.org), Surf (by @mike & @marci) […]
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
@Ofcom is running a "The Online Safety Act explained: How to comply with the rules to protect children" conference - for all its faults it's nice to finally see concrete examples of what OFCOM does and doesn't consider harmful, with specific carveouts for lived experience. Also good to see […]
Original post on mastodon.iftas.org
mastodon.iftas.org
June 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
@Ofcom is running a "The Online Safety Act explained: How to comply with the rules to protect children" conference - for all its faults it's nice to finally see concrete examples of what OFCOM does and doesn't consider harmful, with specific carveouts for lived experience. Also good to see […]
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
48 hours left before FediForum starts.
Join the community for three (!) half-days of discussions, presentations, demos, creating new projects and more on all aspects of better social communications, social media and the open social web. Now with keynotes!
Registration: https://fediforum.org
Join the community for three (!) half-days of discussions, presentations, demos, creating new projects and more on all aspects of better social communications, social media and the open social web. Now with keynotes!
Registration: https://fediforum.org
FediForum
FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward
fediforum.org
June 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
48 hours left before FediForum starts.
Join the community for three (!) half-days of discussions, presentations, demos, creating new projects and more on all aspects of better social communications, social media and the open social web. Now with keynotes!
Registration: https://fediforum.org
Join the community for three (!) half-days of discussions, presentations, demos, creating new projects and more on all aspects of better social communications, social media and the open social web. Now with keynotes!
Registration: https://fediforum.org
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
Last week we launched https://Channel.org in invite-only beta after sending out invite codes to our friends and supporters in the open social web.
Since then, we've been overwhelmed by positive support for what we're building and our efforts to drive knowledge sharing on the open social web.
📣 […]
Since then, we've been overwhelmed by positive support for what we're building and our efforts to drive knowledge sharing on the open social web.
📣 […]
Original post on newsmast.social
newsmast.social
May 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Last week we launched https://Channel.org in invite-only beta after sending out invite codes to our friends and supporters in the open social web.
Since then, we've been overwhelmed by positive support for what we're building and our efforts to drive knowledge sharing on the open social web.
📣 […]
Since then, we've been overwhelmed by positive support for what we're building and our efforts to drive knowledge sharing on the open social web.
📣 […]
Egg. Triumphant and uneven.
#photography
#photography
May 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Egg. Triumphant and uneven.
#photography
#photography
Excellent piece by Andrew Marr in the New Statesman. I like his writing style, its very forceful.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/05/cosplaying-reform-will-doom-labour
#politics
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/05/cosplaying-reform-will-doom-labour
#politics
Cosplaying Reform will doom Labour
But the party has to fight Farage on his turf.
www.newstatesman.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Excellent piece by Andrew Marr in the New Statesman. I like his writing style, its very forceful.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/05/cosplaying-reform-will-doom-labour
#politics
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/05/cosplaying-reform-will-doom-labour
#politics
Hamburg is a place of interesting ideas
#photography
#photography
May 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hamburg is a place of interesting ideas
#photography
#photography
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
Don't forget it's #savesocialday tomorrow - a unified effort to stay off Big Tech platforms for a day and remind owners that WE are social media.
If you want to get involved you can find out more details here https://savesocial.eu/day/#download
Now we're logging off now to go into another bank […]
If you want to get involved you can find out more details here https://savesocial.eu/day/#download
Now we're logging off now to go into another bank […]
Original post on newsmast.social
newsmast.social
May 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Don't forget it's #savesocialday tomorrow - a unified effort to stay off Big Tech platforms for a day and remind owners that WE are social media.
If you want to get involved you can find out more details here https://savesocial.eu/day/#download
Now we're logging off now to go into another bank […]
If you want to get involved you can find out more details here https://savesocial.eu/day/#download
Now we're logging off now to go into another bank […]
Some experiences at #ijf25
A lost cloud drifting through the valley.
Excellent panel on community focused news ft. @ben.
Can Dundar on the story that led to his exile.
River of cloud this morning.
A lost cloud drifting through the valley.
Excellent panel on community focused news ft. @ben.
Can Dundar on the story that led to his exile.
River of cloud this morning.
April 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Some experiences at #ijf25
A lost cloud drifting through the valley.
Excellent panel on community focused news ft. @ben.
Can Dundar on the story that led to his exile.
River of cloud this morning.
A lost cloud drifting through the valley.
Excellent panel on community focused news ft. @ben.
Can Dundar on the story that led to his exile.
River of cloud this morning.
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
We're heading to Perugia for the #internationaljournalismfestival
We're looking forward to working with other great minds at the intersection of the open social web and journalism. Also, the pizza 🍕
If you're going, let us know. We'd love to say hi!
Whilst […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
We're looking forward to working with other great minds at the intersection of the open social web and journalism. Also, the pizza 🍕
If you're going, let us know. We'd love to say hi!
Whilst […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
April 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We're heading to Perugia for the #internationaljournalismfestival
We're looking forward to working with other great minds at the intersection of the open social web and journalism. Also, the pizza 🍕
If you're going, let us know. We'd love to say hi!
Whilst […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
We're looking forward to working with other great minds at the intersection of the open social web and journalism. Also, the pizza 🍕
If you're going, let us know. We'd love to say hi!
Whilst […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
Ah interesting, they know I'm approaching 30 so they're squeezing in a fourth or fifth once-in-a-generation economic crisis. Touchè sir, I confess you have bested me again 📉
April 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Ah interesting, they know I'm approaching 30 so they're squeezing in a fourth or fifth once-in-a-generation economic crisis. Touchè sir, I confess you have bested me again 📉
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
We’re excited to announce that, from Monday, we’re going to be the new admins of IndieWeb.social!
We’ve always loved how @tchambers has run IndieWeb.social. His direction has made it one of the best instances on the Fediverse!
Thanks to Tim for his trust in […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
We’ve always loved how @tchambers has run IndieWeb.social. His direction has made it one of the best instances on the Fediverse!
Thanks to Tim for his trust in […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
March 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We’re excited to announce that, from Monday, we’re going to be the new admins of IndieWeb.social!
We’ve always loved how @tchambers has run IndieWeb.social. His direction has made it one of the best instances on the Fediverse!
Thanks to Tim for his trust in […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
We’ve always loved how @tchambers has run IndieWeb.social. His direction has made it one of the best instances on the Fediverse!
Thanks to Tim for his trust in […]
[Original post on newsmast.social]
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
#admin #indiewebsocial 🔥
IMPORTANT SERVER NEWS: "The Next Stage for Indieweb.social
"I’d been looking for a way to transition this from a small self-run server, admin-centric place—and to turn it into a more user-managed one...I am grateful to have found a solution for all of these needs for […]
IMPORTANT SERVER NEWS: "The Next Stage for Indieweb.social
"I’d been looking for a way to transition this from a small self-run server, admin-centric place—and to turn it into a more user-managed one...I am grateful to have found a solution for all of these needs for […]
Original post on indieweb.social
indieweb.social
March 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
#admin #indiewebsocial 🔥
IMPORTANT SERVER NEWS: "The Next Stage for Indieweb.social
"I’d been looking for a way to transition this from a small self-run server, admin-centric place—and to turn it into a more user-managed one...I am grateful to have found a solution for all of these needs for […]
IMPORTANT SERVER NEWS: "The Next Stage for Indieweb.social
"I’d been looking for a way to transition this from a small self-run server, admin-centric place—and to turn it into a more user-managed one...I am grateful to have found a solution for all of these needs for […]
Reposted by Freddie Johnson
