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Late in 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey floated "Project Blue Sky," a plan for an interoperable, federated, standardized Twitter that would let users (or toolsmiths who work on behalf of users) gain more control over their participation in the Twitter system. This was an exciting moment for us, a significant lurch towards an interoperable, decentralized social media world. We were especially excited to see Dorsey cite Mike Masnick's excellent Protocols, Not Products paper. It’s been more than a year, and Twitter has marked its progress with an “ecosystem review” that sets out its view of ...

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, The DDR Museum and VIRTUE have been able to recreate the wall in the popular game Minecraft Earth as part of a newly developed educational program. The project has been undertaken to help further young people's understanding of the fall of the wall, bringing the historical into their everyday lives and providing a tool that can be used by both teachers and students around the world. Building materials and teaching notes have been made available online, and the following video sets out the basis of the project: The project has been led by the cre...