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Hi!  I've now migrated my account here from @thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange (which still has my full posting history), so seems like a good time for a new introduction. The Nexus Of Privacy looks at the connections between technology, policy, strategy, and justice.  As well as privacy, that also includes  decentralized social networks, including the ATmosphere as well as the fediverse. https://thenexusofprivacy.net/ See the newsletter's About and About Me, and my personal account at @jdp23@neuromatch.social for more.  I'm also in the ATmosphere at @thenexusofprivacy.net and @jdp23.thenexus.today 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), and the 2024 followups Mastodon, two years later,  A tale of two prototypes, and A faux "Eternal September" turns into flatnessA (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 MastodonShould the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! and Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the FediverseMastodon and today's ActivityPub Fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default, Blocklists in the fediverse, It's possible to talk about The Bad Space without being racist or anti-trans – but it's not as easy as it sounds, and Steps towards a safer fediverse, four parts of a series-in-progress on Golden opportunities for the fediverse -- and whatever comes nextStrategies for free fediverses, a work-in-progress for those who want to build fediverses that reject Meta – and surveillance capitalism more generally5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black peopleI for one welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS ARMY, millions of Brazilians, Black Twitter, and sex worker Twitter to the fediverses!"Decentralization" and erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphereBluesky and The Battle of WormtongueIf not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next , Notes (and thoughts) on organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere, More notes on Organizing, Mutual Aid, and Activism on decentralized social networks, and Notes on genocide prevention and other kinds of organizing, mutual aid, and activism on social networks, all from spring 2025.  The October 2025 Fediforum slides and session notes and my undelivered February 2026 un-workshop presentation lists on Legislative Activism in the ATmosphere and the Fediverse have updates #introduction