: My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions Predictions for 2026 include growth forecasts for various social media platforms, advancements in …
: My 2025 Open Social Web Prediction Score Card ''
: TikTok’s enshitification with its new right wing owners may accelerate as fast as X’s did. Might be …
: Case study that sometimes it takes an “extinction moment” to start doing something you …
: This summarizes the situation better than anything else you will read. There, saved you a lot of …
: Well played, Apple. #theStudio #Emmys
: Pretty accurate progression so far. #Charliekirk
: This is my priors on this too, btw. But we will see what we see. As i said before believe nothign …
: Yeah, pretty much. #CharlieKirk
: Every year, I’m: “Just double the battery life and I’ll upgrade …
: On most stoplight polls at each intersection at my area near work. #FreeDC
: ✊ Am happy to endorse this statement - along with many thought leaders from both #ATProto and …
: A small but big thing: every profile UX on the open social web should copy #Threads: Show the full …
: First real study of #Threads-#Fediverse interop at scale. Key bits: Fedi→Threads replies dominate …
: Words I commonly misspell - such as colleague, bureau, restaurant, technique, liaison and others - …
: Am working on tracking progress on #SevenUXSins article I wrote. Anyone interested in helping me in …
: Love all of these. Hard to pick just one. #SandwichGuy www.teepublic.com/stickers/…
: Not sure how this is a “new business model” isn’t it just an old fashioned rev share? …
: Walking is great for you; walking on a trail by some trees doubly so. I love that there are …
: Good advice: “Do Not Keep These ‘High Risk’ Apps On Your iPhone Or Android….” …
: #Wikipedia is one of the most important and underrated digital platforms around - every other one …
: Consider me a pedant, then. #podcast www.fastcompany.com/91380550/…
: Amen. ““My strongest belief about the social web is that if we want it to succeed, we have to …
: Updated #podcast numbers and #YouTube is dominating - worrisome as they do not use open podcast …
: This is a big, big deal for the #OpenSocialWeb today - congrats to the #Ghost team! …
: Why having an open social web discovery system like #surffeeds is more important than ever. …
: A reminder to those at - or just at following all things #fedicon starting tomorrow -> here is a …
: Sad state of things and why the open social web needs to prove new distributed models of trust and …
: Could #Mastodon and #Bluesky do this? “The filter relies on manually curated open-source blocklists, …
: Ouch. I cannot name a brand that has fallen further, faster. #Tesla …
: Was very glad to see #Severence and #theStudio do so well today - and to see Harrison Ford get his …
: Signs of the times. Likely the right call here. But “disinformation” as a term being demonized was …
: Still racist. #grok www.theatlantic.com/technolog…
: This tracks. #grok techcrunch.com/2025/07/1…
: #Threads growth continues…. www.socialmediatoday.com/news/thre…
: While the fight against the great harms of the Trump bill continues, we saw this one key victory …
: There is a sound of ocean waves that I’m convinced cannot be fully captured by any digital …
: Good summary of the build out of #surfapp www.viget.com/work/flip…
: The ability to think or mull over things deeply on vacation is a luxury akin to cooking rich meals …
: The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins Part 2: The Road To Redemption ''
: Decentralized platforms like Fediverse and Bluesky will be interesting to watch re: breaking news …
: Summer officially starts today at 10:42 pm. www.space.com/stargazin…
: #Surffeeds have now fully taken over the UX role that both Mastodon and BlueSky lists used to play …
: The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix) So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them …
: All the elements that makes the major platforms harmful to humans in general all make it equally or …
: Bookmarks for mobile and desktop web browsers should be totally reinvented & made fully …
: Fully agree: switched to #Vivaldi after losing faith in #Firefox management and zero regrets. Only a …
: Made me laugh. (But I’m easy)
: “We got the first polling data on how people feel about the LA situation… Despite apparent …
: #Ghost launch coming: “What if nobody owned this?” …The fediverse represents an …
: “[We chat w/ Robin Berjon abt a piece he co-authored w/ Maria Farrell ‘We Need To Rewild The …
: Be safe tonight LA friends. Stay peaceful and don’t take the bait. #iceprotests #losangeles
: States rights touting Republicans are awfully quiet right now. #losangeles
: This exchange from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica is even more relevant now than ever. …
: “We’re very clearly entering a moment of grave danger. My main thought about this is to remember – …
: Hmmm. I am wishing well to my LA friends tonight. Stay safe. Do not let them bait you. #LosAngeles …
: #OpenSocialWeb FTW! #fediforum #ATmosphere
: More solid press coverage of the great new apps showcased at #fediforum yesterday 👉 …
: This is a great summary of #Fediforum Day One, and I’m looking forward to Day Two. …
: #Wedistribute has #FediForum live coverage here: wedistribute.org/2025/06/f…
: I’m having ot pop in and out of the #Fediforum due to work but want to udpate my #Surfapp and …
: Here is a good elevator pitch for the #Surfapo from #flipboard …I use it everyday for more than half …
: #Fediforum is coming! Follow breaking news on this feed on #Surfapp: surf.social/feed/surf… …
: Just saw my first TV ad for something (in this case furniture) that ended with a pitch that it had …
: Well written review of #surfapp beta from Mike Saas: “I wasn’t sure what the app would do for me …
: A note: I now use #Microblog for over half my social posting, cross-posting feaatures to Bluesky, …
: I’m still getting up to speed on #MCPservers, but from what I have learned so far, I tend to agree …
: Hmmm. Interesting, Brazil. Will be 👀… restofworld.org/2025/braz…
: Purchased! Just got this cool sticker to add to my standing desk (which is covered with others) …
: My periodic rave at how much I love #RSS (I am tying together lots of data for my work) and how it …
: I just bought my tickets to this year’s #Fediforum, and if you care about the Open Social Web …
: Key item from this research in this screenshot. Full report here: …
: Trying hard to remember this.
: I so glad to be using a browser free from AI integration. I only want AI in doses fully in my …
: #FediIndex is a great toolset. We are lucky to have both them and #Fedidb as resources to see trends …
: Cool. Look at the growth in #GhostCMS websites joining the open social web - these are new …
: “….Carvana Cybertruck offers have gone to as low as $49k…a 51% depreciation over a year.” …
: I am increasingly using #Microdotblog to publish out across Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and other …
: My wife & I are a house wide purge, tossing old papers, old junk and old photos that literally …
: I’m only two episodes in, but I’m in. I think it is only partly comedy, but that is a …
: Its grift all the way down. #Trump abcnews.go.com/Business/…
: “I am more excited about the web than I have been in a lonnnnng time….I am typing in a …
: Good news for open #research and for keeping big tech platforms accountable. …
: Always a good read for anyone who cares about the state of #political #tech. …
: YouTube continues to push hard into the #podcast space; I wish they fully supported podcast #RSS …
: Important new report on #X profiting from and helping fundraise for sanctioned terrorist groups and …
: I do like how the #Tumblr site has its own custom onboarding UX for Twitter users - to make their …
: As always from Sean, lots of good thinking in this article about what a “dream” Open …
: The 2025 report focuses on mainstream social platforms and the Safety Scores provided by #GLAAD. …
: This is a great video with Mike McCue at #Flipboard giving an update on what he’s building …
: The Next Stage for Indieweb.Social Indieweb.social is a six-year-old. Launched only 3 years after Mastodon 1.0 itself did, give or …
: Moderating Threads at a Server Level for Indieweb.Social A few days ago, I expressed concern over Meta’s new fact-checking and content moderation …
: Predictions for the Open Social Web 2025 2025 Open Social Web Predictions I just finished looking over my 2024 predictions, and now onto …
: Review of My 2024 Predictions Looking over my 2024 predictions before I make some 2025 predictions, to soberly say which ones I …
: A Quick Snapshot of the Microblogging Landscape So given the post-election swell of BlueSky and Threads…and a far more modest but existent …
: Cool, just testing out the new **Micro.blog editor.** I think a good improvement overall. And it …
: I keep wishing this peace process for a #CeaseFire in Gaza well. Keep building up hope for each one, …
: Ai and the Fediverse, and Indieweb.Social As we see Apple, Meta, and Google deeply integrate their AI systems deeply into their platforms, …
: Good data here on #podcating usage: www.westwoodone.com/blog/2024…
: Ideas for How ActivityPub Might Solve this Problem that BlueSky Points Out? OK Internet hive mind: working thru a half-formed idea. I like that BluesSky and Nostr and …
: Welcome to Day One of Threads and the Fediverse So everybody, good job. We made it through day one. We can all take a deep breath. First day down. …
: This year’s #Fediforum has been outstanding. Still digging into day 2.
: Indieweb.Social and the Upcoming #BlueSkyBridge This is a brief announcement announcing Indieweb.social’s future software bridge work by …
: 2024 Fediverse Predictions These are fun and like seeing the tech predictions starting to pop up in a lot of other places. …
: A Year End List of Fediverse Development I'm Hopeful for in 2024 As the year ends, thought this would be a good time to list some of the projects and group efforts …
: More from Meta on Threads Launch and Future ActivityPub Support Jesse Chen (engineering manager on Threads) and Zahan Malkani (server engineer lead on the Threads …
: Important Exchange from Casey Newton and Joshua Toplosky on Threads & the Fediverse And this from this episode with Casey Newton and Joshua Toplosky: Josh: “I understand the …
: Threads and ActivtyPub - Key New Quotes from Adam Mosseri from Instagram Here are some very important quotes from the head of Instagram on their roll-out of ActivytPub …
: Instagram Threads and the Fediverse (Part 5) I wrote before that we need humility, recognizing there is so much we don’t know and could be …
: Instagram Threads and the Fediverse (Part 4) As Meta’s new App - now officially confirmed as “Threads” - has a near-term launch …
: Meta and the Fediverse ("First Time, Part 3) The strum and drang of the conversation of Meta joining the Fediverse continue at it’s wild …
: #Project92, the Fediverse: (First Time? Part 2) One more post about how things are going inside the Fediverse now that #Project92 has joined the …
: Threads and the Fediverse - A Smarter Battle Plan to Protect the Open Social Web With the #meta #Project92 or #Threads Fediverse offering, there has been a, well, robust discussion …
: More on Meta’s Instagram “project 92” Twitter-competitor just leaked including …
: “The most interesting thing about Meta’s Twitter clone…If Meta pursues this idea at …
: Some important questions users of #BlueSky and other emerging social networks will have to face: …
: Funny (and a sign of the times) to see “billions of minutes viewed” become functionally …
: Well if they had virtual legs, they would be. “Major retail players are walking back their …
: Because, of course, they are. And soon these #BlueCheck users will be the only ones upranking & …
: Happy April 2nd - International Fact-Checking Day - to all who celebrate. #FactsMatter …
: How to Verify your Twitter Account as Owned by You, Without Paying Twitter for #TwitterBlue or for a $12K a Month This solution for Twitter verification without paying Elon is easy to use, adheres to web standards, …
: No, it’s just the #indieweb, #openweb, and #fediverse doing it’s thing.
: No, it’s just the #openweb, #indieweb, and #fediverse doing their thing.
: This #blackFriday keep #privacy in mind in gift choices… foundation.mozilla.org/en/privac…
: OK, pretty cool: Feedle - a new track of RSS feeds of blogs and podcasts…. feedle.world
: #Mozilla issues its “State of Mozilla 2021-2022 Report. The web is such a better place with …
: This site is going to be very busy: twitterisgoinggreat.com #Twitter
: “A Guide to US Election Day Misinformation” - www.bloomberg.com/news/news…
: “Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to ‘ignore’ Web3: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’…” …
: “Mastodon says 230,000 people joined its decentralized social network in the last week and it …
: “Imperfectly #indieweb - How the collapse of Twitter and a trip to the Wayback Machine …
: Agree with everything he’s saying, except the idea that #Subtack is anything but marginally …
: “Watching Facebook Burn…” www.vice.com/en/articl…
: “#Mastodon’s microblogging app saw a record number of downloads after Musk’s Twitter takeover…” …
: Happy #GlobalEncryptionDay to all who celebrate! www.internetsociety.org/issues/en…
: “IndieWeb Plugin for #WordPress Blocks” - worth checking out if you are working in …
: The latest from the #BlueSky project working for a decentralized social ecosystem: …
: “Instant Articles and AMP convinced everyone that the web was dead. Long live the web, we will be …
: I am totally fine - actually more than fine - with #Firefox coming up with subscription services to …
: We will see if this triggers another wave of new #Fediverse users… #elonmusk #twitter …
: Feedland surfaces: “In its first 20 years, #RSS has become an established part of the …
: I TOTALLY love this literally “handwritten blog.” Literally everything about it. …
: Indieweb.Social: on the Fediverse - Looking for New Patreon Support So for several years, I’ve been running Indieweb.Social - It is a Mastodon instance/community …
: Texts between Dorsey and Musk: On why the future of social media needs to be #decentralized and a …
: Have things you keep meaning to do to your personal website but never find the time? Come get work …
: Interesting work on design patterns that attempt to disrupt harassment and the spread of hate …
: Every so often I appreciate how important key #opensource and open tech is to my life and work: …
: Happy Anniversary to RSS 2.0.
: “Technology is not just ripping apart the social fabric, it’s replacing our social …
: Good: very important not to trade one silo for another: “Linux Foundation…to form the …
: Wishing Steve Teixeira well as Mozilla as our Chief Product Officer. Deeply want Firefox focused …
: This is cool, I had not seen this before when it was announced: “Firefox Translations: …
: “I made a very very simple tool that makes some noise every time your computer sends data to …
: Firefox 104 has been released and includes a handful of new features, including an option to analyze …
: Whistleblower: #Twitter misled investors, FTC and underplayed spam issues. t.co/wsNPpfhpy…
: “TikTok’s in-app browser could be keylogging, privacy analysis warns..” A comparative …
: “Wave of Criticism Hits Zuckerberg’s Metaverse for Looking Like Crap …
: September 18 is the 20th anniversary of RSS 2.0, the neglected heart of so many #openweb …
: A feature no one (but the political advertisers and political spammers) want. #google …
: Hope so: “With FIDO2, is a passwordless future on the horizon? ‘The solution seems to …
: “Russia is quietly ramping up its Internet censorship machine….Russia has been pushing …
: Good. #Facebook/Meta has been gobbling up every VR company they can to keep them away from …
: Because, of course, they did. “Report: #Facebook has Started Encrypting Links to Counter …
: Agreed. “My favorite forms of content discovery are still rooted in manually reviewing things: RSS …
: One more silo, on its way to dying. Bye, #Medium. So much better to go with open, indieweb, or …
: “Matt Mullenweg thinks #Tumblr can be a better #Twitter than Twitter ever was.” …
: “Everything written on the web is rotting away behind us at a staggering rate….53% of …
: It was fifteen years ago today that the very first #iPhone first went on sale.
: “Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America…We asked what they will do to …
: 1400+ #Opensource, and free #SVG #icons: tablericons.com
: “#Apple uses its power over browsers to strip-mine and sabotage the #web, hurting all engine …
: “The next part of the reallysimple project is a mailbox style reader that plugs in like a LEGO …
: Yeah, let’s change this: “So Much for Cutting Out the Middleman…Instead of …
: Proprietary browser Internet Explorer finally formally retired, 27 years after launch. #Firefox and …
: A good developer blog, focusing on all things #RSS and RSS tools related… onlyrss.org
: “Indiewebifying (is that a verb?) a #WordPress Site – 2022 Edition” …
: “Jack Dorsey: Fuck It, We’re Doing Web5…” www.vice.com/en/articl…
: Agreed, lots to learn from here: “Social media doesn’t need to be a cesspool, if users …
: “Messaging apps should consider reviving AIM’s Away Message to create better social boundaries …
: This week in #indieweb: us12.campaign-archive.com
: Yesterday was the 19th anniversary since #WordPress’ first release. The web is a better place with …
: Hope so, the Internet is a better place with openweb based social media: “Is Tumblr on the …
: “A(nother) way in which Facebook is the 21st Century’s tobacco industry….” …
: “You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted …
: Perennially good advice online and off: “Don’t Feed the Troll.” this.how/trolls/
: “In Un-Web 2.0 you get full control of your data, and the services just get pointers to it, or …
: “Because Web 2.0, while it started out as a freedom-inspiring thing, has been coalescing to being a …
: “What Elon Musk got wrong about Twitter.” A lot… youtu.be/MPi_aVJJ4…
: How #Ukraine is crowdsourcing evidence of war crimes: time.com/6166781/u…
: Mozilla’s vision for the evolution of the Web… #openweb #mozilla webvision.mozilla.org
: Cool: “High Quality, Free, Open Source Design Assets – 2022 Edition” …
: This week in IndieWeb: indieweb.org/this-week…
: A software developer’s view (from the former CEO of Signal) of the current incarnation of …
: Still very early days, but this feels true. Everyone is fighting to owner and custodian of your …
: Something to build to and to create in 2022. Something both the #indieweb, #fediverse and #web3 are …
: Assuming this is an NFT joke, but really not sure. Either way, welcome to the “Non-fungible …
: These look helpful: “Announcing indieweb-utils” jamesg.blog/2021/12/2…
: Really good notes here “on why podcasting is not dominated” by the many large-scale …
: Five Ways the the Internet Changed Our Politics in 2021 …
: The “State of the Word” is the annual keynote address delivered by #WordPress project’s …
: This #Indieweb principles quoted verbatim by Bruce Sterling in 2013, hold up pretty well…and …
: “The Largest Autocracy on Earth: Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we …
: “#Firefox 92 could be the most secure browser yet.” www.techradar.com/news/fire…
: NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 6.0.3 for Mac released. This is far and away my favorite feed reader: …
: I missed the actual day, but Wordpress as a publishing platform just turned 18 years old. Very cool. …
: Federated #ActivityPub-based PeerTube 3.2 has just been released – joinpeertube.org/news
: Creative Commons Search is joining the #WordPress open source project… …
: Creative Commons search will be re-launching on WordPress .org ma.tt/2021/04/c…
: Doctorow: #Pluralistic is my mutli-channel publishing effort…to push the limits of #POSSE …
: “It is easier today to research nineteenth-century postal history than to experience the 1990s …
: Lots of tweaks, fixes, and additions in #Mastodon RC 3.4: github.com/tootsuite…
: An interesting observation: “Rust, not Firefox, is Mozilla’s greatest industry …
: 96 Percent of iOS 14.5 Users in U.S. Have Opted Out of App Tracking www.flurry.com/blog/ios-…
: Reacting to Twitter’s BlueSky project, Mark Nadal offers “A Decentralized Protocol …
: Reimagine the Internet: knightcolumbia.org/events/re…
: “Why the Indieweb? …This is the story of the birth of the web, its loss of innocence, …
: All the reasons NOT to use Disqus as your #blog commenting system: supunkavinda.blog/disqus
: Lots of small improvements peppered inside Wordpress 7.1 beta: wordpress.org/news/2021…
: Will be interested in seeing how this works out. Open Source License with a code of conduct …
: Thunderbird 78, Email client, Calander, Contacts, RSS reader, and OTR chat client. OpenPGP, …
: #Mozilla’s 2020 report looking back at the year and the state of Internet Health. Lists …
: Wikipedia just turned 20 years old this month and I missed it. That site is one of the best things …
: Important report by #BlueSky project at Twitter: “This overview of the decentralized social …
: iA Writer Adds Expanded Support for IndieWeb Tools and WordPress Publishing. is.gd/oyNBvH
: A good guide to the best and the worst tech gifts in terms of #privacy from Mozilla: …
: Newsletters and Podcasts as new Open Content Platforms I agree, Podcasts and Newsletters (functionaly blogs) give me great hope and are some of the best …
: I agree with this post, and it is a very good argument for the open web for authors and creators.
: “The best and most beautiful things in the world…” (found while hiking yesterday)…
: Increasingly, post-COVID, weekend cleaning of the house is less like “picking up a bit” …
: Email as a Key Element of the Open Web -- And Hey! Review I agree with this: email is a key function of the #openweb. Very important that we keep it so. …
: “But aren’t blogs dead? · Um, nope.” www.tbray.org/ongoing/W…
: Good list of (mostly open-source) projects that are directly related to humane tech topics: …
: If you are in Austin, go: Announcing the IndieWebCamp Austin speakers
: Good podcast interview with Matt Muellenweg on open source and other topics: om.co/2020/01/1…
: I remember the #FOAF standard. The ideas were right. twobithistory.org/2020/01/0…
: Not a bad idea, #Twitter: letting users set limits on who can reply to their posts. …
: Not cool #Apple. Another closed silo ignoring open standards. And why we need #NetNewsWire and other …
: Filtering Social Feeds: and Unwanted Content as a Feature or Bug Filtering social feeds. And Unwanted Content as a Feature or a Bug Just a note on filtering out your …
: Feels way too true. Let’s rebuild a better web. “Alienated, Alone And Angry: What The …
: A yearly report I watch very closely is just out: State of Mozilla 2018: Annual Report …
: So wish #BlockchainIdentity efforts well…. www.ibm.com/blogs/blo…
: “Slow Design for an Anxious World” - www.lukew.com/ff/entry….
: WebAuthn is a good thing. Glad to see Twitter supporting it. blog.twitter.com/engineeri…
: “In the last four months, the browser has blocked 450 billion trackers by default—and has …
: Manton Reese notes when evaluating new social networks (like WTSocial I assume) he looks to these …
: "Facebook Is Still Failing at Ad Transparency (No Matter What They Claim)" Yes. They are failing short. Mozilla has been doing good work holding them accountable for a while. …
: Agreed: Problems from Faceook and the others Can Be tweaked but ultimate solution is much bigger.... Agreed: this won’t change until we build the web we want. “Platforms that have as many …
: “The Indieweb is a place you can take some of your sovereignty back.” …
: A good overview of all things #indieweb: both technical and philosphical: …
: Interoperablity and Social Silos: Access Act Thinking the Right Way Interoperability - not just data portability but set API’s for communication by different …
: Yahoo Groups Shutting Down: All Content from 115 Million Groups to be Permantently Deleted Dec 14th Why owning your own content and syndicating it to external platforms is key. “Yahoo has made …
: A Good Review of Zuck's Speech Agree completely: “The speech began with a major tactical and factual error, in which …
: Good that #Microdotblog made this call given how broken FB was for cross-posting: “Goodbye to …
: Amen: “The Internet Must Be More Than Facebook…If Big Tech becomes synonymous with the …
: "Putin Begins Installing Equipment To Cut Russia’s Access To World Wide Web" The web as originally designed is fundamentally antithetical to dictatorship. " According to …
: 'We froze our social graph too soon..." Good quote: “We froze our social graph too soon, imho. My goal is to get the kind of discourse …
: Political Animals #Mural #muralart @miketanoory
: This is, as described: “100,000 FACES GENERATED BY AI FREE FOR ANY USE.” …
: Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency are converting capitalism directly into climate change. Cutting out …
: Get Ready to Upgrade Every WiFi Device You Own Get ready to upgrade every WiFi device. WiFi 6 arrives and worth the incremental device at a time …
: “Twitter’s doubling the permissible length of a tweet led to less uncivil, more polite, …
: After a week, this has been working flawlessly fo rme. Invisible and with no noticeable performance …
: That’s a milestone. apple.news/A8AxH58I6…
: To my tech work friends: A good effort and a very good Tech Pledge. I just signed, you should think …
: Rebel librarians are the best librarians. ✊ www.vice.com/en_us/art…
: Everything old is new again. : [Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986] …
: How to Have Your Twitter Username Extorted From You Crazy story: “My $50,000 Twitter Username Was Stolen Thanks to PayPal and GoDaddy. I had a …
: Good to see Test Pilot live again: via the Mozilla Blog: [Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns with …
: Good for them. Will hinder internet service providers (ISPs), government filtering, and about any …
: How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? You route around it. Hong Kong Protesors going “Mesh Network” to communicate & circumvent the government: …
: Sorry, were you saying something? (I was busy thinking of my next counter point….) …
: Playing with the new all web interface for Apple Music. Pretty impressive. But also impressive, took …
: The ad industry’s controversial alternative to Firefox and Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention …
: "Upgrade Designing Our Way Out of Non-Places" During my Sony days, I spent a ton of time in Tokyo working with great designers and digital teams. …
: Yeah, I don’t own a stand alone camera. Haven’t for over 9 years and doubt I ever will …
: Launching a New Mastdodon Instance Focused on the OpenWeb So with a few friends, just launched this new instance: INDIEWEB.SOCIAL is a home for those who …
: Another step towards phasing out visible “like counts” on social: …
: “Grow Where You Are Planted” #chalkart #art
: “If these walls could talk” neon #art
: “Ping Pong” #retro #pingpong
: Mozilla CEO Stepping Down Here is hoping the next Firefox CEO is a good choice. I cannot overstate how important it is that a …
: From the creator of Ruby on Rails, and the CTO of Basecamp. “May RSS rise again. Stronger …
: 1637 version of "Don't Feed the Trolls" TL/dr version: “Don’t feed the trolls.” “Tis better to have a dispute with honourable …
: Our Social Media Platforms are Failing Us Globally “In a recent Global Advisor survey of more than 20,000 people across 28 countries – spending …
: Good for Apple, they are going full opt in only, for Siri learning, and easy way for users to opt …
: Agree with every point here, mobile experience focus for #indieweb offerings is deeply needed: …
: Apple Card and Privacy, Compared to Other Credit Cards This feature alone is warming me up to an Apple credit card. Apple, Mozilla and Automatic should …
: “Is an independent web our only hope?” Michael Casey’s answer: …
: Gizmodo on NetNewsWire's Relaunch: "One of the Best RSS Readers Is Back" Great Gizmodo write up on the relaunch of #NewNewsWire: “Despite what companies like Apple and …
: So via Daring Fireball, John Gruber: Facebook’s ‘Clear History’ Tool Is, of Course, Bullshit
: Zeldman on Web 8 Interaction Design, Jeffrey Zeldman: Browser diversity starts with us.
: Great to see #NetNewsWire 5.0 shipping today! Has become my primary RSS reader. …
: Good look at new features in Apple’s Health 13… www.macrumors.com/guide/hea…
: After the Automattic purhase, I got some hope back that #Tumblr might become more of an ally to the …
: "Why Freedom of Thought Requires Attention" He opens with “Freedom of thought requries media that don’t listen to and watch and …
: You really should always read the Terms of Service agreements closely. “We have updated our …
: "Firefox and Chrome Fight Back Against Kazakhstan's Spying" Good on them: " Now, Google, Mozilla, and Apple are incorporating technical protections into …
: Summary of some highlights from The Web Conference 2019 that recently wrapped up… #TheWebConf …
: Co-sign on every bit of this. #privacy #data
: How to opt out of human review of your voice assistant recordings by Mozilla…. …
: A good podcast on Tumblr purchase and open web and #microblog: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
: How fragmented and interested our technology encourages us to be: …
: ActivityPub Conference 2019 – Speakers announced redaktor.me/apconf/
: "It’s Time to End ‘Trending'" Why it is good – as #Mastodon and #Microdotblog does – to still keep human admins in the …
: Hopefully, this is a good thing for a more #openweb. poststatus.com/automatti…
: Moonlight #Beach #deweybeach #beachlife🌴
: Indieweb, Fediverse and Commerical Silos The more time I spend on the #Indieweb, #Matodon and other #Fediverse apps, the more I notice when I …
: Agree with every bit of this: “Reclaiming RSS” ar.al/2018/06/2…
: “Surf Shanty” #art #deweybeach
: “”Hell on Wheels” Mural #streetart #deweybeach
: 5 Big Wheels Vs. Millions of Small Ones Some big companies I watch closely because, of course, Big Wheels roll: Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon, …
: Blues Jam at the White House Sidewalk
: Chaz and Celery #minpin #minpinstagram
: “The function of freedom is to free someone else.” RIP, Toni Morrison.☹️
: Good call. Better late than never: CloudFlare ending support for 8chan… …
: Love this: “It’s pleasantly ironic that some of the internet’s oldest open protocols are …
: This was a baby step, but a REALLY important one. And glad to see #Mastodon Social playing a key …
: Endorse: “A few large players dominate much of the online world, but the internet is healthier …
: Agreed, “an imperfect step in the right direction” in requiring bots to identify as automated. But …
: Been looking for a Browser Extension to allow one click sharing to my #micrdotblog site, that then …
: “The net was so weird and wonderful in the early 2000s because it was easy to …
: So #indieweb types, would the open sourced River of News project be a good option for a base for a …
: Agreed: “The Web Can’t Survive a Monoculture.” #indieweb mikepennisi.com/blog/2019…
: Good post on going #IndieWeb: “Since I scaled back my use of social media a year ago, I …
: On the Open Source Social Network Mastodon and its Fight with Nazis. blogghoran.se/2019/07/1…
: Little. Big. Large. Great. Small. And overlap.
: "Will California’s New Bot Law Strengthen Democracy?" This law is a start, and should be implemented in every US state: “On July 1st, California …
: Continue to think that efforts at Humane design, and #indieweb and @microdotblog efforts are natural …
: Good for Mozilla…. apple.news Mozilla blocks UAE bid to become an internet security guardian …
: I recommend something quite like this about a year ago, so am watching this very closely: …
: A post showing the #Gab servers and the Gab enabled Mobile apps using Mastodon: mastodon.social
: The #indieweb and Microblog should reach out to Center for Humane Tech, both efforts goals are very …
: Glad #Firefox finally found it’s true reason to exist. Hope they push hard that their product …
: Guerrilla Girls Protest Poster
: The #indieweb and the #calm technology movement are natural allies. calmtech.com
: Endorse. Move on to something better. Which in some cases means going back to what worked and …
: From the co-founder of Wikipedia on “Decentralizing social media networks” and owning …
: #streetart #streetstyle #resist
: Just set up a PixelFed distributed social nedia account. Trying it out. Is based on ActivityPub. …
: A good article on decentralized social media and federating your web posts… …
: 4th of July #beach #beachlife
: This looks like a good tool to enable desktop browser based “Sharing to” Microblog …
: Bethesda has these hidden street murals in all sorts of places. #mural #streetart #streetartists
: Mural on Side of Metal Shipping Container #streetart #muralart #mural
: Folks are looking for #indieweb even when they don’t use or know the word yet… cc: …
: Attending remotely: indieweb.org/2019/Sche… #indiewebcamp
: Very interested in the various efforts at #selfsoverignidentity and how it could apply to social …
: Alt-Right network #Gab keeps talking up it’s efforts in the #fediverse. Those who care about …
: Facinating watching Gab, the mostly alt-right social network (after spending $5 million dev costs) …
: Warm summer night’s view while walking…
: Quietly the Mastodon social network seems to have grown to over 2.1 million users. #indieweb …
: “Rebooting the web of trust” and decentralized “self-sovereign” identity online: …
: Election Day in VA tomorrow: “Just as Virginia’s 2017 elections were an early warning signal that an …
: I’m completely sold on this: “Proposing a ‘Declaration of Digital Independence" - …
: Important #Firefox upgrade for privacy and speed. Good. That is what every Firefox update from here …
: Looking for this #IndieWeb Tool Looking for an #Indieweb tool for personal aggregation of social media. Maybe a bit like Feedly, a …
: That’s more like it, #Nasa apple.news/ACKC7b-aq…
: Microblog and Webmtion support of any blogs.... This is cool, from @menton on #microblog supporting integration any blog that uses …
: Very, very worth a read…A great state of play on tech and politics - as it is every …
: #LetsFixThis - And some good, good questions Jeff Zeldman asks really good questions here: (and I also posted this to my open #Microblog: …
: This is a big launch, good for them: “Experience the new CC Search, now with 300 million …
: "Why I’m supporting the IndieWeb (and you should too)" A solid argument for the #indieweb - and that it needs to be as “friction free” and as …
: I agree - trying to create a closed walled garden for podcasts - deserves to fail: …
: Looking forward to this season of the podcast. “Unbreak the Internet.” #Microblog is definitely one …
: “The Sky is Now Her Limit” 1920 …with the bottom rung “slavery” and the top “Presidency.”
: An important snapshot and a an appropriately mixed picture of the health of the Internet. …
: “Total Exoneration Day” went about as well as past “Infrastructure Weeks.”
: Old Car Room. #art #outsiderart
: Velvet Ford. #art #outsiderart
: Chaz. #nationalpetday #minpin #minpinstagram
: Twitter's Pace of Bot Removal To give a sense of scale: Twitter is now “automatically removing 6 million to 7.5 million [bot] …
: A good essay on the nature of wonder. getpocket.com/explore/i…
: Chaz and me. #minpin #minpinstagram
: "I'm an obesity doctor. I've seen long-term weight loss work. Here's how." I’m in this registry and long term health study on longer term weight loss and check in twice …
: Very important milestone in terms of political progressive infrastructure and 2020: …
: Neon America. #art #modernart
: Chaz Frustrated. #minpin #minpinstagram
: Turtles all the way down. www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/…
: These seem like just common sense things Facebook and Google should do in opening up thier ad …
: You can really never have too many stickers on your standing work desk. Just added three more but …
: Passing by Art #mural #streetart
: I get why NY Times or Wash Post are worried about Apple’s premium news service. But I’m interested: …
: Good feature addition to #Firefox 66: “Block autoplaying content by default.” But allows …
: Average media consumption for US adults….
: That’s a milestone: “The number of global subscriptions to online video services like Netflix and …
: Gotta go do some of these in Maryland sometime this summer: www.atlasobscura.com/things-to…
: Building in "Web Stuff" and Micro.blog This is a great quote on #indieweb publishing and #microblog in specific…. Build in …
: #Google Graveyard of dead products, and when and why they went the way of all flesh. gcemetery.co
: Adding “Hey Siri” functionality directly into Airpods was smart. I keep awaiting for …
: On ACA’s ninth anniversary, threats remain while popularity soars. #ACAanniversary #ProtectOurCare …
: This article convinced me to make it a habit to journal at least one sentence per day using #DayOne …
: Yet one more object lesson of why to federate and distribute your social content, no trust any one …
: Beto O’Rourke raised massive $6.1 million his first day in the 2020 race. The largest one day …
: Another argument for not trusting your social posting to any single social net. #indieweb …
: Dog Bar #outsiderart #outsiderartist
: How Software, Data, and a Hell of a Lot of Work Helped Me Lose 110 pounds in 25 Months If I kept going at that rate I would reliably be up to 300 pounds by summer. I had cholesterol …
: #Beto seeing far more search traffic than all other candidates combined since announcing.
: #Facebook decieded we all were giving up FB for Lent today. Suddently a more decentralized, …
: Been trying out #Firefox Send… Works like a charm: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2…
: Me. #perspective Me. #perspective
: Chaz and water… #perspectivephotography #minpin
: Happy birthday, the World Wide Web turns 30 today. Half the world is online. Other half on the way. …
: That will make my #indieweb project of migrating last posts from Medium.com That will make my #indieweb project of migrating last posts from Medium.com to the open web via …
: That will make my #indieweb project of migrating last posts from Medium.com to the open web via …
: Snowfall at Whiteflint Station Snowfall at Whiteflint Station
: Churn #art #painting Churn #art #painting
: I’ve always thought #FireFox should compete for marketshare by being the best, most privacy …
: “Meet the new boss…same as the old boss…” FB use down 15 million but they went to …
: Insightful article on parenting teens, and exhaustion… grownandflown.com/mom-of-te… Insightful article on parenting teens, and exhaustion… grownandflown.com/mom-of-te…
: Insightful article on parenting teens, and exhaustion… grownandflown.com/mom-of-te…
: Getting there, bit by bit on my Micro.bog, HTTPS all working: timothychambers.net Getting there, bit by bit on my Micro.bog, HTTPS all working: timothychambers.net
: Getting there, bit by bit on my Micro.bog, HTTPS all working: timothychambers.net
: Small Shifts Back to the Web's Roots Another story I’m watching on how do “slow media” - from this blogger. Will be fun …
: The promise and peril of decentralized social networks and federated systems… The promise and peril of decentralized social networks and federated systems: …
: RIP You Rascal You RIP You Rascal You
: Another argument for a “slow media” diet, vs a “fast food” junk news …
: Microblog creator @menton on what’s coming for Micro.blog, on this week’s podcast …
: Not quitting Social Media: But Going Back to an "the Artisanal internet." This article from #wired, also got me relooking at #indieweb and Micro.blog. In essence, don’t …
: #mural #muralart #mural #muralart
: In my personal life, I’m increasingly trying for a “slow media” diet. Akin to “slow food” vs “fast …
: Who Owns the Digital You (Part 1 of 3) “Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, Fifties and Sixties it was civil rights. The …
: Micro.blog update: Got Instagram integration from Insta=>Micro.blog working. Check. Almost all …
: Why I’m exploring Micro.blog. Why I’m exploring Micro.blog. Don’t want to quit Facebook entirely (or other social networks) but …
: Here was my questions to @macgenie for her Micro Monday Micro.blog interview with @menton…. …
: Updated the #wikipedia article for micro.blog with some of what I’ve been learning -> …
: Good morning, Chaz! #minpin #minpinstagram #minpins
: Bottle cap Art #foundart #folkart
: "Large companies aren’t good homes for beloved services..." Good thoughts here by Colin Devroe on the issue of trusting even giant companies iwth your digital …
: A key milestone: “U.S. ad dollars spent this year on digital channels…will surpass the …
: OK: micro.blog update: Syndication working everywhere it can pretty flawlessly. Am exporting old …
: Amazed to be reminded that the Blogger/Blogspot platform is almost 20 years old. Alive but zombie. …
: Next step with Micro.blog: moving over my domain name, and getting iOS apps installed. So far, …
: Giving Micro.Blog a Whirl Giving Micro.blog a whirl. After trying it out in beta, now am giving the lastest version a whirl as …
: Winged selfie 2 #whatliftsyou #mural #streetart #muralart cc: @kelseymontagueart
: Winged Selfie. #whatliftsyou #mural #streetart cc: @kelseymontagueart
: Fun. Trying out this solution for Publish once, syndicate everywhere posting…
: Here s one of the best resources for data and research on how to keep off weight once you… One of the best resources for data and research on how to maintain a healthy weight. …
: Who Owns the Digital You? (Part 2 of 3) Who Owns the Digital You? (Part 2 of 3) “Identity will be one of the defining themes in the next …
: More AMP HTML Reactions and Links More AMP HTML Reactions and Links Other reactions around Medium.com and elsewhere to Google’s AMP …
: Who Owns the Digital You? (Part 1 of 3) Who Owns the Digital You? (Part 1 of 3) “Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, …
: Internet, You aren’t Helping: How Bad Data Spreads Faster than Good Internet, You aren’t Helping: How Bad Data Spreads Faster than Good Fascinating tool that tracks how …
: NY Times Open Sources “The Hive” a Platform for Crowdsourcing News and Info NY Times Open Sources “The Hive” a Platform for Crowdsourcing News and Info Looks pretty cool, and …