Good list of (mostly open-source) projects that are directly related to humane tech topics: github.com/humanetec…

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. www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/…

Not cool #Apple. Another closed silo ignoring open standards. And why we need #NetNewsWire and other #RSS readers for news. “Apple News Drops Support for RSS.” news.slashdot.org/story/19/…

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 →

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…

A yearly report I watch very closely is just out: State of Mozilla 2018: Annual Report blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019…

So wish #BlockchainIdentity efforts well…. www.ibm.com/blogs/blo…

Not cool, ICANN: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/22/save-dot-org.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

“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 launched a new feature explaining what exactly those trackers do.” www.fastcompany.com/90419899/…

Manton Reese notes when evaluating new social networks (like WTSocial I assume) he looks to these four traits. And that “Checking off just 1 or 2 of the 4 parts isn’t going to cut it” to get us out of the mess we are in. He is right. manton.org/2018/09/0…

Yes. They are failing short. Mozilla has been doing good work holding them accountable for a while. “To be clear: Facebook is still falling short on its transparency commitments. Further, even perfect transparency wouldn’t change the fact that Facebook is accepting payment to promote dangerous and untrue ads." via: The Mozilla Blog blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019…) Continue reading →

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 →

“The Indieweb is a place you can take some of your sovereignty back.” www.jhsheridan.com/officiall…

A good overview of all things #indieweb: both technical and philosphical: www.jvt.me/posts/201…

Interoperability - not just data portability but set API’s for communication by different accounts across social media silos would make a huge difference. For the better. www.theverge.com/2019/10/2… Continue reading →