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Yesterday was the 19th anniversary since #WordPress’ first release. The web is a better place with them in it. wp19.day
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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-…
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“A(nother) way in which Facebook is the 21st Century’s tobacco industry….” pluralistic.net/2022/05/1…
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“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…
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Perennially good advice online and off: “Don’t Feed the Troll.” this.how/trolls/
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“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.”
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“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…
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“What Elon Musk got wrong about Twitter.” A lot… youtu.be/MPi_aVJJ4…
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How #Ukraine is crowdsourcing evidence of war crimes: time.com/6166781/u…
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Mozilla’s vision for the evolution of the Web… #openweb #mozilla webvision.mozilla.org
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Cool: “High Quality, Free, Open Source Design Assets – 2022 Edition” automattic.design/2022/01/2…
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This week in IndieWeb: indieweb.org/this-week…
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A software developer’s view (from the former CEO of Signal) of the current incarnation of Web3:
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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.”
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Something to build to and to create in 2022. Something both the #indieweb, #fediverse and #web3 are all striving for.
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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
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These look helpful: “Announcing indieweb-utils” jamesg.blog/2021/12/2…
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Really good notes here “on why podcasting is not dominated” by the many large-scale companies who have tried to subsume the format. The Open Web needs to be designed as such from the ground up. scripting.com/2021/12/2…
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Five Ways the the Internet Changed Our Politics in 2021 fwiwnewsletter.substack.com/p/5-ways-…
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The “State of the Word” is the annual keynote address delivered by #WordPress project’s co-founder, Matt Mullenweg. It’s his reflection on the project’s progress and the future of open source. www.youtube.com/watch
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This #Indieweb principles quoted verbatim by Bruce Sterling in 2013, hold up pretty well…and I think apply to a lot of #Fediverse and #Web3 efforts, too….
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“The Largest Autocracy on Earth: Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/…
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“#Firefox 92 could be the most secure browser yet.” www.techradar.com/news/fire…
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NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 6.0.3 for Mac released. This is far and away my favorite feed reader: nnw.ranchero.com/2021/09/0…
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I missed the actual day, but Wordpress as a publishing platform just turned 18 years old. Very cool. wordpress.org/news/2021…
