"The loyal client" is a concept that's been important to our lab over the past five years as we've tried to make social media better: it's the idea that the tools you use to access social media should meet your needs, not those of the platform owner. Spencer Lane wrote a great paper on this as part

Boston-area folks: I'm hosting a "build your own social app" hackathon next saturday @ MIT. No coding experience required! Learn about our vision for a "malleable social web" and help shape the new ecosystem :) Register here: social.wiki/Social.Wiki/...

I'm headed to #UIST2025 🇰🇷 to present our 🏆 Best Paper (!!!), "Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications" @karger.bsky.social and David Clark doi.org/10.1145/3746...

Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications | Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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learned how to sing like 100 gecs from @theias.place

I've been messing around with the AT Protocol and it seems like I've bricked my test account, @graffiti-garden.bsky.social ... and if you follow it, your follow feed can be bricked too! 🥰🧱(don't worry, unfollowing the "bad" account fix it)