“The next part of the reallysimple project is a mailbox style reader that plugs in like a LEGO block. You want a different kind of reader? It’ll be easy to plug it in too…” #rss twitter.com/davewiner…
Yeah, let’s change this: “So Much for Cutting Out the Middleman…Instead of getting rid of intermediaries, the internet created entirely new ones.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…
Proprietary browser Internet Explorer finally formally retired, 27 years after launch. #Firefox and #Chromium won. Open beats closed. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/microsoft-internet-explorer-officially-retired_n_62a89a6de4b06594c1ce876b
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” david.shanske.com/2022/06/1…
“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 are empowered to make and enforce rules. MetaFilter is one example of a healthy, self-governing social media community.” is.gd/fgl6f7
“Messaging apps should consider reviving AIM’s Away Message to create better social boundaries around people’s time…” www.wired.com/story/bri…
This week in #indieweb: us12.campaign-archive.com
Yesterday was the 19th anniversary since #WordPress’ first release. The web is a better place with them in it. wp19.day
Hope so, the Internet is a better place with openweb based social media: “Is Tumblr on the road back to relevance? - Gen Z makes up 61% of Tumblr’s new users, leading to a resurgence for the microblogging platform.” thehustle.co/01202022-…
“A(nother) way in which Facebook is the 21st Century’s tobacco industry….” pluralistic.net/2022/05/1…
“You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today…and he’s back.” www.zeldman.com/2022/05/2…
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 copies of it. The originals live with you. Pointers are much preferable to copies…in someone else’s content tree.” scripting.com/2012/09/1…
“Because Web 2.0, while it started out as a freedom-inspiring thing, has been coalescing to being a dangerous form of locking-in…If the Web is Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Web 2.0 is Small Pieces Trapped In A Silo.” scripting.com/2012/09/1…
“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” automattic.design/2022/01/2…
This week in IndieWeb: indieweb.org/this-week…
A software developer’s view (from the former CEO of Signal) of the current incarnation of Web3: moxie.org/2022/01/0…
Still very early days, but this feels true. Everyone is fighting to owner and custodian of your identity. “Fighting for Web 3.0: Digital wallet wars are the new browser wars.” cointelegraph.com/news/figh…
Something to build to and to create in 2022. Something both the #indieweb, #fediverse and #web3 are all striving for.
Assuming this is an NFT joke, but really not sure. Either way, welcome to the “Non-fungible Olive Garden Metaverse, granting owners no rights or privileges in meatspace Olive Gardens.” nonfungibleolivegardens.com