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The developers of Lemmy held an extensive AMA. Here are some of the highlights and themes of the things they talked about.

A little-known 2018 study said the spread of self-driving cars was likely to mean more sex on the road. San Franciscans are making it happen.

From having a plan early on to doubling down on his writing routine, novelist Kern Carter shares the secret sauce behind how he landed three book deals — and paid his bills in the meantime.

Author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses shunning stereotypes, the power of rejection, and navigating the overt connection between art and commercial.

Medium Day 2023

Large and can charge: the 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ.

He claims Apple’s Tetris film is heavily inspired by his book.

It’s trying to be a better messaging app — but also lots of other things.

The homepage will look a lot different if your watch history is off.

Exclusive content will appear on Spotify when a creator syncs accounts.

Tara Isabella Burton reviews “A Web of Our Own Making”

Shortcuts automations now “Run Immediately” in iOS 17 – a new era for Apple devices. However, there’s a few limitations in the current betas – let’s see if those are fixed by the full release.

There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know. To be clear: I am a fan of Mastodon. I have been enjoying my time there much more than I ever enjoyed Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. And I am 100% in the "I won't touch anything Jack Dorsey has ...

Sync is not dead — it's just federated now

The Fediverse, a decentralized social network with interconnected spaces that are each independently managed with unique rules and cultural norms, has seen a surge in popularity. Decentralization h...

An in-depth report reveals an ugly truth about isolated, unmoderated parts of the Fediverse. It's a solvable problem, with challenges.

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

The BBC sets up their own Mastodon server. A W3C meeting about CSAM and Mastodon. Mastodon on your watch?

One of my favorite iPad apps of all time is Wooji Juice’s Ferrite Recording Studio, a complete multi-track audio editor that I prefer to the likes of Logic and GarageBand for editing podcasts…

In the aftermath of a chaotic Twitter takeover, many people have moved away from centralized social media platforms to a new set of social platforms that are open-source, decentralized, and user-ce…