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 →

Why owning your own content and syndicating it to external platforms is key. “Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site,” the company said in a notice to users. “Beginning October 28, you won’t be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed.” Continue reading →

Agree completely: “The speech began with a major tactical and factual error, in which Zuckerberg attempted to awkwardly retcon the founding of Facebook into a story about giving students a voice during the Iraq war. (“I remember feeling that if more people had a voice to share their experiences, maybe things would have gone differently.”) All previous reporting on the subject suggests that the truth was much, much hornier, and the fact that Zuckerberg’s speech began so disingenuously caused lots of the folks I read to tune out the rest… Continue reading →

Good that #Microdotblog made this call given how broken FB was for cross-posting: “Goodbye to Facebook cross-posting…Facebook & even Instagram are at odds with the principles of the open web.” www.manton.org/2019/10/1…