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The Programmer's Fulcrum: 27 March, 2026

Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

Mar 28, 2026

Open Geosocial

#atgeo #geosocial #atproto #hthree

Mar 28, 2026

Dipping a Toe into the Fediverse (Again)

On standing up a GoToSocial instance, migrating to Sharkey when the lack of quote posts became too annoying, and why the fediverse is more fun than I remember.

Mar 21, 2026

How small can ATproto get, really?

Does an independent Bluesky stack really cost thousands?

Jan 27, 2026

More community, less consumption

My thoughts on decentralized community building

Jan 9, 2026

But First, Interoperability


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Jun 13, 2025

Bridges & The Last Network Effect


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Nov 8, 2024

Sky High - Human-Generated Content

Human-Generated Content


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Oct 25, 2024

Escaping the Rigged Internet - Human-Generated Content


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Aug 28, 2024

The Fediverse and Front Porches - Human-Generated Content

Human Generated Content, Issue 6


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Aug 14, 2024

Human-Generated Content 3


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Jun 20, 2024

Human-Generated Content 2

Publishers are seeing two very different futures for their businesses. Is the future of media aggregated and summarized or is it direct-to-audience?


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Jun 6, 2024

Patreon Belongs in the Fediverse

Patreon needs to become Threads before Threads become Patreon.


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Jun 3, 2024

Human-Generated Content 1

This issue, Nilay Patel talks to Google's Sundar Pichai on AI, chriswaves and Mike Masnick each explore the managed decline of the web, and Molly White and Mike McCue chat about building a new web inspired by the old one.


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May 23, 2024

Ghost is about to beat Substack in Discoverability

Ghost's Fediverse integration will have larger implications for the newsletter landscape. Namely, I think this will eventually bring the slow death of another social silo, Substack.


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Apr 22, 2024

Social Silos: On Post, Artifact, and the future of closed networks

I think Post's greatest miss was not interoperating with complementary products like Flipboard, Artifact, WordPress, Medium, and Ghost to build out a cross-platform network of creators, curators, and consumers.


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Apr 19, 2024

Threads on Mastodon and The Bright Future of the Fediverse

This is my journey that started as an experiment to see how my Threads feed would look like on Mastodon and ended with me finding experiences that went above and beyond my expectations.


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Apr 10, 2024