Trying to log into Eventbrite, it says:

"This user's password must change before logging in."

And sends me back to the login dialog.

It must change, all by itself. I see. What am I supposed to do here?

Meta says they now have half a billion monthly active users on #Threads.

This is about 100x that of #Bluesky, and about 500x that of #Mastodon, at only about 3 years old. How do *you* explain this?

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/meta-launching-new-features-500-million-monthly-threads-users/

Mastodon is close to 1 million MAU according to FediDB, and don't you love to see it!

Pixelfed remains 2nd with over 100k MAU.

If Misskey published their MAU, I'm sure they would be in second, or maybe first.

We did this together, without VC funding, enshittification or selling out users via ads or selling data.

Give yourself a pat on the back, because all of you make this possible by participating in these federated platforms.

https://fedidb.com/stats

Ronna? Quetta?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix#List_of_SI_prefixes

This includes Mastodon and Bluesky and all of the rest.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/social-media-to-be-banned-for-under-16s-in-landmark-government-move-to-givekids-their-childhood-back

RE: https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/116755228311993684

I've long thought #chatbots are the perfect #disinformation delivery vehicle.

Tim Chambers and Will Robinson have the proof that this is so, based on a recent election.

This may not even be intentional at this point, but it's bad enough already, and once this is weaponized... Scary times!

Create your own LLM for less than $100, end to end. Even if you don’t, a great description for how it is done.

https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat

If you were in charge of social media industrial policy in the European Union, and you had complete freedom to decide, what would it be?

Or what would your advice be to them?

#EU #SocialMedia #Policy #FediForum #FediForumFriday

"Trump says attacks on Iran will resume".

It's amateur hour. Actually, the amateurs would be embarrassed to be seen in this company.

And those are the people who have power over life and death. Directly, kinetically, from the fallout: lack of fuels and fertilizer and sulfur and the list goes on.

"What do you think of humanity?" -- "Oh, it would be a very good idea". With apologies to Ghandi.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel

Honoring the winners of last weekend's first Open Social Awards, which were announced at the Public Spaces conference in Amsterdam Friday night.

We now have a dedicated page for them on FediForum Connect: https://connect.fediforum.org/awards/open-social-2026/

Check them out!

We couldn't be prouder to have been awarded the Grand Prize at the inaugural Open Social Awards! 🍾 💢

These things don't happen overnight or without help, so here's a little thank you to everyone who has helped us get here 🧡

And of course, thanks to @publicspaces, @wearenew_public, & @waag for making it happen!

#SocialWeb #PublicSpaces #ThankYou #OpenSocialAwards #SocialMedia #GrowingTheWeb #OpenSocial

Actually this is a better photo.

Another excellent support experience with Prusa, the 3D printer company. Chat:

Them: how can I help you?
Me: here is my problem.
Them: here is the answer. And here are links for more background info.
Me: thank you.

Why can’t it be like that everywhere?

From today's Open Social Awards ceremony.

Congratulations to:

Blacksky Algorithms

for winning an Excellence Award as part of the Open Social Awards today.

Congratulations to:

Sill.social

for winning an Excellence Award as part of the Open Social Awards today.

Congratulations congratulations congratulations to:

** Newsmast Foundation **

for winning the very first Open Social Award.

Interesting analysis by @DePemig

https://blog.gillesdutilh.com/2026/06/mutuals-are-not-friends-2/

Newsmast has a really good and intriguing post out today describing where they see the Open Social Web going in the next 12-18 months.

"Connected community spaces" -- I so very much agree that's the right direction. IMHO the "global townsquare" was always somewhere between a bad idea and a logical impossibility, whether it was said by the would-be commercial platform overlords or the decentralizers. Time to move forward to better and more valuable scenarios.

Read it: https://www.blog-pat.ch/connected-community-spaces/

Few people appears to appreciate the depth of strategic disaster that a certain "stable genius" has gotten the US -- and the world -- in, with respect to the Iranian regime.

I'm not a historian, and not a strategist, and perhaps there are historical examples for similar disasters, but I kind of doubt it. (Anybody have a pointer?)

(And that's beyond the illegality, and inhumanity, etc etc)

Two pieces of evidence:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/06/01/iran-us-trade-strikes-deal-end-war-remains-elusive/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/oil-inventory-exxon-strait-hormuz-iran-war.html