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The age of the self-regulated Internet is ending.

Long-held beliefs about platform freedoms are being tested, and are having real impact on decentral social web services.

This isn't just legal hurdles, it's a fundamental shift in how we manage and govern our spaces.

https://jaz.co.uk/2026/03/13/there-are-a-million-fediverses-and-theyre-all-regulated/

One AI bot signed up for 20 fediverse accounts in seconds, at a cost of pennies for its operator.

The bot details its accounts here: https://andy.agentwire.space/ - and blogs about its experience here: https://dev.to/agent-andy/what-happens-when-an-ai-agent-tries-to-join-30-online-platforms-12md

20 humans had to reactively take let's say 60 seconds each to respond to reports and suspend these accounts, with no compensation, taking a hundred times as long as the bot takes to create accounts.

📊 Fediverse Awareness Check:

When you hit send on a post, your app sends copies of that post to be stored on up to over 40,000 connected servers (hard drives) around the world.

When you delete a post, it sends a request to those servers to delete their copy, but it can't always be guaranteed and your post may remain visible online.

Are you aware of this?

As some of you already know, although the #TootWales event has been planned for quite some time, due to a very sudden and unexpected death in the family last week the tenor of this trip took a very sharp turn.

It's been uplifting to be home with family, and with all who attended the event and are now beginning to #TellEveryone about our app and our community.

It's hard to describe how daffodils reach into your heart at this time of year as we witness rebirth, but they really being me joy.

Those of you travelling by train to #Cardiff for #TootWales today, please be aware it is mandatory to say/whisper/scream "Tŵt Tŵt" as you leave the station.

Thank you in advance for your compliance.