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Indieweb.Social and the Upcoming #BlueSkyBridge
This is a brief announcement announcing Indieweb.social’s future software bridge work by BridgyFed - fed.brid.gy - will enable interoperability between ActivityPub networks and AT Protocol/BlueSky users. Read the announcement at snarfed.org/2024-02-1… As a server, Indieweb.social will NOT fediblock this effort; rather, to the contrary, we will assist users in understanding how to engage with BlueSky users if they choose to do so via this new offering. This is akin to our server’s position on Threads federation as well. Continue reading →
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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 that unites the interests of developers working on the “#Indieweb,” “#Distributed social,” and “#Fediverse” worlds. We created a space where supporters of each endeavor could communicate and exchange information as they are all linked initiatives with comparable objectives. It’s now the 6th largest of all Tech #Mastodon instances. It is the main host for emerging platforms like [Bonfire] (https://indieweb. Continue reading →
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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 digital content I find these days. Main comerical social networks remain wastelands. From the Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp & HEY: “There’s something incredibly beautiful about the rise of both podcasts and newsletters in an age dominated by the walled gardens of big tech. Two basic forms of distribution that rely not on proprietary platforms, but on free and open standards, devoid of corporate lock-in " Continue reading →
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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. Looking forward to trying out Hey.com…. Email is the rare open platform that works for everyone. But it’s changing. Three companies — Google, Microsoft and Verizon (which owns Yahoo and AOL) — control the overwhelming majority of the email universe. Google is particularly powerful, growing as the others slowly fade. Jacob Bank, Gmail’s product manager, told me in 2017 that Gmail was already powerful enough to be able to set standards in a supposedly open ecosystem, and that power has only increased since then. Continue reading →
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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 social feed for unwanted things - like I tried to do to avoid spoilers of Star Wars. I just wanted to temporarily mute posts from friends, etc, that used the words “Star Wars” or “Skywalker” for 24 hours. So that was a test for the various social nets. Of course: the open source Mastodon Social network gave users the most control to filter out posts with certain key words, and for how long to block them. Continue reading →
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Feels way too true. Let’s rebuild a better web.
“Alienated, Alone And Angry: What The Digital Revolution Really Did To Us…We were promised community, civics, and convenience. Instead, we found ourselves dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged.” www.buzzfeednews.com/article/j…
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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 problems as Facebook does can always be improved, but by design they can never be good enough because their size alone is one of the problems…. The good news: it’s up to us. We can choose to reject these platforms and move to a more distributed web of indie microblogs. We can choose to reject the attention power-grab of the algorithmic timeline. Continue reading →
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"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 Freedom On The Net, “Russian internet freedom has declined for the sixth year in a row, following government efforts to block the popular messaging app Telegram and numerous legislative proposals aimed at restricting online anonymity and increasing censorship.” And there are no signs of that getting any better any time soon." www.forbes.com/sites/zak… Continue reading →
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'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 that happens on Twitter and Facebook to happen outside the silos, so a new generation of ‘coders’ can try out a billion new ideas about how humans can ideate and organize in a global network environment.” scripting.com/2019/09/2… Continue reading →
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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 build, study, promote - or are just fascinated by - a wide variety of #openweb, #indieweb, #federated and #humanetech practices and technologies. We seek to promote innovation and shared evolution and promotion of such technologies as well as to offer this instance itself as a platform to experiment with integration and early implementations… Continue reading →
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Mozilla CEO Stepping Down
Here is hoping the next Firefox CEO is a good choice. I cannot overstate how important it is that a web browser with 10%-ish marsketshare exists not owned by an Ad company and that cares about user needs and privacy first. And the new CEO will manage them jumping into paid services, a key element to manage supremely carefully. “Firefox may not be as widely used as Chrome, but it still plays an important role in developing the standards that govern the web. Continue reading →
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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 Facebook claim, you don’t need a giant corporation telling you what news stories you should read every morning. Nearly every website (worth reading) still operates an RSS feed. And now one of the oldest and most robust RSS readers, NetNewsWire, is back from the dead and worth your consideration again.” gizmodo.com/one-of-th… Continue reading →
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"Why Freedom of Thought Requires Attention"
He opens with “Freedom of thought requries media that don’t listen to and watch and survielle us as we use them…media that consumes us, in the end consumes freedom of thought.” A friend’s review: “I really liked his point that it’s not required to invent new stuff to fix what’s wrong today but “just” to undo stuff that went wrong in last years. Aligned very well with the idea of #indieweb and the fediverse. Continue reading →
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"It’s Time to End ‘Trending'"
Why it is good – as #Mastodon and #Microdotblog does – to still keep human admins in the mix on surfacing “trending” items: “The first problem with [FB and Twitter] “trending” is that it selects and highlights content with no eye toward accuracy, or quality. Automated trending systems are not equipped to make judgments; they can determine if things are being shared, but they cannot determine whether that content should be shared further. Continue reading →
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Indieweb, Fediverse and Commerical Silos
The more time I spend on the #Indieweb, #Matodon and other #Fediverse apps, the more I notice when I go back to Twitter and FB how much is pushed at me: recommended users, posts, promoted tweets, recommended apps, requests for reviews of places I just had been near, but never checked into. Sometimes you only really see it there when you have seen the alternative. #fediverse Continue reading →
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Love this: “It’s pleasantly ironic that some of the internet’s oldest open protocols are shining through, with email newsletters and podcasting standing tall… a channel they own and control.” www.niemanlab.org/2018/12/p…
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Been looking for a Browser Extension to allow one click sharing to my #micrdotblog site, that then syndicates out to my other social, Mastodon, Medium, Twitter, etc. Trying out OmniBear now… omnibear.com/features/
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“The net was so weird and wonderful in the early 2000s because it was easy to remix….The only real option in 2019 of customizing anything is to build a website of your own.” onezero.medium.com/why-the-w… #indieweb
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Looking for this #IndieWeb Tool
Looking for an #Indieweb tool for personal aggregation of social media. Maybe a bit like Feedly, a bit like Nuzzel, but more specifically a webtool that aggregates and does a pesonal curation and display of Twitter Lists, Facebook feeds, YouTube Subscriptions, and if possible FB Groups, and displays the content that I hand curated in one dashboard. In a way in the same fashion that #Microblog supports keeping publishing to social networks syndicated out and at arms length, would be good to find a toolset that curates the consumption from social nets, and gets around the main feed algorythms and enables more hand curation of what you see from them more easily. Continue reading →
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Microblog and Webmtion support of any blogs....
This is cool, from @menton on #microblog supporting integration any blog that uses Webmentions… “In a post on Micro.blog, you can @-mention someone’s blog by including @domain.com in the post, using their domain name. If that blogger’s site supports Webmention, Micro.blog will send your mention to their blog, where it could be included as a comment."< www.manton.org/2019/05/1… Continue reading →
