Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

wordsmith‽ ⁂ @wordsmith@writing.exchange

2/8/2026, 8:35:50 PM

Public

I see the Social Web Foundation, one of the organisations which works on the #Fediverse 's underlying technology, ActivityPub, is chasing the slop tsunami. I started looking into who is behind those organisations and what they do but after I found ex-microsoft CEOs, web3 people and orgs set up to work on bluesky's underlying tech, I just gave up looking. I didn't want to see any more.

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/02/06/ai-and-the-new-social/

AI and the New Social

Mallory is heading to India later this month to kick off something we’ve been building toward for a while: the first in a global series on AI and the social web. Alongside the AI Impact Summit in D…

socialwebfoundation.org · Social Web Foundation

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