[ { "id": 0, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#BridgyFed has become a \u0026ldquo;load-bearing,\u0026rdquo; key part of the #OpenSocialWeb making every network it bridges more valuable as it goes.\n\u0026ldquo;Bridgy Fed is a free public service, funded by individual donations and institutional grants. Real people and orgs trust us with their money so that we can keep this thing running. We feel that responsibility acutely, and we’re serious about keeping these projects sustainable for the long haul. Every dollar we don’t spend on hosting is a dollar that keeps us afloat a bit longer.\u0026rdquo;\nIf you benfit from it, show them some love here: https://www.patreon.com/c/ANewSocial/posts\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-11 18:33:45 -0400", "date": "6:33 p.m. on May 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/11/bridgyfed-has-become-a-loadbearing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F11%2Fbridgyfed-has-become-a-loadbearing.html" }, { "id": 1, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fully endorse. #bigtech\n“Asking platforms to do better won\u0026rsquo;t work. We need to force their hands..”\nwerd.io/asking-pl\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-11 10:55:51 -0400", "date": "10:55 p.m. on May 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/11/fully-endorse-bigtech-asking-platforms.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F11%2Ffully-endorse-bigtech-asking-platforms.html" }, { "id": 2, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I always read this from #glaad each year: they do all of us a great service for tracking how the major platforms are doing protecting their users - or not. All the more reason for us to build out our own safer, healthier #OpenSocialWeb\n\u0026ldquo;With the exception of TikTok, the 2026 scores dropped across the board. These declines are due to various factors, not all of which is quantified in the SMSI scorecard. Most significantly, both Meta[3] and YouTube[4] continue to maintain their recent anti-LGBTQ policy changes, which have made online environments even more toxic and harmful for LGBTQ people.\u0026rdquo;\nhttps://www.glaad.org/smsi/2026/executive-summary/\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-10 19:12:23 -0400", "date": "7:12 p.m. on May 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/10/i-always-read-this-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F10%2Fi-always-read-this-from.html" }, { "id": 3, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …and YouTube[[4]](🔗 https://www.glaad.org/smsi/2026/executive-summary/#_ftn1) continue to maintain their recent anti-LGBTQ policy changes, which have made online environments even _more toxic and harmful for LGBTQ people.” 🔗 https://www.glaad.org/smsi/2026/executive-summary/ 🧵 3/3\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-10 19:12:16 -0400", "date": "7:12 p.m. on May 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/10/89926219.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89926219" }, { "id": 4, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …dropped across the board. These declines are due to various factors, not all of which is quantified in the SMSI scorecard. Most significantly, both Meta[[3]](🔗 https://www.glaad.org/smsi/2026/executive-summary/#ftn1)%E2%80%A6 🧵 2/3\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-10 19:12:15 -0400", "date": "7:12 p.m. on May 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/10/89926221.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89926221" }, { "id": 5, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For my day job my firm does do web development as a key offering. Increasingly I think this is true, the website\u0026rsquo;s role is shifting dramatically to this:\n\u0026ldquo;Websites As Canonical Sources, Not Just Destinations\nYour website still matters. But its job description has changed.\nYour website is no longer just a destination. It’s a source. It’s the canonical, structured, well-maintained origin point from which your message gets picked up, interpreted, summarized, and carried elsewhere. The better that source material is, the better it travels.\nThink of it this way: Your website used to be the store. Now, it’s also the warehouse. And the warehouse needs to be organized well enough that anyone (human or machine) can find what they need, understand what it means, and carry it somewhere else without losing the plot.\u0026rdquo;\nFor individuals: I\u0026rsquo;m wondering if the #agenicweb means that suddenly something like blogs matter again. Maybe soon they will matter more than the microblogging central sites (IG, FB, X, etc) that subsumed them.\nhttps://www.searchenginejournal.com/your-website-is-a-source-not-a-megaphone/571490/\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-09 15:13:15 -0400", "date": "3:13 p.m. on May 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/09/for-my-day-job-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F09%2Ffor-my-day-job-my.html" }, { "id": 6, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …the #agenicweb means that suddenly something like blogs matter again. Maybe soon they will matter more than the microblogging central sites (IG, FB, X, etc) that subsumed them. 🔗 https://www.searchenginejournal.com/your-website-is-a-source-not-a-megaphone/571490/ 🧵 4/4\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-09 15:13:06 -0400", "date": "3:13 p.m. on May 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/09/89926222.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89926222" }, { "id": 7, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …Your website used to be the store. Now, it’s also the warehouse. And the warehouse needs to be organized well enough that anyone (human or machine) can find what they need, understand what it means, and carry it somewhere else without losing the plot.” For individuals: I’m wondering if… 🧵 3/4\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-09 15:13:06 -0400", "date": "3:13 p.m. on May 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/09/89926223.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89926223" }, { "id": 8, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …website is no longer just a destination. It’s a source. It’s the canonical, structured, well-maintained origin point from which your message gets picked up, interpreted, summarized, and carried elsewhere. The better that source material is, the better it travels. Think of it this way:… 🧵 2/4\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-09 15:13:05 -0400", "date": "3:13 p.m. on May 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/09/89926224.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89926224" }, { "id": 9, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This from Josh Marshall rings true on #Redistricting:\n\u0026ldquo;What we have seen over recent months is that Democrats have largely abandoned the mode of the last decade plus in which with one hand they fought the partisan battles of the day and with the other assume the mantle of defending the political norms Republicans have already destroyed. In other words, it was the responsibility of Democrats both to be contestants and referees. Republicans violated norms; Democrats tried to uphold them. That of course meant no partisan battle was ever on equal terms and Republicans almost always won them.\nThrough the redistricting battle and then with a thunderclap after the Callais decision Democrats have mostly abandoned this stance. There’s no race to the bottom beyond the simple fact that Democratic restraint has been removed from the equation. And that is a good thing. Democrats can release the enervating, demoralizing burden of being the custodians of an already-destroyed consensus.\u0026rdquo;\nhttps://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-its-really-not-a-race-to-the-bottom-on-redistricting\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-09 11:15:55 -0400", "date": "11:15 p.m. on May 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/09/this-from-josh-marshall-rings.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F09%2Fthis-from-josh-marshall-rings.html" }, { "id": 10, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Looking over this, glad to see those #AgenticWeb discussions starting at the WC3. I deeply feel both the promise and the dangers to the Open Web and the Open Social Web are very real.\n\u0026ldquo;Let’s first consider the problem at hand. A major reason for the web’s success is that it is open in many ways: it’s powered by open standards, it’s open for everyone to publish on (for fun, fame and/or profit), and it’s open for everyone to read. Perfect.\nAt the same time, content is increasingly consumed via LLMs and AI agents, which worries websites that care about content quality (like news organisations, governments, or public health information providers) and advertising income\u0026hellip;.\nWhat could W3C do?\nIn addition to AI Preferences (IETF) and standards for responsible use of journalistic content (SPUR Coalition), these are some things participants suggested W3C can do\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo;\nSee the full article here:\nhttps://hidde.blog/web-ai-breakout/\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-09 10:33:32 -0400", "date": "10:33 p.m. on May 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/09/looking-over-this-glad-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F09%2Flooking-over-this-glad-to.html" }, { "id": 11, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So Fediverse app #HolosSocial just added support for this in their latest iOS beta:\n\u0026ldquo;Holos Social 1.5.5 (34)\n- Support for web+ap:// links (fedilinks): to open profiles and posts directly in Holos This is a big milestone for a key fix myself and Sean wrote about here, to help make remote fediverse content more seemlessly available. EVERY Fediverse mobile app should support this and follow their lead.\nhttps://wedistribute.org/2026/04/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux-sins-a-redemption-report-card/\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-06 20:21:30 -0400", "date": "8:21 p.m. on May 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/06/so-fediverse-app-holossocial-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F06%2Fso-fediverse-app-holossocial-just.html" }, { "id": 12, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This from #FindOutMedia is really important.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s another example of a podcast and media network building their following directly on the open social web: a network they own, that can\u0026rsquo;t be taken away by Zuckerberg or Musk or held hostage to Google\u0026rsquo;s or YouTube\u0026rsquo;s latest algorithm. They just launched their own fediverse server, and dedicated mobile apps, and each new account joining there is automatically bridged over to BlueSky.\nThis is the model to keep an eye on. Everyone else with a core media and podcast following: watch and learn from their early work.\nI\u0026rsquo;m looking forward to seeing this brand-new community form here as new fans join the open social web for the first time, much like the community thriving at the #Forkiverse around the Hard Fork podcast.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve underestimaed before the power of focused open social web servers, great to see another example of it forming.\nEveryone on the Fediverse and Bluesky, please welcome the Find Out community to the open social web.\nhttps://www.threads.com/@timfullerton/post/DX9C9WSlmeX\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-05 22:21:46 -0400", "date": "10:21 p.m. on May 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/05/this-from-findoutmedia-is-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F05%2Fthis-from-findoutmedia-is-really.html" }, { "id": 13, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Making the \u0026ldquo;ruthless\u0026rdquo; business case for the #OpenSocialWeb, here is Helen Halvack from the Verge:\nHelen: “I\u0026rsquo;ll give you the ruthless business answer of why I\u0026rsquo;m interested in open social web projects like Surf from the Flipboard team. So platforms like MetaX, they are openly hostile to news content in their algorithms. They have moved away from that.\nThey are no longer great discovery sources for us. Links in general even. Forget news, just links. They\u0026rsquo;re not like good places to hang out anymore.\nCould you start the Verge now, the way we started The Verge, or you started The Verge 15 years ago? The answer is like probably not, or you would need a lot more money because starting something for free and finding audiences for free is much harder now.\nA lot of audience discovery is people buying ads from Mark Zuckerberg, right? I would rather not give money to Mark Zuckerberg. I would rather spend money on journalists in our newsroom, which means the discovery problem, like can we solve it a different way?\n\u0026hellip;To the point of discovery, I would love to acquire acquisition channels for us where, again, I don\u0026rsquo;t have to pay to play.\nThe open social web is a lot more friendly to news. I think there\u0026rsquo;s opportunity there for how do you get the next cohort of Verge audience. And then as Nilay said, as we think about our website, our product experience, I think there\u0026rsquo;s really fun ideas about how you create new product experiences that attract people to The Verge, because the open social web, you can surface in all kinds of different ways.\nSo that would be my cold business answer of, I would rather give our money to the newsroom than be buying acquisition from Meta or whoever.”\nFrom The Vergecast: The Vergecast Vergecast, 2026 edition, Apr 21, 2026\n[podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas\u0026hellip;)\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:48:15 -0400", "date": "10:48 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/04/making-the-ruthless-business-case.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F04%2Fmaking-the-ruthless-business-case.html" }, { "id": 14, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …experiences that attract people to The Verge, because the open social web, you can surface in all kinds of different ways. So that would be my cold business answer of, I would rather give our money to the newsroom than be buying acquisition from Meta or whoever.” From The Vergecast: The… 🧵 6/7\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:48:05 -0400", "date": "10:48 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/04/89611777.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89611777" }, { "id": 15, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …open social web is a lot more friendly to news. I think there’s opportunity there for how do you get the next cohort of Verge audience. And then as Nilay said, as we think about our website, our product experience, I think there’s really fun ideas about how you create new product… 🧵 5/7\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:48:05 -0400", "date": "10:48 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/04/89611778.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89611778" }, { "id": 16, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …money to Mark Zuckerberg. I would rather spend money on journalists in our newsroom, which means the discovery problem, like can we solve it a different way? …To the point of discovery, I would love to acquire acquisition channels for us where, again, I don’t have to pay to play. The… 🧵 4/7\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:48:05 -0400", "date": "10:48 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/04/89611779.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89611779" }, { "id": 17, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …started The Verge 15 years ago? The answer is like probably not, or you would need a lot more money because starting something for free and finding audiences for free is much harder now. A lot of audience discovery is people buying ads from Mark Zuckerberg, right? I would rather not give… 🧵 3/7\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:48:05 -0400", "date": "10:48 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/04/89611780.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89611780" }, { "id": 18, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …to news content in their algorithms. They have moved away from that. They are no longer great discovery sources for us. Links in general even. Forget news, just links. They’re not like good places to hang out anymore. Could you start the Verge now, the way we started The Verge, or you… 🧵 2/7\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:48:05 -0400", "date": "10:48 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/04/89611781.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89611781" }, { "id": 19, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More from Nilay on the Verge and the #OpenSocialWeb:\n“You can get some traffic and that\u0026rsquo;s great, and you can\u0026rsquo;t live or die in traffic, [as] the traffic can go away. The Yahoo algorithm cannot send you traffic to your links on the Yahoo homepage anymore, which is a real experience that we\u0026rsquo;ve had. Google can go away.\nThat\u0026rsquo;s just traffic. It just comes and goes and that\u0026rsquo;s great. The [real] goal is to turn the traffic into audience and have people come to you directly and care about your brand and your people\u0026hellip;I don\u0026rsquo;t take that for granted at all.\nThen the real goal is to turn the audience into a community, and we are very lucky that we have that too across platforms. So I just look at these open distribution protocols.\nThis is how I can go get a bigger community. We\u0026rsquo;re going to be where you are, and if you reply to us or like our posts or engage with us on BlueSky or Threads or Mastodon, we\u0026rsquo;ll get some value from that too.\nAnd the people who are out on those platforms, we can curate that work in other.\n\u0026hellip;I\u0026rsquo;m not saying we\u0026rsquo;re going to get there tomorrow, but that is the vision, is to say our community exists in all these places in a way that is additive instead of constantly dividing our attention.”\nFrom The Vergecast: The Vergecast Vergecast, 2026 edition, Apr 21, 2026\n[podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas\u0026hellip;)\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:38:00 -0400", "date": "10:38 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/04/more-from-nilay-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F04%2Fmore-from-nilay-on-the.html" }, { "id": 20, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Love this post from Nilay on the value of the open social web to media brands today:\n\u0026ldquo;David: \u0026ldquo;I think the question here is essentially, what is sort of your current theory of the case about connecting The Verge to these broader open social protocols? \u0026quot;\nNilay: \u0026hellip;\u0026ldquo;I think all great media brands grow up with their distribution. So the Verge is just like a good example. We\u0026rsquo;re like, we started in 2011. We started a giant desktop website. And like phones didn\u0026rsquo;t exist in the way that they exist now. Like we came up with distribution on the open web\u0026hellip;.\nSo when I say, if we were starting the Verge again today, what would we do? The\u0026hellip;exercise in my brain is what is the distribution that\u0026rsquo;s on the way up that you would build a thing around?\nAnd maybe for the last five years, the answer has only been YouTube. And then there was like a brief minute when the answer was TikTok. And I just think it\u0026rsquo;s hard to survive on those platforms\u0026hellip;. I\u0026rsquo;m confident in this conversation. [What we need] is distribution that no one controls.\nThere\u0026rsquo;s no Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, literally with a knob being like, I don\u0026rsquo;t like you and turning you off, which is a thing that I try to run away from. And so Bluesky is like open distribution, Activitypub is open distribution and that\u0026rsquo;s why i keep saying that\u0026rsquo;s what we would start we would start a thing on the open distribution that no one controls and try to make our own way.\nThere\u0026rsquo;s like layers and layers of things to solve here, but it just seems obvious that we should connect to the next generation of distribution that no one controls. “Because that to me is, that\u0026rsquo;s always the thing, a media brand that\u0026rsquo;s on the rise, should be trying to do.”\n🎙️ The Vergecast\n📻 The Vergecast Vergecast, 2026 edition\n👤 with David, Nilay, Helen Havlak\n⏱️ 14:36–16:59\n🔗 [podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas\u0026hellip;)\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:27:30 -0400", "date": "10:27 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/04/love-this-post-from-nilay.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F04%2Flove-this-post-from-nilay.html" }, { "id": 21, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …way. There’s like layers and layers of things to solve here, but it just seems obvious that we should connect to the next generation of distribution that no one controls. “Because that to me is, that’s always the thing, a media brand that’s on the rise, should be trying to do.” 🎙️ The… 🧵 6/7\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:27:19 -0400", "date": "10:27 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/04/89610911.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89610911" }, { "id": 22, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …turning you off, which is a thing that I try to run away from. And so Bluesky is like open distribution, Activitypub is open distribution and that’s why i keep saying that’s what we would start we would start a thing on the open distribution that no one controls and try to make our own… 🧵 5/7\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:27:19 -0400", "date": "10:27 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/04/89610912.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89610912" }, { "id": 23, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …when the answer was TikTok. And I just think it’s hard to survive on those platforms…. I’m confident in this conversation. [What we need] is distribution that no one controls. There’s no Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, literally with a knob being like, I don’t like you and… 🧵 4/7\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:27:19 -0400", "date": "10:27 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/04/89610913.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89610913" }, { "id": 24, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …say, if we were starting the Verge again today, what would we do? The…exercise in my brain is what is the distribution that’s on the way up that you would build a thing around? And maybe for the last five years, the answer has only been YouTube. And then there was like a brief minute… 🧵 3/7\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:27:19 -0400", "date": "10:27 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/04/89610914.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89610914" }, { "id": 25, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …great media brands grow up with their distribution. So the Verge is just like a good example. We’re like, we started in 2011. We started a giant desktop website. And like phones didn’t exist in the way that they exist now. Like we came up with distribution on the open web…. So when I… 🧵 2/7\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 22:27:19 -0400", "date": "10:27 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/05/04/89610915.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89610915" }, { "id": 26, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very gratified to see this built on #OpenSocialWeb protocols. Can\u0026rsquo;t imagine why any new social or parasocial network today would be built on anything else. techcrunch.com/2026/05/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-04 13:58:16 -0400", "date": "1:58 p.m. on May 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/04/very-gratified-to-see-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F04%2Fvery-gratified-to-see-this.html" }, { "id": 27, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well put: it\u0026rsquo;s a reminder of the social media we once glimpsed \u0026amp; seems so far away now. But we can build it back. \u0026ldquo;I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there\u0026rsquo;s something quietly beautiful about a place where people share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage.\nmatduggan.com/boy-i-was\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-01 21:51:48 -0400", "date": "9:51 p.m. on May 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/01/well-put-its-a-reminder.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F01%2Fwell-put-its-a-reminder.html" }, { "id": 28, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yes. Given the givens, Democrats should do all of this. California should do another round \u0026amp; I do bet Maryland residents fire the one state senator that was holding things up this time. AND they should do the push for a national ban on gerrymandering, too. www.axios.com/2026/05/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-01 20:40:30 -0400", "date": "8:40 p.m. on May 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/01/yes-given-the-givens-democrats.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F01%2Fyes-given-the-givens-democrats.html" }, { "id": 29, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We are going to run out of sites for our training data pretty soon at this rate.\n\u0026ldquo;Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchers—which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive—published their findings online in a paper titled “The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet.”\n[www.404media.co/study-fin\u0026hellip;)\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-01 18:40:16 -0400", "date": "6:40 p.m. on May 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/01/we-are-going-to-run.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F01%2Fwe-are-going-to-run.html" }, { "id": 30, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is very welcome, and I referenced it in my recent article on Fediverse progress: \u0026ldquo;Decentralized social media platform Mastodon plans on adopting its own end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for private messages. Mastodon announced the upcoming feature in a blog post about receiving €614,000 ($724,000) from the Sovereign Tech Fund, an effort backed by the German government to support open-source software. \u0026quot;\nI do wonder if or how this could work in concert with other open E2EE messaging, I\u0026rsquo;m thinking of #DeltaChat or #Matrix protocols or Dan new Sup messaging effort.\nhttps://www.pcmag.com/news/mastodon-plans-end-to-end-encryption-for-private-messages\n", "dateiso": "2026-05-01 13:08:26 -0400", "date": "1:08 p.m. on May 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/05/01/this-is-very-welcome-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F05%2F01%2Fthis-is-very-welcome-and.html" }, { "id": 31, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More from Luis I really like, this time on #RSS:\n\u0026ldquo;Let’s talk about the best way to access all these feeds. My preferred and recommended approach is using a feed reader.\nWhen subscribing to content on the open web, feed readers are your secret weapon.\nRSS might seem like it’s dead (it’s not—yet). In fact, it’s the reason you often hear the phrase, “Wherever you get your podcasts.” But RSS goes beyond podcasts. It’s widely supported by blogs, newsletters, and even social platforms like the Fediverse (Mastodon, PeerTube, etc.) and BlueSky. It’s also how I’m able to compile my starter packs.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve written more about RSS in Rediscovering the RSS Protocol, but the short version is this: when you build on open standards like RSS and OPML, you’re building on freedom. Freedom to use the tools that work best for you. Freedom to own your experience. And freedom to support a healthier, more independent web.\u0026rdquo;\nhttps://lqdev.me/posts/how-i-keep-up-with-ai/\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-29 02:28:49 -0400", "date": "2:28 p.m. on Apr 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/29/more-from-luis-i-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F29%2Fmore-from-luis-i-really.html" }, { "id": 32, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A conversation spinning out of #Fediforum. I like this from Luis\u0026hellip;\nI do think there is a \u0026ldquo;there, there\u0026rdquo; on the \u0026ldquo;agentic web\u0026rdquo; and the \u0026ldquo;open social web.\u0026rdquo; Frankly I think the Open Social Web may be the first and best place to explore the web and agentic web interactions and how to make them more human-serving.\n\u0026ldquo;That feels like exactly the kind of problem the open social web community is well positioned to think about. If agents are going to act on behalf of people, transact, coordinate, or make claims in shared spaces, then identity, transparency, governance, and trust cannot be afterthoughts\u0026hellip;If open social web builders do not help shape this kind of infrastructure, my guess is that centralized AI platforms will. And if that happens, these systems will probably become less open, less resilient, and less interoperable over time.\u0026rdquo;\nhttps://lqdev.me/posts/mycelium-fediforum-ai-agents-open-social-infrastructure-04-2026/\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-29 02:11:48 -0400", "date": "2:11 p.m. on Apr 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/29/a-conversation-spinning-out-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F29%2Fa-conversation-spinning-out-of.html" }, { "id": 33, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Via Connected Places Newsletter, very worth applying for this if you are doing good work on the Open Social Web:\n\u0026ldquo;\u0026hellip;Applications are open for the first Open Social Awards, and I want to make sure they’re on your radar. The awards, presented by New_ Public, PublicSpaces, and Waag Futurelab, are looking for projects built on open social protocols that are past the prototype stage and in active use. That includes applications, shared infrastructure, and tools built on any federation or interoperability protocol. The awards will grant €10,000 to a grand prize winner and €5,000 to two excellence award winners, sponsored by ZDF and Bluesky. If you’re building something on the open social web, or you know someone who is, this is worth applying for. The jury includes Audrey Tang, Mike Masnick, Johannes Ernst, Melanie Bartos, Robin Berjon, and myself. Applications are due by May 1st, and winners will be announced at the PublicSpaces Conference in Amsterdam on June 5th. You can apply here:\nhttps://newpublic.org/OSA \u0026quot;\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-28 09:21:49 -0400", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Apr 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/28/via-connected-places-newsletter-very.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F28%2Fvia-connected-places-newsletter-very.html" }, { "id": 34, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good luck everyone doing demos at tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s #Fediforum. As a reminder you can follow the #Surffeed for it even if you aren\u0026rsquo;t in the surf app beta here:\nhttps://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jvprse7ptd6b9gccy3m9g547\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-27 23:09:28 -0400", "date": "11:09 p.m. on Apr 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/27/good-luck-everyone-doing-demos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F27%2Fgood-luck-everyone-doing-demos.html" }, { "id": 35, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net Yes. That is what I think folks are missing. The service couches itself as satire but it is fully functional.\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-27 22:50:46 -0400", "date": "10:50 p.m. on Apr 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/27/89143692.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89143692" }, { "id": 36, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@barretblake.dev I’m worried about that too, but but it does the same for reverse engineering clean room versions of ANY software, open or closed.\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-27 22:49:46 -0400", "date": "10:49 p.m. on Apr 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/27/89143693.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89143693" }, { "id": 37, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This feels wise for the #EU:\n“We don\u0026rsquo;t need a \u0026ldquo;European [add US social media platform]\u0026rdquo; – that would be just a different kind of centralised trap – we need a commitment to open protocols for our digital infrastructure. By moving our digital hangouts and town squares to decentralised protocols we ensure that no single entity – be it either governments and/or a volatile billionaires – can pull the plug on our democratic discourse and exchanges.”\nhttps://blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-architecture-of-autonomy-and-freedom/\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-27 22:47:38 -0400", "date": "10:47 p.m. on Apr 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/27/this-feels-wise-for-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F27%2Fthis-feels-wise-for-the.html" }, { "id": 38, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …protocols we ensure that no single entity – be it either governments and/or a volatile billionaires – can pull the plug on our democratic discourse and exchanges.” 🔗 https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-architecture-of-autonomy-and-freedom/ 🧵 2/2\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-27 22:47:30 -0400", "date": "10:47 p.m. on Apr 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/27/89143694.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89143694" }, { "id": 39, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@furioursus.dev Exactly.\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-27 13:45:49 -0400", "date": "1:45 p.m. on Apr 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/27/89143695.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89143695" }, { "id": 40, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Josh Marshall captures this dynamic well:\n\u0026ldquo;As the Iran war drags on, I wanted to share some thoughts on the proper context in which to see the conflict. Donald Trump lost this war in its very first days. Everything that has happened in recent weeks — the threats, the negotiations, the live-on-social-media breakdowns — has simply been a matter of trying to get free of that fact. This isn’t a political attack. It’s simply an accurate appraisal of what we all see. More importantly, it is the only way to understand what is happening now. Everything that’s happening today and for weeks has been focused on breaking Iran’s hold on the Strait of Hormuz, something it didn’t have before the war started. That’s the definition of failure: fighting a war and continuing a war to clean up the mess the war of choice actually created\u0026hellip;.\nThe Iranian leadership sees that just as clearly as everyone else. And as [trump] waits he and the global economy sustain damage. He’s stuck and since he won’t recognize that fact the conflict and the massive damage to the global economy continues, even if the scale of the fighting, for the moment, doesn’t.\u0026rdquo;\nhttps://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/making-sense-of-the-iran-war\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 23:53:18 -0400", "date": "11:53 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/26/josh-marshall-captures-this-dynamic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F26%2Fjosh-marshall-captures-this-dynamic.html" }, { "id": 41, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …the live-on-social-media breakdowns — has simply been a matter of trying to get free of that fact. This isn’t a political attack. It’s simply an accurate appraisal of what we all see. More importantly, it is the only way to understand what is happening now. Everything that’s happening… 🧵 2/5\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 23:53:14 -0400", "date": "11:53 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/26/89143703.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89143703" }, { "id": 42, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Am a fan of both Rabble \u0026amp; Ben, so very much looking forward to checking this out today: \u0026ldquo;Revolution.Social podcast with Rabble talking about an alternate history of social media\u0026hellip;.\u0026rdquo; #OpenSocialWeb\nhttps://werd.io/an-alternate-history-of-social-media/\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 16:52:17 -0400", "date": "4:52 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/26/am-a-fan-of-both.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F26%2Fam-a-fan-of-both.html" }, { "id": 43, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net Link: futurism.com/artificial-i…\n🧵 8/8\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 12:12:56 -0400", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/26/89046486.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89046486" }, { "id": 44, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net The clone might have the same code, but it doesn’t have the soul, the support, or the future roadmap.\nAre you building a product that can be copied, or a community that can’t? 🧵 7/8\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 12:11:33 -0400", "date": "12:11 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/26/89046487.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89046487" }, { "id": 45, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net …and the direct feedback loop with the creators. Innovation Velocity: Users trust the true developer to innovate and iterate faster than a clone can keep up. The value of software is shifting from what it does to who is building it and who is using it beside you. 🧵 6/8\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 12:10:19 -0400", "date": "12:10 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/26/89046488.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89046488" }, { "id": 46, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net In this new landscape, the “moat” isn’t your features or your codebase. Those can be mirrored or cloned or pirated. The only true protection left is Community and Momentum. Relational Value: Users stay because they want to be part of the ecosystem, the brand… 🧵 5/8\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 12:08:45 -0400", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/26/89046489.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89046489" }, { "id": 47, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net Music. Movies. Now it is software developers turn in the barrel. And soon, not just OSS software developers. In the digital space, and even more now in the AI incarnation of a digital space we are moving from a Functional Economy to a Relational Economy. 🧵 4/8\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 12:07:35 -0400", "date": "12:07 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/26/89046490.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89046490" }, { "id": 48, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This new AI tool called Malus.sh is pretty wild, cloning open source software to sidestep ANY copyright. I bet this sort of thing will change EVERYTHING for web and native apps, not just open source code, and probably sooner than we think. So, how do developers survive when the \u0026ldquo;product\u0026rdquo; can be cloned instantly?\nI saw this exact same thing occur to the music industry and more slowly to the film industry, who thought they were in the business of selling shiny discs to consumers and got beat out in part by pirates (which was a body blow) but then later legitimately by streamers (Netflix, Spotify, AppleMusic) who understood this: You have to move from a product mindset to a service and relationship mindset to the end users.\nMusic. Movies. Now it is software developers turn in the barrel. And soon, not just OSS software developers.\nIn the digital space, and even more now in the AI incarnation of a digital space we are moving from a Functional Economy to a Relational Economy.\nIn this new landscape, the \u0026ldquo;moat\u0026rdquo; isn\u0026rsquo;t your features or your codebase. Those can be mirrored or cloned or pirated. The only true protection left is Community and Momentum.\n Relational Value: Users stay because they want to be part of the ecosystem, the brand, and the direct feedback loop with the creators.\n Innovation Velocity: Users trust the true developer to innovate and iterate faster than a clone can keep up.\n The value of software is shifting from what it does to who is building it and who is using it beside you. The clone might have the same code, but it doesn\u0026rsquo;t have the soul, the support, or the future roadmap. Are you building a product that can be copied, or a community that can’t?\nhttps://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/malus-clones-software-copyright\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 11:29:54 -0400", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/26/this-new-ai-tool-called.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F26%2Fthis-new-ai-tool-called.html" }, { "id": 49, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very glad to see the #HardFork and SearchEngine podcast Fediverse community server continuing to thrive. So they are at 10,000 or so registered users, and hovering at a healthy 1.4 thousand of those as monthly active users. That tracks to normal rates on social.\nAnd the conversations are active and growing. I think I underestimated the power of focused, topic-based server communities on the fediverse. (Ironic I know as i founded one based on the #Indieweb community) Those are as important or more than big general purpose servers.\nGo #Forkiverse. Power on.\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 09:19:14 -0400", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/26/very-glad-to-see-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F26%2Fvery-glad-to-see-the.html" }, { "id": 50, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Anil Dash’s piece is a wake-up call for the #OpenWeb. The threats he outlines feel scarily accurate, a \u0026ldquo;perfect storm\u0026rdquo; that needs us all to pause and then consider how to counter them. Definitely worth your time. www.anildash.com/2026/03/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 08:02:59 -0400", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/26/anil-dashs-piece-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F26%2Fanil-dashs-piece-is-a.html" }, { "id": 51, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mark Qvist built #Reticulum, an open mesh protocol some call \u0026ldquo;the next internet.\u0026rdquo; It ran on nearly any network, even the most meager, for free. Then he vanished. The dev community took over, and ran with it. Great story here: nodestar.net/mark-qvis\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 01:50:45 -0400", "date": "1:50 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/26/mark-qvist-built-reticulum-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F26%2Fmark-qvist-built-reticulum-an.html" }, { "id": 52, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve long been fascinated by the #mesh network #reticulum \u0026amp; the #LXMF messaging protocol built atop it—especially for areas w/o reliable Internet, or where govt. blackouts occur. I strongly believe bridges from LXMF to the open social web \u0026amp; open messaging protocols like #DeltaChat are strategic. I\u0026rsquo;d love to connect with others sharing similar thoughts.\nLinks: https://reticulum.network\nAnd: https://github.com/markqvist/LXMF\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 01:20:45 -0400", "date": "1:20 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/26/ive-long-been-fascinated-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F26%2Five-long-been-fascinated-by.html" }, { "id": 53, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net I strongly believe bridges from LXMF to the open social web \u0026amp; open messaging protocols like #DeltaChat are strategic. I’d love to connect with others sharing similar thoughts. Links: 🔗 https://reticulum.network/\nAnd: 🔗 https://github.com/markqvist/LXMF 🧵 2/2\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-26 01:20:38 -0400", "date": "1:20 p.m. on Apr 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/26/89013718.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89013718" }, { "id": 54, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This tracks. #AI\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 13:14:29 -0400", "date": "1:14 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/25/this-tracks-ai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F25%2Fthis-tracks-ai.html" }, { "id": 55, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Every day of this hurts us more than them. And they know it. Not sure Trump does. [www.nytimes.com/live/2026\u0026hellip;)\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 13:00:28 -0400", "date": "1:00 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/25/every-day-of-this-hurts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F25%2Fevery-day-of-this-hurts.html" }, { "id": 56, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great news about an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer, in early trials. It looks like patients who responded are still alive 6 years later. That\u0026rsquo;s a huge deal.\nAm super hopeful for MRNA cancer vacines for a hosst of our deadliest cancers. #Science\nhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-vaccine-shows-lasting-results-in-an-early-trial/ar-AA21czSE\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 12:18:35 -0400", "date": "12:18 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/25/great-news-about-an-mrna.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F25%2Fgreat-news-about-an-mrna.html" }, { "id": 57, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net Link:\n🔗 https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-vaccine-shows-lasting-results-in-an-early-trial/ar-AA21czSE 🧵 2/2\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 12:18:33 -0400", "date": "12:18 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/25/89013719.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89013719" }, { "id": 58, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net Link fix: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t…\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 11:37:13 -0400", "date": "11:37 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/25/89013720.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/89013720" }, { "id": 59, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m convinced that very soon, all AI model capabilities will be negligible for most users \u0026amp; completely commoditized \u0026amp; also have near zero switching costs. No \u0026ldquo;moat\u0026rdquo; for any of them. #AI timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technolog\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 10:39:54 -0400", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/25/im-convinced-that-very-soon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F25%2Fim-convinced-that-very-soon.html" }, { "id": 60, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net 🧵 2/2 #AI https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/chinas-deepseek-launches-v4-ai-model-claimed-to-outperform-google-gemini-chatgpt-and-other-american-ai-systems/articleshow/1304\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 10:39:51 -0400", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/25/88986859.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88986859" }, { "id": 61, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s a competitive field, but Brendan Carr, Trump\u0026rsquo;s FCC chairman, is second only to RFK Jr. (maybe Pete Hegseth) among Trump admin figures who\u0026rsquo;ll cause the longest-term damage to the most people. We\u0026rsquo;ll take decades to heal from them. www.politico.com/news/2026\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 10:09:29 -0400", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/25/its-a-competitive-field-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F25%2Fits-a-competitive-field-but.html" }, { "id": 62, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/25/donald-trump-carr-conservative-tv-00891426 🧵 2/2\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 10:09:28 -0400", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/25/88985961.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88985961" }, { "id": 63, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@bradenslen Nice!\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 09:13:02 -0400", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/25/88984107.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88984107" }, { "id": 64, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nothing to see here people. (sigh) I imagine everyone sitting around this meeting would have a hard time telling if they should sit on the \u0026ldquo;oligarchy\u0026rdquo; side or the \u0026ldquo;kleptocracy\u0026rdquo; side of the table. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 09:06:58 -0400", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/25/nothing-to-see-here-people.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F25%2Fnothing-to-see-here-people.html" }, { "id": 65, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m looking to seee how #Nostr is going these days. #Primal seems to be the best UX I\u0026rsquo;ve seen for web, and maybe for mobile apps too. Any others I\u0026rsquo;m missing? https://primal.net/home\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 08:40:44 -0400", "date": "8:40 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/25/im-looking-to-seee-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F25%2Fim-looking-to-seee-how.html" }, { "id": 66, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "AI sycophancy is a HUGE problem, right up there with the ongoing 10% hallucination rate the models see. It’s a real issue. https://loops.video/v/eQ6slkEree\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 08:23:48 -0400", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/25/ai-sycophancy-is-a-huge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F25%2Fai-sycophancy-is-a-huge.html" }, { "id": 67, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is getting worse by the month. Space debris is a real challenge for our satellites. It\u0026rsquo;s wild to think about a \u0026lsquo;Kessler syndrome\u0026rsquo; tipping point. There needs to be as much work put into fixing this as there is by billionaire-funded companies getting material into space. #SpaceDebris spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 08:08:43 -0400", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/25/this-is-getting-worse-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F25%2Fthis-is-getting-worse-by.html" }, { "id": 68, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net #SpaceDebris https://spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-syndrome-space-debris 🧵 2/2\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 08:08:43 -0400", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/25/88984094.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88984094" }, { "id": 69, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net Link to post: (was truncated in original) www.techtimes.com/articles/315…\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-25 06:48:01 -0400", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Apr 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/25/88984095.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88984095" }, { "id": 70, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is precisely correct.\n\u0026ldquo;The difference from corporate social media comes down to incentive structures. Platforms designed around narcissism \u0026amp; parasocial relationships produce content optimized for engagement. A federated network w/ no central owner produces something closer to actual knowledge-sharing, because nobody profits from making it addictive.\u0026rdquo;\nboingboing.net/2026/03/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 23:18:45 -0400", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/24/this-is-precisely-correct-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F24%2Fthis-is-precisely-correct-the.html" }, { "id": 71, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@andycraig.bsky.social I would not bet against that prediction.\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 23:06:05 -0400", "date": "11:06 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/24/88979176.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88979176" }, { "id": 72, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Journalists, stop with the \u0026ldquo;format wars\u0026rdquo; headlines for Bluesky vs. Mastodon! 🤦‍♀️ This isn\u0026rsquo;t zero-sum; when one wins, both benefit. It\u0026rsquo;s also the wrong question entirely. Twitter was already broken before it became \u0026lsquo;X,\u0026rsquo; remember? #OpenSocialWeb\nwww.techtimes.com/articles/…\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 22:32:31 -0400", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/24/journalists-stop-with-the-format.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F24%2Fjournalists-stop-with-the-format.html" }, { "id": 73, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s really markable how correct he is. #StarWars\n[www.threads.com/@ben.stra\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 22:00:06 -0400", "date": "10:00 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/24/its-really-markable-how-correct.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F24%2Fits-really-markable-how-correct.html" }, { "id": 74, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net yes, but this one is just for scrathing my own itch for a better publisher. (Still working out bugs tho)\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 21:10:45 -0400", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/24/88979177.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88979177" }, { "id": 75, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Survival of the funniest.\n\u0026ldquo;However, many scientists believe that humour is far more widespread amongst the animal kingdom than this\u0026hellip;. other researchers have noted that dolphins appear to produce sounds of joy while they are play-fighting, and elephants trumpet in excitement when playing. Some parrots have been known to tease other animals for fun, for example by whistling at and confusing the family dog.\nThere\u0026rsquo;s even evidence that rats enjoy a good laugh. For the last decade or so, Jeffrey Burgdorf, research associate professor at Northwestern University in the US, has been tickling rats for a living. When the rats are tickled, they squeak joyfully in a high-pitched noise similar to a giggle.\u0026rdquo;\nhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240223-do-animals-have-sense-of-humour?utm_source=flipboard\u0026amp;utm_medium=activitypub\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 20:58:22 -0400", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/24/survival-of-the-funniest-however.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F24%2Fsurvival-of-the-funniest-however.html" }, { "id": 76, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240223-do-animals-have-sense-of-humour?utm_source=flipboard\u0026amp;utm_medium=activitypub 🧵 5/5\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 20:58:22 -0400", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/24/88979178.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88979178" }, { "id": 77, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net playing. Some parrots have been known to tease other animals for fun, for example by whistling at and confusing the family dog. There’s even evidence that rats enjoy a good laugh. 🧵 3/5\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 20:58:21 -0400", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/24/88979180.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88979180" }, { "id": 78, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net other researchers have noted that dolphins appear to produce sounds of joy while they are play-fighting, and elephants trumpet in excitement when 🧵 2/5\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 20:58:21 -0400", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/24/88979181.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88979181" }, { "id": 79, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The $1.5 Billion Butterfly Effect: How eBay’s Acquisition of PayPal as a \u0026ldquo;Butterfly Effect\u0026rdquo;\nI was having breakfast with a friend today, and we fell down a rabbit hole: How different would our country—and the world—be today if eBay hadn’t chosen to adopt, and eventually acquire, PayPal in 2002?\nIt sounds like a niche piece of Silicon Valley history, but when you look at the \u0026ldquo;PayPal Mafia\u0026rdquo; timeline, it’s arguably is hard to overstate what impact that had.\n1. The Funding of the \u0026ldquo;PayPal Mafia\u0026rdquo;\nWhen eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion, it didn\u0026rsquo;t just exit a startup; it liquid-fueled a group of the most ambitious (and controversial) minds in tech. Without that specific injection of capital and credibility at that specific moment, the \u0026ldquo;PayPal Mafia\u0026rdquo; wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have had the war chests to build their next empires.\n Elon Musk: Without his $180M payout, there is likely no SpaceX, and certainly no capital to save Tesla during the 2008 crunch. And later to fuel the X/Twitter takeover.\n Peter Thiel: His payout funded Palantir and his early $500k investment in Facebook\n 2. The Political Butterfly Effect\nThis is where it gets truly wild. Without the specific brand of \u0026ldquo;Techno-Optimism\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;Effective Accelerationism\u0026rdquo; championed by Thiel, Sacks, and Musk, the financial and digital support systems for modern political movements: including the momentum behind the 2024 Trump campaign—might have looked entirely different. David Sacks’ influence as a political kingmaker and the shift of Silicon Valley toward the right are direct descendants of the PayPal exit.\nHistory isn\u0026rsquo;t just made by \u0026ldquo;inevitable\u0026rdquo; trends; it’s made by specific liquidity events. A single board meeting at eBay in the early 2000s inadvertently decided so much more of our political, technological and cultural world. At the time it seemed like the most pedestrian choice in the world, one that they could have chosen a dozen other options for.\nI wonder. what choices are being made today that will have a simliar effect 20 years from now.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_PayPal\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 20:29:52 -0400", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/24/the-billion-butterfly-effect-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F24%2Fthe-billion-butterfly-effect-how.html" }, { "id": 80, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net David Sacks’ influence as a political kingmaker and the shift of Silicon Valley toward the right are direct descendants of the PayPal exit. History isn’t just made by “inevitable” trends; it’s made by specific liquidity events. 🧵 8/10\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 20:29:50 -0400", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/24/88965911.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88965911" }, { "id": 81, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net Without the specific brand of “Techno-Optimism” or “Effective Accelerationism” championed by Thiel, Sacks, and Musk, the financial and digital support systems for modern political movements: including the momentum behind the 2024 Trump campaign—might have looked entirely different. 🧵 7/10\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 20:29:50 -0400", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/24/88965912.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88965912" }, { "id": 82, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net - Peter Thiel: His payout funded Palantir and his early $500k investment in Facebook\n2. The Political Butterfly Effect\nThis is where it gets truly wild. 🧵 6/10\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 20:29:50 -0400", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/24/88965913.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88965913" }, { "id": 83, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net - Elon Musk: Without his $180M payout, there is likely no SpaceX, and certainly no capital to save Tesla during the 2008 crunch. And later to fuel the X/Twitter takeover. 🧵 5/10\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 20:29:50 -0400", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/24/88965914.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88965914" }, { "id": 84, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timothychambers.net Without that specific injection of capital and credibility at that specific moment, the “PayPal Mafia” wouldn’t have had the war chests to build their next empires. 🧵 4/10\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 20:29:50 -0400", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/24/88965915.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88965915" }, { "id": 85, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a test of a new compose app I\u0026rsquo;m playing with for posting to my social accounts. #Ignore\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-24 19:30:31 -0400", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Apr 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/24/this-is-a-test-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F24%2Fthis-is-a-test-of.html" }, { "id": 86, "type": "post", "title": "**Proposal for Fediverse Remote Content Engagement** Updated April 14, 2026", "text": "Tim Chambers, @tchambers@indieweb.social\nUpdated: April 2026\nEnhancing User Experience for Remote Social Interactions in ActivityPub Applications I. Introduction: The Challenge of Federated Interactions Decentralized social networking platforms, operating on a federated model where users reside on independent servers (instances) yet can interact across the network, offer resilience and community autonomy. However, this architecture has historically presented user experience (UX) challenges, particularly for interactions initiated from one instance but targeting a user or content on another. This report investigates a long-standing UX issue within the Fediverse: the cumbersome process of handling remote social interactions.\nThis analysis will describe the core user experience problem and then evaluate three distinct options for solving it, each with different technical assumptions and browser applicability.\nWe invite further collaboration and study, and if Option C is feasible and if our assertions in this proposal prove true, we strongly recommend it.\n II. The Core User Experience Problem: The \u0026ldquo;Copy-Paste Dance\u0026rdquo; Before exploring solutions, it is critical to define the problem they aim to solve. The core appeal of the Fediverse is its federated nature, yet web interfaces have struggled to make these cross-instance interactions fluid.\nWhen a user, logged into their home instance (e.g., my.home.social), browses to a profile page on a different instance (e.g., another.instance/@remote_user), the process to follow that remote user is convoluted and laborious:\n Discovery \u0026amp; Intent: The user finds a profile on a remote server and clicks the \u0026ldquo;Follow\u0026rdquo; button. The Interrupting Dialog: Instead of completing the action, a pop-up dialog appears. The \u0026ldquo;Copy-Paste Dance\u0026rdquo;: This dialog prompts the user to copy the remote user\u0026rsquo;s full address (e.g., remote_user@another.instance). Manual Navigation: The user must leave the page they are on and navigate back to their own home instance. Search \u0026amp; Rediscovery: The user pastes the copied address into the search bar on their home instance and waits for the profile to resolve. Final Action: Once the profile appears within the context of my.home.social, the user can then click \u0026ldquo;Follow\u0026rdquo; a second time to finally establish the connection. This multi-step process is a common source of frustration, described by users as a \u0026ldquo;clunky copy-paste flow\u0026rdquo; that is \u0026ldquo;not very intuitive\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;really broken.\u0026rdquo; It creates friction that counteracts the core value proposition of seamless federation.\nWe propose a flow that could be implemented quickly. Options A and B would require no server-side coding inclusion.\nNothing here contradicts standardizing Native Protocol Handler solutions into browsers more fully, without the need for \u0026ldquo;custom protocol handling.\u0026rdquo;\nThis is a solution meant to be implemented near term and in a progressive fashion—to bring the best possible solution to users early and improve it over time.\n III. Browser Support of \u0026ldquo;Custom Protocol Handlers\u0026rdquo; A more integrated solution to the remote interaction problem could involve native browser capabilities, specifically custom URI schemes and the navigator.registerProtocolHandler API.\nUnderstanding navigator.registerProtocolHandler and Custom URI Schemes The navigator.registerProtocolHandler() Web API allows websites to declare their ability to handle specific URL schemes (protocols). For example, a webmail application could register to handle mailto: links. In the context of Mastodon and ActivityPub, a custom URI scheme could direct interaction requests to the user\u0026rsquo;s home instance.\nFor security and standardization, custom schemes intended for web-based handlers must adhere to certain rules: they must begin with web+, be followed by at least one letter, and consist only of lowercase ASCII letters.\nThe web+ap URI scheme has been proposed specifically for ActivityPub objects, aiming to be syntactically similar to https URIs but signaling that the resource should be handled by an ActivityPub-aware application. Its primary purpose is \u0026ldquo;to explicitly enable the registration of a web-based protocol handler,\u0026rdquo; which would ideally be the user\u0026rsquo;s own Mastodon instance. Functionally, a web+ap URI is conceived as an https URI with added ActivityPub semantics.\nAnother proposal, FEP-07d7, suggests web+activitypub: with similar aims. While web+activitypub: is more descriptive, web+ap is more concise and has seen early adoption, such as its support in the Conversations XMPP client.\nThe core concept is that clicking a link like web+ap:https://example.com/users/alice would, after a one-time browser permission prompt, open this link in the context of the user\u0026rsquo;s home Mastodon instance, which would then manage the interaction (e.g., displaying the profile for a follow action).\nRegardless of the final format of this web+ap scheme or if another is more appropriate, this is a promising long-term solution that will only become more seamless as standardization and adoption of custom handlers for the fediverse mature.\nWe recommend using it now—and while in this document we assume web+ap in particular, this proposal does assume the need for robust browser support of custom protocol handlers. And of late that has arrived on desktop—with notable gaps remaining on mobile.\n IV. Custom Protocol Handler Market Share in April 2026 Sources: Browser compatibility data from MDN, CanIUse, and browser documentation. Market share statistics from StatCounter Global Stats (March 2026)\nThe practical utility of a custom URI scheme hinges on browser support for navigator.registerProtocolHandler() for web-based custom schemes. This support remains inconsistent across the browser landscape.\nIt is crucial to differentiate this from general support for URI schemes. The key capability for web+ap is the registration of web-based handlers by arbitrary websites.\nBrowser Support for navigator.registerProtocolHandler (for Web-Based Custom Schemes) as of April 2026 Desktop Browser Support Details \u0026amp; Notes Google Chrome (Windows/Mac/Linux) ✅ Yes Supported since Chrome 13. Requires HTTPS (secure context) and valid scheme. Custom protocols must use a web+ prefix (only lowercase letters after web+). Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) ✅ Yes Supported since Edge 79. Edge Legacy (v12–18) did not support this API. Mozilla Firefox (Desktop) ✅ Yes Supported since Firefox 3. No major limitations beyond spec requirements. Opera (Desktop) ✅ Yes Chromium-based versions follow Chrome\u0026rsquo;s behavior. Apple Safari (macOS) ❌ No Still not supported in any Safari version (through Safari 26.x). Safari actively opposed protocol handler support for extensions when discussed at WICG in 2023. Mobile Browser / Platform Support Details \u0026amp; Notes Chrome for Android ❌ No Not supported. Never implemented on Chrome for Android (tracked as Chromium bug #40964464). Firefox for Android ❌ No Not supported. The rewritten \u0026ldquo;Fenix\u0026rdquo; Firefox for Android does not implement registerProtocolHandler. Safari on iOS (iPhone/iPad) ❌ No Not supported. iOS Safari does not implement the API. Opera (Android) ❌ No Not supported. Samsung Internet (Android) ❌ No Not supported. Android WebView ❌ No Not supported. iOS WebView (WKWebView) ❌ No Not supported (same engine as Safari). Verdict on Browser Support Desktop browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera support protocol handlers, representing approximately 89%+ of desktop browser market share.\nMobile browsers: As confirmed by CanIUse (February 2026), no mainstream mobile browser currently implements navigator.registerProtocolHandler() for web-based custom schemes.\nGlobal usage supporting protocol handlers: According to CanIUse (February 2026), approximately 34% of total global web traffic can invoke web-based custom protocol handlers today across desktop and mobile browsers. This is down from the ~40% estimated in 2025 due to continued mobile traffic growth.\nCurrent browser market share (StatCounter, March 2026):\n Chrome: 66.7% Safari: 17.9% Edge: 5.79% Firefox: 2.33% Samsung Internet: 2.06% Opera: 2% This highlights that while the feature is well-supported on desktops, the vast mobile user base remains unaddressed by browser-based protocol handlers—necessitating alternative solutions.\n V. New Development: Mobile App Adoption of web+ap (April 2026) While browser support on mobile remains absent, mobile apps are adopting the web+ap URI scheme directly, bypassing the browser entirely:\n Fedilab: web+ap support shipped (confirmed complete April 11, 2026) Holos Discover (Fedilab\u0026rsquo;s search engine) is implementing web+ap support Tusky has an open issue (#5027) to add support Conversations (XMPP client) supports web+ap This is significant because it breaks the chicken-and-egg problem. Android apps registering as handlers for web+ap: links means users could tap such a link and have it open directly in their Fediverse app—bypassing the browser entirely.\nThis creates a viable path forward: even without mobile browser support, mobile users could benefit from protocol handlers if enough apps adopt the scheme.\n VI. New Development: Chrome 146 Extension Protocol Handlers (March 2026) A significant development that could eventually solve the mobile browser gap: Chrome 146 shipped experimental support for protocol handler registration via browser extensions (March 2026).\nBackground Igalia, funded by the Open Impact Foundation\u0026rsquo;s IPFS Implementations grants program, implemented support for declaring protocol handlers directly in browser extension manifests. This capability already existed in Firefox since 2017; now Chrome matches.\nFull details: Protocol Handler Registration via Browser Extensions\nHow It Works Instead of using the Web API (navigator.registerProtocolHandler()), extensions can declare handlers in their manifest:\njson\n\u0026ldquo;protocol_handlers\u0026rdquo;: [\n{\n\u0026ldquo;protocol\u0026rdquo;: \u0026ldquo;web+ap\u0026rdquo;,\n\u0026ldquo;name\u0026rdquo;: \u0026ldquo;Fediverse Helper\u0026rdquo;,\n\u0026ldquo;uriTemplate\u0026rdquo;: \u0026ldquo;https://my.home.social/authorize_interaction?uri=%s\u0026rdquo;\n}\n]\nKey differences from the Web API:\n Web API Extension Manifest Requires visiting the site Declared at install time Requires user activation (click) Runtime approval on first use Same-origin handler URL required Can cross origins (with consent) Per-site registration One extension covers all sites Manual management Lifecycle tied to extension Why This Matters for the Fediverse A \u0026ldquo;Fediverse Helper\u0026rdquo; browser extension could:\n Declare web+ap as a protocol it handles Prompt the user once for their home instance URL Redirect all web+ap: links to the user\u0026rsquo;s home instance Work across all Fediverse sites without per-site setup This is simpler than Option B (per-site JavaScript prompts) and doesn\u0026rsquo;t require server-side changes like Option C.\nCurrent Status Chrome 146: Available behind experimental flag chrome --enable-features=ExtensionProtocolHandlers\n Firefox: Supported since 2017 Safari: Actively opposed this feature at WICG Mobile Implications This is currently desktop-only. However, Chrome for Android shares the Chromium codebase. If this feature:\n Moves from experimental to stable in desktop Chrome Ships to Chrome for Android Extension support on mobile Chrome improves \u0026hellip;then mobile Chrome users could install a Fediverse extension that handles web+ap: links natively. This would be a significant step toward solving the mobile protocol handler gap.\nTimeline uncertainty: There\u0026rsquo;s no guarantee Chrome will ship this to mobile, and Safari/iOS remains opposed. But this is the most promising development for mobile browsers we\u0026rsquo;ve seen.\nVivaldi: Curious if Fediverse-forward browser Vivaldi could include this in their Android mobile application.\n VII. Option A: Native Protocol Handler Solution (For Supported Browsers) This option represents the ideal, most seamless user experience, but it relies on native browser capabilities that are not universally supported.\nA. The Envisioned \u0026ldquo;Seamless\u0026rdquo; Flow With this solution, the \u0026ldquo;Follow\u0026rdquo; button on a remote profile would be a link using a custom URI scheme, like web+ap:https://another.instance/users/remote_user. The interaction would unfold as follows:\nFirst-Time Interaction (One-Time Setup):\n The user clicks the web+ap: link. The browser intervenes with a native prompt: \u0026ldquo;Allow my.home.social (your home instance) to open all web+ap: links? [Allow]\u0026rdquo;. The user clicks \u0026ldquo;Allow,\u0026rdquo; and the browser stores this preference. Redirection and Action:\n The browser redirects the web+ap: URI to a specific endpoint on the user\u0026rsquo;s home instance (e.g., https://my.home.social/authorize_interaction?uri=...). The home instance loads the page, displaying the remote profile within the user\u0026rsquo;s familiar interface. A clear \u0026ldquo;Follow\u0026rdquo; button is presented. The user clicks \u0026ldquo;Follow\u0026rdquo; to complete the action. This achieves the \u0026ldquo;two clicks and zero text inputs\u0026rdquo; ideal. Subsequent Interactions:\n When the user clicks another web+ap: link, the browser, having stored the permission, directly opens it on the home instance, achieving a \u0026ldquo;one-click\u0026rdquo; initiation. B. Technical Mechanism: navigator.registerProtocolHandler This flow is enabled by the navigator.registerProtocolHandler() Web API, which allows a website (the user\u0026rsquo;s home instance) to register itself as the handler for a specific URL scheme (like web+ap:).\nC. Critical Limitation: Browser Support The practical utility of Option A hinges entirely on browser support as outlined in Section IV.\n ~89% of desktop traffic: Supported ~0% of mobile browser traffic: Not supported ~34% of total global traffic: Supported We offer two fallback JavaScript solutions: One (Option B) assuming Client-Side-Only JavaScript, and another (Option C) that assumes server-side code can be added to the Fediverse server.\n VIII. Fallback Option B: Client-Side-Only JavaScript Fallback (No Server Code) This option is a fallback for browsers that do not support Option A. It assumes no code changes on the user\u0026rsquo;s home server and functions entirely with client-side JavaScript that could run on any federated website.\nA. Concept and Mechanism This approach relies on explicitly asking the user for their home instance and storing it.\n User Prompt for Home Instance: The first time a user attempts a remote interaction on a fediverse site, a script running on that page prompts them to enter their home instance URL (e.g., \u0026ldquo;To enable seamless interactions, please enter your home server\u0026rdquo;). Local Storage: The provided URL is then stored in the browser\u0026rsquo;s localStorage under a key like activitypub.homeInstance. Because localStorage is scoped to the domain, the user would need to perform this action once for each different remote domain they visit. Link Rewriting: On subsequent visits to that same remote domain, the script will read the stored home instance URL and dynamically rewrite remote interaction links to point to the user\u0026rsquo;s home server\u0026rsquo;s /authorize_interaction endpoint. Final Confirmation on Home Server: After the user clicks the rewritten link, they are redirected to their own server. Their server will then load an interface asking the logged-in user to give final approval for the action (e.g., \u0026ldquo;Do you want to follow this user?\u0026quot;). This ensures the user is in control and explicitly \u0026ldquo;blesses\u0026rdquo; the interaction before it is completed. While not ideal, this Option has only two steps (versus the current four steps for Mastodon, and zero cutting and pasting) and it has the strong advantage over the status quo in that it is only done once, ever, for each server from then on.\nB. Sample Implementation (Prompt-Based) javascript\n(function() {\nconst homeServerKey = \u0026lsquo;activitypub.homeInstance\u0026rsquo;;\nlet homeServer = localStorage.getItem(homeServerKey);\nfunction promptForHomeServer() { const instanceUrl \\= prompt( \u0026quot;To enable seamless social interactions, please enter your Mastodon home server (e.g., https://mastodon.social). You should only need to do this once on this site:\u0026quot; ); if (instanceUrl) { try { const url \\= new URL(instanceUrl); homeServer \\= url.origin; localStorage.setItem(homeServerKey, homeServer); // ... proceed to rewrite links ... } catch (e) { alert(\u0026quot;Invalid URL format. Please try again.\u0026quot;); } } } if (\\!homeServer) { // Trigger the prompt when needed, e.g., on a follow button click. document.getElementById('remoteFollow')?.addEventListener('click', (e) \\=\\\u0026gt; { e.preventDefault(); promptForHomeServer(); }); } else { // ... rewrite links on page load ... } })(); IX. Fallback Option C: Enhanced JavaScript Fallback (With Server-Side Cooperation) This fallback solution works for browsers that do not support the Custom Protocol Option A, but unlike Option B, this assumes that server-side code is available on the user\u0026rsquo;s home instance to assist the process.\nImportant Technical Limitation: Cross-Origin Storage Option C as originally conceived does NOT work across domains due to the browser\u0026rsquo;s same-origin policy. localStorage is strictly same-origin:\n my.home.social writes to localStorage → only accessible on my.home.social another.instance cannot read localStorage from my.home.social This means Option C only helps in the more limited scenario where users are browsing links to remote content while staying on their own home instance\u0026rsquo;s domain—which, while helpful, is not the primary use case that causes friction.\nThe viable approaches therefore remain:\n Option A: Custom protocol handlers (desktop-only, ~34% global reach) Option B: Prompting for home instance as a JavaScript fallback (universal) Mobile apps: Direct web+ap: scheme support (emerging) A. Limited Use Case for Option C If Mastodon itself includes this feature in its codebase, every Mastodon instance would install:\n A writer script (sets the home instance key when user is logged in) A reader script (checks that key, rewrites buttons) Because both scripts run on the same domain (each user\u0026rsquo;s server), there\u0026rsquo;s no cross-origin issue when the user is browsing their own instance. The reader doesn\u0026rsquo;t need to touch localStorage from another site—it only reads the home instance from the local user\u0026rsquo;s own instance (where it\u0026rsquo;s already stored), and sends users back to it via rewritten interaction links.\nHowever, this does not solve the primary friction point: users browsing remote instances directly.\nB. Sample Implementation 1. Patch for Home Server (Writer Script):\njavascript\n// Placed in a component that loads for authenticated users\nuseEffect(() =\u0026gt; {\ntry {\nconst isLoggedIn = window.__initial_state__?.meta?.me;\nif (isLoggedIn) {\nconst origin = window.location.origin;\nlocalStorage.setItem(\u0026lsquo;activitypub.homeInstance\u0026rsquo;, origin);\nconsole.log(`[ActivityPub UX] Home instance auto-set to: ${origin}`);\n}\n} catch (e) {\nconsole.warn('[ActivityPub UX] Could not auto-set home instance', e);\n}\n}, []);\n2. Script on Remote Pages (Reader Script):\njavascript\nconst homeInstance = localStorage.getItem(\u0026lsquo;activitypub.homeInstance\u0026rsquo;);\nif (homeInstance) {\nconst remoteLink = \u0026lsquo;https://kolektiva.social/@someuser';\nconst redirectUrl = `${homeInstance}/authorize_interaction?uri=${encodeURIComponent(remoteLink)}`;\n// Rewrite the href of the link element to redirectUrl\n} else {\n// Fallback to Option B\u0026rsquo;s prompt, or do nothing.\n} X. Recommendations Given the current browser landscape and emerging mobile app adoption:\n Deploy Option A (protocol handlers) now for the ~34% of users who can benefit from it. Desktop users on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera get a seamless experience. Implement Option B as a fallback for all other users. The one-time prompt per domain is far better than the current copy-paste dance. Advocate for web+ap adoption in mobile apps. The emerging adoption by Fedilab, Holos Discover, and potentially Tusky creates a path where mobile users can bypass browser limitations entirely. Newsmast, Surf, and other Fediverse apps should consider adding support. Build a \u0026ldquo;Fediverse Helper\u0026rdquo; browser extension. With Chrome 146\u0026rsquo;s experimental extension protocol handler support, an extension could handle web+ap: links declaratively. This would work on Firefox today and Chrome (experimentally). If Chrome ships this to stable and eventually to Android, it could solve the mobile browser gap. Continue pushing for mobile browser support. Chrome for Android bug #40964464 should be prioritized by the Fediverse community. Watch for Object Links (FEP-e232). Mastodon\u0026rsquo;s CTO has proposed a simpler approach where servers tag ActivityPub URLs automatically, allowing apps to open content directly. If implemented, this could solve the problem at the protocol level. The path forward is clear: progressive enhancement. Ship what works today for the users who can benefit, while building toward a future where seamless cross-instance interaction is universal.\n XI. Conclusion The \u0026ldquo;copy-paste dance\u0026rdquo; remains one of the Fediverse\u0026rsquo;s most frustrating UX problems. But the pieces for a solution are falling into place:\n Desktop browser support is strong (~89%) Mobile apps are adopting web+ap directly Chrome 146 extension protocol handlers could eventually help mobile Protocol-level solutions like Object Links are being developed JavaScript fallbacks can bridge the gap The Fediverse community should move from debating protocol strings to shipping implementations. The users are waiting.\n This proposal invites collaboration and feedback. Contact: @tchambers@indieweb.social\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-14 01:17:33 -0400", "date": "1:17 p.m. on Apr 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/14/proposal-for-fediverse-remote-content.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2026%2F04%2F14%2Fproposal-for-fediverse-remote-content.html" }, { "id": 87, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@googeliart.bsky.social Sarah Connor was not availble for comment.\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-10 17:07:23 -0400", "date": "5:07 p.m. on Apr 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/10/88210706.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88210706" }, { "id": 88, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jejord.bsky.social The finale was pitch perfect.\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-10 16:59:00 -0400", "date": "4:59 p.m. on Apr 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/10/88210708.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88210708" }, { "id": 89, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@americananastasia.bsky.social So sorry to hear. Wish you well as you greive that loss. Looks like he was such a good doggie.\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-09 10:11:22 -0400", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Apr 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/replies/2026/04/09/88210709.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/tchambers/88210709" }, { "id": 90, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Merry Christmas everyone!\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-25 09:01:37 -0400", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Dec 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/25/merry-christmas-everyone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F12%2F25%2Fmerry-christmas-everyone.html" }, { "id": 91, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cool, added this search tool to my micro.blog site, will find out best way to add it to top of the UX:\nwww.timothychambers.net/search-sp\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-23 19:31:25 -0400", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Dec 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/cool-added-this-search-tool.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F12%2F23%2Fcool-added-this-search-tool.html" }, { "id": 92, "type": "post", "title": "My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions", "text": "I just finished reviewing my 2025 predictions (how do you think I did grading myself?) www.timothychambers.net/2024/12/2\u0026hellip;\nNow it\u0026rsquo;s time to make some bets for 2026. I do this not to prove how great my prognostication muscles are, but to shine a spotlight on trends I think are vital, spur discussions, and give some attention to projects that have earned it. As always, I try to make these as quantifiable, verifiable and crisp as I can. Here goes:\n🌱 MILD\nSafe bets — would be surprising if these DON\u0026rsquo;T happen.\n▶️ Bluesky will cross 60 million registered users in 2026. Growth will slow from 2024\u0026rsquo;s explosive pace but remain steady, driven by continued X dissatisfaction and improved features.\n▶️ The ActivityPub Fediverse (excluding Threads) will cross 15 million registered users, monthly active users (excluding will plateau around 2-3 million. Another good year in terms of stable base, but no big waves of new users. Both Bluesky and Fediverse growth won’t come from big waves of migration this year.\n▶️ Any smaller waves from X/Twitter or from a newly bought TikTok will benefit Meta (Threads/IG), BlueSky, and Fediverse in that order. I see nothing that would change that prediction that was true last year, too.\n▶️ Threads will pass 500 million monthly active users and remain the largest ActivityPub-adjacent platform by a wide margin. But see the next prediction:\n▶️ Threads federation will remain partial, and opt-in through all of 2026. Full two-way federation will NOT ship in 2026 but may move from about 90 percent there, to 95 percent done, inching forward but not finalized and prioritized as a feature. As Manton wrote, that’s better than fully closed, and better than them stripping it out. (which they might do but I’m predicting not) My bet: the status quo continues. www.manton.org/2025/12/1\u0026hellip;\n▶️ Ghost\u0026rsquo;s ActivityPub integration will bring 75,000+ new federated accounts to the Fediverse and Ghost will finish 2026 in the top 10 Fediverse server software by MAU.\n▶️ WordPress-based federated accounts will cross 50,000 as measured by FediDB. Currently at approximately 26,000 accounts across 12,700 servers, the WordPress-to-Fediverse pipeline becomes a meaningful growth contributor.\n🔥 MEDIUM-SPICEY Plausible bets — could go either way, but evidence points toward yes.\n▶️ BridgyFed will shift to \u0026ldquo;opt-out\u0026rdquo; for Bluesky users bridging to ActivityPub — and the discourse will be far less contentious than the 2024 debates predicted. Cross-protocol interoperability quietly normalizes.\n▶️ At least one fully independent ATProto stack — PDS, Relay, and AppView operating without dependency on Bluesky PBC infrastructure — will achieve viability in 2026, meaning it has paying customers or sustainable funding. This will be the year ATProto proves (or fails to prove) it can exist beyond Bluesky-the-company.\n▶️ Mastodon gGmbH will hit key sustainability milestones in 2026. Their hosting revenue model will exceed internal targets, the new organizational structure will unlock additional grant funding (beyond NGI/NLnet), and the pace of Mastodon development will noticeably accelerate — shipping more significant features in 2026 than in the previous two years combined.\n▶️ Bluesky PBC will raise another round of funding in 2026 and announce more details on a proposed business model. Following their $15M Series A (October 2024), the company will close a larger round to extend runway. The announced business model will NOT be advertising-based. I’d expect subscriptions, marketplace fees, or enterprise services.\n▶️ The first \u0026ldquo;ATProto-native\u0026rdquo; social app that is NOT microblogging will cross 100,000 users. Whether it\u0026rsquo;s Frontpage (link aggregation), Leaflet (long-form), Smoke Signal, or something new — the ATmosphere diversifies beyond Bluesky-the-app.\n▶️ Flipboard\u0026rsquo;s Surf app will launch its 1.0 version in 2026 and cross 1 million downloads across iOS and Android by year end, with 100,000+ monthly active users. It will become the most-downloaded dedicated Open Social Web client, surpassing Mastodon\u0026rsquo;s official app and Graysky.\n▶️ Fedify will power the federation layer for at least one mid-sized social platform (500K+ users) that adds ActivityPub support in 2026. The \u0026ldquo;build vs. buy\u0026rdquo; calculation for federation shifts decisively toward \u0026ldquo;just use Fedify.\u0026rdquo;\n▶️ Fediscovery will ship in a stable Mastodon release in 2026, moving from behind feature flags to production-ready. The specifications for pluggable discovery providers — covering account search, follow recommendations, and trends — will reach 1.0 status, and at least one public Fediscovery-compatible provider will launch for general use. Small instance operators will finally have a real option to improve discovery without running their own infrastructure.\n▶️ The new “ActivityRank” algorithm in Loops will prove that ethical recommendations and decentralization can coexist. Dan Supernault\u0026rsquo;s approach — where each instance trains its own algorithm while surfacing content across the ActivityPub network — will be recognized as a breakthrough in solving the fediverse\u0026rsquo;s discoverability problem. By the end of 2026, the pattern will be studied or adopted by at least two other ActivityPub platforms.\n▶️ ATProto will advance from Internet Drafts to an official IETF Working Group in 2026. Following the September 2025 submission of initial specifications, Bluesky will secure enough support and independent implementers to form a dedicated Working Group — moving from \u0026ldquo;proposal being discussed\u0026rdquo; to \u0026ldquo;standard being formally developed.\u0026rdquo;\n🌶️ SPICY Hot takes - a bit more risky - but I\u0026rsquo;m calling my shot.\n▶️ A well-known digital-native media publication (10M+ monthly visitors) will federate via ActivityPub in 2026 and publicly share positive results. Whether through Ghost, WordPress, or custom implementation, this outlet will report that federated followers drove meaningful engagement — making the business case for federation legible to other publishers for the first time. By year end, at least two additional publications will announce federation plans, citing this pioneer as proof of concept.\n▶️ At least one major news organization (top 50 US by traffic) will announce it is leaving X/Twitter entirely and making Bluesky or the Fediverse its primary social distribution channel. The \u0026ldquo;institutional exodus\u0026rdquo; begins.\n▶️ At least one major national government or major city will launch an official presence on BOTH Bluesky AND the ActivityPub Fediverse in 2026 — and it will be a European government. Expect surprising additional early adopters after this from Latin America, Asia-Pacific, or Africa to follow that lead and make moves that year to do the same. This is the year the move to “digital sovereignty\u0026quot; from US tech will benefit the open social web. Eurosky will inch along with some promise.\n▶️ Nostr ↔ ATProto ↔ ActivityPub three-way bridging becomes functional via BridgyFed or another service by end of 2026. The \u0026ldquo;protocol wars\u0026rdquo; narrative collapses into \u0026ldquo;just pick your client.\u0026rdquo;\n▶️ AltStore will be live with Federation features in at least 5 countries by end of 2026 (currently EU + Japan, with Brazil, Australia, UK announced). AltStore is an independent iOS app marketplace created by Riley Testut and Shane Gill — the first major alternative to Apple\u0026rsquo;s App Store, made possible by the EU\u0026rsquo;s Digital Markets Act. The federated app marketplace model will prove viable outside Europe, challenging Apple\u0026rsquo;s App Store dominance in multiple regulatory regimes simultaneously. Their ActivityPub integration — where app updates flow to Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky — will become the most compelling non-social-media use case for decentrlized social features, proving definitively that such protocols extends beyond microblogging.\n▶️ Loops will become the third most-used Fediverse software by MAU by end of 2026, trailing only Mastodon and Pixelfed. The short-form video platform will cross 100,000 monthly active users, with Loops-originated content generating significant federated engagement from non-Loops clients — proving that ActivityPub can power video-centric social experiences.\n▶️ PieFed will emerge as the most feature-rich Threadiverse platform by end of 2026, surpassing Lemmy and Mbin in moderation tools, user experience, and federation capabilities. The platform will cross 10,000 monthly active users and its rapid development pace — shipping major features weekly — will make it the default recommendation for anyone starting a new Reddit-style community in the fediverse.\n▶️ More laws akin to Utah\u0026rsquo;s Digital Choice Act will pass or advance - sparking first steps towards interoperability to mainstream US discourse. The Utah law takes effect July 1, 2026, and several other states will pass similar ones, requiring social media platforms to enable data portability and interoperability. At least one major platform will announce ActivityPub or AT Protocol support to comply. The \u0026ldquo;Digital Choice\u0026rdquo; framing will prove more politically viable than \u0026ldquo;antitrust\u0026rdquo; for breaking Big Tech\u0026rsquo;s lock-in.\nWhat did I miss? What did I get wrong? Let me know — and I\u0026rsquo;ll see you in December 2026 to grade these.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-23 10:50:49 -0400", "date": "10:50 p.m. on Dec 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/my-open-social-web-predictions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F12%2F23%2Fmy-open-social-web-predictions.html" }, { "id": 93, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy Solstice! Good on all of us for making half way out of the dark. (And yes, that’s a Doctor Who reference) #solstice youtu.be/raDM5Hewe\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-21 14:45:21 -0400", "date": "2:45 p.m. on Dec 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/21/happy-solstice-good-on-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F12%2F21%2Fhappy-solstice-good-on-all.html" }, { "id": 94, "type": "post", "title": "My 2025 Open Social Web Prediction Score Card", "text": "A year ago, I made a set of bold predictions about where the Open Social Web was headed. Now, at the end of 2025, it’s time for a sober, if occasionally amused, look at what I got right, what I got wrong, and where I was wildly optimistic. I’m currently working on my 2026 predictions, but before moving forward, I wanted to grade 2025 honestly and in public.\nHere were my 2025 predictions: www.timothychambers.net/2024/12/2\u0026hellip; And for fun, here were my 2024 predictions: www.timothychambers.net/2023/12/2\u0026hellip; So, how did my 2025 Nostradamus cosplay turn out?\nTHE WINS 🎯 ✅ Fediverse Growth: EXCEEDED EXPECTATIONS Predicted: Cross 12 million registered users Actual: ~12.8 million to 16+ million registered users (FediDB, Fediverse Index, December 2025) I undersold this one. The ActivityPub-based Fediverse didn’t just cross 12 million, it pushed past 15 million by early 2025. Monthly active users stayed relatively flat, but that was true across Bluesky as well. Note on Fediverse stats: Tracking a decentralized, opt-in network is messy. Different trackers count different servers.\n✅ Ghost 1.0 Fediverse Support: SPOT ON Predicted: Ghost launches 1.0 Fediverse support Actual: ActivityPub beta in March 2025, full Ghost 6.0 release in August 2025 This played out exactly as hoped. Ghost is now a serious player in federated publishing and even open-sourced its ActivityPub middleware. Major kudos to Jon and team.\n✅ Migration Waves: DIRECTIONALLY CORRECT Predicted: Waves to Threads, then Bluesky, then Mastodon. Actual: Pretty much exactly this. The waves weren’t enormous, with the exception of Threads, which benefited from Instagram integration. Still, the order and pattern held, especially around major news and election moments.\nPARTIAL CREDITS 🟡\n🟡 Threads Federation: 60% RIGHT, FUTURE UNCLEAR Predicted: Full two-way federation in 2025, opt-in. Actual: Partial two-way federation, opt-in. Likes and follows are bidirectional. Replies and quote posts are not. Federation remains opt-in, as predicted, but progress has been slow. Recent interviews with Threads leadership describe federation as “maintained” rather than prioritized. Hope that isn’t as bad as it sounds. Score: partial win.\n🟡 Ghost as a Top-10 Fediverse Server: CLOSE, NOT YET According to FediDB, Ghost has launched ~13,600 federated blogs, which is extremely impressive. Again according to FediDB, they rank around #21 by total users when sorted by all fediverse software software. This feels likely for 2026.\n🟡 BridgyFed Opt-Out: HALF RIGHT Predicted:\rBluesky and Threads move toward opt-out\nMastodon enables server-level opt-in or opt-out Actual: Mastodon server-level opt-in launched (Sept 2024) Individual users on Bluesky and Fediverse still must opt in\nI correctly predicted Mastodon’s server-level opt-in, which effectively makes bridging opt-out for users on participating instances. My own instance, indieweb.social, is planning to do this, as did Newsmast. However, individual user opt-out has not arrived on Bluesky or Threads.\nThe nuance: the technical capability exists and willingness seems present at big platforms, but funding appears to be the gating factor. This is one problem that you can help fix:\nGive here: www.patreon.com/ANewSocia\u0026hellip;\nAnd buy some merch here, I got the stickers and my standing desk looks all the better for it: store.anew.social\n🟡 Bluesky Growth: 80% RIGHT Predicted: 50 million registered users Actual: ~41 million (Dec 2025) I overshot, but directionally correct. Bluesky added ~15 million users instead of the ~25 million I predicted. Engagement did drop after the post-election surge, but growth remains impressive.\n🟡 Threads Growth: 67% RIGHT Predicted: 600 million MAU Actual: ~400 million MAU (Aug 2025) I was optimistic, but adding 100 million MAU in a year is nothing to sneeze at. Threads has clearly cemented itself as the dominant post-Twitter microblogging platform and seems focused on pushing toward 1 billion MAU.\n🟡 New Non-Microblogging Platform with 50k Users: ABOUT 60% RIGHT\nBonfire and Loops both hit 1.0 with impressive features, but not 50,000 users.. Loops has 35,000 users. Bonfire just under 2,000. So not there. Yet.\n🟡 Fediverse MAU Baseline: MIXED / LIKELY HALF WRONG Predicted: MAU would not drop below 1 million Actual: Tracker-dependent FediDB showed MAU dipping below 1 million at points in late 2025, while Fediverse Index often reported just over 1 million. This one lives in Schrödinger’s box. I’ll score it as half-wrong.\n🟡 Global South Relevance: DIRECTIONALLY CORRECT Predicted: South America and Africa grow in relevance Actual: Not yet dominant by country stats, but relevance is emerging for both BlueSky and Mastodon. Adoption shows up first through shared and diaspora-run instances, journalist and activist communities, and migration during political stress. This is exactly how influence tends to appear before raw numbers catch up.\nTHE MISSES ❌\n❌ Another Major Platform Joins ActivityPub: FLAT OUT MISS. No top-20 US social platforms joined. I did correctly predict Tumblr would not but that’s WAY too easy. The Alt-Store joined, which is meaningful, but not yet in the top 20. So that’s a miss.\n❌ Bluesky MAU Baseline: FULL MISS Predicted: MAU wouldn’t fall below 20 million Actual: Stabilized around ~5 million MAU The spirit was right, Bluesky stabilized, but the numbers were not.\n❌ Bridge-Enabled Users: MISS Predicted: ~20% of users bridged between ActivityPub and Bluesky Actual: ~125k–126k bridged accounts Against ~6 million combined MAU, that’s ~2%, or ~4% under generous assumptions. The limiting factor is infrastructure and funding, not interest. (See my earlier note on giving to them)\u0026hellip;\n❌ No Viable Bluesky Relay Alternatives: HAPPILY WRONG Blacksky successfully launched a fully operational relay and AppView alternative in 2025. This is a miss I’m genuinely glad to have made.\nPREDICTIONS STILL AWAITING DATA 📋 These need more verification:\n📋 Aggregator apps in the top five Open Social Web clients by downloads\n📋 250k+ posts from Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed in 2025\n📋 250k+ federated podcast episodes\nIf anyone has solid data here, please reach out.\nFINAL VERDICT 🎓\nOverall score: Strong C+ / B- I mostly nailed the macro trends: growth, federation becoming real, and Ghost shipping. Lots of partial credits. My most interesting near-miss was BridgyFed, and I was clearly too optimistic about Threads federation. On to 2026.\nWhat predictions would you make? I promise to grade myself just as honestly next year.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-20 22:38:21 -0400", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Dec 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/20/my-open-social-web-prediction.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F12%2F20%2Fmy-open-social-web-prediction.html" }, { "id": 95, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yes. Yes it is. #ABC #JimmyKimmel\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-18 11:48:33 -0400", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Sep 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/18/yes-yes-it-is-abc.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F18%2Fyes-yes-it-is-abc.html" }, { "id": 96, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is the most impactful thing one can do to protest corporate caving to autocracy. Canceling Disney and Hulu subscriptions. I suggest you do the same. Now. And boost messaging like this to friends. Push back hard.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-17 22:56:51 -0400", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Sep 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/17/this-is-the-most-impactful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F17%2Fthis-is-the-most-impactful.html" }, { "id": 97, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "TikTok’s enshitification with its new right wing owners may accelerate as fast as X’s did. Might be next window for the open social web. #tiktok\nwww.thewrap.com/tiktok-pu\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-16 16:26:18 -0400", "date": "4:26 p.m. on Sep 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/16/tiktoks-enshitification-with-its-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F16%2Ftiktoks-enshitification-with-its-new.html" }, { "id": 98, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Case study that sometimes it takes an \u0026ldquo;extinction moment\u0026rdquo; to start doing something you should have been doing for over the last decade or more: organic, authentic digital outreach. #Democrats www.npr.org/2025/09/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-15 22:01:10 -0400", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Sep 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/15/case-study-that-sometimes-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F15%2Fcase-study-that-sometimes-it.html" }, { "id": 99, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This summarizes the situation better than anything else you will read. There, saved you a lot of time. #charliekirk youtube.com/shorts/tg\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-15 17:45:25 -0400", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Sep 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/15/this-summarizes-the-situation-better.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F15%2Fthis-summarizes-the-situation-better.html" }, { "id": 100, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well played, Apple. #theStudio #Emmys\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-15 17:19:35 -0400", "date": "5:19 p.m. on Sep 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/15/well-played-apple-thestudio-emmys.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F15%2Fwell-played-apple-thestudio-emmys.html" }, { "id": 101, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pretty accurate progression so far. #Charliekirk\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-14 17:44:31 -0400", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Sep 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/14/pretty-accurate-progression-so-far.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F14%2Fpretty-accurate-progression-so-far.html" }, { "id": 102, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just a note. #groyper\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-13 11:45:10 -0400", "date": "11:45 p.m. on Sep 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/13/just-a-note-groyper.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F13%2Fjust-a-note-groyper.html" }, { "id": 103, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is my priors on this too, btw. But we will see what we see. As i said before believe nothign you don\u0026rsquo;t see validated by trusted sources. #charliekirk\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-12 10:47:23 -0400", "date": "10:47 p.m. on Sep 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/12/this-is-my-priors-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F12%2Fthis-is-my-priors-on.html" }, { "id": 104, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hashtag #BandofFools #FBI\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-11 21:35:45 -0400", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Sep 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/11/hashtag-bandoffools-fbi.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F11%2Fhashtag-bandoffools-fbi.html" }, { "id": 105, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yeah, pretty much. #CharlieKirk\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-10 21:24:35 -0400", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Sep 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/10/yeah-pretty-much-charliekirk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F10%2Fyeah-pretty-much-charliekirk.html" }, { "id": 106, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Every year, I\u0026rsquo;m: \u0026ldquo;Just double the battery life and I\u0026rsquo;ll upgrade IMMEDIATELY.\u0026rdquo; #AppleEvent www.theverge.com/news/7745\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-09 15:55:39 -0400", "date": "3:55 p.m. on Sep 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/09/every-year-im-just-double.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F09%2Fevery-year-im-just-double.html" }, { "id": 107, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On most stoplight polls at each intersection at my area near work. #FreeDC\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-09 13:25:10 -0400", "date": "1:25 p.m. on Sep 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/09/on-most-stoplight-polls-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F09%2Fon-most-stoplight-polls-at.html" }, { "id": 108, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "✊ Am happy to endorse this statement - along with many thought leaders from both #ATProto and #ActivityPub sides of the Open Social Web dev community… writings.thisismissem.social/statement\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-07 16:32:39 -0400", "date": "4:32 p.m. on Sep 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/07/am-happy-to-endorse-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F07%2Fam-happy-to-endorse-this.html" }, { "id": 109, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A small but big thing: every profile UX on the open social web should copy #Threads: Show the full handle w/ domain plus a “Copy” button in account details. None do now—Mastodon, Bluesky, PixelFed, etc. Only Threads does, and it’s a must-have.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-07 13:58:51 -0400", "date": "1:58 p.m. on Sep 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/07/a-small-but-big-thing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F07%2Fa-small-but-big-thing.html" }, { "id": 110, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can track with this.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-03 22:09:37 -0400", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Sep 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/03/i-can-track-with-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F03%2Fi-can-track-with-this.html" }, { "id": 111, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "First real study of #Threads-#Fediverse interop at scale. Key bits: Fedi→Threads replies dominate (likely due to current UX on Threads for fedi), surges tied to rollout events, steady growth, \u0026amp; interop didn’t worsen convo tone. Early but encouraging data: arxiv.org/html/2502\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-02 13:27:00 -0400", "date": "1:27 p.m. on Sep 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/02/first-real-study-of-threadsfediverse.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F02%2Ffirst-real-study-of-threadsfediverse.html" }, { "id": 112, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Words I commonly misspell - such as colleague, bureau, restaurant, technique, liaison and others - when I look it up, all were derived in English imported in from French. For my poor spelling, I firmly blame the French.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-02 06:35:51 -0400", "date": "6:35 p.m. on Sep 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/02/words-i-commonly-misspell-such.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F02%2Fwords-i-commonly-misspell-such.html" }, { "id": 113, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Am working on tracking progress on #SevenUXSins article I wrote. Anyone interested in helping me in tracking browser support for custom protocol handlers? (Key ti fixing Sin 3) www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/1\u0026hellip; Ping me in comments if so\u0026hellip;.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-01 20:04:57 -0400", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Sep 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/01/am-working-on-tracking-progress.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F01%2Fam-working-on-tracking-progress.html" }, { "id": 114, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Love all of these. Hard to pick just one. #SandwichGuy www.teepublic.com/stickers/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-01 19:20:44 -0400", "date": "7:20 p.m. on Sep 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/09/01/love-all-of-these-hard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F09%2F01%2Flove-all-of-these-hard.html" }, { "id": 115, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not sure how this is a “new business model” isn’t it just an old fashioned rev share? www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-26 07:48:33 -0400", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Aug 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/08/26/not-sure-how-this-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F08%2F26%2Fnot-sure-how-this-is.html" }, { "id": 116, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Walking is great for you; walking on a trail by some trees doubly so. I love that there are beautiful forest hiking trails blocks from my home. www.newscientist.com/article/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-23 06:30:45 -0400", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Aug 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/08/23/walking-is-great-for-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F08%2F23%2Fwalking-is-great-for-you.html" }, { "id": 117, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good advice: “Do Not Keep These ‘High Risk’ Apps On Your iPhone Or Android….” www.forbes.com/sites/zak\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-09 15:21:21 -0400", "date": "3:21 p.m. on Aug 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/08/09/good-advice-do-not-keep.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F08%2F09%2Fgood-advice-do-not-keep.html" }, { "id": 118, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#Wikipedia is one of the most important and underrated digital platforms around - every other one should take notes on this. www.theverge.com/report/75\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-08 21:20:06 -0400", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Aug 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/08/08/wikipedia-is-one-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F08%2F08%2Fwikipedia-is-one-of-the.html" }, { "id": 119, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Consider me a pedant, then. #podcast www.fastcompany.com/91380550/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-08 18:20:43 -0400", "date": "6:20 p.m. on Aug 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/08/08/consider-me-a-pedant-then.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F08%2F08%2Fconsider-me-a-pedant-then.html" }, { "id": 120, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Amen. “\u0026ldquo;My strongest belief about the social web is that if we want it to succeed, we have to keep lowering the barrier to entry.\u0026rdquo; #Ghost john.onolan.org/reflectio\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-07 21:16:33 -0400", "date": "9:16 p.m. on Aug 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/08/07/amen-my-strongest-belief-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F08%2F07%2Famen-my-strongest-belief-about.html" }, { "id": 121, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Updated #podcast numbers and #YouTube is dominating - worrisome as they do not use open podcast formats…. sherwood.news/business/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-06 14:22:04 -0400", "date": "2:22 p.m. on Aug 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/08/06/updated-podcast-numbers-and-youtube.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F08%2F06%2Fupdated-podcast-numbers-and-youtube.html" }, { "id": 122, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a big, big deal for the #OpenSocialWeb today - congrats to the #Ghost team! announcements.ghost.org/ghost-6-0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-04 11:58:28 -0400", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Aug 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/08/04/this-is-a-big-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F08%2F04%2Fthis-is-a-big-big.html" }, { "id": 123, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why having an open social web discovery system like #surffeeds is more important than ever. www.npr.org/2025/07/3\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-02 21:58:37 -0400", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Aug 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/08/02/why-having-an-open-social.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F08%2F02%2Fwhy-having-an-open-social.html" }, { "id": 124, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A reminder to those at - or just at following all things #fedicon starting tomorrow -\u0026gt; here is a #surffeed of key voices: surf.social/feed/surf\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-31 22:20:58 -0400", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Jul 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/07/31/a-reminder-to-those-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F07%2F31%2Fa-reminder-to-those-at.html" }, { "id": 125, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sad state of things and why the open social web needs to prove new distributed models of trust and safety. www.platformer.news/trustcon-\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-25 21:08:33 -0400", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Jul 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/07/25/sad-state-of-things-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F07%2F25%2Fsad-state-of-things-and.html" }, { "id": 126, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Could #Mastodon and #Bluesky do this? “The filter relies on manually curated open-source blocklists, including the ‘nuclear’ list by uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist,” DuckDuckGo said…” techcrunch.com/2025/07/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-22 20:42:57 -0400", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Jul 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/07/22/could-mastodon-and-bluesky-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F07%2F22%2Fcould-mastodon-and-bluesky-do.html" }, { "id": 127, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ouch. I cannot name a brand that has fallen further, faster. #Tesla\nfinance.yahoo.com/news/tesl\u0026hellip;\n#TeslaTakedown\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-22 18:37:57 -0400", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Jul 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/07/22/ouch-i-cannot-name-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F07%2F22%2Fouch-i-cannot-name-a.html" }, { "id": 128, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Was very glad to see #Severence and #theStudio do so well today - and to see Harrison Ford get his first #Emny nod. Good on Apple TV - this feels like a real break out year.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-15 19:04:38 -0400", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Jul 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/07/15/was-very-glad-to-see.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F07%2F15%2Fwas-very-glad-to-see.html" }, { "id": 129, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Signs of the times. Likely the right call here. But “disinformation” as a term being demonized was no accident and it’s being so only helps the various well organized disinformers. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/comment\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-13 22:18:47 -0400", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Jul 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/07/13/signs-of-the-times-likely.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F07%2F13%2Fsigns-of-the-times-likely.html" }, { "id": 130, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still racist. #grok www.theatlantic.com/technolog\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-11 20:41:22 -0400", "date": "8:41 p.m. on Jul 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/07/11/204122.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F07%2F11%2F204122.html" }, { "id": 131, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This tracks. #grok techcrunch.com/2025/07/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-10 20:53:47 -0400", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Jul 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/07/10/205347.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F07%2F10%2F205347.html" }, { "id": 132, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pretty much. #grok\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-08 22:32:36 -0400", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Jul 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/07/08/pretty-much-grok.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F07%2F08%2Fpretty-much-grok.html" }, { "id": 133, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#Threads growth continues…. www.socialmediatoday.com/news/thre\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-07 08:18:07 -0400", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Jul 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/07/07/081807.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F07%2F07%2F081807.html" }, { "id": 134, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While the fight against the great harms of the Trump bill continues, we saw this one key victory last night:\n“The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program (Bloomberg)”\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-01 07:40:47 -0400", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Jul 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/07/01/while-the-fight-against-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F07%2F01%2Fwhile-the-fight-against-the.html" }, { "id": 135, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is a sound of ocean waves that I’m convinced cannot be fully captured by any digital recording. I don’t know if it is overtones/undertones…but it’s like the difference between hearing a live band vs. a recording of one. The only way to really hear an ocean is to sit in person and listen.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-29 20:51:40 -0400", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Jun 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/29/there-is-a-sound-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F29%2Fthere-is-a-sound-of.html" }, { "id": 136, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good summary of the build out of #surfapp www.viget.com/work/flip\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-28 09:23:50 -0400", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Jun 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/28/good-summary-of-the-build.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F28%2Fgood-summary-of-the-build.html" }, { "id": 137, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The ability to think or mull over things deeply on vacation is a luxury akin to cooking rich meals while on break - something my work week rarely gives time for.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-27 08:04:47 -0400", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Jun 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/27/the-ability-to-think-or.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F27%2Fthe-ability-to-think-or.html" }, { "id": 138, "type": "post", "title": "The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins Part 2: The Road To Redemption", "text": "So you made it through the first fiery sermon in this series. Trust me—I didn’t enjoy preaching it any more than you enjoyed reading it. But every word came from a place of love—for the Fediverse, and for what it still could become.\nBut fear not, dear reader: as the preacher once said, salvation is within your reach.\nAnd to reward you for slogging through that earlier wall of hard truths, here’s your moment of grace. We’re keeping the cute animal theme going, so here you go:\n(insert animal pic, obviously)\nThe grim part’s over. Truly. From here on out, it’s all hope and possibility. Not even kidding.\nBecause here’s the good news:\nEach of the Seven Deadly UX Sins is fixable—not through divine fiat, but through thoughtful, realistic iteration. And probably by far fewer developers than you’d expect. Many of them are already out there fighting the good fight (though they could always use more encouragement—and dare I say it, a little Patreon love).\nWhat follows is the path to redemption.\nA roadmap of what could be—if we want it badly enough.\nIf you’re building any of these fixes: reach out. I’m happy to offer free, detailed suggestions—no patents, no strings, no license required. Just one ask: drop a little nod in a JavaScript comment or server-side file somewhere so I can brag about it to nobody in particular. I’m a simple man.\nAnd if you’ve got better ideas than mine? Even better. Especially if they’re practical, near-term, and close to ship-ready. My DMs are open. Let’s make this thing work.\nLet’s dig in. Get a coffee as this may be a long-ish read.\n 1️⃣ Redemption for UX Sin One: One Single Social Home to Join, Many Doors to Explore Later. Rather than the status quo across much of the Fediverse’s onboarding UX—asking new users to choose from 8,000 server names they don’t understand—what about this wild idea:\nOffer just one default, trustworthy, well-run server community to start. Which, honestly, is what most people are looking for.\nYes—just one. Not a wizard. Not a choose-your-own-server adventure that most newbies abandon a third of the way through.\nOne. Am I clear?\nFor most people joining the Fediverse, simply offer them a single, well-maintained, general-purpose on-ramp to their new social home.\nMake it dead simple onboarding—with as few steps as needed to get them going - and not a single click more.\nLocalized to the user’s preferred language. Seamless. Thoughtful.\nPair that with a short, clear explanation of why it’s the recommended path, and what makes it a good place to begin and links to the friendly local admin. And sure—add a clearly marked, clearly optional toggle: “Choose a different community server,” for the curious and confident.\nAnd please—for the love of onboarding UX: Drop the engineering-speak. Swap “instance” for server community. Make the copy human. Friendly. Clear. Onboarding should take 60 seconds, not 60 decisions.\nYes, Mastodon’s official mobile apps mostly do this already—inspired by Mammoth app, RIP.\nNow cue the predictable guy in the back row who rightly asks:\n“How does this not just re-centralize the beloved decentralized Fediverse we’re fighting for?”\nSimple.\nUnder the hood, the magic stays decentralized.\nUnbeknownst to new users, the onboarding software quietly runs a curated round robin of trustworthy servers—offering just one at random to each new user.\nWe gave some ideas on how one could choose this trusted set servers for the Mastodon platform here but similar metrics could be created for any Fediverse platform.\nMaybe that means the software is choosing from between three trusted community servers in the round robin. Maybe it means dozens. But the user never sees that. That random round robin is being done under the hood.\nUsers see just one served up to them to join —and that’s the point.\nThe key: no single server gets favored. New users get distributed, not funneled into a single mothership.\n🟨 Decentralization: preserved. 🟨 Friction: dramatically reduced.\nPlenty of time to educate folks on the joys of migrating to other community servers later should they choose to. It’s not rocket science. Friends and I proposed this years ago. Still waiting on someone to take it across the finish line.\nPixelfed. Mastodon. Bonfire. Friendica. Misskey. PeerTube. Bookwyrm. Patchwork. Warfn. Snort. Bleeb. (Just made up those last two to see if you were still paying attention)\nBut to that whole crew above and others… Let’s make it a race. Let’s see who nails this first—and shows the rest of the web how it’s done.\nAnd if you’re running a non-general purpose server, say, a cool, niche-focused server community like the affore mentioned Jazztodon? Or other fun topic focused ones? You’re not out in the cold on this fix. It already exists for Mastodon just to sharea link like this - rather than sending them to some more global sign up.\nIt already uses the same model: a clean, direct onboarding flow with just one server—yours. Invite your people, your way.\nNo dropdown menus. No guesswork. Just:\n“Join our space. Let’s go.”\n 2️⃣ Redemption for UX Sin Two: One Feed To Rule Them All (at First). Let’s be honest: per UX Sin Two: most users—especially new ones—don’t care or are abjectly confused about the metaphysical distinctions between Home, Local, and Federated feeds. Mashing them together under a “Live Feeds” menu isn’t the solution IMHO.\nSo here’s crazy talk: don’t confuse them and upon first arrival, only feature ONE feed. Just one feed. Simple. Personal. Familiar.\nCall it Home. Just the people you follow. Just what you asked for. That’s what every user expects—and what feels safe, legible, and human.\nIf they’re not following many folks yet? Nudge them gently: “Here are some great active accounts to get you started.” Different Fediverse platforms do this to mixed results, all can do better.\nOnce they’re settled, expand the horizon—progressively:\nA few days in, they see this on their home feed from their friendly local admin account:\n“Want to check out what is trending people nearby on your server are talking about?”\nA week later from same:\n“Curious about the chatter across the Fediverse? (Warning: it gets weird—in a good way.)”\nYou get it. This is called progressive disclosure—a fancy UX term for “don’t drop the entire buffet on someone who just asked for toast.”\nGame designers do it, allowing characters to “level up” as they go. We should too. And when you do introduce content or users from the Local and Federated views, make them feel like power-ups, not puzzles.\nLet people toggle. Let them filter. Let them filter, and sort with easy tools as they explore. But start with clarity, not complexity.\nAs with Redemption #1, this fix doesn’t require much complex backend wizardry. No protocol overhauls needed. Just frontend compassion. The equivalent of a cron script and some solid user experience design dust.\nHonestly? Elk, Phanpy, or Patchwork could probably ship a beta v1 of this idea before you finish reading this post.\n 3️⃣ Redemption for UX Sin Three: Remote Actions Redeemed You know the sin already. We covered it in Sin #3: Remote Interaction Purgatory back in Part 1 of this series. So let’s skip the anatomy of the pain and get straight to the path out of this hell.\nAnd yes—apps like Ivory, Mona, and Ice Cubes? They largely sidestep this sin. Good for them. But the Open Social Web is, you know, about the web.\nAnd for the millions of people trying to explore the Fediverse in a plain ol’ browser, this is one of the worst and thorniest of UX offenses.\nI’ll spare the gory details, but it boils down to one thing: Browsers support a standard called “protocol handlers.” Or more accurately, how some browsers don’t.\nIf you’ve ever clicked a mailto: link and your email app just opens, that’s a protocol handler. In a perfect Open Web, it would be just as easy:\n Set your home server once (prompted to do so during onboarding \u0026ndash; or at worst when you engage on another server). From then on? Follows, replies, boosts—across any server—just work. Folks (myself included) have been hashing over what magical incantation should be used to actually make this work:\n“Use web+ap!” “No, fedi+ap!” “Wait, what about activity+magic?”\nGermanic feuding tribes settled things faster than this.\nAnd yes, browser support used to be completely hot garbage. But here’s the twist: it’s not nearly as bad anymore. As of now, almost 90% of users from desktop browsers but still sadly with almost zero mobile browser support.\nWhen you look at users of Mastodon as an example, that maths out to about half of all users could use this solution now.\nThat is enough for making this far better for so many today, and with a bit of JavaScript fallback, we can cover everyone else.\nWe’re not waiting on a miracle. We just need to create and ship. Here’s the redemption arc for this UX sin in two steps.\nWhen a user first interacts with a remote server (a post, a profile, anything), the code will prompt them once to confirm this Fediverse protocol handler.\n✅ One click.\n✅ One prompt.\n✅ Done. Forever done.\nGuy in the back, raising hand, rightly: “But what about all the browsers that don’t support handlers?”\nRelax. We got them too. Just drop in a lightweight JavaScript snippet on that server that:\n Asks (once) what the user’s home server is. And at worst only gets one more ask form their home server “are you sure?” Then it does the following in the background under the hood:\n Rewrites all remote follow/reply/engagement links in the background automagically. And then for every user and every post on that server —✨it just works✨ forevermore. No more “open in your instance” dead ends. No more copy-paste drama.\nAre you the kind of masochist who wants the gory details of this idea? No kink-shaming here. Dig in (including code you can steal):\n👉 The Remote Fedi UX Protocol Handler Plan™\nOK so I think that solution is pretty good - at least a ton better \u0026ndash; but what if we know that we could count on server code to do some of the lifting? Could we go even better from a UX perspective?\nThat might take more time to do: but if Mastodon, or Pixelfed, or Peertube servers got in on the act and added some custom code there - I think we might be able to make that JavaScript failover code actually be ZERO prompts. See the later more exploratory “Option C” part of this proposal - FediDev’s and JavaScript folks and see if I got that wrong. Or if my crazy talk for Option C might work. I haven\u0026rsquo;t seen a show-stopper yet.\nBut all options of what I am proposing above should be able to work on any fediverse platform.\nAnd yes—to the true believers out there, rightly working on the true end goal of getting a single protocol handler as a canonical standard adopted by all browser vendors: thank you. You are doing the Lord’s work.\nBut for the rest of us? We don’t have to wait. Even the basic version of the idea here takes a few paragraphs of code, not divine intervention.\nIt’s just… basic UX hygiene. Who’s going to dig in, proof case this, and ship it first?\nOnce one of you does—and the sky doesn’t fall—the rest will follow like dominoes.\n 4️⃣ Redemption for UX Sin 4: Direct Messages that Aren’t a Death Trap As I wrote in Sin 4 in the previous blog post: sending a DM in the fediverse are confusing UX experience, that basically are a panic attack waiting to happen.\nSo let’s fix it. Developers:\n Build a real DM composer. Not a slightly tweaked post box. Not “just set visibility to Direct.” A separate space. Different UI. And make it glaringly visually different - no subtle mild color difference or tiny visual flare. Make it as obvious a purpose as a Chernobyl button to empty out fuel.\n Slap a giant banner across the top if encryption isn’t available. If it’s not secure, say so—loudly.\n Throw a confirmation modal any time someone flips visibility to or from “Direct.” Yes, every time. One bad toggle should never equal public humiliation.\n Color-code visibility tiers like your reputation depends on it:\n🔓 Public. 👀 Followers-only. 🙈 Unlisted. 🔒 DM.\nYou know—something humans can actually see and understand.\n And for the love of privacy, label every DM with “Not Encrypted” right in the message window. Not in the fine print. Not in the docs. Right there. Every time. Forever.\nBecause this isn’t overkill. This is respecting boundaries. This is basic UX dignity.\n⚡️ And in case you think this is all pie in the sky—guess what?\nChee Aun at Phanpy already did nearly all of this.\nSeparate composer, clear dramatically, unmissable different visual distinctions for DM’s, safer flows. They moved private messages into their own tab by itself, away from the others and away from the Main Feed. It’s thoughtful, it’s sane, and it’s live.\nHere is another great example from an upcoming Newsmast and Channels App UX:\nThe rest of you: copy their homework. The answers are right there.\n 5️⃣ Redemption for Sin 5: Search Without Surveillance Search shouldn’t feel like shouting into the void—or worse, like you’re being punished just for asking.\nTo be fair, Mastodon’s search system on paper rocks. PixelFed and PeerTube’s federated search? Same.\nBut here’s the problem: for these—and many other federated platforms—search is opt-out by default per user, and that opt-in option for users to turn on if they choose is buried.\nMeanwhile, other fediverse platforms like Misskey, Frendica, Lemmy and Hubzilla made different choices: making it so all public posts on those spaces are by default searchable. In essence defaulting to opt-in for search unless users individually opt-out. That worked for them.\nBut across Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and others?\nSearch is locked behind obscure settings and rarely explained consent screens. Most users don’t even know search opt-in is a thing.\nRight now, federated search is like a power tool buried in a locked cabinet,\ndown a hallway, behind a curtain labeled: “Don’t Worry About It.”\nHere’s the good news: We don’t need to replicate Big Social’s surveillance dragnet to make discovery delightful. We can do this while also respecting user consent and privacy. The backend tech? Mostly done from a tech point of view.\nThe real challenge now? UX. This is an opt-in problem—and we already have the tools to fix it.\nHere’s the better path forward:\n✅ Nudge users early. And often. Make the choice to opt-in to search unmissable during onboarding. Then reinforce it gently and re-prompt users to opt in - every time a user tries to search.\nGive them clear, kind, privacy-respecting language:\n“Search helps others find your public posts. It never touches your private ones. Want in?”\nLet them decline, sure. Let them silence future prompts. But always give them the why.\n✅ Enrich search NOW with these great hand-chosen feeds.\nCurated topic feeds? Already out there. Newsmast, Flipboard, Surf, and others are curating hundreds of quality feed lists right now.\nLet’s plug these in like power cables into a server rack—directly into federated search engines of today and into Fediscovery search as it launches - and into all key relay servers to boot. Make 100% sure these are all findable, and featured, beyond just being “public” as they are now. Let the good, human-curated stuff shine inside search.\n✅Nudge admins to help, too. If a server’s opt-in rate is low, send a prompt to encourage the admin to reach out to their users. Give them a clean, pre-written nudge. Include a one-tap opt-in button to opt-in they can share. Most folks just need to know it’s an option and a simple way to say yes.\n🛠️ Mid-Term Fixes Worth Considering 🟨 Consider building into future search features that let server admins choose the default search opt-in state appropriate for their community - and that might be defaulting new users to opt-in for some. where it fits their needs.\nThis one might be controversial, but I just put on my fireproof gear and am ready - it’s worth a serious look.\nEvery server has its own culture. So let the server set appropriate call for their community: Opt-in by default, or Opt-out by default. But in all cases, the user has final say. As long as consent is respected, flexibility is strength in my book. Far better than a divine fiat across the whole Fediverse.\n🟨 Watch this space: Federated Auxiliary Services Providers (FASP- a tech acronym that just rolls off the tongue doesn’t it?) But the first FASP based offering to go live will be Search - is coming soon! Early tests are in sight!\nThis project will launch a unified, cross-platform search layer—exactly what the fediverse ecosystem needs. That promises to be a game changer. Here’s hoping.\nBut while we wait?\nMost of the groundwork is already laid. Most of the wins are low lift. We have what we need to make federated search feel like a superpower.\nWe just need to unlock it—for everyone.\nLet’s get to the point where people say:\n“Wait… why didn’t I turn this on sooner?”\n 5️⃣ Redemption for Sin 5: Filling in the Blanks of Ghost Conversations The bad news: this one’s not just a superficial fix. It needs real backend plumbing—deeper stuff that most Fediverse mortals can’t DIY.\n(Though it is not rocket science level - users like this have shown how it\u0026rsquo;s done in miniature form)\nThe good news: it’s already underway at Mastodon. And not in the “quote-posts-have-been-in-the-works-since-2019” sense of being underway. We’re talking real commits. Real work. This year.\n➡️ When a user opens a post, their server begins fetching the surrounding context—replies, parent posts, and profiles—automagically. The UX then should immediately let users know - fetching posts is underway…so don’t panic, wait a second and all will be well.\nWant to peek under the hood? The dev threads on GitHub are alive with it. Feature merged into Mastodon upcoming release. See for yourself:\n🔧 Thread fetching on Mastodon GitHub\nMerged in and closed. On the runway for a near term Mastodon release.\nSome other Fediverse platforms are also working on this problem for their platforms —most notably NodeBB, Discourse, Wordpress, Frequency, Mitra and Streams. Everyone else: please take notes from what works. Fork it. Build it. Improve it. Help other to do the same.\nThis one fix could massively reduce confusion, dead-end threads, and ghost replies.\nMeanwhile, for client apps: Elk, Phanpy, IceCubes, Ivory, Mona, Newsmast Mobile —can you lend a hand here? Even while we wait for the full back-end fix, you can improve the experience with a few thoughtful touches:\n If a reply or profile can’t be fetched, show a friendly, clear placeholder:\n“👻 *Reply not federated here yet. Want us to try to get it updated?”\n Let users tap to fetch it manually, if needed. But make it clear what is up.\n Show when a profile is incomplete and offer to sync to the latest and greatest.\n Consider a simple age warning: “Heads up: this might be old or partial. Click here to refresh and update.\n Even these little affordances make a big difference. They tell users:\n“No, you’re not crazy. The Fediverse just hasn’t pulled this in yet.”\nAnd for anyone out there grumbling that Mastodon (or any platform) isn’t moving fast enough—maybe skip the subtweets and fund them.\n(And here are a few helpful links in this regard.)\nA few dollars a month moves roadmaps more than a thousand hot takes.\nOh, and speaking of hot takes, here is one: If you are a coder, maybe roll up your sleeves and pitch in. Perfect example: The initial contribution for the Mastodon fix for fixing and filling in ghost conversations came from Jonny - neuromatch.social/@jonny Who was a new Ruby coder at the time but didn\u0026rsquo;t let that hold them back - and they sparked this crucial addition.\nGive them some thanks and netfame online!\n 6️⃣ Redemption for Sin 6: Make Great Content Unmissable Let’s be honest: even outside of search, the Fediverse still fumbles content discovery (See Sin 6) But buck up: There are a thousand ways we could help users find the posts, people, and conversations they actually care about—without building a surveillance dragnet or rage-bait machine.\nIt’s time to bring back and scale up old fashioned human editorial discovery.*\n(Remember “blog rings”? OK, most folks under 50 don’t—but trust me, they worked way better than they had any right to.)\nLet’s revive human-curated content—with a Fediverse twist. The good news? We already have an embarrassment of riches just waiting to surface—if we design for it with some smart, consent-respecting UX.\nSo why is this stuff still so hard to find?\n🟨 Federated well moderated groups from upvoting platforms like Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin are already bubbling up top posts, voted on by real people. Why not spotlight them?\n(Note, Piefed is already got the ball rolling with their version of feeds)\n🟨 From Redemption Path Five, remember these? We already have hundreds of hand-picked thematic feeds from:\n Newsmast Flipboard’s federated magazines Flipboard’s News Desks Individual curators building focused feeds Surf’s Social Feeds (soon to be federated!) These are not theoretical. They’re already open web content. Usable right now. So let’s feature them. Pipe them into onboarding, trending views, search, suggested follows—anywhere users might want to find signal in the noise.\n💡 Slightly mid-term idea:\n🟨 What if the current public server directories from each community server became feed actors too? Hear me out on this one.\nMost Fediverse servers alreadyshow off public profiles—and many expose each public user posts via RSS. Given thatRSS can be turned into a Mastodon bot in no time, we are more than half way there.\nLet’s evolve that: turn each server’s local public post stream into a followable ActivityPub actor. A single, followable automated account for all voices on a server. Make it so each admin can opt out - like some opt out of making their public feed visible now. Make it so they can configure their own ServerBot to only boost posts with certain engagement, or set filters on it and all that good moderating stuff.\nI, for one, welcome our new ServerBot overlords.\nThese kinds of curated “boosting bots” are how Newsmast Channel feed accounts work. Could a standard protocol for feeds be better? Hells, ya. Working group folks are on that.\nBut until then - this works TODAY. And then notice how all such ServerBots are followable immediately. And remixable and addable into other feeds, etc. These are all lego blocks building on each other.\nBrowsing remote public feeds: Apps are already hacking toward this with clunky workarounds. People want this. Let’s make it work on the web, too. Smooth. Intentional.\nSomeone smarter than me, help prototype this one. I\u0026rsquo;ll talk you up, I promise.\nAll these ideas—both near-term and mid-term—are really just about one thing: curated feed accounts. Most of them already exist. They just need the spotlight.\nSo what now?\n📍 Index them in existing search. All of them. Prepare to index them into the Fediscovery FASP once that launches. Stat.\n📍 Evolve feed standards to make easier to build and make them remixable—so apps like Surf, Flipboard, Newsmast and others can feature them and and build on them.\n📍 Pull them into big relay hubs to boost visibility across the network.\nDone right, great public content starts to feel everywhere. No tracking. No noise. No black-box algorithms.The Fediverse is overflowing with public posts that people want to be seen.\nLet’s help them be seen—while respecting server context and dramatically improving discoverability.\nLet’s make great content… unmissable.\n 7️⃣ Redemption for User Discovery Hell: UX for People Finding Let’s imagine a world where we’ve fixed all the other sins. Welcome to Fediverse Narnia. Content is rich. Discovery is delightful. Search is humane and powerful. Great.\nBut even in that better world, Sin #7 still haunts us: finding people. Not just content—people. Friends. Experts. Communities. Shared interests. It’s a related beast, but a distinct one.\nSo here’s how we begin to tame it—mostly with smart UX and a little coordination:\n🟨 Give server profile directories a real UX overhaul.\nMake them sortable and filterable and searchable:\n By interest or profile tags By post recency By community role And auto-hide inactive accounts unless the user asks to see them And for Mastodon, do the same for the Explore People tab. And make the Explore Hashtags page so that each tag is foldable with one click. Other Fedi platforms: do similar tune ups.\nRight now, many server directories are just flat walls with limited sorting or browsing. Let’s turn them into useful, browsable, followable entry points to the community.\n🟨 Pipe local community server profiles into opt-in Fediverse-wide discovery hubs. Simply making them an ActivityPub actor alone would get you more than halfway there. Just like we suggested for public posts in Sin 6—let’s do the same with people. Let users opt in to be featured in thematic discovery feeds or server-based “people to follow” hubs. Let this be federated.\nFediscovery once it launches should be a playground to try this out - and should be an early thing to try.\nBut until then: Here too I’ll bet Patchwork, Pleroma, Misskey or others could do this quickly and lessons adopted by everyone else.\n🟨 Fix follower/following graph federation. Once Sin 5 (the federation of follows/followers content) is fixed, you’ll actually be able to see who someone follows across instances. You find someone awesome? You can actually explore their social graph—just like you expect in every other social app. This fix is foundational. And these fixes all build on each other.\nAlso, wait for it:\n💡 Mid-term idea: Federated Starter Packs Are Coming\nBluesky got this one mostly right: give new users a thoughtfully curated “starter pack” of people to follow. It eases onboarding, sparks connection, and gets feeds flowing fast.*\nBut Bluesky they left out pesky things like security - their version left out any means to get yourself off of a list you don’t care to be associated with.\nNow imagine a Fediverse version that’s got a bit more privacy respect to keep you off of starter packs you don’t want to be on. It’s on its way from a few places. Here is one in the works from Mastodon, and here is another.\nI’d offer some other notes: Fedi Starter Packs could live at either the user but also discoverable integrated at the server level, too.\nLike Surf Social App does today with BlueSky Starter packs, they need to be remixable into other feeds by curators, Maybe in some fashion they could be shared as ActivityPub actors themselves—just like a feed. (See a pattern forming?)\n✨ The goal for all of these ways of fixing account discovery? Make discovering people feel effortless, inviting, and safe.\nBecause the open social web isn’t just about finding content. It’s about finding each other.\n 🌀 OK let’s bring this two part series in for a landing: Here’s the real punchline:\nAlmost none of the short term fixes I listed above require:\n Rewriting the protocol - no need to wait for longer term fixes. (Though we love improved protocols, too) They don’t need a governance working group. (But might inform them) They don’t need VC funding. They mostly don’t even need big backend changes beyond what is already done. What they do need?\nWhat they need is focus. What they need is momentum.\nThe willingness to say “good enough” isn’t good enough if it leaves people confused, invisible, or gone.\nMost of these paths out of UX Hell are:\n Mostly Frontend tweaks and updates Smarter federation fetches - and some manual bandaids to tide us over for a few months Rediscovered ideas from the early web implemented with the raw materials we have And a dash of UX love The Fediverse already has what most platforms spend billions for and can’t buy:\n🫀 We have the passion. 🧭 We have the values. 👥 We have a community that actually gives a damn.\nNow it just needs the polish—and a collective push to make great user experience a first-class priority.\nThus endeth the sermon. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.\nLet’s get to work.\n This was the Final Part 2 of my two-part series on the Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse. No more sequels. This is it for the series. But will chat it up in comments.\nMissed Part 1? Go read it—or send it to that friend still wondering why their cat memes don’t federate properly. And if you’re building any of these fixes: DM me. I’ve got free suggestions, zero patents, and endless opinions.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-24 14:16:49 -0400", "date": "2:16 p.m. on Jun 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/24/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F24%2Fthe-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux.html" }, { "id": 139, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Decentralized platforms like Fediverse and Bluesky will be interesting to watch re: breaking news \u0026amp; disinformation. X/Twitter\u0026rsquo;s already the worst tonight, its former strength in breaking news now its worse than useless.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-21 21:58:58 -0400", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Jun 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/21/decentralized-platforms-like-fediverse-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F21%2Fdecentralized-platforms-like-fediverse-and.html" }, { "id": 140, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Summer officially starts today at 10:42 pm. www.space.com/stargazin\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-21 19:18:00 -0400", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Jun 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/21/summer-officially-starts-today-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F21%2Fsummer-officially-starts-today-at.html" }, { "id": 141, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#Surffeeds have now fully taken over the UX role that both Mastodon and BlueSky lists used to play \u0026ndash; in my usage of either platform. And cool that it is now one Surf Feed that can help me engage on both platforms. Open Social Web FTW! surfsocial.org\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-20 22:58:19 -0400", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Jun 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/20/surffeeds-have-now-fully-taken.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F20%2Fsurffeeds-have-now-fully-taken.html" }, { "id": 142, "type": "post", "title": "The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix)", "text": "So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them through their first steps into our glorious decentralized galaxy. And seeing it all again through fresh eyes?\nReader, it was brutal.\nSo much of what should be table stakes for any social media UX in the year of our Lord 2025 still is missing or deeply broken still. I know progress has been made and a good fight, fought. But those of us who love the Open Social Web can get blinded to the rough edges not yet fixed or not having lived with them, start to consider them not so bad. Beloved, they are that bad. Still.\nLet me be crystal clear before we begin: I say all of the below with love for the fediverse.. Deep, stubborn, open-source-loving, billionaire-eschewing love. I want the Open Social Web to win. But wanting it isn’t enough. If we want this thing to thrive we have to face the user experience sins head-on—and maybe even laugh at them a little along the way.\n\u0026lt;Caveate\u0026gt;I love native apps like Ivory or Mona or custom web UX like Elk or Phanpy as much or more than any of you but those are all UX bandaids over things we have needed to fix in most cases for years. That time is now.\u0026lt;/Caveate\u0026gt;\nSo I jotted down the seven things that make my clients’ eyes cross. And no, this isn’t me dunking on one app or interface. Pixelfed—you’re not off the hook. No snickering, Friendica. These are Fediverse-wide sins.\nAnd don’t get smug, Bluesky. You’ve got some whoppers in your closet too—and I’m saving those for another article.\nSo grab a cup of coffee—or maybe the nearest comfort blanket—and let’s soberly and bravely take a cathartic journey through the Deadly Sins that plague the Fediverse’s web UX.\n(And any I missed in the comments to this blog post)\n 1️⃣ The Sin of Overwhelming Complexity: Instance Selection Paralysis Ah yes, we start the OG sin. This one’s been haunting the Fediverse since before most people even knew the Fediverse existed.\nAgain see this with fresh eyes:\nImagine the moment you decide to join the Fediverse. You’re feeling a tad noble. Brave. Ready to reclaim your digital life from Big Tech’s clutches.\nThen… boom. You’re confronted with a cryptic list of servers, each with a name that sounds like a cross between a startup pitch and a medieval tavern.\nWait, what? “social.town or lemmy.world? climatejustice.social or a server with a frog logo? What am I signing up for here?”\nNo warm hand-holding, no curated suggestion. Just a buffet of options that would make even a seasoned sysadmin’s head spin.No wonder so many people bail before they even get started. It’s like trying to join a secret club when no one will tell you the handshake.\nAnd even our terms “Server” Or “Instance” make sense in an engineering flowchart but why in all that is holy would we foist those onto users to pretend to understand? At the very least we should talk about new folks joining a “server community” of fellow users.\nAnd here’s the harsh truth: even offering more than one onboarding “server community” choice is often one too many.\nEven the fix at JoinMastodon for the mobile app only not the web app - while admirable and going in the right direction. If your onboarding flow requires a glossary, a decision tree, and a four-part documentary on federation theory, something’s gone very wrong. A multi-step wizard isn’t going to save you—it’s just a fancier maze. We’ve seen flows that bleed 50% of users per screen. That’s not onboarding, that’s a prescription for a slow-motion rage quit.\n“But what about decentralization?” someone valiantly cries from the back row.\nDon’t worry: I\u0026rsquo;m not selling it out. I adore decentralization as much as you and trust me, we don’t have to throw that out to give users onboard for the first time only one server choice. I hear you audibly confused now but trust me, wait for it.\nFor now I think we can agree that new users to the Fedi need an onboarding experience that doesn’t feel like a grad school entrance exam. I believe a far better way is possible, and I’ll spill the beans in the next post.\n 2️⃣ The Sin of Inconsistent Navigation: Timeline Turmoil Congrats, you survived the Great Instance Selection Gauntlet™. You’ve picked your server, verified your email, maybe even uploaded a profile pic. You’re finally ready to explore your new digital neighborhood.\nAnd then—bam. Three timelines.\nNot one. Not two. Three.\nHome, Local, Federated—each more enigmatic than the last. The Fediverse’s multiple timelines are a beautiful idea in theory, but in practice?\n Home: Hopefully your cozy friends’ chatter.\n Local: Pretty much your instance’s collective brain dump.\n Federated: the cosmic firehose of everything, everywhere, all at once. Many are sure to be in languages you don’t speak. Basically: digital chaos in reverse-chron order.\n New users are expected to intuit the metaphysical difference between timelines, And honestly—why should new users care? What does each one do for them?\nWhat problem is it solving? No really, I’ll wait.\n 3️⃣ The Sin of Remote Interaction Purgatory: Federation Gymnastics One of the Fediverse’s great promises is universal interaction—no matter which server someone calls home, you can still follow them, reply, boost, interact. In theory? Utopian.\nIn practice—for web users—it’s an absolute effing mystery.\nWant to boost a post from another instance?\nWant to follow someone who lives on a server that’s not your own?\nBrace yourself: copy, paste, search, squint at a remote profile view, and whisper a quick prayer to the federation spirits that it might work this time.\nWant to reply to a post from a different corner of the Fediverse?\nYou’d better hope the stars align, the server’s awake, and the fediverse goblins aren’t misbehaving today. Sometimes it’s seamless. Sometimes you end up trapped in a social media escape room, having to try every door twice.\nIt’s social networking as performance art: awkward, elaborate, and weirdly beautiful—but absolutely not the experience most users signed up for.\nAnd remember the golden UX rule: every extra step you give a user cuts retention in half.\nThat brutal law applies here too. Every clunky redirect, every extra click, every “wait, what do I do now?” moment sends more would-be users quietly packing.\n 4️⃣ The Sin of DM Disasters Waiting to Happen Private messages in the Fediverse: because who doesn’t love social roulette?\nAnd yet here we are - as on most Fediverse platforms, “Direct Messages” live right alongside public posts in the same composer, the same timeline view, sometimes even with mostly the same visual styling. You can toggle visibility to “Direct”… but will you notice you didn’t? Will you check? Will the UI save you?\nSpoiler: It will not.\nOne wrong toggle, and your private thought becomes a public reckoning.\nThere’s no special UI wrapper. No bold red warning. No modal that says: “Heads up—you’re about to tell your boss what you really think, in public.”\nInstead, it’s all too easy to accidentally post a private message as public—or vice versa. This isn’t just a newbie trap. It’s a UX booby trap.\nAnd let’s be real: “Direct Message” in the Fediverse doesn’t even mean what most users think it means. It’s just a post with limited visibility, sent to a tagged user.\nWorse? There’s no encryption. So it’s not just accidentally public—it’s intentionally insecure. It’s plaintext dressed up as a secret. There is some fine print warning you, But let’s be real: nobody reads fine print mid-conversation.\nThe result: drama, confusion, and sometimes real harm. All from a UI that treats one of the most sensitive features of a social platform like just another post flavor.\n 5️⃣ The Sin of Ghost Conversations and Phantom Follower Counts Federation is the Fediverse’s secret sauce—and as implemented, its spectral curse. What should be lively, multi-user conversations often arrive with limbs missing.\nReplies that clearly should be there are gone. Half the participants never materialize.\nYou’re reading a thread and suddenly think: Wait… who is this person even talking to?\nFollower counts of remote users become carnival mirrors: someone shows “800 followers,” you see 12.\nYou follow a fascinating account, only to feel like you’ve stepped into a half-lit room where the conversation’s already happened—and half the guests are ghosts. Why does this happen?\nBecause what you see is only the part of the Fediverse that’s federated to you. Each server decides what to fetch, when to fetch it—and sometimes just… doesn’t.\nThere’s no guarantee your instance will pull in every reply, every participant, or even the full thread—especially if the original conversation lives on a server it barely talks to.\nThe result? Phantom threads. Phantom user counts.Hollow outlines of conversations happening elsewhere.\nSocial interaction becomes confusing swiss-cheese cutouts of themselves.\nIt’s enough to make you wonder:\nAm I lurking… or am I the one being lurked?\n 6️⃣ The Sin of Invisible Discovery: The Content Mirage The Fediverse was born to be better than Big Tech’s social media rage-bait casino—that places like X or Facebook designed to mine you for clicks, views, and your soul.\nGood call to avoid that. Let’s not do that.\nAnd yes, privacy is precious. Zero arguments here—no one’s asking for surveillance ads or algorithmic doomscrolling.\nBut the Fediverse takes that privacy ethos and forgets to replace it with… well… anything.\nSo what you get instead is discovery by divine accident: No algorithmic curation. No fediverse-wide trending topics. No “here’s what’s buzzing.”\nJust you and The Void.\nSo new users end up wandering along, stumbling across interesting people and conversations only by sheer luck. It’s charming - but only in a 19th-century explorer way.\nIt’s less charming when you’re just trying to find a cat meme.\nWhat about Mastodon Search? On paper, it’s powerful. In reality, it’s opt-in only—tucked behind an Easter egg hunt of privacy settings. Years after launch, Mastodon Search still surfaces a fraction of a fraction of users—basically just those who’ve unlocked the “I read the docs” achievement.\nAnd hey, credit where it’s due: Eugen and team did build something. And erred on the side of caution.\nMost other Fediverse platforms haven’t even really tried to tackle search yet in a meaningful way.\n 7️⃣ The Sin of User Discovery Hell Search is one thing. But finding people to follow—especially if you’re new—is where the UX - beyond just search - really starts to melt down.\nUser discovery in the Fediverse is so decentralized, it’s basically unusable. No global directory. No “you might like.” No obvious trails to follow.\nJust vibes. And maybe a dusty wiki from 2022.\n(Full disclosure: I helped build some of those early directories for journalists and activists. We were literally hand-crafting Excel spreadsheets of accounts worth following. Read that again. No really.)\nWant to create your own curated user list of great accounts? Go for it—just don’t expect to share it. Mastodon lists aren’t public. You can’t even make them public. So they live and die with you, like a mixtape you can’t give to anyone.\nAnd other Fediverse platforms do not even have lists.\nSome Fediverse servers maintain public list pages of their user profiles that are on that server —but good luck using them. They’re often:\n Unsortable except by these vague, frustrating options:\n Recently active: OK, fine. Credit where due. Good one.\n New arrivals: (New…where? From what? And are they “New” and “Aticve” or just lookie-lous that joined then bounced away?)\n From this-server-name.com only: What? Why? (See Sin #1.)\n From known Fediverse: I’m begging you. What does that even mean to any newbie?\n Unlabeled by any useful tag—even ones users have publicly applied to themselves.\n Unfiltered, showing accounts that haven’t posted since Obama’s first term and giving no indication who’s worth following now.\n And lastly each server\u0026rsquo;s public profiles do not flow up to any larger discovery pipeline. So even if you do find cool, active, Jazz fans found by hand from user profile section of the Jazztodon server, no other server benefits but you. Go you. But opportunity firmly lost for fediverse wide discovery.\n And let’s say you gave up on all of the above. But a new idea struck you:\n“I know: like on every other social media platform, I can find cool folks that my friends follow and follow them.”\nYeah…no.\nThanks to federation fragmentation - Think you Sin #5 - many of their following—although every last one of them being technically public—are totally invisible to you in practice. So much for that idea.\nIt’s a UX turducken. One Sin nested inside another.\nYou didn’t just fall through the cracks—you’re living in them.\n 🙏 The Path to Redemption Ok that was withering to write, let alone what it must have been to read. Time for a palate cleanser for both of us: OK here is another ray of hope:\nRemember I’m writing these out of LOVE for the Open Social Web and the fediverse and to improve it.\nAnd let’s be clear: these UX sins aren’t as the preachers say, “sins unto death.”\nThere is a path to redemption, each one of these is eminently fixable.\nThese fixed don’t require a pilgrimage to the holy land of W3C working groups or a blockchain duct-taped to the side of the server rack. We’re not waiting on divine intervention via Fediverse Enhancement Protocol v99.9b.\nThe path out of UX hell is paved with thoughtful design, a pinch of frontend finesse, and a few determined devs who are tired of watching newcomers bounce off of this experience back into the waiting arms of Big Tech Silos - often doing so with very good reason, and a sense of loss.\nAnd more good news? Many folks have already started making serious strides. Now is the time to push forward.\nLastly, remember: The early open web had UX problems just as gnarly—and it worked through nearly all of them. The open social web can too.\nI’ll dive into the fixes in the next article in this two-part series. Catch you on the other side.\n This is Part 1 in a two-article series on the Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience.\nPart 2—our roadmap to redemption—will arrive as soon as the author can wrestle their love of the Open Social Web back into prose, ideally before the next major Mastodon fork or the collapse of another Twitter clone.\nIn the meantime, if you’ve spotted a UX sin I missed, drop it in the comments or send a direct message (just, you know, double-check the visibility setting first).\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-18 11:42:45 -0400", "date": "11:42 p.m. on Jun 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F18%2F113327.html" }, { "id": 143, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "All the elements that makes the major platforms harmful to humans in general all make it equally or more hostile to online organizing, too. Convinced the open social web is future of organizing. nymag.com/intellige\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-13 09:55:44 -0400", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Jun 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/13/all-the-elements-that-makes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F13%2Fall-the-elements-that-makes.html" }, { "id": 144, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bookmarks for mobile and desktop web browsers should be totally reinvented \u0026amp; made fully (securely and with permission per bookmark) enabled to be federated to the Open Social Web. And the browser that should do it first is #Vivaldi.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-11 17:18:50 -0400", "date": "5:18 p.m. on Jun 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/11/bookmarks-for-mobile-and-desktop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F11%2Fbookmarks-for-mobile-and-desktop.html" }, { "id": 145, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fully agree: switched to #Vivaldi after losing faith in #Firefox management and zero regrets. Only a better experience. www.makeuseof.com/why-switc\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-10 22:47:50 -0400", "date": "10:47 p.m. on Jun 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/10/fully-agree-switched-to-vivaldi.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F10%2Ffully-agree-switched-to-vivaldi.html" }, { "id": 146, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Made me laugh. (But I’m easy)\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-10 18:16:48 -0400", "date": "6:16 p.m. on Jun 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/10/made-me-laugh-but-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F10%2Fmade-me-laugh-but-im.html" }, { "id": 147, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;We got the first polling data on how people feel about the LA situation… Despite apparent wisdom that it’d help Trump, voters don’t initially approve\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo;\nwww.gelliottmorris.com/p/why-the\u0026hellip; \n", "dateiso": "2025-06-10 12:34:43 -0400", "date": "12:34 p.m. on Jun 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/10/we-got-the-first-polling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F10%2Fwe-got-the-first-polling.html" }, { "id": 148, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#Ghost launch coming: \u0026ldquo;What if nobody owned this?\u0026rdquo; \u0026hellip;The fediverse represents an alternative path\u0026hellip; Will it work?\u0026hellip; Up to all of us\u0026hellip; Networks succeed when people use them. Difficult to start \u0026amp; nearly impossible to stop once it has momentum.\u0026quot; activitypub.ghost.org/ramping-u\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-09 09:49:24 -0400", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Jun 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/09/ghost-launch-coming-what-if.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F09%2Fghost-launch-coming-what-if.html" }, { "id": 149, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“[We chat w/ Robin Berjon abt a piece he co-authored w/ Maria Farrell ‘We Need To Rewild The Internet' abt how the Net has become unhealthy \u0026amp; extractive \u0026amp; how we can revitalize it using lessons…by ecologists.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-09 01:35:27 -0400", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Jun 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/09/we-chat-w-robin-berjon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F09%2Fwe-chat-w-robin-berjon.html" }, { "id": 150, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Be safe tonight LA friends. Stay peaceful and don’t take the bait. #iceprotests #losangeles\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-08 20:13:54 -0400", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Jun 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/08/be-safe-tonight-la-friends.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F08%2Fbe-safe-tonight-la-friends.html" }, { "id": 151, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "States rights touting Republicans are awfully quiet right now. #losangeles\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-08 09:10:43 -0400", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Jun 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/08/states-rights-touting-republicans-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F08%2Fstates-rights-touting-republicans-are.html" }, { "id": 152, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This exchange from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica is even more relevant now than ever. #losangeles #iceprotests youtu.be/HnZ53lPPs\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-08 08:59:08 -0400", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Jun 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/08/this-exchange-from-the-rebooted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F08%2Fthis-exchange-from-the-rebooted.html" }, { "id": 153, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“We’re very clearly entering a moment of grave danger. My main thought about this is to remember – as we’ve said in other contexts – that the fight to preserve the American republic remains fundamentally one over public opinion….” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/br\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-07 23:16:54 -0400", "date": "11:16 p.m. on Jun 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/07/were-very-clearly-entering-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F07%2Fwere-very-clearly-entering-a.html" }, { "id": 154, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hmmm. I am wishing well to my LA friends tonight. Stay safe. Do not let them bait you. #LosAngeles #Trump #IceProtests\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-07 20:20:32 -0400", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Jun 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/07/hmmm-i-am-wishing-well.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F07%2Fhmmm-i-am-wishing-well.html" }, { "id": 155, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#OpenSocialWeb FTW! #fediforum #ATmosphere\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-07 19:37:53 -0400", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Jun 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/07/opensocialweb-ftw-fediforum-atmosphere.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F07%2Fopensocialweb-ftw-fediforum-atmosphere.html" }, { "id": 156, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More solid press coverage of the great new apps showcased at #fediforum yesterday 👉 www.theverge.com/news/6808\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-06 05:10:53 -0400", "date": "5:10 p.m. on Jun 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/06/more-solid-press-coverage-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F06%2Fmore-solid-press-coverage-of.html" }, { "id": 157, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a great summary of #Fediforum Day One, and I\u0026rsquo;m looking forward to Day Two. www.luisquintanilla.me/posts/fed\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-05 18:16:08 -0400", "date": "6:16 p.m. on Jun 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/05/this-is-a-great-summary.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F05%2Fthis-is-a-great-summary.html" }, { "id": 158, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#Wedistribute has #FediForum live coverage here: wedistribute.org/2025/06/f\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-05 13:16:50 -0400", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Jun 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/05/wedistribute-has-fediforum-live-coverage.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F05%2Fwedistribute-has-fediforum-live-coverage.html" }, { "id": 159, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m having ot pop in and out of the #Fediforum due to work but want to udpate my #Surfapp and Bluesky feeds for Open Social Web apps as new ones appear at the show. wedistribute.org/2025/06/f\u0026hellip; Anyone there who can help me put the social handles of new ones in comments.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-05 13:14:18 -0400", "date": "1:14 p.m. on Jun 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/05/im-having-ot-pop-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F05%2Fim-having-ot-pop-in.html" }, { "id": 160, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a good elevator pitch for the #Surfapo from #flipboard …I use it everyday for more than half of my social engagements and reading … youtube.com/shorts/x9\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-04 05:49:30 -0400", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Jun 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/04/here-is-a-good-elevator.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F04%2Fhere-is-a-good-elevator.html" }, { "id": 161, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#Fediforum is coming! Follow breaking news on this feed on #Surfapp: surf.social/feed/surf\u0026hellip; or this feed on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/d\u0026hellip; #OpenSocialWeb\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-03 21:24:31 -0400", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Jun 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/03/fediforum-is-coming-follow-breaking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F03%2Ffediforum-is-coming-follow-breaking.html" }, { "id": 162, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just saw my first TV ad for something (in this case furniture) that ended with a pitch that it had \u0026ldquo;tariff-busting pricing.\u0026rdquo; So yeah, I guess that is a salient sales pitch now.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-02 21:59:59 -0400", "date": "9:59 p.m. on Jun 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/02/just-saw-my-first-tv.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F02%2Fjust-saw-my-first-tv.html" }, { "id": 163, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well written review of #surfapp beta from Mike Saas:\n“I wasn’t sure what the app would do for me that my already-well-curated…timelines wasn’t doing. But then, I built my first custom feed. From there, I started to see the potential…”\nshellsharks.com/notes/202\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-02 05:38:48 -0400", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Jun 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/02/well-written-review-of-surfapp.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F02%2Fwell-written-review-of-surfapp.html" }, { "id": 164, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A note: I now use #Microblog for over half my social posting, cross-posting feaatures to Bluesky, Medium, Threads, Tumbr, etc\u0026hellip;.\u0026amp; I now use #Surfapp from #Flipboard for over half the time - to read, engage, \u0026amp; reply on Bluesky, Mastodon, and many RSS feeds. Open Social Web FTW!\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-01 20:19:07 -0400", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Jun 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/01/a-note-i-now-use.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F01%2Fa-note-i-now-use.html" }, { "id": 165, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m still getting up to speed on #MCPservers, but from what I have learned so far, I tend to agree with Anil. www.anildash.com//2025/05/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-01 19:49:09 -0400", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Jun 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/01/im-still-getting-up-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F01%2Fim-still-getting-up-to.html" }, { "id": 166, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hmmm. Interesting, Brazil. Will be 👀… restofworld.org/2025/braz\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-01 19:23:31 -0400", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Jun 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/01/hmmm-interesting-brazil-will-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F06%2F01%2Fhmmm-interesting-brazil-will-be.html" }, { "id": 167, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Purchased! Just got this cool sticker to add to my standing desk (which is covered with others) \u0026amp; also am supporting #BridgyFed and #ANewSocial. Win, win, win. store.anew.social/products/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-31 16:53:15 -0400", "date": "4:53 p.m. on May 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/31/purchased-just-got-this-cool.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F31%2Fpurchased-just-got-this-cool.html" }, { "id": 168, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My periodic rave at how much I love #RSS (I am tying together lots of data for my work) and how it is truly the glue that holds together much of the open web. We are so lucky it gained critical mass before the worst of Web 2.0 took over and that it has lasted. We need to keep it alive at all costs.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-28 15:45:35 -0400", "date": "3:45 p.m. on May 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/28/my-periodic-rave-at-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F28%2Fmy-periodic-rave-at-how.html" }, { "id": 169, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just bought my tickets to this year\u0026rsquo;s #Fediforum, and if you care about the Open Social Web - both Bluesky and Mastodon/Fediverse enabled offerings and beyond—you should too. Very worth your time.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-27 13:07:35 -0400", "date": "1:07 p.m. on May 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/27/i-just-bought-my-tickets.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F27%2Fi-just-bought-my-tickets.html" }, { "id": 170, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Key item from this research in this screenshot. Full report here:\nwww.milkkarten.net/p/state-o\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-27 12:32:07 -0400", "date": "12:32 p.m. on May 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/27/key-item-from-this-research.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F27%2Fkey-item-from-this-research.html" }, { "id": 171, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trying hard to remember this.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-27 07:51:27 -0400", "date": "7:51 p.m. on May 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/27/trying-hard-to-remember-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F27%2Ftrying-hard-to-remember-this.html" }, { "id": 172, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I so glad to be using a browser free from AI integration. I only want AI in doses fully in my control. #Vivaldi youtu.be/BBjM0SHg-\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-20 21:04:54 -0400", "date": "9:04 p.m. on May 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/20/i-so-glad-to-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F20%2Fi-so-glad-to-be.html" }, { "id": 173, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#FediIndex is a great toolset. We are lucky to have both them and #Fedidb as resources to see trends along this part of the open social web. fedi.wrm.sr\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-19 11:05:16 -0400", "date": "11:05 p.m. on May 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/19/fediindex-is-a-great-toolset.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F19%2Ffediindex-is-a-great-toolset.html" }, { "id": 174, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cool. Look at the growth in #GhostCMS websites joining the open social web - these are new #Activtypub users. Ghost does support bridging to #Bluesky too, curious what those numbers look like. fedi.wrm.sr/software/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-18 19:01:08 -0400", "date": "7:01 p.m. on May 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/18/cool-look-at-the-growth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F18%2Fcool-look-at-the-growth.html" }, { "id": 175, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“….Carvana Cybertruck offers have gone to as low as $49k…a 51% depreciation over a year.” www.torquenews.com/11826/tes\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-18 18:22:19 -0400", "date": "6:22 p.m. on May 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/18/carvana-cybertruck-offers-have-gone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F18%2Fcarvana-cybertruck-offers-have-gone.html" }, { "id": 176, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am increasingly using #Microdotblog to publish out across Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and other places. And using #surfsocial to browse content from the same, in one UX \u0026ndash; plus blogs, plus podcasts, plus RSS. Open Social Web FTW! about.surf.social\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-17 22:12:54 -0400", "date": "10:12 p.m. on May 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/17/i-am-increasingly-using-microdotblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F17%2Fi-am-increasingly-using-microdotblog.html" }, { "id": 177, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My wife \u0026amp; I are a house wide purge, tossing old papers, old junk and old photos that literally should have never kept. Made me think of this bit: youtube.com/shorts/sY\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-17 19:28:14 -0400", "date": "7:28 p.m. on May 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/17/my-wife-i-are-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F17%2Fmy-wife-i-are-a.html" }, { "id": 178, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m only two episodes in, but I\u0026rsquo;m in. I think it is only partly comedy, but that is a quibble. #Murderbot www.npr.org/2025/05/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-17 18:09:24 -0400", "date": "6:09 p.m. on May 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/17/im-only-two-episodes-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F17%2Fim-only-two-episodes-in.html" }, { "id": 179, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Its grift all the way down. #Trump abcnews.go.com/Business/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-17 10:42:10 -0400", "date": "10:42 p.m. on May 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/17/its-grift-all-the-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F17%2Fits-grift-all-the-way.html" }, { "id": 180, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;I am more excited about the web than I have been in a lonnnnng time….I am typing in a respectable editing window, where I retain copies…\u0026amp; because I\u0026rsquo;m hooking in through a protocol…this writing can go anywhere. Let me say that again. Any. Where.” scripting.com/2024/10/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-16 22:35:10 -0400", "date": "10:35 p.m. on May 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/16/i-am-more-excited-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F16%2Fi-am-more-excited-about.html" }, { "id": 181, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good news for open #research and for keeping big tech platforms accountable. caad.info/analysis/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-16 17:21:45 -0400", "date": "5:21 p.m. on May 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/16/good-news-for-open-research.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F16%2Fgood-news-for-open-research.html" }, { "id": 182, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Always a good read for anyone who cares about the state of #political #tech. highergroundlabs.com/political\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-15 16:52:43 -0400", "date": "4:52 p.m. on May 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/15/always-a-good-read-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F15%2Falways-a-good-read-for.html" }, { "id": 183, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "YouTube continues to push hard into the #podcast space; I wish they fully supported podcast #RSS standards. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-15 13:27:23 -0400", "date": "1:27 p.m. on May 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/15/youtube-continues-to-push-hard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F15%2Fyoutube-continues-to-push-hard.html" }, { "id": 184, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Important new report on #X profiting from and helping fundraise for sanctioned terrorist groups and individuals.\nwww.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-15 09:03:33 -0400", "date": "9:03 p.m. on May 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/15/important-new-report-on-x.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F15%2Fimportant-new-report-on-x.html" }, { "id": 185, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I do like how the #Tumblr site has its own custom onboarding UX for Twitter users - to make their migration easier. Other open social web platforms should learn from that. www.tumblr.com/register/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-14 09:44:29 -0400", "date": "9:44 p.m. on May 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/14/i-do-like-how-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F14%2Fi-do-like-how-the.html" }, { "id": 186, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As always from Sean, lots of good thinking in this article about what a \u0026ldquo;dream\u0026rdquo; Open Social Web service could be. deadsuperhero.com/my-dream-\u0026hellip; #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-14 09:29:54 -0400", "date": "9:29 p.m. on May 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/14/as-always-from-sean-lots.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F14%2Fas-always-from-sean-lots.html" }, { "id": 187, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The 2025 report focuses on mainstream social platforms and the Safety Scores provided by #GLAAD. Spoiler: None do well, and X does the worst. We must build a better social web.\nglaad.org/smsi/2025\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-13 18:13:20 -0400", "date": "6:13 p.m. on May 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/13/the-report-focuses-on-mainstream.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F13%2Fthe-report-focuses-on-mainstream.html" }, { "id": 188, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a great video with Mike McCue at #Flipboard giving an update on what he\u0026rsquo;s building with the #SurfFeeds app and his view of the state of the Open Social Web writ large. www.youtube.com/watch\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-13 10:31:22 -0400", "date": "10:31 p.m. on May 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/05/13/this-is-a-great-video.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F05%2F13%2Fthis-is-a-great-video.html" }, { "id": 189, "type": "post", "title": "The Next Stage for Indieweb.Social ", "text": "Indieweb.social is a six-year-old. Launched only 3 years after Mastodon 1.0 itself did, give or take.Over the last two years, it was clear to me as the owner and admin that it was growing and would either need to find some form of new structure to take it to the next level, or, in some way, artificially cap or even have to find ways to shrink ongoing growth. Something I did not wish to do. One way or another, IndieWeb.social would need a new, bigger home. And I\u0026rsquo;m excited to announce this today.\nFor a server purely launched back then only as a labor of love—and one that I did not know would even get a couple hundred people interested—it has thrived beyond my hopes: growing steadily, year on year, the Patreon support has been rock solid to keep the lights on, and most importantly, the users here have grown to be a wonderful community. It\u0026rsquo;s now approaching 12K registered users, 1.2K monthly users, and almost 700,000 posts.And it has been—as was its mission—a great place for the IndieWeb, openweb, humanetech, and larger open social web communities to all commingle and cross-pollinate.\nOver this same time, I\u0026rsquo;d been looking for a way to transition this from a small self-run server, admin-centric place—and to turn it into a more user-managed one, akin to some others that were born that way.\nSo I am grateful to have found a solution for all of these needs for this community:\nAs of April, IndieWeb.social will be owned and managed by the Newsmast Foundation, while they move its governance to a user-managed direction. So as of the end of March 2025, I will move from being an admin here to being a user—and an ongoing supporter of this Indieweb.social via Patreon. I\u0026rsquo;d strongly encourage everyone to stay with me there on Indieweb.social, and to support it on Patreon if you can; every dime goes only to this server.\nAnd as this starts making moves towards being community managed, do recommend that folks who love it here join in.\nNothing could be in better hands, and Newsmast deserves great credit for enabling this. I owe them a great deal of gratitude and am delighted to be a member of this place now, where I can watch its evolution and cheer it on. This is how the fediverse SHOULD work—how communities can grow from a tiny glimmer to a stable and thriving community and then grow upwards. The fun part here is just getting started.\nThe FAQ about this next stage for is here: https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/faqs/\nAnd the new admin account for this server from Newsmast is: https://indieweb.social/@indiewebadmin \nAnd Thor, our volunteer moderator remains: https://indieweb.social/@Thor\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-28 10:18:19 -0400", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Mar 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/03/27/the-next-stage-for-indiewebsocial.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F03%2F27%2Fthe-next-stage-for-indiewebsocial.html" }, { "id": 190, "type": "post", "title": "Moderating Threads at a Server Level for Indieweb.Social", "text": "A few days ago, I expressed concern over Meta\u0026rsquo;s new fact-checking and content moderation policies. When Thread announced its move to the Fediverse over a year ago, we chose not to take preemptive action. Instead, we saw that we had all the tools needed for proportional responses to potential threats to keep our folks safe. And as we stated then, we would treat Threads.net like any other Fediverse server.\nFor details on Meta’s new content policies see here: https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/meta-dampens-hate-speech-policy/\nAlthough we haven\u0026rsquo;t received any moderation tickets from Threads users, not a single ticket, Meta\u0026rsquo;s updated content policy changes are, in our view, an action that by itself warrants a response.\nEffective Immediately: Limiting Threads at Indieweb.Social At A Server Level\nWe\u0026rsquo;re limiting (silencing) Threads at the server level. Here\u0026rsquo;s what this means:\nLimited Visibility: Threads content will no longer be viewable from the federated timeline. Threads.net content would be almost completely hidden from this server - for users who do not already follow Threads users.\nUsers who do currently follow Threads accounts will not be severed from those existing social relationships, and new users here can still follow Threads accounts should they wish to.\nBut this will almost completely limit Threads content to anyone not actively seeking Threads content or following Threads users.\nThis decision prioritizes our community\u0026rsquo;s well-being and safety. While we value federation and interoperability principles, we\u0026rsquo;ll always prioritize our users' needs.\nWhy Limit Instead of Fully Block?\nThere are no easy answers to this issue, and we understand some servers will choose to not limit and only choose to moderate this purely at a user level, and some servers will fully defederate with Threads accounts.\nWe respect each of those choices.\nOr view: By limiting Threads instead of blocking (yet) we allow individual choice while minimizing the risk of harmful or misleading content spreading to our users and the risk of our moderation team being overloaded.\nI empathize with Manton\u0026rsquo;s perspective: \u0026ldquo;Even though I’ve blogged about my disagreement with Meta’s new approach to content moderation, I don’t think defederating is the answer. It makes a decision for thousands of users, cutting them off from following Threads accounts, rather than letting each user decide if they want to opt out. It makes the fediverse worse and more disjointed, in my opinion.”\n_But the only choice isn’t nothing, versus full defederation. _For now, limiting is to our view the appropriate response to keep our folks safe while taking action at a server level reacting to Meta’s latest content moderation changes.\nProportional Moderation\nAnd at Indieweb social we commit to moderating all individual harmful accounts we see, and interactions with Threads content on our server to those following or encountering Threads content even while Limited.\nWe\u0026rsquo;ll continue monitoring the situation closely, and will move to full fediblock if we see:\n Harassment or Harmful Content: Consistent failure to address harassment, hate speech, or content violating our TOS may lead to defederation.\n Malicious or Spammy Behavior: Engaging in malicious activities, such as spamming or spreading malware, may result in defederation.\n Even if we see relatively few issues but enough to cause our moderation team to be overloaded, we would defederate.\n A limit of Threads can become a full block of Threads** instantly **should we see the need (limits are revocable while on Mastodon fediblocks are permanent) and we will be continuing to watch this very fluid space.\nAll this said: Am very open to good faith discussions on this choice in the comments on the post on my Mastodon account.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-10 19:42:43 -0400", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Jan 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/01/10/moderating-threads-at-a-server.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2025%2F01%2F10%2Fmoderating-threads-at-a-server.html" }, { "id": 191, "type": "post", "title": "Predictions for the Open Social Web 2025", "text": "2025 Open Social Web Predictions\nI just finished looking over my 2024 predictions, and now onto 2025. I try to make these as quantifiable, verifiable and crisp as I can. OK - here goes - in no particular order:\n▶️ The ActivityPub based Fediverse as measured by FediDB will grow by 1 million users in 2025 crossing over 12 million users. The BlueSky registered userbase will grow from its current number of 25 million registered users to over 50 million. Both networks will struggle with churn, but monthly active users will not drop below current numbers both see today: 1 Million MAU for Fediverse, and as far as I can find 20 million monthly active users for Bluesky.\n▶️ Threads will cross over 600 million monthly active users in 2025. (today it is 300 MM).\n▶️ Threads will enable full, two-way Federation in 2025, but will remain opt-in.\n▶️ Bluesky developer communities will grow, the number of independent PDS servers will grow, but there will not be any viable options other than the centralized offering rum by BlueSky for Relays and AppViews in 2025.\n▶️ There will continue to be waves of users migrating to emerging social media platforms in 2024 and they will primarily be going to Threads, BlueSky, and Mastodon roughly in that order. No new alternative social platforms emerge with any substance in 2025.\n▶️ BlueSky and Threads leadership will support BridgyFed to move to \u0026ldquo;opt out\u0026rdquo; on its service Bridging over to ActivityPub users and that will launch in 2025 on both platforms. Mastodon will enable each server to choose to be \u0026ldquo;opt in\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;opt out\u0026rdquo; of the BridgyFed offering.\n▶️ Over 20 percent of \u0026ldquo;open social web\u0026rdquo; users will be \u0026ldquo;bridge enabled\u0026rdquo; to talk to at least one other protocol by 2025.\n▶️ Apps that aggregate the Open Social Web content, such as Flipboard\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;Surf,\u0026rdquo; or OpenVibe or Tapestry will all be in the top 5 \u0026ldquo;open social web\u0026rdquo; apps by download numbers for 2025.\n▶️ One other major top 20 US social media service will add Open Social Web support (likely adopting ActivityPub first but with BlueSky support on roadmap)\u0026hellip;and it will not be Tumblr.\n▶️ Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed, and other content aggregator offerings will have over 250,000 posts in 2025.\n▶️ Ghost will launch its 1.0 version of Fediverse support in 2025 and will be in the top 10 of all Fediverse servers by 2025.\n▶️ Over 250 thousand federated podcast episodes will be published by 2025 according to FediDB, by Podcast Index, Castopod, and other fediverse enabled podcasters.\n▶️ South America and Africa will grow increasingly more relevant to the Open Social Web.\n▶️ One new non-microblogging social digital type will launch that does not exist at scale today on the Open Social Web - and it will have over 50,000 registered users in 2025\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-24 18:23:45 -0400", "date": "6:23 p.m. on Dec 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/12/24/predictions-for-the-open-social.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2024%2F12%2F24%2Fpredictions-for-the-open-social.html" }, { "id": 192, "type": "post", "title": "Review of My 2024 Predictions", "text": "Looking over my 2024 predictions before I make some 2025 predictions, to soberly say which ones I got right, wrong and way wrong.\n▶️ For starters got this one WAY, WAY wrong: \u0026quot; The overall Fediverse as measured by FediDB will cross 25 million registered users, and by year’s end over 3 to 5 million monthly active users. The Fediverse will cross over 35,000 servers in 2024.\u0026quot;\nThe open social web did grow to about this big, but did so on BlueSky, while Mastodon and fediverse based social grew too, but by less\u0026hellip;about 1 million registered users or so this year.\n▶️ Also wrong. (I think, by the metrics I used) \u0026quot; Flipboard and WordPress will both move to be at least in the top 10 Fediverse software providers by monthly active users by the end of 2024.\u0026quot; I say I think because I think I got the metric wrong in my own prediction. For instance, according to fedidb Flipbaord had almost 7,000 Monthly Active Users, (federated Flipboard accounts) but thy had almost 18 million \u0026ldquo;status counts.\u0026rdquo; And Wordpress software saw just under 30,000 users accounts on just over 9,000 servers, it saw 6.7 million total posts.\nStill by the metrics my prediciton chose that is another swing and a miss.\n▶️ OK finally got one I\u0026rsquo;d say 3/4th\u0026rsquo;s right: \u0026ldquo;There will continue to be waves of users migrating to emerging social media platforms in 2024 and they will primarily be going to Threads, Mastodon, and BlueSky, roughly in that order. No new alternative social platforms emerge with any substance in 2024.\u0026rdquo;\nThis feels correct, with the one note that the order was actually \u0026ldquo;Threads, BlueSky and Mastodon\u0026rdquo; seeing the benefits.\n▶️ This one I think I got right, but also think the role was minor. Suspect the next midterms it will be a larger role but that is the subject for another post. \u0026ldquo;Disinformation that originates on the Fediverse will for the first time - have a role in the 2024 US Election, spreading into other centralized platforms.\u0026rdquo;\n▶️ This one I count as fully correct. BlueSky did federate out to other PDS\u0026rsquo;s. But not in a major way yet. And Bridgy Fed did a robust roll out. \u0026ldquo;BlueSky will federate out to other Bluesky servers for the first time in 2024, but users will remain primarily at the initial flagship server and others will struggle to gain adoption that year. At least one robust AT to ActivityPub bridge sees wide reach in 2024 on both sides of the BlueSky to ActiivtyPub worlds.\u0026rdquo;\n▶️ This one I count as a 3/4th correct prediction, too. The partial miss is that it did so for some countries but not ALL yet. And as we don\u0026rsquo;t have data on how many federated accounts exist, the size of federated Threads is hard to guage. But anecdotal evidence that it is at least hitting the scale I predicted. \u0026ldquo;Threads will federate into all its users who opt-in, at least in “read-only” mode akin to what the early test users see today. This will move Threads to functionally be the second largest Federated server software in 2024, next to Mastodon.\u0026rdquo;\n▶️ Meta did a responsible and slow roll out of federation that I do think helped this prediction be true this year. And they actually moved to a bit more than \u0026ldquo;read only mode.\u0026rdquo; So here is what I predicted a year ago: \u0026ldquo;Threads will federate into all its users who opt-in, at least in “read-only” mode akin to what the early test users see today. This will move Threads to functionally be the second largest Federated server software in 2024, next to Mastodon\u0026hellip;.There will be continued controversy and discussion inside the Fediverse as the Threads interoperability launches …but throughout 2024, the Fediverse works it out, and moderators will without major incidents be able to manage their servers in this new environment - and the Fediverse as a whole navigates this without any major schism forming.\u0026rdquo;\n▶️ Got this one right too. And I was right that it wasn\u0026rsquo;t Tumblr, the platform was Ghost. \u0026ldquo;There will be at least one other medium-to-large new social media platform in 2024 that will formally announce it is adopting ActivityPub and actively building out support for it….and it will not be Tumblr. Tumblr will continue experimenting in ActivtyPub, offering it to users who buy Tumblr subscription ad-free versions.\u0026rdquo;\n▶️ Back to another miss. Actual combined monthly average users of Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin and PieFed more like 43,000. So that was WAY off. \u0026ldquo;Lemmy \u0026amp; Kbin Fediverse servers continue to evolve their features and UX and integrate more closely with the Fediverse and will grow to 1.5 million registered users, and over 200K monthly active users in 2024.\u0026rdquo;\n▶️ On this one, I count it as half correct, but wrong again missing on my prediction of adoption numbers, while I was right that offerings like Loops, and federated podcasts via Podcast Index launched. But not at 50K users yet. \u0026ldquo;One whole new category of software will grow to a solid foothold in the Fediverse - beyond the existing microblogging, peer-tube-like videos, longer-form blogging, and Lemmy/Kbin-style social news aggregation. I have no idea what that would be - federated storefronts? federated podcasts? Other? - but it will grow to see over 50,000 registered users.\u0026rdquo;\n▶️ Jury is out on this one and hard to say via FediDb data. Mastodon and other Fediverse accounts did see Brazilian users grow as X was temporarily banned there, but saw far less influx than BlueSky did. \u0026ldquo;At least one other continent becomes relevant for the Fediverse in 2024 - beyond its current concentration in North America, Europe and Asia. Expect growth in Africa and South America and elsewhere but at least one will emerge as an important new growth area for the Fediverse by the end of the year.\u0026rdquo;\nOK what do you all think? Was this review more or less accurate to what I got right and wrong?\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-24 15:20:49 -0400", "date": "3:20 p.m. on Dec 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/12/24/review-of-my-predictions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2024%2F12%2F24%2Freview-of-my-predictions.html" }, { "id": 193, "type": "post", "title": "A Quick Snapshot of the Microblogging Landscape", "text": "So given the post-election swell of BlueSky and Threads\u0026hellip;and a far more modest but existent swell of new users to the Fediverse, it feels like the battle to be a non-X/Twitter microblogging solution is coming into view. Threads and BlueSky, each seeing a recent momentum of over 1 milliion users per day are the clear top two.\nNotable that both Theads and Bluesky are built with the open social web, and decentralized open tech features are either inherently part of both, or soon will be. ActivtyPub for Threads, ATproto for BlueSky.\nSo I am thankful that this is not a battle between closed and open, but that all the major competiors in this space are all open.\nSo in one way it is a \u0026ldquo;format war\u0026rdquo; like VHS/Beta and for now Threads/Mastodon/etc are on one side, BlueSky on the other. But I actually think and hope that ATProto and Activitypub build out more and more interoperability, so it all becomes like open email: and no-one much cares if it is pop3 protocol or imap protocol and eventually it all just works as one big \u0026ldquo;open social web.\u0026rdquo; And things like BridgyFed are the eariest signs of that.\nA big note: Threads and Bluesky\u0026rsquo;s massive success of late and Mastodon\u0026rsquo;s modest success does not make Mastodon and other fediverse/activitypub offerings losers. In this case it isn\u0026rsquo;t zero-sum. Fully open, patent free, non-commercial offerings like Mastodon, etc, have different needs and lifecycles and futures not tied to VC\u0026rsquo;s or shareholders. Where BlueSky will have it\u0026rsquo;s own financial expectations to it\u0026rsquo;s investors, Mastodon is - as Nilay Patel said - \u0026ldquo;definitionally unkillable.\u0026rdquo;\nAnd the Mastodon and non-Threads fediverse itself has also seen steady growth, in total users at 11 million, good server growth, active monthly users inching upward and currently just over 1 million. For me, Mastodon never needed to \u0026ldquo;win\u0026rdquo; but rather be big enough and robust enough to keep everyone else honest and then keep growing over longer timescales.\nBut it does paint a picture where the landscape will likely emerge over the next year. Sometime later I\u0026rsquo;ll look back at my 2024 predictions - that I think I got some right, some very optimistic and off. I think there are too many moving pieces to predict 2025 other than that Threads and BlueSky emerge as the main commercial heirs to what the old Twitter was.\nHow it plays beyond that will hinge on a few variables including:\nI do think it will matter deeply as to how and when Threads fully turns on two-way federation into ActivityPub. Do other major services join supprting ActivtyPub? Or ATProto?\nI do think it could make a big diffeerence if BlueSky folks choose to allow BridgyFed to be opt-out on their side, fostering more users interoperating with the ActivtyPub side of the Open Social Web.\nI think it will matter at how quickly Mastodon continues to sand off its rough edges.\nThe most common negative critique I see of Mastodon by those who reject it is that it is the \u0026ldquo;Linux for Desktop\u0026rdquo; of social. I get that. But it needs to evolve quickly into becoming what ChomeOS is to the Chromebook laptops - which also runs a version of Linux and has grown to a healthy share of users. It has that in it: just look at Phanpy.social to see what I still find a superior Fediverse UX than any of the social platforms.\nI think it will matter if orgs like IFTAS, and Social Web Foundation are well funded and both help the Fediverse evolve in safer and more robust functionality.\nI hope that Mastodon itself leans into a more plugable architecture: enabling alternative UX to plug in, allowing alternative services to plug in and offer other functionality across servers. That could enable faster evolution of key parts of Matodon while also allowing the core product to evolve at its own pace.\nI hope that BlueSky finds keeps evolving it\u0026rsquo;s own unique ways, it also finds ways to lean into interoperablity over the next year, even in small ways like supprting 500 character messages that are easier to bridge, suppritng rel=me for verification, and finding supprting BridgyFed evoltution.\nIn a way I am more optimistic than ever at the open social web. It is an exciting time to be in this space, and am thankful for the communities I have on Mastodon as my main open social web home, but also on the BlueSky and Threads accounts I also inhabit.\nHappy Thanksgiving, everyone.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-29 16:28:20 -0400", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Nov 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/11/29/a-quick-snapshot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2024%2F11%2F29%2Fa-quick-snapshot.html" }, { "id": 194, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cool, just testing out the new **Micro.blog editor.**​ I think a good improvement overall.​ And it does make formatting, adding links, and images - while still in markdown -a good deal easier. Thanks @manton!\n​\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-19 10:39:49 -0400", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Aug 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/08/19/cool-just-testing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2024%2F08%2F19%2Fcool-just-testing.html" }, { "id": 195, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I keep wishing this peace process for a #CeaseFire in Gaza well. Keep building up hope for each one, knowing that he odds are long, but maybe this time. www.npr.org/2024/07/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-07 20:34:50 -0400", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Jul 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/07/07/i-keep-wishing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2024%2F07%2F07%2Fi-keep-wishing.html" }, { "id": 196, "type": "post", "title": "Ai and the Fediverse, and Indieweb.Social ", "text": "As we see Apple, Meta, and Google deeply integrate their AI systems deeply into their platforms, browsers, and operating systems, I think one of the competitive advantages of the Fediverse will be that it is place where USERS are in control of how they consume, share, and interact with AI generated content.\nThis advantage to users relating to AI, I think, will rival the advantage that the Fediverse already sees in terms of being free from and in control of algorithmic manipulation, free from centralized control, free from micro-targeted ads, and free from and free from data mining.\nBut I am putting some thoughts into how the Federation needs to evolve to better empower users. And I\u0026rsquo;ll write more about this and soon make two additions to indieweb.social\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;about\u0026rdquo; sections. One where I commit to never sell the 11,400+ users' content to any AI platform for their training, and the other announcement where I list new server rules requiring posts here to use AI-generated content to either label their accounts as \u0026ldquo;automated\u0026rdquo; or add a specific AI content hashtag to their posts, or both.\nLastly, we have already updated our Robots.txt file for this server to disallow all AI-generated content from being indexed by all AI systems we could identify. And we will be continually updating that list. It is an important note: this does not protect your public posts that federate out to the public Fediverse servers beyond this one\u0026hellip;\nBut this should be an important speedbump to protect any direct scraping of public posts on this site. And some speedbumps are better than none.\nFor other admins, here are the robots.txt settings we added, and always up for notes to optimize this further:\nUser-agent: Amazonbot\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: Applebot-Extended\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: Bytespider\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: CCBot\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: ChatGPT-User\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: Claude-Web\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: ClaudeBot\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: Diffbot\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: FacebookBot\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: Google-Extended\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: GPTBot\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: ImagesiftBot\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: Omgilibot\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: Omgili\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: PerplexityBot\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: anthropic-ai\nDisallow: /\nUser-agent: YouBot\nDisallow: /\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-16 22:22:52 -0400", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Jun 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/06/16/ai-and-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2024%2F06%2F16%2Fai-and-the.html" }, { "id": 197, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good data here on #podcating usage: www.westwoodone.com/blog/2024\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-30 11:03:06 -0400", "date": "11:03 p.m. on May 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/05/30/good-data-here.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2024%2F05%2F30%2Fgood-data-here.html" }, { "id": 198, "type": "post", "title": "Ideas for How ActivityPub Might Solve this Problem that BlueSky Points Out?", "text": "OK Internet hive mind: working thru a half-formed idea. I like that BluesSky and Nostr and ActivityPub all learn off of each other's good ideas. And I do think that BlueSky's claims of more seamless migration of accounts is a plus, but one that #ActivityPub folks have line of site on how to improve. The other claim of innovation of BlueSky folks is that since they are not server dependent, but rather semi-centralized (if theoretically swappabley so) that if your local server dies or crashes the user is not stuck. Now those of us who have signed the Mastodon server covenant, promise to give three months notice before shutting down. But lets say an admin and his co-admins were all hit by a (large) bus. In short: If a Mastodon server goes belly up without warning in Mastodon or ActivityPub land and users have no account to migrate.\nIn BlueSky or AT Protocol world, as I understand it, the claim is that it is not dependent on one “personal data server” and the other semi-centralized bits could enable the poor users to still migrate elsewhere. I think that is all somewhat theoretical in Bluesy now, as they have just now gotten basic federation working. But the question is: in an ActivityPub world, how could we evolve to solve that one admittedly problematic use case — without resorting to centralization, and without any blockchain gobbledegook?\nI have some beginnings of ideas but want to see what you all think first.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-29 22:35:09 -0400", "date": "10:35 p.m. on Mar 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/03/29/ideas-for-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2024%2F03%2F29%2Fideas-for-how.html" }, { "id": 199, "type": "post", "title": "Welcome to Day One of Threads and the Fediverse", "text": "So everybody, good job. We made it through day one.  We can all take a deep breath. First day down. I believe both the fediverse and Threads fared well on the first day of their merger. The sky did not fall on either side, and the admins and server owners of Mastodon and other Fediverse servers were not overwhelmed by swarms of traffic, despite a surge in new usage and users. Using my server as a guide, we found no increase in abuse or harassment. Actually, it was a normal, calm day in terms of new open tickets, with no abuse of any kind against our 11,600 members to report.\nAnd I believe the opposite is true: not only did no disaster occur, but many people on both sides saw a glimpse of the future of the open social web. In practice, not in theory. For the first time, at this scale. I saw numerous new Threads users excited to discover the Fediverse, and many Fediverse users welcomed them.\nAs I stated in another conversation with the threads development team, congratulations to everyone; today was a part of Internet history. Congratulations to the Mastodon and Fediverse users who did not panic out and welcomed the newcomers. I'm sure there will be hurdles and issues to address on all sides. However, today was a good day. Well done, everyone.\nNow, on to day two.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-22 00:10:24 -0400", "date": "12:10 p.m. on Mar 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/03/22/welcome-to-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2024%2F03%2F22%2Fwelcome-to-day.html" }, { "id": 200, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This year’s #Fediforum has been outstanding. Still digging into day 2. ", "dateiso": "2024-03-20 14:21:24 -0400", "date": "2:21 p.m. on Mar 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/03/20/this-years-fediforum.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2024%2F03%2F20%2Fthis-years-fediforum.html" }, { "id": 201, "type": "post", "title": "Indieweb.Social and the Upcoming #BlueSkyBridge", "text": "This is a brief announcement announcing Indieweb.social\u0026rsquo;s future software bridge work by BridgyFed - fed.brid.gy - will enable interoperability between ActivityPub networks and AT Protocol/BlueSky users.\nRead the announcement at snarfed.org/2024-02-1\u0026hellip;\nAs 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.\nThis is akin to our server\u0026rsquo;s position on Threads federation as well. With both, we will moderate with extreme care and will ensure that our user\u0026rsquo;s safety is our first and utmost priority. And with both, we will adjust our position if facts require it.\nAt the same time, we will also assist our users who choose to opt-out by explaining how they can block particular BlueSky users or block the entire bridge and opt out by DM\u0026rsquo;ing Ryan Barnett at or entering #nobridge in their profile bio.\nAs the administrator of indieweb.social, I enthusiastically endorse this #BlueSkyBridge work, and I believe that individuals concerned about being \u0026ldquo;opt-out\u0026rdquo; forget that the Fediverse\u0026rsquo;s core is established on this sort of bridging and Federating as a conscious design. As @beaware rightly put it, there can be legit reasons to block this bridge for those who wish to, \u0026ldquo;but don\u0026rsquo;t disguise it as some sort \u0026lsquo;opt-in only stance\u0026rsquo; because if you\u0026rsquo;re a legit Fediverse admin, you know the Fediverse as a whole is opt-out by design.\u0026quot; indieweb.social/@tchamber\u0026hellip;\nAnd at the same time built into the core principles of the Fedi is that it offers you all the tools to curate your own experience and block and filter at will.\nOne last personal note:\nI also know Ryan Barlett well and have engaged with him during this project.\nThis is a good-faith developer who loves the open web, respects and cares about the ethos of the Fediverse, deeply values #indieweb principles. He has put countless hours into this project as a labor of love for the open social web. He has also gone well out of his way to be transparent and a good actor at every step of this work.\nHe deserves all of our respect and I hope that the vast majority of Fediverse voices offer him that - even those who do not wish to take part in the bridge or who disagree with the \u0026ldquo;opt-out\u0026rdquo; nature of it.\nThe Fedivere needs more developers like Ryan and the vitriol from a minority of the few is not a good look. To his credit Ryan is listening even to the more shrill voices and willing to iterate while keeping to Fediverse and open web principles. fed.brid.gy/r/https:/\u0026hellip;\nI hope other voices of support - even those who disagree - reach out and make their voices heard over the more rancorous ones. The Fediverse needs to be a place of respect and community.\nI\u0026rsquo;m honored that he set up a support account here on this server - indieweb.social/@snarfed - and look forward to helping support this effort as it evolves.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-13 17:40:29 -0400", "date": "5:40 p.m. on Feb 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/02/13/indiewebsocial-and-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2024%2F02%2F13%2Findiewebsocial-and-the.html" }, { "id": 202, "type": "post", "title": "2024 Fediverse Predictions", "text": "These are fun and like seeing the tech predictions starting to pop up in a lot of other places. Figure I should add mine about the Fediverse.\nAll of these predictions are based on how FediDB will measure them in the next year:\n▶️ The overall Fediverse as measured by FediDB will cross 25 million registered users, and by year\u0026rsquo;s end over 3 to 5 million monthly active users. The Fediverse will cross over 35,000 servers in 2024.\n▶️ Flipboard and WordPress will both move to be at least in the top 10 Fediverse software providers by monthly active users by the end of 2024.\n▶️ There will continue to be waves of users migrating to emerging social media platforms in 2024 and they will primarily be going to Threads, Mastodon, and BlueSky, roughly in that order. No new alternative social platforms emerge with any substance in 2024.\n▶️ Disinformation that originates on the Fediverse will for the first time - have a role in the 2024 US Election, spreading into other centralized platforms.\n▶️ BlueSky will federate out to other Bluesky servers for the first time in 2024, but users will remain primarily at the initial flagship server and others will struggle to gain adoption that year. At least one robust AT to ActivityPub bridge sees wide reach in 2024 on both sides of the BlueSky to ActiivtyPub worlds.\n▶️ Threads will federate into all its users who opt-in, at least in \u0026ldquo;read-only\u0026rdquo; mode akin to what the early test users see today. This will move Threads to functionally be the second largest Federated server software in 2024, next to Mastodon.\n▶️ There will be continued controversy and discussion inside the Fediverse as the Threads interoperability launches \u0026hellip;but throughout 2024, the Fediverse works it out, and moderators will without major incidents be able to manage their servers in this new environment - and the Fediverse as a whole navigates this without any major schism forming.\n▶️ There will be at least one other medium-to-large new social media platform in 2024 that will formally announce it is adopting ActivityPub and actively building out support for it\u0026hellip;.and it will not be Tumblr. Tumblr will continue experimenting in ActivtyPub, offering it to users who buy Tumblr subscription ad-free versions.\n▶️ Lemmy \u0026amp; Kbin Fediverse servers continue to evolve their features and UX and integrate more closely with the Fediverse and will grow to 1.5 million registered users, and over 200K monthly active users in 2024.\n▶️ One whole new category of software will grow to a solid foothold in the Fedivese - beyond the existing microblogging, peer-tube-like videos, longer-form blogging, and Lemmy/Kbin-style social news aggregation. I have no idea what that would be - federated storefronts? federated podcasts? Other? - but it will grow to see over 50,000 registered users.\n▶️ At least one other continent becomes relevant for the Fediverse in 2024 - beyond its current concentration in North America, Europe and Asia. Expect growth in Africa and South America and elsewhere but at least one will emerge as an important new growth area for the Fediverse by the end of the year.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-29 20:45:17 -0400", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Dec 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/12/29/fediverse-predictions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F12%2F29%2Ffediverse-predictions.html" }, { "id": 203, "type": "post", "title": "A Year End List of Fediverse Development I'm Hopeful for in 2024", "text": "As the year ends, thought this would be a good time to list some of the projects and group efforts relating to the Fediverse I’m very jazzed about. Some I\u0026rsquo;ve helped advise, some I\u0026rsquo;ve just applauded them from a distance.\nI think there has been more innovation that benefits user experience inside the larger Fediverse in the last year or so, than in some of the giant closed silos of Social Media in ten years.\nSome key ones that I\u0026rsquo;m involved in helping move downfield as a formal or informal advisor:\n ActivtyPub Test Suite: crucially important as big players enter the Fediverse to have a toolset to define what “ActivityPub compliant” means and doesn’t. nlnet.nl/project/F\u0026hellip;\n BlueSky/AT and Mastodon/ActivityPub Bridge - am giving some recommendations and will be testing its important project linking these two protocols of the open social web. Watch this space lots happening there soon.\n IFTAS - Distributed Trust and Safety Effort- am advising this critically important group. Helping fortify and up the distributed moderation of the 20,000+ Fediverse servers. Few efforts for maturing the Fediverse are more important than this one: about.iftas.org\n Mammoth Browser - latest release with Smart lists - a mix of curated lists and basic algorithms to surface the best of them. I\u0026rsquo;m curating some smart lists for this, very worth checking out. getmammoth.app\n Projects I\u0026rsquo;m applauding from a distance:\n All the efforts innovating at Fediverse UI/UX: this includes MastodonBirdUI - which we have implemented on our server at Indieweb.social, Tangerine UI, Elk, and Phanpy. All are great, and Phanpy I think actually may be my favorite social UX of ANY social service, decentralized or any of the siloed commercial services. phanpy.social\n New server communities: Fascinated at all the efforts at creating new servers and services: Obviously including Flipboard ( Flipboard.social) Medium (http://me.dm) and fascinating to watch Mozila what they are quietly building at the very bespoke version of their Mastodon server at mozilla.social\n The deep commitment of WordPress into the ActivityPub space is inspiring to watch Matthias and the team’s work building out a whole new blogging and web publishing space integrating into the Fediverse. Will be doing all I can to help organize efforts to move that into a canonical plugin status.\n Another key Open Web Platform - Wikipedia (@wikipedia@wikis.world) and Wikimedia (@mediawiki@wikis.world) - embraced the Open Social Web and the Fediverse this year. Bringing with them lots of different Wikipedia accounts, but also launching a whole server devoted to Wiki creators of all types. (https://wikis.world/about)\n What I wish for all of these projects, may they thrive and may their gene pool increase.\n And of course, looking forward I now do predict we see Threads Federating I say this as I’ve seen breadcrumbs of code surfacing in the apps, and early features such as rel=me support in Threads, and that at every chance they have had to reaffirm their commitment to joining the open social web, they have voiced that commitment and not watered it down.\nWe will see. It’s still almost all talk until they deliver. But am hopeful now, and also remain on the same strategy as I voiced before on this blog.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-06 18:20:53 -0400", "date": "6:20 p.m. on Dec 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/12/06/a-year-end.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F12%2F06%2Fa-year-end.html" }, { "id": 204, "type": "post", "title": "More from Meta on Threads Launch and Future ActivityPub Support", "text": "Jesse Chen (engineering manager on Threads) and Zahan Malkani (server engineer lead on the Threads app) from the Instagram dev team discuss their launch - growing from a small incubation team to one of the central efforts from inside Meta - and importantly they reaffirm the upcoming support for ActivityPub, in this interview:\n\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m excited for our team to keep shipping features that will improve people\u0026rsquo;s experience on Threads.\nI’m also excited about our commitment to join the Fediverse and support the ActivityPub protocol. At our scale, it’s an incredibly exciting technical and regulatory challenge. Joining the Fediverse and building interoperability with other networks to create a more diverse and thriving public conversation ecosystem is something we remain committed to working towards.\u0026rdquo;\nnewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/buildin\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-08 12:46:37 -0400", "date": "12:46 p.m. on Sep 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/09/08/more-from-meta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F09%2F08%2Fmore-from-meta.html" }, { "id": 205, "type": "post", "title": "Important Exchange from Casey Newton and Joshua Toplosky on Threads \u0026 the Fediverse", "text": "And this from this episode with Casey Newton and Joshua Toplosky:\nJosh: \u0026ldquo;I understand the whole Fediverse and the Mastodon thing, and that is cool, and if they can make it work well, I\u0026rsquo;m totally into it and will keep posting there\u0026hellip;\n\u0026hellip;But I think we all acknowledge, that whether it\u0026rsquo;s Jack Dorsey, or Elon Musk\u0026hellip; one of these are going to run the social network\u0026hellip;.Do if in this case [of Threads] if it\u0026rsquo;s owned by Mark Zuckerberg versus Elon Musk?\u0026rdquo;\nCasey: \u0026ldquo;But we haven\u0026rsquo;t even discussed that it\u0026rsquo;s decentralized. Which is the actual answer to this question. You are going to be able to set up your own [Activitypub] server, \u0026amp; your posts are going to be able to appear on Threads even though Meta doesn\u0026rsquo;t operate it\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo;\nJosh: \u0026ldquo;\u0026hellip;.There is a common belief that they are doing that partially because if they basically make it part of the fediverse, they can get basically away with doing whatever moderation they want [on their site] and say [to those outside their site] \u0026lsquo;Hey, you can own your own server, and you can post whatever you want, and set up your own [server] rules\u0026hellip;and they don\u0026rsquo;t have to be the arbiters of free speech on their own owned-and-operated\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo;\nCasey: \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s a good answer to that problem\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo;\nJosh: \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s the answer we are all looking for I think.\u0026rdquo;\npodcasts.apple.com/us/podcas\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-14 10:51:53 -0400", "date": "10:51 p.m. on Jul 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/07/14/important-exchange-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F07%2F14%2Fimportant-exchange-from.html" }, { "id": 206, "type": "post", "title": "Threads and ActivtyPub - Key New Quotes from Adam Mosseri from Instagram", "text": "Here are some very important quotes from the head of Instagram on their roll-out of ActivytPub support and how they plan to interact with the Fediverse: which he commits to being a \u0026ldquo;fast follow\u0026rdquo; feature to add now that they have launched, where he commits to decentralization to be a long term feature, and where he discusses how content moderation at IG Threads will work with Federation server content moderation:\nAnd I do think that decentralization — but more specifically or more broadly, more open systems are where the industry is getting pulled and is going to grow over time. And for us, a new app offers us an opportunity to meaningfully participate in that space in the way it would be very difficult for us to support an incredibly large app like Instagram over. And so to lean into where the industry is going, to learn, it’s been very humbling speaking to a bunch of people in the community who look at us, unsurprisingly, with a lot of skepticism. But I do think it’s going to be fundamentally good. And I do think it’s going to translate into not philosophical, but meaningful things for creators over the long run. Like, you should be able to take your audience, if you build up an audience on Threads — and if you decide to leave Threads, take your audience with you. And theoretically, over time, we should be able to support use cases like that that really empower creators and, I think, lean into what creators are going to demand and expect over time. And this:\nThere definitely are trade-offs. You’re giving up some control. But there are benefits. I do think, over time, it’s going to be a more compelling value proposition that other apps aren’t going to offer. And I think that should attract more creative talent over the long run. Obviously, I don’t think a large percentage of creators are interested in this, specifically decentralized technology, today. But more and more are. And they’re definitely interested in things like owning their audience. We also get some benefits. If there are other apps that are really large that use the same protocol, you’ll be able to follow content from those servers in our app. And so it is a give and take. But yeah, you are giving up some control. It’s not absolute control. So for instance, you can build other things into the app that the ActivityPub protocol does not support. And they’ll just be limited to the app. So you don’t have to limit the things you build to things that the protocol has already designed for. But obviously, you won’t benefit from any of the decentralized opportunities if you do that. \nAnd:\n Kevin Roose: So do you think that the decentralization piece of this actually will result in a better user experience? Or is it just kind of like a bone to maybe throw the company’s critics people who say, I don’t want to use another app owned by Meta, I’m wary of what they’re going to do with my data, or I’m worried about some of the privacy considerations there? Is the decentralization piece actually going to move the needle for adoption on Threads? Mosseri: I don’t think it’s going to move the adoption in the short term. But I do think it’s going to move the adoption in the long term. I sure hope so because it’s a ton of work. And if it doesn’t, then it certainly was time poorly spent. Supporting a decentralized protocol with all the different things that we do — reporting flows, classifying things, ranking content — is actually a ton of work. It’s one of the reasons why it’s taken much longer than I wanted to get this thing out the door. And we’re still not actually supporting ActivityPub protocol at launch. Hopefully, we’re fast-following with that. So yeah, I believe it will move the needle over the long run\u0026hellip;.And to me, this is in the column of things that are, I think, going to be meaningful over the next two years, or three years, or four years. I don’t think it’s going to meaningfully change what usage of the app looks like over the next two or three months. \nAlso:\n Kevin Roose: If eventually Threads is interoperable with Mastodon or something else that’s built on ActivityPub, maybe people are putting stuff there that you would never permit under the Instagram community guidelines. So I guess my two questions there — one is just, how is content moderated on Threads in general? Does it fall under Instagram’s guidelines? And then how is that going to evolve once you start plugging this thing into other apps? Mosseri: So the community guidelines are the same for Threads as they are for Instagram. There’s an immense amount of benefit there because we can bring the systems that we’ve already built and extend them to a new app. And that allows us to keep a lot of people much safer much more easily than having to spin up a whole bunch of new policies and implementations and enforcement.\nIt will also apply to content that you can pull in from other servers. But it’s important to note that the ActivityPub protocol leaves space for this. They are very clear, if you talk to the community, that different servers should have different policies and different guidelines. And they should be allowed to enforce those. And so yes, you can pull content from another server into your app. But then you can also decide not to show it or to block it in your app. If it violates your policies without blocking that content on the server from which it originated.\n www.nytimes.com/2023/07/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-08 11:23:30 -0400", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Jul 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/07/08/threads-and-activtypub.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F07%2F08%2Fthreads-and-activtypub.html" }, { "id": 207, "type": "post", "title": "Instagram Threads and the Fediverse (Part 5)", "text": "I wrote before that we need humility, recognizing there is so much we don\u0026rsquo;t know and could be wrong about.\nI would have sworn that Meta would not support full export of users' social graph to go join other servers. Many opposing federation with Meta did too. We were all wrong at least to what the head of Instagram just posted.\nindieweb.social/@fedivers\u0026hellip;\nWe should wait, verify and not take him at his word, but that is hugely good news if true, and surprising to all of us. This reminds me of this scene from the film Lincoln between abolitionists opponents of Lincoln and the speaker of the House Thadeus Stevens, played by Tommy Lee Jones:\nASA VINTNER LITTON: You know he isn't to be trusted. THADDEUS STEVENS: Trust? I\u0026rsquo;m sorry, I was under the misapprehension your chosen profession was politics. I\u0026rsquo;ve never trusted the President. I never trust anyone. But\u0026hellip; Hasn\u0026rsquo;t he surprised you?\nASA VINTNER LITTON No, Mr. Stevens, he hasn\u0026rsquo;t.\nTHADDEUS STEVENS Nothing surprises you, Asa, therefore nothing about you is surprising. Perhaps that is why your constituents did not re-elect you to the coming term.\n(collecting his cane and STANDING:) It\u0026rsquo;s late, I\u0026rsquo;m old, I\u0026rsquo;m going home.\nStevens limps to the door, opens it, and turns.\nTHADDEUS STEVENS (CONT\u0026rsquo;D) Lincoln the inveterate dawdler, Lincoln the Southerner, Lincoln the capitulating compromiser, our adversary - and leader of the godforsaken Republican Party, our party - Abraham Lincoln has asked us to work with him to accomplish the death of slavery in America.\n(BEAT:)\nRetain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment. \n", "dateiso": "2023-07-05 09:31:49 -0400", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Jul 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/07/05/nstagram-threads-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F07%2F05%2Fnstagram-threads-and.html" }, { "id": 208, "type": "post", "title": "Instagram Threads and the Fediverse (Part 4)", "text": "As Meta\u0026rsquo;s new App - now officially confirmed as \u0026ldquo;Threads\u0026rdquo; - has a near-term launch date of July 6th, wanted to restate that Indieweb.social will be taking the same position as almost all mid-sized and large-sized servers and will be \u0026ldquo;Watching Like a Hawk, with our Fingers Over the Block Button.\u0026rdquo; We will NOT be pre-emptively taking a \u0026ldquo;Fediblock as a Frist Strike\u0026rdquo; position.\nFor reasons I listed here: www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/2\u0026hellip;\n➡️ And as I listed in that article, I firmly believe that this position is a smarter and better way to keep our people safe AND be in a stronger position to defend the open social web. Far better than a first- strike that would not accomplish its goals, and actually put us in a worse position defensively.\nI have also been helping coordinate efforts at building out Fediverse test suites to ensure that all new actors (like Threads) that claim ActivityPub compliance have to prove their claims or be shown where they are lacking. That is the one real defense against \u0026ldquo;Embrace, Extend, Extinguish\u0026rdquo; plays by any large actor. To join in and help with this, follow this Mastodon-compatible Frendica group here: venera.social/profile/a\u0026hellip;\nThis ActivityPub Test Suite needs to happen ASAP, so any dev support is welcome! DM me if you want to know more.\n➡️ Next, as we approach the Threads launch date, it does now appear - as previously reported, that Threads will be launching WITHOUT Federation turned on at first, and that this will be turned on at some point after launch. Some reporters said it could be 2 or 3 months after. That, if true, is a responsible act from them that both gives them time to judge the size of the new userbase before Federating AND it gives those of us in the Fediverse time to see in reality what we are dealing with prior to Federation beginning.\nI think we are ready for what is about to come this week.\nWith this weekend\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;Twitter Migration 3\u0026rdquo; likely sending 300,000 new users in 48 hours, not to mention the hundreds of thousands that joined the Fedi via the #RedditMigration, we have shown as a Fediverse that we can handle large-scale loads of new users, and if IndieWeb.social is any guide, and what I have seen from other admins, our tools and our moderation of this new influx of Twitter users went well. And the overall servers were ready to handle the load well. Far better than in the first wave of the Twitter Migration. We\u0026rsquo;ve built some resilience into every aspect of the Fediverse since then.\nIt all gives me great hope for what is about to come as admins do final preparations getting ready for what will come. \n➡️ Next: I expect that with the imminent Threads launch that the \u0026ldquo;Block First\u0026rdquo; versus \u0026ldquo;Watch Like a Hawk\u0026rdquo; camps will likely get more intense. I hope we don\u0026rsquo;t return to admins getting threats of violence against them.\n➡️ I point folks to this article I wrote calling out the need for people on both camps to try to embrace \u0026ldquo;humility, empathy, and community\u0026rdquo; as a key ethos in how we treat each other and suss things out. Which we will. I will do my best to be a voice of de-escalation within the Fedi family and to amplify other such voices. www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/3\u0026hellip;\n➡️ And on this note: no matter your admin\u0026rsquo;s choice, be kind and support your admin. This next few weeks will likely be testing a lot of them. Donate to them if you haven\u0026rsquo;t. Put in a kind word along with it.\nBut that said, this is what we all signed up for. To ride these waves and try to help create a new kind of open social that can disrupt and change the status quo. Many of us are doing this for exactly weekends like this Twitter wave, and for whatever opportunities and threats will come from Threads.\n➡️ A path for those who wish it: I respect the subset of Fedi admins in the other camp that choose to Fediblock First, although I disagree with their choice. I think sites like NotMeta.social (https://notmeta.social/) serve a purpose for those who specifically want that. If any members of this server do not want to remain due to our policy of not preemptively blocking, I recommend Chris\u0026rsquo;s site and can assist with migration.\n➡️ Avoid the nuclear option of defederation inside the family: I would ask that those admins that choose a first-strike nuclear option on Threads, do not choose to do \u0026ldquo;two degrees of separation\u0026rdquo; and defederate all the servers that do not defederate Threads. If they feel they need to do more, I hope they instead choose to \u0026ldquo;limit/silence\u0026rdquo; them instead. I hope they do not take the nuclear option against other fellow Fedi neighbors and their users.\n➡️ My last note: we will update our users here on things as they go. We will be fully transparent as to our choices as new data comes in. And as we work to watch like a hawk, but also migrate new Threads users over to the Fediverse, we invite you to use tools like my team built here: www.spreadmastodon.org\nWe have gone through huge twists and turns in the Fedi before. This very weekend was one big one. We will handle Threads well, and as a Fediverse, we will suss it out. Onward.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-03 21:18:25 -0400", "date": "9:18 p.m. on Jul 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/07/03/instagram-threads-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F07%2F03%2Finstagram-threads-and.html" }, { "id": 209, "type": "post", "title": "Meta and the Fediverse (\"First Time, Part 3)", "text": "The strum and drang of the conversation of Meta joining the Fediverse continue at it\u0026rsquo;s wild and intense pace: See this: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/06/3\u0026hellip;\nAnd to me, for the most part, that is a good thing, this is a big deal and we as a fediverse family should suss it out. We have had big turns in the road before - and we sussed it out over time. We will again when the next bigtech go adopts ActivtyPub.\nBut the recent intense and \u0026ldquo;almost religious overtones\u0026rdquo; to the debate, and even worse, the death threats and vitriol from a fringe - I think call for three additional traits from us from each camp, all of which may be in short supply when the emotional temperature rises and the amygdala part of our brains frequently assumes control.\nBut think it\u0026rsquo;s time for all of the Fediverse to do the whole \u0026ldquo;look to the better angels\u0026rdquo; thing and get one notch better at internal conflict resolution at how we grapple with this.\nBackground: I\u0026rsquo;ve previously stated that I believe the division of thought from the two camps of \u0026ldquo;Fediblock First\u0026rdquo; and the \u0026ldquo;Watch Like a Hawk with the Finger over the Block Button\u0026rdquo; groups come in part from this: From two different cultures that migrated to the Fediverse in separate timeframes with different contexts. www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/2\u0026hellip;\nGiven that, I think these three traits (if we can pull them off) would be of great help during the next few weeks and months:\n➡️ Humility: All sides should admit we don\u0026rsquo;t know far more than we do know right now.\nAs people see this potential change in the Fediverse, it is crucial to approach this time with humility. I think I see what will happen, I firmly believe that we have all the tools we need to moderate and protect our users now - without the need for a Fediblock first strike. I am deeply confident that we can manage the new users and protect our own without becoming overwhelmed. I also strongly believe that a premptive-ban on Meta is shortsighted and self-defeating. See here: www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/2\u0026hellip;\nBut I admit: I could be wrong. Really wrong.\nOthers predicting the worst outcomes from Meta joining the Fediverse may be correct, but THEY also may be wrong.\nThings will likely be very fluid, and mercurial once they join, and everyone should be willing to say, \u0026ldquo;Reality gets a vote,\u0026rdquo; and readdress their positions as new data comes in.\nBy setting aside our egos and embracing a humble mindset, we can create an environment where diverse perspectives are valued and respected. And it will be easier for us all to pivot once things really do occur and we all see what we are dealing with in terms of our new \u0026ldquo;Threads\u0026rdquo; neighbors.\n➡️ Empathy: By actively listening to one another and seeking to understand each other\u0026rsquo;s concerns, we can build bridges of empathy that promote constructive dialogue rather than divisive arguments. I\u0026rsquo;m all for constructive, reasoned arguments. But empathy should be the base under them all.\nThe Venn Diagram of the ethos, values, and priorities of \u0026ldquo;Team Fediblock First\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;Team Watch Like A Hawk\u0026rdquo; has approximately 99 percent overlap. By and large: one camp isn\u0026rsquo;t dead set on crippling the Fediverse \u0026ndash; and the other isn\u0026rsquo;t bound and determined to blindly trust Meta and allow great harm to come to our people - with marginalized communities likely to bear the worst.\nOverall: Both I believe want to protect our people as a first priority, and both I believe want the benefits they found at the Fediverse to be safely available to the widest number of people possible. The fringe who don\u0026rsquo;t - on both sides - are just that, a sliver of a sliver.\nLet\u0026rsquo;s not demonize each other and let\u0026rsquo;s see where each other shares the other side\u0026rsquo;s values. 99 percent overlap in my view.\n➡️ Community: we need to treat this like one albeit multi-cultural - community.\nSome think: Maybe there are just two schisms now \u0026ldquo;an open Fediverse and a gated one,\u0026rdquo; some say. Others are saying \u0026ldquo;two camps\u0026rdquo; exist and that the time has passed that the who can unite priorities: https://heat-shield.space/mastodon_two_camps.html\nThere will be a tiny maximalist set of users that both defed out Meta and then defed out anyone else who doesn\u0026rsquo;t. That sub-group was likely virtually out the door anyway.\nThe rest of us will figure this out. We did before at big turns in the road like when Gab tried to infiltrate when Twitter got bought sending six million folks into our shores when new corporate actors like Medium, Flipboard, and others joined in and proved themselves to be allies.\nThis isn\u0026rsquo;t our first time at this, and there will be more decisions like this after Meta, too.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-30 11:21:32 -0400", "date": "11:21 p.m. on Jun 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/30/meta-and-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F06%2F30%2Fmeta-and-the.html" }, { "id": 210, "type": "post", "title": "#Project92, the Fediverse: (First Time? Part 2)", "text": "One more post about how things are going inside the Fediverse now that #Project92 has joined the Fediverse.\nI have two ideas:\nOne is that the Fediverse has ALWAYS had to make hard choices about things like this, but we\u0026rsquo;ve always found a way. We\u0026rsquo;ll do it again. The sky isn\u0026rsquo;t going to fall, and there probably won\u0026rsquo;t be a \u0026ldquo;Great Schism.\u0026rdquo; It\u0026rsquo;s a mess, but we get through it. I think that a small part of the Fediverse will take a preemptive maximalist stance and try to defederate Meta before they even launch, even though we\u0026rsquo;ll still have 3 months after they launch to find out what their policies are. Even fewer of them will choose \u0026ldquo;2 degrees of separation,\u0026rdquo; which means that they will defederate anyone who doesn\u0026rsquo;t defederate Meta first. I don\u0026rsquo;t think a well-moderated instance needs to defederate, but I respect those who aren\u0026rsquo;t convinced and think it\u0026rsquo;s fine for them to join servers like Chris Trottier\u0026rsquo;s notmeta.social that are set up for that reason. I hope that not many people do this \u0026ldquo;two degrees of separation\u0026rdquo; thing and that some of the people who feel they need to do this, choose to \u0026ldquo;limit' other such servers instead. (The Fediverse will be fractured much less if they do.)\nAs I\u0026rsquo;ve already said, I understand that maximalist choice, but I don\u0026rsquo;t think it\u0026rsquo;s a good idea. We have the tools to protect our people, and we are stronger to \u0026ldquo;Watch like a hawk, with our fingers over the block button.\u0026rdquo; But some others will disagree. Back when I was helping to lead the movement to #Isolategab (which was not a preemptive strike and was stronger for it) even then there was a small group of sites that took the maximalist position in the opposite direction - and refused to defederate Gab.com because of maximalist free speech views.\nMy point about this first thought is that the Fediverse as a whole won\u0026rsquo;t decide on one moderation stance, but I do know one thing: we\u0026rsquo;ll figure it out and be fine in time, and we\u0026rsquo;ll also find good ways to include P92 users and move many of them to full Fediverse accounts. It will work out in the end, and we\u0026rsquo;ll be fine in the long run. We\u0026rsquo;ve done things like this before.\nTwo: I do think that some of these changes are part of the Fediverse\u0026rsquo;s culture, which has changed a lot in the last year.\nI see some users like this Fedi Admin, who are angry about what they see as a closed-off response to Meta, describing the state of things from their POV:\n \"It's not going to be Meta or Project 92 or whatever that kills Fedi. It's the fact that every time someone suggests a way for regular people to use it like they use social networks, the whole network shits the bed and starts screaming about keeping the outsiders out....Bluesky took Mastodon's lunch by not presenting itself as a \"overly complex, user-unfriendly network full of hostile people who can cut you off from your friends because the admin of your server thinks the admin of their server thinks they're a poohead, on which the number one topic of discussion is fedi itself.\" [indieweb.social/@Bloonfac...](https://indieweb.social/@Bloonface@mastodon.social/110604991048562220) I understand how they feel, but I don\u0026rsquo;t agree with them when they say things like \u0026ldquo;the whole network\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;it\u0026rsquo;s full of hostile people who can cut you off.\u0026rdquo; It is subset of the Fedi who want a preemptive strike. I think it will end up being a SMALL subset.\nFrom my point of view, the preemptive fediblock contingent is a mix of people from groups that have a long history of online harms against them and their allies, who have a legitimate fear of abuse from Meta policies, and who have a legitimate fear of Meta taking over and ruining the open standards we rely on. There are also some people who came to the Fediverse on purpose to stay as FAR, FAR, FAR away from big business as they could.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve already written about what I think are better ways to deal with these real concerns, so I won\u0026rsquo;t go over them again here. But I get it and empathize with these users.\nMy second idea is about Fedi Culture. Or rather \u0026ldquo;Cultures.\u0026rdquo; I think we are seeing some of the differences between the \u0026ldquo;Fediverse OG\u0026rdquo; culture and the \u0026ldquo;Fediverse Newbie\u0026rdquo; culture, which is made up of the much larger group of people who moved in over the last year.\nPeople from the \u0026ldquo;OG\u0026rdquo; culture of the early Fediverse came here when things were even more new than they are now. They were looking for safe, independent, ad-free, bigtech-free, corporation-free places. Before Elon took over, the number of people who had signed up had grown to about 4 million. Seme came out of the #indieweb or #small web movements that preceded it.\n(I consider myself a member of the Fediverse OG culture btw, joining in about 2018)\nThen Elon came along. Then about 6 million new people moved in. All newbies. fediverse.observer/stats\nAnd then another wave of several hundred thousand #RedditMigration users arrived and continue to arrive.\nAll of these waves are newbies and are of a very different culture.\nRoughly speaking: The new culture is folks became convinced that the first waves were onto something. They see the power in open, indie networks, they see that the whole Fediverse thing survived and grew and may be worth a look. And they saw even more clearly with Elon that closed siloes spiral down. They are open to building something new but they aren\u0026rsquo;t fully converts yet but are testing the waters and see it as better than the Twitter or Reddit hellholes. Whole new developer groups joined in these second waves, finding better places to grow and plug their services into. it includes more technologists and software folks who fought past battles against big tech #EEE efforts and won. The users in this wave of newbies is more open to ideas on how there are opportunities in \u0026ldquo;adversarial interoperability\u0026rdquo; to Meta as long as the tools we have to protect our own hold.\nLastly thought: our culture is about to change AGAIN. Once Meta Project 92 launches expect that - even if the entire Fedi blocked them or doesn\u0026rsquo;t - that within days/months they become the biggest Fediverse ActivtyPub host.\nThat means the entire Fediverse will get over time a whole newer set of newbies to join the last wave. We are about to get far more female-identifying. Less techie. And younger. This would be a good demographic trend in my book if it occurs. indieweb.social/@tchamber\u0026hellip;\nAnd as we have many times before, Fedivese culture will adjust and work it out. And keep our initial waves of people safe. The sky won\u0026rsquo;t fall.\nAnd many of us will be working to welcome in new blood, and find ways to use it as an opportunity to #EEE Meta.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-25 12:37:29 -0400", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Jun 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/25/project-the-fediverse.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F06%2F25%2Fproject-the-fediverse.html" }, { "id": 211, "type": "post", "title": "Threads and the Fediverse - A Smarter Battle Plan to Protect the Open Social Web", "text": "With the #meta #Project92 or #Threads Fediverse offering, there has been a, well, robust discussion of how to avoid threats looming. Those advocating mass-preemptive defederation make three cases for it.\n➡️ To avoid data mining \u0026hellip;\nHowever, defederation does virtually zero to avoid any big tech entity scraping all the Fediverse public social graph today - Want proof?\nSee here: is.gd/q8U2pv\nBut what if they merge that Fediverse data with their own internal data from IG isn\u0026rsquo;t that worse than just scraped data? They can do this now. They already have a frightening amount of internal data from inside IG, and as we said, virtually all of the public fediverse is scrapeable, and syncing those to datasets is unstoppable - with or without defederation.\nThe second argument:\n➡️ To defend against poorly moderated P92 users \u0026amp; ad spam, which disproportionately impact marginalized communities.\nThis should concern everyone, especially for communities that have suffered great harm on bigtech platforms. www.newamerica.org/weekly/on\u0026hellip;\nBut we have all the tools we need for that now - as users \u0026amp; as admins and deal with exactly this from poorly moderated servers EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.\nAnd if we find ANY server not responsive THEN we block. Protecting our users is our 1st job but we have all we need - WITHOUT first strike defederation.\nAnd remember we only have to protect the 1.3 million monthly active users inside the Fediverse. And we do that now every day. Spammers and toxic accounts inside the P92 network we or our social graphs don\u0026rsquo;t touch is their problem. Our problem is protecting our people.\nAnd as new users migrate over the Fedivese we will scale to support them - which we need to build scalability of moderation out anyway.\nThe 3rd argument for defederation:\n➡️ To defend against being \u0026ldquo;Embraced, Extended, and Extinguished.\u0026rdquo;\nThis is a real risk, and others point to Google and Facebook and XMPP, or Google and RSS Google reader. Where a big entity takes over, then rug pulls or extends an open standard slowly into a non-standard, non-interoperable functionally siloed service.\nThis is a real risk. But you don\u0026rsquo;t - and can\u0026rsquo;t - defend against this by defederation.\nWhy not? Because even if the entire existing Fedi pre-blocked them. Instagram has 1.6 BILLION users. If they push this, in one day just on their own they will be the size of the current Fedi\u0026rsquo;s monthly user base, and then grow from there.\nVirtually Instantly, they become the biggest ActivityPub entity on the planet. With or without a mass block.\nA Smarter Strategy Against \u0026ldquo;EEE attacks\u0026rdquo; than Premptive First Strike Defederation - that Still Protects Our People\nSo if we can\u0026rsquo;t stop the embrace, what can we do to combat the second \u0026ldquo;E?\u0026rdquo; How do you stop them from \u0026ldquo;extending\u0026rdquo; the AcitivyPub standard and twisting or crippling it?\nThis isn\u0026rsquo;t a new battle. Tons of efforts to use an EEE attack on open tech fail.\nAs others put it well #OpenSourceSoftware space has fought and won this battle many times.\nAnd as Dave Winer the godfather of RSS \u0026amp; Podcasting said: \u0026ldquo;Podcasting has withstood countless attacks like this, and has always been left standing as unsullied as ever.\u0026rdquo;\nWe know how to win this.\n➡️ First: Innovate and outcompete. \nEspecially where you can do things giants can\u0026rsquo;t. We can always outcompete Meta at being more private, ad-free, better moderated, and more open. We also need to compete on User Interface and User Experience.\nXMPP may have been hurt by FB and Google\u0026rsquo;s rug pull - but my recollection was more like this user when asked why did XMPP die and SMPT thrived?\n I was a weird XMPP nerd in high school and tried to switch friends from AIM. So here's my experience. Onboarding was difficult. There was no obvious choice of server or client to use.\n Adding friends was difficult. You needed to send a subscription request to a contact, and they needed to send one to you. If anything happened during this process, you couldn\u0026rsquo;t chat. * Popular XMPP clients, like Pidgin, also supported the other chat services (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, etc) so people just continued using those.\n Network effect. You need to convince a mass of people its better, otherwise, nobody\u0026rsquo;s using it because no-one uses it.\n No obvious benefit to the user. It\u0026rsquo;s decentralized sure, but there weren\u0026rsquo;t many improvements over AIM that people actually used.\n A lack of good iPhone XMPP clients.\n In 2005 Google added XMPP support to Google Talk/GMail Chat and they were federated, but nobody federated back and they closed off its successor (Hangouts).\n It\u0026rsquo;s eerie how those complaints - onboarding, confusing UX, the discovery of friends - feel akin to some made of the current Fediverse. We need to up our game all those issues fast\u0026hellip;and I see promising signs we are. Fedi client and server software will need to just be better - something #OSS devs have done for years. And we can too.\nOK, the next tactic we know works against #EEE attacks:\n➡️ Having a broad set of OTHER allies inside the tent of stakeholders. Growing the base of those who \u0026ldquo;embrace\u0026rdquo; it to even out the power dynamics. \nAnd btw, defederating developers PREMPTIVELY before they launch a single Meta Activtypub server, is the fastest way to make OTHER potential developers run for the hills. Actually to run to Bluesky.\nAnd my last major tactic for this post:\n➡️ Fediverse ActivityPub Standards Must Hold: We need to support our standards makers STAT. \nThe best defense against \u0026ldquo;extend\u0026rdquo; is a clear line of what we are defending. ActivityPub has needed a robust \u0026ldquo;test suite\u0026rdquo; to test compliance for a while \u0026amp; good efforts were unfinished. They need to be picked up at warp speed. To see an example of his working for other tech see: webmention.rocks\nThe creator of the Wordpress ActivtyPub plugin said that he wished he had this.\nUntil we get a robust test suite for #ActivityPub the risk is Meta or others \u0026ldquo;extend it\u0026rdquo; or the converse, support \u0026ldquo;almost all of it,\u0026rdquo; but miss crucial bits.\nDave Winer mentioned once that Google leaving bits of RSS support out of Google Reader hurt the effort for years. (But it recovered and #EEE failed over time)\nI\u0026rsquo;m working with a number of stakeholders now to see if we can build out an alpha of just this. Is crucial work. Want to help? DM me at @techambers@indieweb.social on the Fedi.\nWrapping up: This isn\u0026rsquo;t a new fight. OSS devs have been here before. Many times. And won.\nWe have all the tools, development energy \u0026amp; moderation tech to protect our people we need - without first strikes.\nWe have past #OSS \u0026amp; open tech fights to learn off of \u0026amp; as others have argued well: being open - if they are - is a first crack in #Meta\u0026rsquo;s armor.\nWe may get a window - if we both protect our people \u0026amp; don\u0026rsquo;t act insularly - to run an #EEE campaign reaching out to THEIR users.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-23 12:33:08 -0400", "date": "12:33 p.m. on Jun 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F06%2F23%2Fproject-and-the.html" }, { "id": 212, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More on Meta\u0026rsquo;s Instagram \u0026ldquo;project 92\u0026rdquo; Twitter-competitor just leaked including confirmation of #ActivityPub support: twitter.com/alexeheat\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-08 15:55:46 -0400", "date": "3:55 p.m. on Jun 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/08/more-on-metas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F06%2F08%2Fmore-on-metas.html" }, { "id": 213, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;The most interesting thing about Meta’s Twitter clone\u0026hellip;If Meta pursues this idea at scale, it would be an incredible departure for the world’s largest social media company.\u0026rdquo; #Barcelona #Meta #Fediverse\nqz.com/meta-inst\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-24 17:17:09 -0400", "date": "5:17 p.m. on May 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/05/24/the-most-interesting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F05%2F24%2Fthe-most-interesting.html" }, { "id": 214, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some important questions users of #BlueSky and other emerging social networks will have to face: www.vanityfair.com/news/2023\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-22 16:51:37 -0400", "date": "4:51 p.m. on May 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/05/22/some-important-questions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F05%2F22%2Fsome-important-questions.html" }, { "id": 215, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Funny (and a sign of the times) to see \u0026ldquo;billions of minutes viewed\u0026rdquo; become functionally the new Neilsen ratings: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-new\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-14 09:42:42 -0400", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Apr 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/04/14/funny-and-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F04%2F14%2Ffunny-and-a.html" }, { "id": 216, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well if they had virtual legs, they would be.\n\u0026ldquo;Major retail players are walking back their metaverse strategies\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo;\nwww.modernretail.co/technolog\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-14 06:58:29 -0400", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Apr 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/04/14/well-if-they.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F04%2F14%2Fwell-if-they.html" }, { "id": 217, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Because, of course, they are. And soon these #BlueCheck users will be the only ones upranking \u0026amp; downranking the Twitter algorithm for everyone.\nwww.newsweek.com/2023/04/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-09 00:35:18 -0400", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Apr 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/04/09/because-of-course.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F04%2F09%2Fbecause-of-course.html" }, { "id": 218, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy April 2nd - International Fact-Checking Day - to all who celebrate. #FactsMatter twitter.com/factcheck\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-02 09:54:53 -0400", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Apr 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/04/02/happy-april-nd.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F04%2F02%2Fhappy-april-nd.html" }, { "id": 219, "type": "post", "title": "How to Verify your Twitter Account as Owned by You, Without Paying Twitter for #TwitterBlue or for a $12K a Month", "text": "This solution for Twitter verification without paying Elon is easy to use, adheres to web standards, and works efficiently.\nFirst, include the following in your (or your organization\u0026rsquo;s) Twitter bio:\nThis account can be verified at timothychambers.net/verified/\nYou can also (like I did) add the key or ID emoji to your bio. Twitter will not let you add the emoji for check marks.\nThis URL must lead to a page you create on your own website or the official website for your organization. There, you should include the following language, which you can see on the image of my own website. It should read something akin to:\n\u0026ldquo;This is my official Twitter account that I maintain and verify that I am that owner: https://twitter.com/tchambers/\u0026quot;\nAdd the machine-readable and web-standard code \u0026ldquo;rel=Me\u0026rdquo; to the HTML of that page to earn bonus points. This is not essential, however, it will be handy for utilizing this page to verify you on Mastodon and other services in the future.\nThat\u0026rsquo;s all! This establishes that your Twitter account is owned and confirmed by the same entity as your Official Website. Any fake Twitter impersonators that don\u0026rsquo;t have this, aren\u0026rsquo;t you.\nThis is possible to do on any website, personal blog, the official bio page of any organization\u0026rsquo;s website, or even any Gravatar profile, or similar pages.\nTo view a live illustration of this, please visit my Twitter account at twitter.com/tchambers\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-28 23:09:35 -0400", "date": "11:09 p.m. on Mar 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/03/28/how-to-verify.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2023%2F03%2F28%2Fhow-to-verify.html" }, { "id": 220, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "No, it\u0026rsquo;s just the #indieweb, #openweb, and #fediverse doing it\u0026rsquo;s thing.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-06 23:46:01 -0400", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Dec 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/12/06/224601.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F12%2F06%2F224601.html" }, { "id": 221, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "No, it\u0026rsquo;s just the #openweb, #indieweb, and #fediverse doing their thing.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-06 23:43:59 -0400", "date": "11:43 p.m. on Dec 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/12/06/no-its-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F12%2F06%2Fno-its-just.html" }, { "id": 222, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This #blackFriday keep #privacy in mind in gift choices… foundation.mozilla.org/en/privac\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-24 15:09:54 -0400", "date": "3:09 p.m. on Nov 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/11/24/this-blackfriday-keep.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F11%2F24%2Fthis-blackfriday-keep.html" }, { "id": 223, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "OK, pretty cool: Feedle - a new track of RSS feeds of blogs and podcasts\u0026hellip;. feedle.world\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-24 14:00:27 -0400", "date": "2:00 p.m. on Nov 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/11/24/ok-pretty-cool.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F11%2F24%2Fok-pretty-cool.html" }, { "id": 224, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#Mozilla issues its \u0026ldquo;State of Mozilla 2021-2022 Report. The web is such a better place with them in it. They have many challenges but wishing them a bright next chapter: www.mozilla.org/en-US/fou\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-17 12:03:26 -0400", "date": "12:03 p.m. on Nov 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/11/17/mozilla-issues-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F11%2F17%2Fmozilla-issues-its.html" }, { "id": 225, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This site is going to be very busy: twitterisgoinggreat.com #Twitter\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-14 18:49:37 -0400", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Nov 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/11/14/this-site-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F11%2F14%2Fthis-site-is.html" }, { "id": 226, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;A Guide to US Election Day Misinformation\u0026rdquo; - www.bloomberg.com/news/news\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-08 11:20:16 -0400", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Nov 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/11/08/a-guide-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F11%2F08%2Fa-guide-to.html" }, { "id": 227, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to ‘ignore’ Web3: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’…” www.cnbc.com/2022/11/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-04 12:22:52 -0400", "date": "12:22 p.m. on Nov 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/11/04/web-inventor-tim.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F11%2F04%2Fweb-inventor-tim.html" }, { "id": 228, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Mastodon says 230,000 people joined its decentralized social network in the last week and it now has 655,000 active users\u0026rdquo; #TwitterMigration techcrunch.com/2022/11/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-03 14:06:27 -0400", "date": "2:06 p.m. on Nov 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/11/03/mastodon-says-people.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F11%2F03%2Fmastodon-says-people.html" }, { "id": 229, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Imperfectly #indieweb - How the collapse of Twitter and a trip to the Wayback Machine inspired me to go all in on the Indieweb.\u0026rdquo; rossabaker.com/blog/impe\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-02 19:21:37 -0400", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Nov 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/11/02/imperfectly-indieweb-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F11%2F02%2Fimperfectly-indieweb-how.html" }, { "id": 230, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Agree with everything he\u0026rsquo;s saying, except the idea that #Subtack is anything but marginally better than #Twitter at helping you \u0026ldquo;own your own platform.\u0026rdquo; #Indieweb twitter.com/hamishmck\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-02 17:57:14 -0400", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Nov 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/11/02/agree-with-everything.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F11%2F02%2Fagree-with-everything.html" }, { "id": 231, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Watching Facebook Burn…” www.vice.com/en/articl\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-02 16:30:18 -0400", "date": "4:30 p.m. on Nov 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/11/02/163018.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F11%2F02%2F163018.html" }, { "id": 232, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“#Mastodon’s microblogging app saw a record number of downloads after Musk’s Twitter takeover…”\n#TwitterMigration\nt.co/sFFNClCSy\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-01 13:39:13 -0400", "date": "1:39 p.m. on Nov 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/11/01/mastodons-microblogging-app.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F11%2F01%2Fmastodons-microblogging-app.html" }, { "id": 233, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy #GlobalEncryptionDay to all who celebrate! www.internetsociety.org/issues/en\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-22 12:47:53 -0400", "date": "12:47 p.m. on Oct 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/10/22/happy-globalencryptionday-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F10%2F22%2Fhappy-globalencryptionday-to.html" }, { "id": 234, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;IndieWeb Plugin for #WordPress Blocks\u0026rdquo; - worth checking out if you are working in Guttenberg on WP: www.zylstra.org/blog/2022\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-18 14:39:48 -0400", "date": "2:39 p.m. on Oct 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/10/18/indieweb-plugin-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F10%2F18%2Findieweb-plugin-for.html" }, { "id": 235, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The latest from the #BlueSky project working for a decentralized social ecosystem: blueskyweb.xyz/blog/10-1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-18 14:35:02 -0400", "date": "2:35 p.m. on Oct 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/10/18/the-latest-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F10%2F18%2Fthe-latest-from.html" }, { "id": 236, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Instant Articles and AMP convinced everyone that the web was dead. Long live the web, we will be here long after your platforms.” #openweb\ntwitter.com/reckless/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-15 08:43:46 -0400", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Oct 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/10/15/instant-articles-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F10%2F15%2Finstant-articles-and.html" }, { "id": 237, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am totally fine - actually more than fine - with #Firefox coming up with subscription services to stay alive. And even better when they tie into #Privacy.\nwww.theverge.com/2022/10/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-13 21:10:41 -0400", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Oct 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/10/13/i-am-totally.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F10%2F13%2Fi-am-totally.html" }, { "id": 238, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We will see if this triggers another wave of new #Fediverse users… #elonmusk #twitter\narstechnica.com/tech-poli\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-04 17:52:11 -0400", "date": "5:52 p.m. on Oct 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/10/04/we-will-see.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F10%2F04%2Fwe-will-see.html" }, { "id": 239, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Feedland surfaces: \u0026ldquo;In its first 20 years, #RSS has become an established part of the #openweb. It got blogging and podcasting off the ground. It changed the world. Now we get started on the second 20 years.\u0026rdquo;\nscripting.com/2022/10/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-04 15:31:54 -0400", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Oct 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/10/04/feedland-surfaces-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F10%2F04%2Ffeedland-surfaces-in.html" }, { "id": 240, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I TOTALLY love this literally \u0026ldquo;handwritten blog.\u0026rdquo; Literally everything about it. #Indieweb handwritten.blog\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-03 16:03:03 -0400", "date": "4:03 p.m. on Oct 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/10/03/i-totally-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F10%2F03%2Fi-totally-love.html" }, { "id": 241, "type": "post", "title": "Indieweb.Social: on the Fediverse - Looking for New Patreon Support", "text": "So for several years, I\u0026rsquo;ve been running Indieweb.Social - It is a Mastodon instance/community that unites the interests of developers working on the \u0026ldquo;#Indieweb,\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;#Distributed social,\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;#Fediverse\u0026rdquo; worlds.\nWe created a space where supporters of each endeavor could communicate and exchange information as they are all linked initiatives with comparable objectives.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s now the 6th largest of all Tech #Mastodon instances. It is the main host for emerging platforms like [Bonfire] (https://indieweb.social/@bonfire) and others. Good discussions on future implementation of Indieweb standards on Mastodon go on here.\nMy server costs going up 5X shortly by my managed Mastodon host. This is not unreasonable given the size this instance has grown to. This is a labor of love for me \u0026amp; I\u0026rsquo;m very willing to do at a financial loss; and am very thankful for the 13 Patreon donors we have.\nBut would likely need about 9 more at a similar scale to be at a sustainable loss for me.\nDo pledge here if you can:\n[https://www.patreon.com/indiewebsocial] (https://www.patreon.com/indiewebsocial)\nAlso posted to: #indienews\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-01 22:38:28 -0400", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Oct 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/10/01/indiewebsocial-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F10%2F01%2Findiewebsocial-on-the.html" }, { "id": 242, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Texts between Dorsey and Musk: On why the future of social media needs to be #decentralized and a protocol not a company-controlled product, and that creating Twitter as a company was a mistake. twitter.com/TechEmail\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-30 22:06:41 -0400", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Sep 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/09/30/texts-between-dorsey.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F09%2F30%2Ftexts-between-dorsey.html" }, { "id": 243, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Have things you keep meaning to do to your personal website but never find the time? Come get work done with others at #IndieWeb Create Day next Sunday 7/31. events.indieweb.org/2022/07/i\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-30 20:24:27 -0400", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Sep 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/09/30/have-things-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F09%2F30%2Fhave-things-you.html" }, { "id": 244, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting work on design patterns that attempt to disrupt harassment and the spread of hate speech. Good for anyone building UX on social tech: socialpatterns.adl.org\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-30 11:13:46 -0400", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Sep 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/09/30/interesting-work-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F09%2F30%2Finteresting-work-on.html" }, { "id": 245, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Every so often I appreciate how important key #opensource and open tech is to my life and work: #Signal #Wordpress #Firefox #ActivityPub #Mastodon - and even old-fashioned email.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-26 10:21:19 -0400", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Sep 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/09/26/every-so-often.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F09%2F26%2Fevery-so-often.html" }, { "id": 246, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy Anniversary to RSS 2.0.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-18 09:45:03 -0400", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Sep 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/09/18/happy-anniversary-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F09%2F18%2Fhappy-anniversary-to.html" }, { "id": 247, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Technology is not just ripping apart the social fabric, it\u0026rsquo;s replacing our social fabric with something much more brittle.\u0026rdquo;\nwww.gq.com/story/aza\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-13 11:20:13 -0400", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Sep 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/09/13/technology-is-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F09%2F13%2Ftechnology-is-not.html" }, { "id": 248, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good: very important not to trade one silo for another: \u0026ldquo;Linux Foundation\u0026hellip;to form the OpenWallet Foundation, developing open-source interoperability for digital wallets by Okta, Accenture, and more.\u0026rdquo; is.gd/y4Zu8c #crypto\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-13 09:02:46 -0400", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Sep 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/09/13/good-very-important.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F09%2F13%2Fgood-very-important.html" }, { "id": 249, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wishing Steve Teixeira well as Mozilla as our Chief Product Officer. Deeply want Firefox focused like a laser on privacy, freedom from ad tech, and performance. blog.mozilla.org/en/produc\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-11 09:29:13 -0400", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Sep 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/09/11/wishing-steve-teixeira.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F09%2F11%2Fwishing-steve-teixeira.html" }, { "id": 250, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is cool, I had not seen this before when it was announced: \u0026ldquo;Firefox Translations: Firefox\u0026rsquo;s offline translate feature is making progress\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo; www.ghacks.net/2022/05/3\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-04 23:13:43 -0400", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Sep 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/09/04/this-is-cool.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F09%2F04%2Fthis-is-cool.html" }, { "id": 251, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;I made a very very simple tool that makes some noise every time your computer sends data to Google. Here a demo on the official Dutch government jobs site. The noise starts while typing the domain name already.\u0026rdquo; https://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1561466204602220544\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-01 14:32:25 -0400", "date": "2:32 p.m. on Sep 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/09/01/i-made-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F09%2F01%2Fi-made-a.html" }, { "id": 252, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Firefox 104 has been released and includes a handful of new features, including an option to analyze the power usage of specific websites. mzl.la/3AKhuJu\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-24 11:44:48 -0400", "date": "11:44 p.m. on Aug 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/08/24/firefox-has-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F08%2F24%2Ffirefox-has-been.html" }, { "id": 253, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Whistleblower: #Twitter misled investors, FTC and underplayed spam issues. t.co/wsNPpfhpy\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-23 07:41:07 -0400", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Aug 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/08/23/whistleblower-twitter-misled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F08%2F23%2Fwhistleblower-twitter-misled.html" }, { "id": 254, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;TikTok’s in-app browser could be keylogging, privacy analysis warns..\u0026rdquo; A comparative analysis of major apps puts TikTok at the top for concerning behaviors\u0026hellip;\u0026quot; techcrunch.com/2022/08/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-21 18:52:53 -0400", "date": "6:52 p.m. on Aug 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/08/21/tiktoks-inapp-browser.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F08%2F21%2Ftiktoks-inapp-browser.html" }, { "id": 255, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Wave of Criticism Hits Zuckerberg\u0026rsquo;s Metaverse for Looking Like Crap \u0026hellip;\u0026lsquo;Billions and billions poured into it and this is the result.'\u0026rdquo; https://futurism.com/the-byte/zuckerbergs-metaverse-crap?utm_campaign=trueanthem_AI\u0026amp;utm_medium=social\u0026amp;utm_source=facebook\u0026amp;utm_term=futurism\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-19 18:46:56 -0400", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Aug 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/08/19/wave-of-criticism.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F08%2F19%2Fwave-of-criticism.html" }, { "id": 256, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "September 18 is the 20th anniversary of RSS 2.0, the neglected heart of so many #openweb technologies…. scripting.com/2022/07/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-14 08:29:39 -0400", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Aug 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/08/14/september-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F08%2F14%2Fseptember-is-the.html" }, { "id": 257, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A feature no one (but the political advertisers and political spammers) want. #google www.washingtonpost.com/politics/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-12 10:57:37 -0400", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Aug 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/08/12/a-feature-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F08%2F12%2Fa-feature-no.html" }, { "id": 258, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hope so: \u0026ldquo;With FIDO2, is a passwordless future on the horizon? \u0026lsquo;The solution seems to lie with a partnership between FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'\u0026rdquo; - thestack.technology/passwordl\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-11 23:14:11 -0400", "date": "11:14 p.m. on Aug 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/08/11/hope-so-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F08%2F11%2Fhope-so-with.html" }, { "id": 259, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Russia is quietly ramping up its Internet censorship machine\u0026hellip;.Russia has been pushing away from the global Internet at a rapid pace.\u0026rdquo; arstechnica.com/informati\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-31 08:47:44 -0400", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Jul 31, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/07/31/russia-is-quietly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F07%2F31%2Frussia-is-quietly.html" }, { "id": 260, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good. #Facebook/Meta has been gobbling up every VR company they can to keep them away from developing for the future Apple AR/VR device, whatever it will be\u0026hellip; finance.yahoo.com/news/us-f\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-28 10:31:53 -0400", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Jul 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/07/28/good-facebookmeta-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F07%2F28%2Fgood-facebookmeta-has.html" }, { "id": 261, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Because, of course, they did. \u0026ldquo;Report: #Facebook has Started Encrypting Links to Counter Browsers' Anti-Tracking Measures.\u0026rdquo; tech.slashdot.org/story/22/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-23 22:05:40 -0400", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Jul 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/07/23/because-of-course.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F07%2F23%2Fbecause-of-course.html" }, { "id": 262, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Agreed.\n“My favorite forms of content discovery are still rooted in manually reviewing things:\n RSS (with @feedly) Newsletters Trusted friends who know your cultural interests Anything surfaced via algorithms is hit or miss or served for platform-benefit reasons.”\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-20 17:59:17 -0400", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Jul 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/07/20/agreed-my-favorite.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F07%2F20%2Fagreed-my-favorite.html" }, { "id": 263, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One more silo, on its way to dying. Bye, #Medium. So much better to go with open, indieweb, or federated solutions for long-form blogging. #microdotblog #writeas www.nytimes.com/2022/07/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-12 20:37:18 -0400", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Jul 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/07/12/one-more-silo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F07%2F12%2Fone-more-silo.html" }, { "id": 264, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Matt Mullenweg thinks #Tumblr can be a better #Twitter than Twitter ever was.\u0026rdquo; techcrunch.com/2022/07/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-05 15:59:06 -0400", "date": "3:59 p.m. on Jul 5, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/07/05/matt-mullenweg-thinks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F07%2F05%2Fmatt-mullenweg-thinks.html" }, { "id": 265, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Everything written on the web is rotting away behind us at a staggering rate\u0026hellip;.53% of all New York Times articles from 1996 and mid-2019 had at least one link that no longer works. Another 13% of links point to content that is altered.\u0026rdquo; is.gd/KJDVci\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-02 16:11:21 -0400", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Jul 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/07/02/everything-written-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F07%2F02%2Feverything-written-on.html" }, { "id": 266, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was fifteen years ago today that the very first #iPhone first went on sale.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-29 11:12:08 -0400", "date": "11:12 p.m. on Jun 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/06/29/it-was-fifteen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F06%2F29%2Fit-was-fifteen.html" }, { "id": 267, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America\u0026hellip;We asked what they will do to prevent cases being built against women. So far: Nothing.\u0026rdquo; https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/24/big_tech_post_roe_wade/?utm_medium=share\u0026amp;utm_content=article\u0026amp;utm_source=twitter\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-28 16:24:13 -0400", "date": "4:24 p.m. on Jun 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/06/28/big-tech-silent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F06%2F28%2Fbig-tech-silent.html" }, { "id": 268, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "1400+ #Opensource, and free #SVG #icons: tablericons.com\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-26 20:08:07 -0400", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Jun 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/06/26/opensource-and-free.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F06%2F26%2Fopensource-and-free.html" }, { "id": 269, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“#Apple uses its power over browsers to strip-mine and sabotage the #web, hurting all engine projects and draining the web of future potential.” infrequently.org/2022/06/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-26 14:32:30 -0400", "date": "2:32 p.m. on Jun 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/06/26/apple-uses-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F06%2F26%2Fapple-uses-its.html" }, { "id": 270, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“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\u0026rsquo;ll be easy to plug it in too\u0026hellip;” #rss twitter.com/davewiner\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-18 12:35:07 -0400", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Jun 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/06/18/the-next-part.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F06%2F18%2Fthe-next-part.html" }, { "id": 271, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yeah, let\u0026rsquo;s change this: \u0026ldquo;So Much for Cutting Out the Middleman\u0026hellip;Instead of getting rid of intermediaries, the internet created entirely new ones.\u0026rdquo; www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-17 19:54:48 -0400", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Jun 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/06/17/yeah-lets-change.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F06%2F17%2Fyeah-lets-change.html" }, { "id": 272, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-15 09:03:54 -0400", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Jun 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/06/15/proprietary-browser-internet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F06%2F15%2Fproprietary-browser-internet.html" }, { "id": 273, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A good developer blog, focusing on all things #RSS and RSS tools related\u0026hellip; onlyrss.org\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-14 18:51:54 -0400", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Jun 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/06/14/a-good-developer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F06%2F14%2Fa-good-developer.html" }, { "id": 274, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Indiewebifying (is that a verb?) a #WordPress Site – 2022 Edition\u0026rdquo; david.shanske.com/2022/06/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-12 21:53:09 -0400", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Jun 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/06/12/indiewebifying-is-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F06%2F12%2Findiewebifying-is-that.html" }, { "id": 275, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Jack Dorsey: Fuck It, We\u0026rsquo;re Doing Web5…”\nwww.vice.com/en/articl\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-10 18:16:13 -0400", "date": "6:16 p.m. on Jun 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/06/10/jack-dorsey-fuck.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F06%2F10%2Fjack-dorsey-fuck.html" }, { "id": 276, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Agreed, lots to learn from here: \u0026ldquo;Social media doesn\u0026rsquo;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.\u0026rdquo; is.gd/fgl6f7\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-07 22:41:13 -0400", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Jun 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/06/07/agreed-lots-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F06%2F07%2Fagreed-lots-to.html" }, { "id": 277, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Messaging apps should consider reviving AIM\u0026rsquo;s Away Message to create better social boundaries around people\u0026rsquo;s time…” www.wired.com/story/bri\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-01 08:03:58 -0400", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Jun 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/06/01/messaging-apps-should.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F06%2F01%2Fmessaging-apps-should.html" }, { "id": 278, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This week in #indieweb: us12.campaign-archive.com\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-29 10:19:52 -0400", "date": "10:19 p.m. on May 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/05/29/this-week-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F05%2F29%2Fthis-week-in.html" }, { "id": 279, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday was the 19th anniversary since #WordPress’ first release. The web is a better place with them in it. wp19.day\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-28 23:11:56 -0400", "date": "11:11 p.m. on May 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/05/28/yesterday-was-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F05%2F28%2Fyesterday-was-the.html" }, { "id": 280, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hope so, the Internet is a better place with openweb based social media: \u0026ldquo;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.\u0026rdquo; thehustle.co/01202022-\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-28 23:02:41 -0400", "date": "11:02 p.m. on May 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/05/28/hope-so-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F05%2F28%2Fhope-so-the.html" }, { "id": 281, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;A(nother) way in which Facebook is the 21st Century\u0026rsquo;s tobacco industry\u0026hellip;.\u0026rdquo; pluralistic.net/2022/05/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-23 22:31:18 -0400", "date": "10:31 p.m. on May 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/05/23/another-way-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F05%2F23%2Fanother-way-in.html" }, { "id": 282, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today\u0026hellip;and he\u0026rsquo;s back.\u0026rdquo; www.zeldman.com/2022/05/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-23 11:08:40 -0400", "date": "11:08 p.m. on May 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/05/23/you-may-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F05%2F23%2Fyou-may-not.html" }, { "id": 283, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Perennially good advice online and off: “Don’t Feed the Troll.” this.how/trolls/\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-22 07:36:03 -0400", "date": "7:36 p.m. on May 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/05/22/perennially-good-advice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F05%2F22%2Fperennially-good-advice.html" }, { "id": 284, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“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\u0026rsquo;s content tree.”\nscripting.com/2012/09/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-16 22:10:28 -0400", "date": "10:10 p.m. on May 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/05/16/in-unweb-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F05%2F16%2Fin-unweb-you.html" }, { "id": 285, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“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\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-16 22:08:36 -0400", "date": "10:08 p.m. on May 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/05/16/because-web-while.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F05%2F16%2Fbecause-web-while.html" }, { "id": 286, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“What Elon Musk got wrong about Twitter.” A lot… youtu.be/MPi_aVJJ4\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-14 08:26:50 -0400", "date": "8:26 p.m. on May 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/05/14/what-elon-musk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F05%2F14%2Fwhat-elon-musk.html" }, { "id": 287, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How #Ukraine is crowdsourcing evidence of war crimes: time.com/6166781/u\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-22 10:14:40 -0400", "date": "10:14 p.m. on Apr 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/04/22/how-ukraine-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F04%2F22%2Fhow-ukraine-is.html" }, { "id": 288, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mozilla’s vision for the evolution of the Web… #openweb #mozilla webvision.mozilla.org\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-25 07:07:51 -0400", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Mar 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/03/25/mozillas-vision-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F03%2F25%2Fmozillas-vision-for.html" }, { "id": 289, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cool: \u0026ldquo;High Quality, Free, Open Source Design Assets – 2022 Edition\u0026rdquo; automattic.design/2022/01/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-27 10:55:33 -0400", "date": "10:55 p.m. on Jan 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/01/27/cool-high-quality.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F01%2F27%2Fcool-high-quality.html" }, { "id": 290, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This week in IndieWeb: indieweb.org/this-week\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-21 19:14:06 -0400", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Jan 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/01/21/this-week-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F01%2F21%2Fthis-week-in.html" }, { "id": 291, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A software developer\u0026rsquo;s view (from the former CEO of Signal) of the current incarnation of Web3:\nmoxie.org/2022/01/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-17 23:48:42 -0400", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Jan 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2022/01/17/a-software-developers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2022%2F01%2F17%2Fa-software-developers.html" }, { "id": 292, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still very early days, but this feels true. Everyone is fighting to owner and custodian of your identity. \u0026ldquo;Fighting for Web 3.0: Digital wallet wars are the new browser wars.\u0026rdquo;\ncointelegraph.com/news/figh\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-28 14:20:22 -0400", "date": "2:20 p.m. on Dec 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/12/28/still-very-early.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F12%2F28%2Fstill-very-early.html" }, { "id": 293, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Something to build to and to create in 2022. Something both the #indieweb, #fediverse and #web3 are all striving for.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-24 15:22:59 -0400", "date": "3:22 p.m. on Dec 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/12/24/something-to-build.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F12%2F24%2Fsomething-to-build.html" }, { "id": 294, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Assuming this is an NFT joke, but really not sure. Either way, welcome to the \u0026ldquo;Non-fungible Olive Garden Metaverse, granting owners no rights or privileges in meatspace Olive Gardens.\u0026rdquo; nonfungibleolivegardens.com\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-22 01:53:48 -0400", "date": "1:53 p.m. on Dec 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/12/22/assuming-this-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F12%2F22%2Fassuming-this-is.html" }, { "id": 295, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "These look helpful: \u0026ldquo;Announcing indieweb-utils\u0026rdquo; jamesg.blog/2021/12/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-22 01:43:15 -0400", "date": "1:43 p.m. on Dec 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/12/22/these-look-helpful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F12%2F22%2Fthese-look-helpful.html" }, { "id": 296, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Really good notes here \u0026ldquo;on why podcasting is not dominated\u0026rdquo; 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\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-22 00:49:12 -0400", "date": "12:49 p.m. on Dec 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/12/21/really-good-notes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F12%2F21%2Freally-good-notes.html" }, { "id": 297, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Five Ways the the Internet Changed Our Politics in 2021 fwiwnewsletter.substack.com/p/5-ways-\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-17 15:18:05 -0400", "date": "3:18 p.m. on Dec 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/12/17/five-ways-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F12%2F17%2Ffive-ways-the.html" }, { "id": 298, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The \u0026ldquo;State of the Word\u0026rdquo; is the annual keynote address delivered by #WordPress project’s co-founder, Matt Mullenweg. It\u0026rsquo;s his reflection on the project’s progress and the future of open source. www.youtube.com/watch\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-14 23:26:50 -0400", "date": "11:26 p.m. on Dec 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/12/14/the-state-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F12%2F14%2Fthe-state-of.html" }, { "id": 299, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This #Indieweb principles quoted verbatim by Bruce Sterling in 2013, hold up pretty well\u0026hellip;and I think apply to a lot of #Fediverse and #Web3 efforts, too\u0026hellip;.\nwww.wired.com/2013/12/i\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-12 16:30:12 -0400", "date": "4:30 p.m. on Dec 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/12/12/this-indieweb-principles.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F12%2F12%2Fthis-indieweb-principles.html" }, { "id": 300, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;The Largest Autocracy on Earth: Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.\u0026rdquo; www.theatlantic.com/magazine/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-28 10:57:05 -0400", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Sep 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/09/28/the-largest-autocracy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F09%2F28%2Fthe-largest-autocracy.html" }, { "id": 301, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;#Firefox 92 could be the most secure browser yet.\u0026rdquo; www.techradar.com/news/fire\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-11 13:48:35 -0400", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Sep 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/09/11/firefox-could-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F09%2F11%2Ffirefox-could-be.html" }, { "id": 302, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 6.0.3 for Mac released. This is far and away my favorite feed reader: nnw.ranchero.com/2021/09/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-08 14:52:03 -0400", "date": "2:52 p.m. on Sep 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/09/08/netnewswire-netnewswire-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F09%2F08%2Fnetnewswire-netnewswire-for.html" }, { "id": 303, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I missed the actual day, but Wordpress as a publishing platform just turned 18 years old. Very cool. wordpress.org/news/2021\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-04 15:44:48 -0400", "date": "3:44 p.m. on Jun 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/06/04/i-missed-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F06%2F04%2Fi-missed-the.html" }, { "id": 304, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Federated #ActivityPub-based PeerTube 3.2 has just been released \u0026ndash; joinpeertube.org/news\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-27 09:36:03 -0400", "date": "9:36 p.m. on May 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/05/27/federated-activitypubbased-peertube.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F05%2F27%2Ffederated-activitypubbased-peertube.html" }, { "id": 305, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Creative Commons Search is joining the #WordPress open source project\u0026hellip; wordpress.org/news/2021\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-22 19:45:00 -0400", "date": "7:45 p.m. on May 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/05/22/creative-commons-search.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F05%2F22%2Fcreative-commons-search.html" }, { "id": 306, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Creative Commons search will be re-launching on WordPress .org ma.tt/2021/04/c\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-09 22:29:16 -0400", "date": "10:29 p.m. on May 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/05/09/creative-commons-search.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F05%2F09%2Fcreative-commons-search.html" }, { "id": 307, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Doctorow: #Pluralistic is my mutli-channel publishing effort\u0026hellip;to push the limits of #POSSE (post own site, share everywhere) that allows me to maintain control over my work while still meeting my audience where they are\u0026hellip;\u0026quot; twitter.com/doctorow/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-09 19:30:08 -0400", "date": "7:30 p.m. on May 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/05/09/doctorow-pluralistic-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F05%2F09%2Fdoctorow-pluralistic-is.html" }, { "id": 308, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;It is easier today to research nineteenth-century postal history than to experience the 1990s World Wide Web.\u0026rdquo; www.girlwonder.com/blog/wp-c\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-09 18:21:45 -0400", "date": "6:21 p.m. on May 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/05/09/it-is-easier.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F05%2F09%2Fit-is-easier.html" }, { "id": 309, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lots of tweaks, fixes, and additions in #Mastodon RC 3.4: github.com/tootsuite\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-09 17:24:53 -0400", "date": "5:24 p.m. on May 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/05/09/lots-of-tweaks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F05%2F09%2Flots-of-tweaks.html" }, { "id": 310, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "An interesting observation: \u0026ldquo;Rust, not Firefox, is Mozilla\u0026rsquo;s greatest industry contribution.\u0026rdquo; www.techrepublic.com/article/r\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-08 10:49:38 -0400", "date": "10:49 p.m. on May 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/05/08/an-interesting-observation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F05%2F08%2Fan-interesting-observation.html" }, { "id": 311, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "96 Percent of iOS 14.5 Users in U.S. Have Opted Out of App Tracking\nwww.flurry.com/blog/ios-\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-07 22:48:17 -0400", "date": "10:48 p.m. on May 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/05/07/percent-of-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F05%2F07%2Fpercent-of-ios.html" }, { "id": 312, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Reacting to Twitter\u0026rsquo;s BlueSky project, Mark Nadal offers \u0026ldquo;A Decentralized Protocol Proposal\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo; hackernoon.com/twitter-b\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-07 13:40:27 -0400", "date": "1:40 p.m. on May 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/05/07/reacting-to-twitters.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F05%2F07%2Freacting-to-twitters.html" }, { "id": 313, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Reimagine the Internet: knightcolumbia.org/events/re\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-04 00:57:55 -0400", "date": "12:57 p.m. on May 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/05/03/reimagine-the-internet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F05%2F03%2Freimagine-the-internet.html" }, { "id": 314, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Why the Indieweb? \u0026hellip;This is the story of the birth of the web, its loss of innocence, its decline, and what we can do to make it a bit less gross.\u0026rdquo; - briefs.video/videos/wh\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-10 16:28:04 -0400", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Feb 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/02/10/why-the-indieweb.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F02%2F10%2Fwhy-the-indieweb.html" }, { "id": 315, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "All the reasons NOT to use Disqus as your #blog commenting system: supunkavinda.blog/disqus\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-05 16:06:58 -0400", "date": "4:06 p.m. on Feb 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/02/05/all-the-reasons.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F02%2F05%2Fall-the-reasons.html" }, { "id": 316, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lots of small improvements peppered inside Wordpress 7.1 beta: wordpress.org/news/2021\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-02 19:52:10 -0400", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Feb 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/02/02/lots-of-small.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F02%2F02%2Flots-of-small.html" }, { "id": 317, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Will be interested in seeing how this works out. Open Source License with a code of conduct requirement, but with teeth. writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-02 13:54:47 -0400", "date": "1:54 p.m. on Feb 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/02/02/will-be-interested.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F02%2F02%2Fwill-be-interested.html" }, { "id": 318, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thunderbird 78, Email client, Calander, Contacts, RSS reader, and OTR chat client. OpenPGP, Hopefully soon ActivitySub reader. Glad it is still around and innovating. support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-28 22:48:09 -0400", "date": "10:48 p.m. on Jan 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/01/28/thunderbird-email-client.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F01%2F28%2Fthunderbird-email-client.html" }, { "id": 319, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#Mozilla\u0026rsquo;s 2020 report looking back at the year and the state of Internet Health. Lists healthy and unhealty trends for the Internet. Much to do. 2020.internethealthreport.org\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-28 13:08:43 -0400", "date": "1:08 p.m. on Jan 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/01/28/mozillas-report-looking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F01%2F28%2Fmozillas-report-looking.html" }, { "id": 320, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wikipedia just turned 20 years old this month and I missed it. That site is one of the best things the Internet has ever done. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-24 13:36:55 -0400", "date": "1:36 p.m. on Jan 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/01/24/wikipedia-just-turned.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F01%2F24%2Fwikipedia-just-turned.html" }, { "id": 321, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Important report by #BlueSky project at Twitter: \u0026ldquo;This overview of the decentralized social ecosystem is structured by protocols, applications, and topics. The protocols and applications sectionscontain summaries of existing projects.\u0026rdquo; is.gd/Lva1tt\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-21 19:40:24 -0400", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Jan 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2021/01/21/important-report-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2021%2F01%2F21%2Fimportant-report-by.html" }, { "id": 322, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iA Writer Adds Expanded Support for IndieWeb Tools and WordPress Publishing. is.gd/oyNBvH\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-22 14:08:42 -0400", "date": "2:08 p.m. on Dec 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/12/22/ia-writer-adds.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F12%2F22%2Fia-writer-adds.html" }, { "id": 323, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A good guide to the best and the worst tech gifts in terms of #privacy from Mozilla: gizmodo.com/these-are\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-23 15:33:43 -0400", "date": "3:33 p.m. on Nov 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/11/23/a-good-guide.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F11%2F23%2Fa-good-guide.html" }, { "id": 324, "type": "post", "title": "Newsletters and Podcasts as new Open Content Platforms", "text": "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.\nFrom the Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder \u0026amp; CTO at Basecamp \u0026amp; HEY:\n\u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;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 \u0026quot;\nthreadreaderapp.com/thread/13\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-15 16:02:03 -0400", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Nov 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/11/15/newsletters-and-podcasts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F11%2F15%2Fnewsletters-and-podcasts.html" }, { "id": 325, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I agree with this post, and it is a very good argument for the open web for authors and creators.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-08 22:44:17 -0400", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Aug 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/08/08/i-agree-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F08%2F08%2Fi-agree-with.html" }, { "id": 326, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“The best and most beautiful things in the world\u0026hellip;” (found while hiking yesterday)\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-20 10:56:01 -0400", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Jul 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/07/20/the-best-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F07%2F20%2Fthe-best-and.html" }, { "id": 327, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Increasingly, post-COVID, weekend cleaning of the house is less like \u0026ldquo;picking up a bit\u0026rdquo; and more like Apollo13 crew cleaning out the LEM.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-19 11:40:14 -0400", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Jul 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/07/19/increasingly-postcovid-weekend.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F07%2F19%2Fincreasingly-postcovid-weekend.html" }, { "id": 328, "type": "post", "title": "Email as a Key Element of the Open Web -- And Hey! Review", "text": "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\u0026hellip;.\n Email is the rare open platform that works for everyone. But it\u0026rsquo;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\u0026rsquo;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. If the current trend continues, email could effectively become another in a long list of Google messaging apps. And email users would be held captive by the data-collecting, ad-targeting machines on the other end.\n www.protocol.com/hey-email\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-17 01:39:10 -0400", "date": "1:39 p.m. on Jun 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/06/17/email-as-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F06%2F17%2Femail-as-a.html" }, { "id": 329, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“But aren’t blogs dead? · Um, nope.” www.tbray.org/ongoing/W\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-16 01:22:16 -0400", "date": "1:22 p.m. on May 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/05/16/but-arent-blogs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F05%2F16%2Fbut-arent-blogs.html" }, { "id": 330, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good list of (mostly open-source) projects that are directly related to humane tech topics: github.com/humanetec\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-03 15:18:46 -0400", "date": "3:18 p.m. on Mar 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/03/03/good-list-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F03%2F03%2Fgood-list-of.html" }, { "id": 331, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you are in Austin, go: Announcing the IndieWebCamp Austin speakers\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-10 18:40:58 -0400", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Feb 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/02/10/if-you-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F02%2F10%2Fif-you-are.html" }, { "id": 332, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good podcast interview with Matt Muellenweg on open source and other topics: om.co/2020/01/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-16 17:23:36 -0400", "date": "5:23 p.m. on Jan 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/01/16/good-podcast-interview.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F01%2F16%2Fgood-podcast-interview.html" }, { "id": 333, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I remember the #FOAF standard. The ideas were right. twobithistory.org/2020/01/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-11 15:58:40 -0400", "date": "3:58 p.m. on Jan 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/01/11/i-remember-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F01%2F11%2Fi-remember-the.html" }, { "id": 334, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not a bad idea, #Twitter: letting users set limits on who can reply to their posts. www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-08 20:35:40 -0400", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Jan 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2020/01/08/not-a-bad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2020%2F01%2F08%2Fnot-a-bad.html" }, { "id": 335, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not cool #Apple. Another closed silo ignoring open standards. And why we need #NetNewsWire and other #RSS readers for news. \u0026ldquo;Apple News Drops Support for RSS.\u0026rdquo; news.slashdot.org/story/19/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-29 23:09:17 -0400", "date": "11:09 p.m. on Dec 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/12/29/not-cool-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F12%2F29%2Fnot-cool-apple.html" }, { "id": 336, "type": "post", "title": "Filtering Social Feeds: and Unwanted Content as a Feature or Bug", "text": "Filtering social feeds. And Unwanted Content as a Feature or a Bug\nJust a note on filtering out your social feed for unwanted things - like I tried to do to avoid spoilers of Star Wars.\nI just wanted to temporarily mute posts from friends, etc, that used the words \u0026ldquo;Star Wars\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;Skywalker\u0026rdquo; for 24 hours. So that was a test for the various social nets.\nOf 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. In my case two days.\nTwitter gave OK permissions to \u0026ldquo;mute\u0026rdquo; but just basics, and only two settings \u0026ndash; on or off.\nAnd of course Facebook and YouTube gave me zero control whatsoever.\nSocial networks that are basically thinly disguised advertising engines simply have fundamentally different interests that their users do in things like filtering out unwanted content/noise etc.\nThe unwanted content in their eyes is a feature not a bug.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-19 23:47:52 -0400", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Dec 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/12/19/filtering-social-feeds.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F12%2F19%2Ffiltering-social-feeds.html" }, { "id": 337, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Feels way too true. Let\u0026rsquo;s rebuild a better web.\n\u0026ldquo;Alienated, Alone And Angry: What The Digital Revolution Really Did To Us\u0026hellip;We were promised community, civics, and convenience. Instead, we found ourselves dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged.\u0026rdquo; www.buzzfeednews.com/article/j\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-19 17:24:00 -0400", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Dec 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/12/19/feels-way-too.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F12%2F19%2Ffeels-way-too.html" }, { "id": 338, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A yearly report I watch very closely is just out: State of Mozilla 2018: Annual Report blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-26 11:19:39 -0400", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Nov 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/11/26/a-yearly-report.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F11%2F26%2Fa-yearly-report.html" }, { "id": 339, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So wish #BlockchainIdentity efforts well\u0026hellip;. www.ibm.com/blogs/blo\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-23 14:40:14 -0400", "date": "2:40 p.m. on Nov 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/11/23/so-wish-blockchainidentity.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F11%2F23%2Fso-wish-blockchainidentity.html" }, { "id": 340, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not cool, ICANN: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/22/save-dot-org.html?utm_source=feedburner\u0026amp;utm_medium=feed\u0026amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-22 21:18:06 -0400", "date": "9:18 p.m. on Nov 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/11/22/not-cool-icann.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F11%2F22%2Fnot-cool-icann.html" }, { "id": 341, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Slow Design for an Anxious World” - www.lukew.com/ff/entry\u0026hellip;.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-22 12:27:55 -0400", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Nov 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/11/22/slow-design-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F11%2F22%2Fslow-design-for.html" }, { "id": 342, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "WebAuthn is a good thing. Glad to see Twitter supporting it. blog.twitter.com/engineeri\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-21 19:13:44 -0400", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Nov 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/11/21/webauthn-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F11%2F21%2Fwebauthn-is-a.html" }, { "id": 343, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;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.\u0026rdquo; www.fastcompany.com/90419899/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-20 09:38:32 -0400", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Nov 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/11/20/in-the-last.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F11%2F20%2Fin-the-last.html" }, { "id": 344, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Manton Reese notes when evaluating new social networks (like WTSocial I assume) he looks to these four traits. And that \u0026ldquo;Checking off just 1 or 2 of the 4 parts isn’t going to cut it\u0026rdquo; to get us out of the mess we are in. He is right. manton.org/2018/09/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-18 12:05:01 -0400", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Nov 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/11/18/manton-reese-notes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F11%2F18%2Fmanton-reese-notes.html" }, { "id": 345, "type": "post", "title": "\"Facebook Is Still Failing at Ad Transparency (No Matter What They Claim)\"", "text": "Yes. They are failing short. Mozilla has been doing good work holding them accountable for a while.\n“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.\u0026quot;\nvia: The Mozilla Blog blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019\u0026hellip;)\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-12 11:32:37 -0400", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Nov 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/11/12/facebook-is-still.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F11%2F12%2Ffacebook-is-still.html" }, { "id": 346, "type": "post", "title": "Agreed: Problems from Faceook and the others Can Be tweaked but ultimate solution is much bigger....", "text": "Agreed: this won\u0026rsquo;t change until we build the web we want.\n\u0026ldquo;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\u0026hellip;.\nThe 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. We can choose to build the web we deserve… but it’s not going to happen if you keep feeding photos into Instagram.\u0026rdquo;\nwww.manton.org/2019/11/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-06 13:52:50 -0400", "date": "1:52 p.m. on Nov 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/11/06/agreed-problems-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F11%2F06%2Fagreed-problems-from.html" }, { "id": 347, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“The Indieweb is a place you can take some of your sovereignty back.” www.jhsheridan.com/officiall\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-30 08:04:42 -0400", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Oct 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/10/30/the-indieweb-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F10%2F30%2Fthe-indieweb-is.html" }, { "id": 348, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A good overview of all things #indieweb: both technical and philosphical: www.jvt.me/posts/201\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-27 20:57:42 -0400", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Oct 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/10/27/a-good-overview.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F10%2F27%2Fa-good-overview.html" }, { "id": 349, "type": "post", "title": "Interoperablity and Social Silos: Access Act Thinking the Right Way", "text": "Interoperability - not just data portability but set API\u0026rsquo;s for communication by different accounts across social media silos would make a huge difference. For the better.\nwww.theverge.com/2019/10/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-27 20:53:54 -0400", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Oct 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/10/27/interoperablity-and-social.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F10%2F27%2Finteroperablity-and-social.html" }, { "id": 350, "type": "post", "title": "Yahoo Groups Shutting Down: All Content from 115 Million Groups to be Permantently Deleted Dec 14th", "text": "Why owning your own content and syndicating it to external platforms is key.\n\u0026ldquo;Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site,\u0026rdquo; the company said in a notice to users. \u0026ldquo;Beginning October 28, you won\u0026rsquo;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.\u0026rdquo;\narstechnica.com/informati\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-20 13:26:57 -0400", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Oct 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/10/20/yahoo-groups-shutting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F10%2F20%2Fyahoo-groups-shutting.html" }, { "id": 351, "type": "post", "title": "A Good Review of Zuck's Speech", "text": "Agree completely:\n\u0026ldquo;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\u0026hellip;\nZuckerberg’s talk focuses exclusively on the right of speech, when the far more consequential question is the right of reach.\nWhat spreads, and by what means, and to what effect? These are all questions Facebook avoided today\u0026hellip;.\nThere is something untenable about a massive corporation / quasi-state that sets global speech policies but never has to answer for them, outside the odd Congressional hearing or public-relations crisis. It’s easy to stand firmly on the side of free speech when the only negative consequence you suffer as a result is more speech.\u0026rdquo;\nwww.getrevue.co/profile/c\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-18 16:34:12 -0400", "date": "4:34 p.m. on Oct 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/10/18/a-good-review.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F10%2F18%2Fa-good-review.html" }, { "id": 352, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good that #Microdotblog made this call given how broken FB was for cross-posting: \u0026ldquo;Goodbye to Facebook cross-posting\u0026hellip;Facebook \u0026amp; even Instagram are at odds with the principles of the open web.\u0026rdquo; www.manton.org/2019/10/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-10 16:16:21 -0400", "date": "4:16 p.m. on Oct 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/10/10/good-that-microdotblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F10%2F10%2Fgood-that-microdotblog.html" }, { "id": 353, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Amen: \u0026ldquo;The Internet Must Be More Than Facebook\u0026hellip;If Big Tech becomes synonymous with the internet, we could lose free choice, democracy, and even the ability to imagine a different world.\u0026rdquo; onezero.medium.com/the-inter\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-10 09:55:13 -0400", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Oct 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/10/10/amen-the-internet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F10%2F10%2Famen-the-internet.html" }, { "id": 354, "type": "post", "title": "\"Putin Begins Installing Equipment To Cut Russia’s Access To World Wide Web\"", "text": "The web as originally designed is fundamentally antithetical to dictatorship.\n\u0026quot; According to Freedom On The Net, \u0026ldquo;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.\u0026rdquo;\nAnd there are no signs of that getting any better any time soon.\u0026quot;\nwww.forbes.com/sites/zak\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-07 14:25:58 -0400", "date": "2:25 p.m. on Oct 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/10/07/putin-begins-installing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F10%2F07%2Fputin-begins-installing.html" }, { "id": 355, "type": "post", "title": "'We froze our social graph too soon...\"", "text": "Good quote:\n\u0026ldquo;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 \u0026lsquo;coders\u0026rsquo; can try out a billion new ideas about how humans can ideate and organize in a global network environment.\u0026rdquo; scripting.com/2019/09/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-24 00:10:32 -0400", "date": "12:10 p.m. on Sep 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/24/we-froze-our.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F24%2Fwe-froze-our.html" }, { "id": 356, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Political Animals #Mural #muralart @miketanoory\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-23 08:26:43 -0400", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Sep 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/23/political-animals-mural.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F23%2Fpolitical-animals-mural.html" }, { "id": 357, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is, as described: \u0026ldquo;100,000 FACES GENERATED BY AI FREE FOR ANY USE.\u0026rdquo; generated.photos\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-19 12:37:34 -0400", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Sep 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/19/this-is-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F19%2Fthis-is-as.html" }, { "id": 358, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency are converting capitalism directly into climate change. Cutting out the middle man. www.cell.com/joule/ful\u0026hellip;30255-7\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-17 10:48:32 -0400", "date": "10:48 p.m. on Sep 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/17/bitcoin-and-other.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F17%2Fbitcoin-and-other.html" }, { "id": 359, "type": "post", "title": "Get Ready to Upgrade Every WiFi Device You Own", "text": "Get ready to upgrade every WiFi device. WiFi 6 arrives and worth the incremental device at a time update.\n\u0026ldquo;The Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization that oversees implementation of the Wi-Fi standard, is launching its official Wi-Fi 6 certification program\u0026hellip;.\nAll that said, this week’s biggest news for Wi-Fi 6 has no immediate connection to the Alliance: it’s that the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro go on sale, and both support Wi-Fi 6. That’s going to quickly put millions of Wi-Fi 6 devices into people’s hands, meaning adoption of the new tech will very suddenly be well underway.\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-16 15:16:47 -0400", "date": "3:16 p.m. on Sep 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/16/get-ready-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F16%2Fget-ready-to.html" }, { "id": 360, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rooted vines.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-16 00:10:19 -0400", "date": "12:10 p.m. on Sep 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/16/rooted-vines.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F16%2Frooted-vines.html" }, { "id": 361, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Twitter\u0026rsquo;s doubling the permissible length of a tweet led to less uncivil, more polite, and more constructive discussions.\u0026rdquo; academic.oup.com/joc/artic\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-15 08:48:33 -0400", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Sep 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/15/twitters-doubling-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F15%2Ftwitters-doubling-the.html" }, { "id": 362, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After a week, this has been working flawlessly fo rme. Invisible and with no noticeable performance issues than any other VPN. Likely dumping NordVPN for this. nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/09/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-14 11:18:49 -0400", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Sep 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/14/after-a-week.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F14%2Fafter-a-week.html" }, { "id": 363, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That’s a milestone. apple.news/A8AxH58I6\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-13 22:22:26 -0400", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Sep 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/13/thats-a-milestone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F13%2Fthats-a-milestone.html" }, { "id": 364, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "To my tech work friends: A good effort and a very good Tech Pledge. I just signed, you should think about signing too: www.techpledge.org #TechPledge\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-12 09:37:55 -0400", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Sep 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/12/to-my-tech.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F12%2Fto-my-tech.html" }, { "id": 365, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rebel librarians are the best librarians. ✊ www.vice.com/en_us/art\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-11 22:43:04 -0400", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Sep 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/11/rebel-librarians-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F11%2Frebel-librarians-are.html" }, { "id": 366, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Everything old is new again. : [Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986] (https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-set-outsell-cds-first-time-since-1986-2545781)\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-11 14:29:16 -0400", "date": "2:29 p.m. on Sep 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/11/everything-old-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F11%2Feverything-old-is.html" }, { "id": 367, "type": "post", "title": "How to Have Your Twitter Username Extorted From You", "text": "Crazy story:\n\u0026ldquo;My $50,000 Twitter Username Was Stolen Thanks to PayPal and GoDaddy. I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter. I’ve been offered as much as $50,000 for it. People have tried to steal it. Password reset instructions are a regular sight in my email inbox. As of today, I no longer control @N. I was extorted into giving it up.\u0026rdquo;\nmedium.com/@N/how-i-\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-10 11:24:59 -0400", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Sep 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/10/how-to-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F10%2Fhow-to-have.html" }, { "id": 368, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good to see Test Pilot live again: via the Mozilla Blog: [Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns with Firefox Private Network Beta] (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/09/10/firefoxs-test-pilot-program-returns-with-firefox-private-network-beta/)\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-10 10:48:57 -0400", "date": "10:48 p.m. on Sep 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/10/good-to-see.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F10%2Fgood-to-see.html" }, { "id": 369, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good for them. Will hinder internet service providers (ISPs), government filtering, and about any other third-party that tries to intercept and sniff a user\u0026rsquo;s traffic.\nwww.engadget.com/2019/09/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-08 10:42:20 -0400", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Sep 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/08/good-for-them.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F08%2Fgood-for-them.html" }, { "id": 370, "type": "post", "title": "How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? You route around it.", "text": "Hong Kong Protesors going \u0026ldquo;Mesh Network\u0026rdquo; to communicate \u0026amp; circumvent the government: \u0026ldquo;60K installations in just the past seven days, most of them from Hong Kong.\u0026rdquo; www.forbes.com/sites/joh\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-07 20:38:51 -0400", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Sep 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/07/how-do-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F07%2Fhow-do-you.html" }, { "id": 371, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;No Clearance.\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-06 19:41:55 -0400", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Sep 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/06/no-clearance.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F06%2Fno-clearance.html" }, { "id": 372, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Penn Station\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-06 05:53:40 -0400", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Sep 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/06/penn-station.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F06%2Fpenn-station.html" }, { "id": 373, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sorry, were you saying something? (I was busy thinking of my next counter point\u0026hellip;.)\nopen.buffer.com/active-li\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-06 04:18:04 -0400", "date": "4:18 p.m. on Sep 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/06/sorry-were-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F06%2Fsorry-were-you.html" }, { "id": 374, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Playing with the new all web interface for Apple Music. Pretty impressive. But also impressive, took a while but the HTML and Javascript won out over native apps here. And with a better user experience to boot. beta.music.apple.com\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-05 20:30:29 -0400", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Sep 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/05/playing-with-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F05%2Fplaying-with-the.html" }, { "id": 375, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The ad industry’s controversial alternative to Firefox and Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/04/apples-intelligent-tracking-prevention/)\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-05 16:04:02 -0400", "date": "4:04 p.m. on Sep 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/05/the-ad-industrys.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F05%2Fthe-ad-industrys.html" }, { "id": 376, "type": "post", "title": "\"Upgrade Designing Our Way Out of Non-Places\"", "text": "During my Sony days, I spent a ton of time in Tokyo working with great designers and digital teams. Many of those lessons still inform may dialy digital design work, and can totally resonate with how Amber Case saw lessons from Japanese designers.\nmedium.com/@caseorga\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-04 12:33:08 -0400", "date": "12:33 p.m. on Sep 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/04/upgrade-designing-our.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F04%2Fupgrade-designing-our.html" }, { "id": 377, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yeah, I don\u0026rsquo;t own a stand alone camera. Haven\u0026rsquo;t for over 9 years and doubt I ever will again. From “On my Om\u0026quot; blog, Om Malik: PhotoRealism\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-03 15:24:44 -0400", "date": "3:24 p.m. on Sep 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/03/yeah-i-dont.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F03%2Fyeah-i-dont.html" }, { "id": 378, "type": "post", "title": "Launching a New Mastdodon Instance Focused on the OpenWeb", "text": "So with a few friends, just launched this new instance:\nINDIEWEB.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.\nWe 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\u0026hellip;\nindieweb.social/about/mor\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-02 18:19:00 -0400", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Sep 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/02/lauching-a-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F02%2Flauching-a-new.html" }, { "id": 379, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another step towards phasing out visible \u0026ldquo;like counts” on social: (https://apple.news/AyEvSrzVhSo-rJx4nShCkQA)\n Facebook is thinking about hiding like counts, too - The Verge\n ", "dateiso": "2019-09-02 13:22:59 -0400", "date": "1:22 p.m. on Sep 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/02/another-step-towards.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F02%2Fanother-step-towards.html" }, { "id": 380, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Grow Where You Are Planted” #chalkart #art\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-01 10:04:51 -0400", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Sep 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/09/01/grow-where-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F09%2F01%2Fgrow-where-you.html" }, { "id": 381, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“If these walls could talk” neon #art\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-31 20:18:57 -0400", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Aug 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/31/if-these-walls.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F31%2Fif-these-walls.html" }, { "id": 382, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Ping Pong” #retro #pingpong\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-31 20:14:40 -0400", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Aug 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/31/ping-pong-retro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F31%2Fping-pong-retro.html" }, { "id": 383, "type": "post", "title": "Mozilla CEO Stepping Down", "text": "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.\nAnd the new CEO will manage them jumping into paid services, a key element to manage supremely carefully.\n\u0026ldquo;Firefox may not be as widely used as Chrome, but it still plays an important role in developing the standards that govern the web. Many of us spend hours a day using Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s Windows, Google\u0026rsquo;s Android and Chrome OS, and Apple\u0026rsquo;s iOS and MacOS. Those are proprietary technology platforms.\nBut the web, at least so far, is an independent technology foundation, and Mozilla plays a significant role in steering it.\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-31 12:39:22 -0400", "date": "12:39 p.m. on Aug 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/31/mozilla-ceo-stepping.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F31%2Fmozilla-ceo-stepping.html" }, { "id": 384, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From the creator of Ruby on Rails, and the CTO of Basecamp. \u0026ldquo;May RSS rise again. Stronger because we are wiser.\u0026rdquo; Hope so. #indieweb\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-30 09:32:38 -0400", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Aug 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/30/from-the-creator.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F30%2Ffrom-the-creator.html" }, { "id": 385, "type": "post", "title": "1637 version of \"Don't Feed the Trolls\"", "text": "TL/dr version: \u0026ldquo;Don’t feed the trolls.”\n \u0026ldquo;Tis better to have a dispute with honourable people than to have a victory over dishonourable ones. You cannot treat with the ruined, for they have no hostages for rectitude. With them there is no true friendship, and their agreements are not binding, however stringent they may appear, because they have no feeling of honour. Never have to do with such men, for if honour does not restrain a man, virtue will not, since honour is the throne of rectitude.\u0026quot;\u0026lt;\n Baltsar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom in 1637 ", "dateiso": "2019-08-29 18:03:13 -0400", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Aug 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/29/version-of-dont.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F29%2Fversion-of-dont.html" }, { "id": 386, "type": "post", "title": "Our Social Media Platforms are Failing Us Globally", "text": "\u0026ldquo;In a recent Global Advisor survey of more than 20,000 people across 28 countries – spending time on social media ranked as the lowest source of happiness from 29 possible categories.\u0026rdquo;\nwww.ipsos.com/en-ca/kno\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-29 09:15:25 -0400", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Aug 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/29/our-social-media.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F29%2Four-social-media.html" }, { "id": 387, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good for Apple, they are going full opt in only, for Siri learning, and easy way for users to opt out. Better late than never. : Apple Addresses Siri Privacy Protections \n", "dateiso": "2019-08-28 14:22:07 -0400", "date": "2:22 p.m. on Aug 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/28/good-for-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F28%2Fgood-for-apple.html" }, { "id": 388, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Agree with every point here, mobile experience focus for #indieweb offerings is deeply needed: v2.jacky.wtf/post/need\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-28 10:12:09 -0400", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Aug 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/28/agree-with-every.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F28%2Fagree-with-every.html" }, { "id": 389, "type": "post", "title": "Apple Card and Privacy, Compared to Other Credit Cards", "text": "This feature alone is warming me up to an Apple credit card. Apple, Mozilla and Automatic should focus on being digital privacy first offerings.\n This is where the Apple Card is different. In the Goldman Sachs privacy statement, its answer to most kinds of sharing is “no.” Goldman still shares information with credit agencies about whether you pay your bills. But it says it doesn’t feed transactions to marketers or a sister company that mines card data.\u0026lt;\n www.washingtonpost.com/technolog\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-28 09:59:38 -0400", "date": "9:59 p.m. on Aug 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/28/apple-card-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F28%2Fapple-card-and.html" }, { "id": 390, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Is an independent web our only hope?\u0026rdquo; Michael Casey\u0026rsquo;s answer: www.youtube.com/watch\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-27 14:08:19 -0400", "date": "2:08 p.m. on Aug 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/27/is-an-independent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F27%2Fis-an-independent.html" }, { "id": 391, "type": "post", "title": "Gizmodo on NetNewsWire's Relaunch: \"One of the Best RSS Readers Is Back\"", "text": "Great Gizmodo write up on the relaunch of #NewNewsWire:\n\u0026ldquo;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.\u0026rdquo;\ngizmodo.com/one-of-th\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-27 12:10:22 -0400", "date": "12:10 p.m. on Aug 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/27/gizmodo-on-netnewswires.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F27%2Fgizmodo-on-netnewswires.html" }, { "id": 392, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So via Daring Fireball, John Gruber: Facebook’s ‘Clear History’ Tool Is, of Course, Bullshit\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-27 11:47:20 -0400", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Aug 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/27/so-via-daring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F27%2Fso-via-daring.html" }, { "id": 393, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#makekindnessloud\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-26 13:02:54 -0400", "date": "1:02 p.m. on Aug 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/26/makekindnessloud.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F26%2Fmakekindnessloud.html" }, { "id": 394, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Zeldman on Web 8 Interaction Design, Jeffrey Zeldman: Browser diversity starts with us.\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-26 12:18:28 -0400", "date": "12:18 p.m. on Aug 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/26/zeldman-on-web.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F26%2Fzeldman-on-web.html" }, { "id": 395, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great to see #NetNewsWire 5.0 shipping today! Has become my primary RSS reader. ranchero.com/netnewswi\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-26 11:59:31 -0400", "date": "11:59 p.m. on Aug 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/26/great-to-see.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F26%2Fgreat-to-see.html" }, { "id": 396, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good look at new features in Apple\u0026rsquo;s Health 13\u0026hellip; www.macrumors.com/guide/hea\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-26 11:31:29 -0400", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Aug 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/26/good-look-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F26%2Fgood-look-at.html" }, { "id": 397, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After the Automattic purhase, I got some hope back that #Tumblr might become more of an ally to the #openweb. So I have recreated an account there, but only to syndicate to from my main account I own fully. timothyjchambers.tumblr.com\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-26 00:15:07 -0400", "date": "12:15 p.m. on Aug 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/26/after-the-automattic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F26%2Fafter-the-automattic.html" }, { "id": 398, "type": "post", "title": "\"Why Freedom of Thought Requires Attention\" ", "text": "He opens with \u0026ldquo;Freedom of thought requries media that don\u0026rsquo;t listen to and watch and survielle us as we use them\u0026hellip;media that consumes us, in the end consumes freedom of thought.\u0026rdquo;\nA friend\u0026rsquo;s review: \u0026ldquo;I really liked his point that it\u0026rsquo;s not required to invent new stuff to fix what\u0026rsquo;s wrong today but \u0026ldquo;just\u0026rdquo; to undo stuff that went wrong in last years. Aligned very well with the idea of #indieweb and the fediverse.\u0026rdquo;\nyoutu.be/1SKpRbvnx\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-25 23:45:57 -0400", "date": "11:45 p.m. on Aug 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/25/why-freedom-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F25%2Fwhy-freedom-of.html" }, { "id": 399, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You really should always read the Terms of Service agreements closely. \u0026ldquo;We have updated our privacy policy.\u0026rdquo; #privacy\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-22 11:35:18 -0400", "date": "11:35 p.m. on Aug 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/22/you-really-should.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F22%2Fyou-really-should.html" }, { "id": 400, "type": "post", "title": "\"Firefox and Chrome Fight Back Against Kazakhstan's Spying\"", "text": "Good on them: \u0026quot; Now, Google, Mozilla, and Apple are incorporating technical protections into their Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browsers to fight back\u0026hellip;the three companies are announcing new defenses that block the Kazakhstan government\u0026rsquo;s traffic-interception mechanism.\u0026quot; www.wired.com/story/chr\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-21 14:34:36 -0400", "date": "2:34 p.m. on Aug 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/21/firefox-and-chrome.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F21%2Ffirefox-and-chrome.html" }, { "id": 401, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Scaling the City Walls”\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-21 14:09:19 -0400", "date": "2:09 p.m. on Aug 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/21/scaling-the-city.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F21%2Fscaling-the-city.html" }, { "id": 402, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Summary of some highlights from The Web Conference 2019 that recently wrapped up\u0026hellip; #TheWebConf #www2019 http://simia.net/wiki/Web_Conference_2019\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-19 13:24:46 -0400", "date": "1:24 p.m. on Aug 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/19/summary-of-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F19%2Fsummary-of-some.html" }, { "id": 403, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Co-sign on every bit of this. #privacy #data\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-17 13:50:53 -0400", "date": "1:50 p.m. on Aug 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/17/cosign-on-every.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F17%2Fcosign-on-every.html" }, { "id": 404, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How to opt out of human review of your voice assistant recordings by Mozilla\u0026hellip;. foundation.mozilla.org/en/campai\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-16 17:52:39 -0400", "date": "5:52 p.m. on Aug 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/16/how-to-opt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F16%2Fhow-to-opt.html" }, { "id": 405, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A good podcast on Tumblr purchase and open web and #microblog: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-15 20:02:01 -0400", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Aug 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/15/a-good-podcast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F15%2Fa-good-podcast.html" }, { "id": 406, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How fragmented and interested our technology encourages us to be: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-14 22:56:35 -0400", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Aug 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/14/how-fragmented-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F14%2Fhow-fragmented-and.html" }, { "id": 407, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "ActivityPub Conference 2019 – Speakers announced redaktor.me/apconf/\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-13 11:22:30 -0400", "date": "11:22 p.m. on Aug 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/13/activitypub-conference-speakers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F13%2Factivitypub-conference-speakers.html" }, { "id": 408, "type": "post", "title": "\"It’s Time to End ‘Trending'\" ", "text": "Why it is good \u0026ndash; as #Mastodon and #Microdotblog does \u0026ndash; to still keep human admins in the mix on surfacing \u0026ldquo;trending\u0026rdquo; items:\n\u0026ldquo;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.\u0026rdquo;\nnymag.com/intellige\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-12 22:22:45 -0400", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Aug 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/12/its-time-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F12%2Fits-time-to.html" }, { "id": 409, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hopefully, this is a good thing for a more #openweb. poststatus.com/automatti\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-12 16:54:04 -0400", "date": "4:54 p.m. on Aug 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/12/hopefully-this-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F12%2Fhopefully-this-is.html" }, { "id": 410, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Moonlight #Beach #deweybeach #beachlife🌴\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-12 09:17:43 -0400", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Aug 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/12/moonlight-beach-deweybeach.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F12%2Fmoonlight-beach-deweybeach.html" }, { "id": 411, "type": "post", "title": "Indieweb, Fediverse and Commerical Silos", "text": "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\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-11 23:54:42 -0400", "date": "11:54 p.m. on Aug 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/11/indieweb-fediverse-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F11%2Findieweb-fediverse-and.html" }, { "id": 412, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Magic Hour\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-10 20:56:32 -0400", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Aug 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/10/magic-hour.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F10%2Fmagic-hour.html" }, { "id": 413, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Agree with every bit of this: \u0026ldquo;Reclaiming RSS” ar.al/2018/06/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-10 18:48:07 -0400", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Aug 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/10/agree-with-every.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F10%2Fagree-with-every.html" }, { "id": 414, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Surf Shanty” #art #deweybeach\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-10 09:14:32 -0400", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Aug 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/10/surf-shanty-art.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F10%2Fsurf-shanty-art.html" }, { "id": 415, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“”Hell on Wheels” Mural #streetart #deweybeach\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-10 09:03:08 -0400", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Aug 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/10/hell-on-wheels.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F10%2Fhell-on-wheels.html" }, { "id": 416, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Extended Play\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-09 19:35:35 -0400", "date": "7:35 p.m. on Aug 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/09/extended-play.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F09%2Fextended-play.html" }, { "id": 417, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Surf Beach Rentals\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-09 14:20:43 -0400", "date": "2:20 p.m. on Aug 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/09/surf-beach-rentals.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F09%2Fsurf-beach-rentals.html" }, { "id": 418, "type": "post", "title": "5 Big Wheels Vs. Millions of Small Ones", "text": "Some big companies I watch closely because, of course, Big Wheels roll: Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, etc.\nMuch tinier decentralized, distributed companies, orgs and efforts I watch because I wonder if long term they (or what they spawn) may be bigger catalysts for change from the ground up\u0026hellip;just maybe: Automatic, Mozilla Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, Mastodon, the Indieweb, and whatever blockchain becomes.\n5 or so big wheels vs what may amount to millions of small ones.\nAny other smaller, distributed ones I should watch?\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-08 01:02:54 -0400", "date": "1:02 p.m. on Aug 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/08/big-wheels-vs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F08%2Fbig-wheels-vs.html" }, { "id": 419, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Blues Jam at the White House Sidewalk\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-08 00:51:40 -0400", "date": "12:51 p.m. on Aug 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/08/blues-jam-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F08%2Fblues-jam-at.html" }, { "id": 420, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chaz and Celery #minpin #minpinstagram\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-07 11:53:45 -0400", "date": "11:53 p.m. on Aug 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/07/chaz-and-celery.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F07%2Fchaz-and-celery.html" }, { "id": 421, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;The function of freedom is to free someone else.\u0026rdquo; RIP, Toni Morrison.☹️\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-06 10:09:45 -0400", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Aug 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/06/the-function-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F06%2Fthe-function-of.html" }, { "id": 422, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good call. Better late than never: CloudFlare ending support for 8chan\u0026hellip; new.blog.cloudflare.com/terminati\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-04 22:49:26 -0400", "date": "10:49 p.m. on Aug 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/04/good-call-better.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F04%2Fgood-call-better.html" }, { "id": 423, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Love this: \u0026ldquo;It’s pleasantly ironic that some of the internet’s oldest open protocols are shining through, with email newsletters and podcasting standing tall\u0026hellip; a channel they own and control.\u0026rdquo; www.niemanlab.org/2018/12/p\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-03 11:03:38 -0400", "date": "11:03 p.m. on Aug 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/08/03/love-this-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F08%2F03%2Flove-this-its.html" }, { "id": 424, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This was a baby step, but a REALLY important one. And glad to see #Mastodon Social playing a key role here. www.theverge.com/2019/7/30\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-31 19:16:28 -0400", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Jul 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/31/this-was-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F31%2Fthis-was-a.html" }, { "id": 425, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Endorse: \u0026ldquo;A few large players dominate much of the online world, but the internet is healthier when it is controlled by many\u0026hellip;.\u0026rdquo; internethealthreport.org/2019/unde\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-30 13:34:14 -0400", "date": "1:34 p.m. on Jul 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/30/endorse-a-few.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F30%2Fendorse-a-few.html" }, { "id": 426, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Agreed, “an imperfect step in the right direction” in requiring bots to identify as automated. But an important one. www.wired.com/story/law\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-30 09:35:41 -0400", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Jul 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/30/agreed-an-imperfect.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F30%2Fagreed-an-imperfect.html" }, { "id": 427, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\u0026hellip; omnibear.com/features/\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-29 10:00:00 -0400", "date": "10:00 p.m. on Jul 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/29/been-looking-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F29%2Fbeen-looking-for.html" }, { "id": 428, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;The net was so weird and wonderful in the early 2000s because it was easy to remix\u0026hellip;.The only real option in 2019 of customizing anything is to build a website of your own.\u0026rdquo; onezero.medium.com/why-the-w\u0026hellip; #indieweb\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-22 10:35:44 -0400", "date": "10:35 p.m. on Jul 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/22/the-net-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F22%2Fthe-net-was.html" }, { "id": 429, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So #indieweb types, would the open sourced River of News project be a good option for a base for a Social Reader? github.com/scripting\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-19 23:57:04 -0400", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Jul 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/19/so-indieweb-types.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F19%2Fso-indieweb-types.html" }, { "id": 430, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Agreed: “The Web Can’t Survive a Monoculture.” #indieweb mikepennisi.com/blog/2019\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-18 16:28:14 -0400", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Jul 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/18/agreed-the-web.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F18%2Fagreed-the-web.html" }, { "id": 431, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good post on going #IndieWeb: \u0026ldquo;Since I scaled back my use of social media a year ago, I blogged more, re-subscribed to many RSS feeds, and grew increasingly interested in the IndieWeb — all small shifts back to the Open Web\u0026rsquo;s roots.\u0026rdquo; dri.es/pulling-t\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-15 10:18:56 -0400", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Jul 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/15/good-post-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F15%2Fgood-post-on.html" }, { "id": 432, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On the Open Source Social Network Mastodon and its Fight with Nazis. blogghoran.se/2019/07/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-12 18:13:27 -0400", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Jul 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/12/on-the-open.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F12%2Fon-the-open.html" }, { "id": 433, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Little. Big. Large. Great. Small. And overlap.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-12 15:28:40 -0400", "date": "3:28 p.m. on Jul 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/12/little-big-large.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F12%2Flittle-big-large.html" }, { "id": 434, "type": "post", "title": "\"Will California’s New Bot Law Strengthen Democracy?\"", "text": "This law is a start, and should be implemented in every US state:\n\u0026ldquo;On July 1st, California became the first state in the nation to try to reduce the power of bots by requiring that they reveal their “artificial identity” when they are used to sell a product or influence a voter. Violators could face fines under state statutes related to unfair competition. Just as pharmaceutical companies must disclose that the happy people who say a new drug has miraculously improved their lives are paid actors, bots in California—or rather, the people who deploy them—will have to level with their audience.\u0026rdquo;\nwww.newyorker.com/tech/anna\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-11 15:27:15 -0400", "date": "3:27 p.m. on Jul 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/11/will-californias-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F11%2Fwill-californias-new.html" }, { "id": 435, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Continue to think that efforts at Humane design, and #indieweb and @microdotblog efforts are natural allies: medium.com/thrive-gl\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-10 12:05:27 -0400", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Jul 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/10/continue-to-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F10%2Fcontinue-to-think.html" }, { "id": 436, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good for Mozilla\u0026hellip;. apple.news\n Mozilla blocks UAE bid to become an internet security guardian after hacking reports - Reuters\n ", "dateiso": "2019-07-10 07:42:36 -0400", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Jul 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/10/good-for-mozillaapplenews.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F10%2Fgood-for-mozillaapplenews.html" }, { "id": 437, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I recommend something quite like this about a year ago, so am watching this very closely:\nwww.thedailybeast.com/in-califo\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-09 20:16:17 -0400", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Jul 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/09/i-recommend-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F09%2Fi-recommend-something.html" }, { "id": 438, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A post showing the #Gab servers and the Gab enabled Mobile apps using Mastodon: mastodon.social\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-09 19:57:42 -0400", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Jul 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/09/a-post-showing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F09%2Fa-post-showing.html" }, { "id": 439, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Misting\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-09 13:03:50 -0400", "date": "1:03 p.m. on Jul 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/09/misting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F09%2Fmisting.html" }, { "id": 440, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The #indieweb and Microblog should reach out to Center for Humane Tech, both efforts goals are very alligned. humanetech.com/about-us/\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-09 11:30:03 -0400", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Jul 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/09/the-indieweb-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F09%2Fthe-indieweb-and.html" }, { "id": 441, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Glad #Firefox finally found it\u0026rsquo;s true reason to exist. Hope they push hard that their product matches their aspirations for privacy and security, and that Chrome users give them another look. blog.mozilla.org/firefox/f\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-08 16:54:41 -0400", "date": "4:54 p.m. on Jul 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/08/glad-firefox-finally.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F08%2Fglad-firefox-finally.html" }, { "id": 442, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Guerrilla Girls Protest Poster\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-08 16:32:21 -0400", "date": "4:32 p.m. on Jul 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/08/guerrilla-girls-protest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F08%2Fguerrilla-girls-protest.html" }, { "id": 443, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Viewing #Art #Sculpture\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-08 16:30:21 -0400", "date": "4:30 p.m. on Jul 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/08/viewing-art-sculpture.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F08%2Fviewing-art-sculpture.html" }, { "id": 444, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The #indieweb and the #calm technology movement are natural allies. calmtech.com\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-08 12:28:34 -0400", "date": "12:28 p.m. on Jul 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/08/the-indieweb-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F08%2Fthe-indieweb-and.html" }, { "id": 445, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Endorse. Move on to something better. Which in some cases means going back to what worked and reinvent. #indieweb.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-08 09:58:49 -0400", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Jul 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/08/endorse-move-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F08%2Fendorse-move-on.html" }, { "id": 446, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "LED Forest 3\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-07 16:43:13 -0400", "date": "4:43 p.m. on Jul 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/07/led-forest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F07%2Fled-forest.html" }, { "id": 447, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "LED Forest 2\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-07 16:41:33 -0400", "date": "4:41 p.m. on Jul 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/07/164133.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F07%2F164133.html" }, { "id": 448, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "LED Forest\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-07 16:37:33 -0400", "date": "4:37 p.m. on Jul 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/07/163733.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F07%2F163733.html" }, { "id": 449, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From the co-founder of Wikipedia on \u0026ldquo;Decentralizing social media networks\u0026rdquo; and owning your own blog\u0026hellip; (and the fact that I have to screenshot the tweet to share it on other social networks is evidence of the problem!)\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-03 12:39:18 -0400", "date": "12:39 p.m. on Jul 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/03/from-the-cofounder.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F03%2Ffrom-the-cofounder.html" }, { "id": 450, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#streetart #streetstyle #resist\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-02 15:29:45 -0400", "date": "3:29 p.m. on Jul 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/02/streetart-streetstyle-resist.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F02%2Fstreetart-streetstyle-resist.html" }, { "id": 451, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just set up a PixelFed distributed social nedia account. Trying it out. Is based on ActivityPub. #Fediverse pxlfd.me/tchambers\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-02 14:57:59 -0400", "date": "2:57 p.m. on Jul 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/02/just-set-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F02%2Fjust-set-up.html" }, { "id": 452, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A good article on decentralized social media and federating your web posts\u0026hellip; tinysubversions.com/notes/dec\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-02 08:40:06 -0400", "date": "8:40 p.m. on Jul 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/02/a-good-article.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F02%2Fa-good-article.html" }, { "id": 453, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "4th of July #beach #beachlife\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-02 07:16:51 -0400", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Jul 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/07/02/th-of-july.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F07%2F02%2Fth-of-july.html" }, { "id": 454, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This looks like a good tool to enable desktop browser based \u0026ldquo;Sharing to\u0026rdquo; Microblog directly, and then allowing Microblog to share to other social nets. Would be good to add #Microblog to this. cc: @manton\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-30 20:29:01 -0400", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Jun 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/30/this-looks-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F30%2Fthis-looks-like.html" }, { "id": 455, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bethesda has these hidden street murals in all sorts of places. #mural #streetart #streetartists\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-30 13:07:44 -0400", "date": "1:07 p.m. on Jun 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/30/bethesda-has-these.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F30%2Fbethesda-has-these.html" }, { "id": 456, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mural on Side of Metal Shipping Container #streetart #muralart #mural\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-30 13:04:01 -0400", "date": "1:04 p.m. on Jun 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/30/mural-on-side.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F30%2Fmural-on-side.html" }, { "id": 457, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Real Fine BBQ #streetart\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-30 13:00:29 -0400", "date": "1:00 p.m. on Jun 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/30/real-fine-bbq.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F30%2Freal-fine-bbq.html" }, { "id": 458, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Folks are looking for #indieweb even when they don\u0026rsquo;t use or know the word yet\u0026hellip; cc: @manton\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-30 09:30:40 -0400", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Jun 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/30/folks-are-looking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F30%2Ffolks-are-looking.html" }, { "id": 459, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cam and Lily.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-29 17:56:35 -0400", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Jun 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/29/cam-and-lily.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F29%2Fcam-and-lily.html" }, { "id": 460, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Escalating up.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-29 17:53:52 -0400", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Jun 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/29/escalating-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F29%2Fescalating-up.html" }, { "id": 461, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Attending remotely: indieweb.org/2019/Sche\u0026hellip; #indiewebcamp\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-29 10:40:02 -0400", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Jun 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/29/attending-remotely-httpsindieweborgschedule.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F29%2Fattending-remotely-httpsindieweborgschedule.html" }, { "id": 462, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very interested in the various efforts at #selfsoverignidentity and how it could apply to social networks and the #indieweb. www.lifewithalacrity.com/2016/04/t\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-25 09:40:47 -0400", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Jun 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/25/very-interested-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F25%2Fvery-interested-in.html" }, { "id": 463, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Alt-Right network #Gab keeps talking up it\u0026rsquo;s efforts in the #fediverse. Those who care about the #openweb and #indieweb should watch closely @manton have you been watching this too, from a @microdotblog perspective?\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-24 17:02:50 -0400", "date": "5:02 p.m. on Jun 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/24/altright-network-gab.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F24%2Faltright-network-gab.html" }, { "id": 464, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Facinating watching Gab, the mostly alt-right social network (after spending $5 million dev costs) try to shift to the open #Fediverse and fork #Mastodon, and then watching that self-managed community counter: mjtsai.com/blog/2019\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-22 17:12:11 -0400", "date": "5:12 p.m. on Jun 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/22/facinating-watching-gab.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F22%2Ffacinating-watching-gab.html" }, { "id": 465, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Warm summer night’s view while walking\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-20 07:01:59 -0400", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Jun 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/20/warm-summer-nights.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F20%2Fwarm-summer-nights.html" }, { "id": 466, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Quietly the Mastodon social network seems to have grown to over 2.1 million users. #indieweb #mastodon\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-17 19:21:18 -0400", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Jun 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/17/quietly-the-mastodon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F17%2Fquietly-the-mastodon.html" }, { "id": 467, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Table Top Found Art\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-15 10:05:46 -0400", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Jun 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/15/table-top-found.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F15%2Ftable-top-found.html" }, { "id": 468, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Rebooting the web of trust” and decentralized “self-sovereign” identity online: www.lifewithalacrity.com/2016/04/t\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-14 07:23:28 -0400", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Jun 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/14/rebooting-the-web.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F14%2Frebooting-the-web.html" }, { "id": 469, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Election Day in VA tomorrow: “Just as Virginia’s 2017 elections were an early warning signal that an anti-Trump blue wave was headed for the 2018 U.S. midterms, this year’s legislative elections could offer strong clues about national trends in 2020.” www.washingtonpost.com/local/pri\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-10 08:43:56 -0400", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Jun 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/10/election-day-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F10%2Felection-day-in.html" }, { "id": 470, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m completely sold on this: “Proposing a \u0026lsquo;Declaration of Digital Independence\u0026quot; - www.wired.com/story/lar\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-07 17:30:19 -0400", "date": "5:30 p.m. on Jun 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/06/07/im-completely-sold.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F06%2F07%2Fim-completely-sold.html" }, { "id": 471, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chandelier Stairwell\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-23 13:49:34 -0400", "date": "1:49 p.m. on May 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/23/chandelier-stairwell.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F23%2Fchandelier-stairwell.html" }, { "id": 472, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Important #Firefox upgrade for privacy and speed. Good. That is what every Firefox update from here on out should be focused on a like a laser.\ntechcrunch.com/2019/05/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-21 16:19:42 -0400", "date": "4:19 p.m. on May 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/21/important-firefox-upgrade.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F21%2Fimportant-firefox-upgrade.html" }, { "id": 473, "type": "post", "title": "Looking for this #IndieWeb Tool", "text": "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.\nIn 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.\nDoes that exist? If not, it should.\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-21 11:28:41 -0400", "date": "11:28 p.m. on May 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/21/looking-for-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F21%2Flooking-for-this.html" }, { "id": 474, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That’s more like it, #Nasa\napple.news/ACKC7b-aq\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-21 07:41:00 -0400", "date": "7:41 p.m. on May 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/21/thats-more-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F21%2Fthats-more-like.html" }, { "id": 475, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Purple bike\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-18 12:37:22 -0400", "date": "12:37 p.m. on May 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/18/purple-bike.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F18%2Fpurple-bike.html" }, { "id": 476, "type": "post", "title": "Microblog and Webmtion support of any blogs....", "text": "This is cool, from @menton on #microblog supporting integration any blog that uses Webmentions\u0026hellip;\n \u0026ldquo;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.\u0026quot;\u0026lt;\n www.manton.org/2019/05/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-17 12:35:51 -0400", "date": "12:35 p.m. on May 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/17/microblog-and-webmtion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F17%2Fmicroblog-and-webmtion.html" }, { "id": 477, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Saint Francis in a garden\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-13 19:47:02 -0400", "date": "7:47 p.m. on May 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/13/saint-francis-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F13%2Fsaint-francis-in.html" }, { "id": 478, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Circles\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-11 19:04:24 -0400", "date": "7:04 p.m. on May 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/11/circles.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F11%2Fcircles.html" }, { "id": 479, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Audience of one.\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-11 12:51:01 -0400", "date": "12:51 p.m. on May 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/11/audience-of-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F11%2Faudience-of-one.html" }, { "id": 480, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Atlantic and me.\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-11 05:53:54 -0400", "date": "5:53 p.m. on May 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/11/atlantic-and-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F11%2Fatlantic-and-me.html" }, { "id": 481, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very, very worth a read\u0026hellip;A great state of play on tech and politics - as it is every year\u0026hellip; www.epolitics.com/winning/\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-08 22:38:16 -0400", "date": "10:38 p.m. on May 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/08/very-very-worth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F08%2Fvery-very-worth.html" }, { "id": 482, "type": "post", "title": "#LetsFixThis - And some good, good questions", "text": "Jeff Zeldman asks really good questions here: (and I also posted this to my open #Microblog:\n\u0026ldquo;Along those same lines, can the IndieWeb, and products of IndieWeb thinking like Micro.blog, save us?\nMight they at least provide an alternative to the toxic aspects of our current social web, and restore the ownership of our data and content? And before you answer, RTFM.\nOn an individual and small collective basis, the IndieWeb already works. But does an IndieWeb approach scale to the general public?\nIf it doesn’t scale yet, can we, who envision and design and build, create a new generation of tools that will help give birth to a flourishing, independent web? One that is as accessible to ordinary internet users as Twitter and Facebook and Instagram? Tantek Çelik thinks so, and he’s been right about the web for nearly 30 years. (For more about what Tantek thinks, listen to our conversation in Episode № 186 of The Big Web Show.)\nAre these approaches mere whistling against a hurricane? Are most web and internet users content with how things are? What do you think? Share your thoughts on your personal website (dust yours off!) or (irony ahoy!) on your indie or mainstream social networks of choice using hashtag #LetsFixThis.\u0026rdquo;\nalistapart.com/article/n\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-04 12:07:26 -0400", "date": "12:07 p.m. on May 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/04/letsfixthis-and-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F04%2Fletsfixthis-and-some.html" }, { "id": 483, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a big launch, good for them: \u0026ldquo;Experience the new CC Search, now with 300 million images from 19 collections, easier attribution, an elegant redesign, faster load times, and more relevant results.\u0026rdquo; creativecommons.org/2019/04/3\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-04 11:44:00 -0400", "date": "11:44 p.m. on May 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/04/this-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F04%2Fthis-is-a.html" }, { "id": 484, "type": "post", "title": "\"Why I’m supporting the IndieWeb (and you should too)\"", "text": "A solid argument for the #indieweb - and that it needs to be as \u0026ldquo;friction free\u0026rdquo; and as easy to use as closed sollutions:\n I had the opportunity to witness an early Internet so I was not natively exposed to the psychological threats that newly born platforms like Facebook or Instagram have built in. It’s amazing to me that in a matter of few years, apps like Instagram evolved from an indie type of platform for wannabe photographers into a vanity tool and status broadcasting.\u0026lt;\n Our internet today offers a variety of digital services and social networks that are not showing a clean and honest face to their users. Platforms that are examples of hate speech, privacy violations and lies.\u0026lt;\n Most of these platforms don’t charge (directly) for their services. You don’t pay a dime to use Facebook or Instagram. But you know you’ll become their “product” soon, as your own behaviour and content will fuel campaigns based on your data\u0026hellip;.\n It’s still too early to reach any conclusions, but I’m feeling better now that I control my own content and that I’ve found a place where to post my content freely and without fear.\n But will be the Indieweb movement be the solution to save us all? The struggles I had at the beginning setting up my Indieweb on a WordPress website have prevented me from thinking that way\u0026hellip;.It’s clear that the Indieweb needs to be more convenient, otherwise non-early adopters will not even get close to this movement.\u0026lt;\n www.marketgoo.com/blog/2019\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-04 11:15:09 -0400", "date": "11:15 p.m. on May 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/04/why-im-supporting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F04%2Fwhy-im-supporting.html" }, { "id": 485, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I agree - trying to create a closed walled garden for podcasts - deserves to fail:\nwww.manton.org/2019/05/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-04 09:00:59 -0400", "date": "9:00 p.m. on May 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/04/i-agree-trying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F04%2Fi-agree-trying.html" }, { "id": 486, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Looking forward to this season of the podcast. “Unbreak the Internet.” #Microblog is definitely one of the tools trying to help unbreak things. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-02 10:22:10 -0400", "date": "10:22 p.m. on May 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/05/02/looking-forward-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F05%2F02%2Flooking-forward-to.html" }, { "id": 487, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2019-04-29 15:24:56 -0400", "date": "3:24 p.m. on Apr 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/29/152456.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F29%2F152456.html" }, { "id": 488, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“The Sky is Now Her Limit” 1920 \u0026hellip;with the bottom rung “slavery” and the top “Presidency.”\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-27 08:28:07 -0400", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Apr 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/27/the-sky-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F27%2Fthe-sky-is.html" }, { "id": 489, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "An important snapshot and a an appropriately mixed picture of the health of the Internet.\nblog.mozilla.org/blog/2019\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-24 06:58:41 -0400", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Apr 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/24/an-important-snapshot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F24%2Fan-important-snapshot.html" }, { "id": 490, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Laura and flowers\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-22 09:30:26 -0400", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Apr 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/22/laura-and-flowers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F22%2Flaura-and-flowers.html" }, { "id": 491, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spring 5\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-20 08:34:26 -0400", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Apr 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/20/spring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F20%2Fspring.html" }, { "id": 492, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Total Exoneration Day” went about as well as past “Infrastructure Weeks.”\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-19 10:30:15 -0400", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Apr 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/19/total-exoneration-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F19%2Ftotal-exoneration-day.html" }, { "id": 493, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Night blossoms.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-15 21:12:45 -0400", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Apr 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/15/night-blossoms.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F15%2Fnight-blossoms.html" }, { "id": 494, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Busboy and Poets Bar\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-14 18:04:59 -0400", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Apr 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/14/busboy-and-poets.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F14%2Fbusboy-and-poets.html" }, { "id": 495, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Old Car Room. #art #outsiderart\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-13 14:58:52 -0400", "date": "2:58 p.m. on Apr 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/13/old-car-room.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F13%2Fold-car-room.html" }, { "id": 496, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Velvet Ford. #art #outsiderart\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-13 14:56:17 -0400", "date": "2:56 p.m. on Apr 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/13/velvet-ford-art.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F13%2Fvelvet-ford-art.html" }, { "id": 497, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Subway #art.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-11 22:07:00 -0400", "date": "10:07 p.m. on Apr 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/11/subway-art.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F11%2Fsubway-art.html" }, { "id": 498, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chaz. #nationalpetday #minpin #minpinstagram\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-11 16:25:09 -0400", "date": "4:25 p.m. on Apr 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/11/chaz-nationalpetday-minpin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F11%2Fchaz-nationalpetday-minpin.html" }, { "id": 499, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Morning commute.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-11 11:48:48 -0400", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Apr 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/11/morning-commute.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F11%2Fmorning-commute.html" }, { "id": 500, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spring 2.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-10 07:13:13 -0400", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Apr 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/10/spring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F10%2Fspring.html" }, { "id": 501, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spring.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-10 07:10:54 -0400", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Apr 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/10/071054.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F10%2F071054.html" }, { "id": 502, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Shadow girl.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-09 21:53:12 -0400", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Apr 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/09/shadow-girl.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F09%2Fshadow-girl.html" }, { "id": 503, "type": "post", "title": "Twitter's Pace of Bot Removal", "text": "To give a sense of scale: Twitter is now “automatically removing 6 million to 7.5 million [bot] accounts per week…That works out to about 10 to 12 accounts a second, or 312 million to 390 million a year.”\nAnd STILL is only treading water in the fight to remove false accounts.\nwww.fastcompany.com/90331696/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-09 10:47:19 -0400", "date": "10:47 p.m. on Apr 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/09/twitters-pace-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F09%2Ftwitters-pace-of.html" }, { "id": 504, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A good essay on the nature of wonder. getpocket.com/explore/i\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-08 11:46:45 -0400", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Apr 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/08/a-good-essay.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F08%2Fa-good-essay.html" }, { "id": 505, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spring.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-08 07:05:52 -0400", "date": "7:05 p.m. on Apr 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/08/spring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F08%2Fspring.html" }, { "id": 506, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chaz and me. #minpin #minpinstagram\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-07 21:47:31 -0400", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Apr 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/07/chaz-and-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F07%2Fchaz-and-me.html" }, { "id": 507, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mr. Wiggles\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-06 19:49:11 -0400", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Apr 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/06/mr-wiggles.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F06%2Fmr-wiggles.html" }, { "id": 508, "type": "post", "title": "\"I'm an obesity doctor. I've seen long-term weight loss work. Here's how.\"", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m in this registry and long term health study on longer term weight loss and check in twice a year.\n The real world has its share of success stories too, many of which are collected by the National Weight Control Registry. Established in 1994, the registry is a gathering place for successful losers. To qualify for enrollment, a loser needs to have lost more than 30 pounds and kept that weight off for over a year.\n Today there are more than 10,000 registrants who on average have lost 66 pounds and kept it off for five and a half years. Registrants have lost weight every which way. Some have lost rapidly, while for others it took years. Some lost weight with low-fat diets, others low-carb. Some used diet books for guidance, others self-directed, and others still went to weight loss programs for help.\n Looking to their success stories, published both online and as highlighted by Anne Fletcher in her book exploring the registrants, Thin for Life, the one common theme is that while maintaining their losses requires ongoing effort, that effort isn\u0026rsquo;t perceived by these weight loss masters as a hardship but rather as just living with new lifestyles, and lifestyles that they enjoy.\n [Full article here.] (https://getpocket.com/explore/item/i-m-an-obesity-doctor-i-ve-seen-long-term-weight-loss-work-here-s-how)\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-05 11:23:17 -0400", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Apr 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/05/im-an-obesity.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F05%2Fim-an-obesity.html" }, { "id": 509, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very important milestone in terms of political progressive infrastructure and 2020: www.wired.com/story/dem\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-04 17:12:03 -0400", "date": "5:12 p.m. on Apr 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/04/very-important-milestone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F04%2Fvery-important-milestone.html" }, { "id": 510, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Underground Bethesda\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-02 06:57:58 -0400", "date": "6:57 p.m. on Apr 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/02/underground-bethesda.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F02%2Funderground-bethesda.html" }, { "id": 511, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sticker Jesus\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-01 08:31:13 -0400", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Apr 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/04/01/sticker-jesus.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F04%2F01%2Fsticker-jesus.html" }, { "id": 512, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wall of cubes. #art\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-31 09:59:37 -0400", "date": "9:59 p.m. on Mar 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/31/wall-of-cubes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F31%2Fwall-of-cubes.html" }, { "id": 513, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Neon America. #art #modernart\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-30 10:34:02 -0400", "date": "10:34 p.m. on Mar 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/30/neon-america-art.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F30%2Fneon-america-art.html" }, { "id": 514, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chaz Frustrated. #minpin #minpinstagram\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-30 10:15:47 -0400", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Mar 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/30/chaz-frustrated-minpin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F30%2Fchaz-frustrated-minpin.html" }, { "id": 515, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Turtles all the way down.\nwww.cnbc.com/amp/2019/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-29 21:51:51 -0400", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Mar 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/29/turtles-all-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F29%2Fturtles-all-the.html" }, { "id": 516, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "These seem like just common sense things Facebook and Google should do in opening up thier ad archive to an API for researchers, and for transparency: blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-28 19:08:15 -0400", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Mar 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/28/these-seem-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F28%2Fthese-seem-like.html" }, { "id": 517, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yearly #birthday post.\n\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-28 00:35:47 -0400", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Mar 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/28/yearly-birthday-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F28%2Fyearly-birthday-post.html" }, { "id": 518, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“In Valor There is Hope.”\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-27 19:04:58 -0400", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Mar 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/27/in-valor-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F27%2Fin-valor-there.html" }, { "id": 519, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You can really never have too many stickers on your standing work desk. Just added three more but getting real picky about which ones get added at this point. ", "dateiso": "2019-03-25 10:03:37 -0400", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Mar 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/25/you-can-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F25%2Fyou-can-really.html" }, { "id": 520, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chaz napping in the sun.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-24 19:24:37 -0400", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Mar 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/24/chaz-napping-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F24%2Fchaz-napping-in.html" }, { "id": 521, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Passing by Art #mural #streetart\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-24 19:22:29 -0400", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Mar 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/24/passing-by-art.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F24%2Fpassing-by-art.html" }, { "id": 522, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Flower #mural #streetart\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-24 15:42:18 -0400", "date": "3:42 p.m. on Mar 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/24/flower-mural-streetart.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F24%2Fflower-mural-streetart.html" }, { "id": 523, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I get why NY Times or Wash Post are worried about Apple’s premium news service.\nBut I’m interested: for the same exact reason as a consumer I like Netflix and wouldn’t subscribe to one-studio-only streaming service.\nThe big papers themselves should have collectively built the Netflix for News before someone else does.\nApple is going to try.\nwww.reuters.com/article/u\u0026hellip; New York Times CEO warns publishers ahead of Apple news launch - Reuters\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-23 12:37:47 -0400", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Mar 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/23/i-get-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F23%2Fi-get-why.html" }, { "id": 524, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good feature addition to #Firefox 66: \u0026ldquo;Block autoplaying content by default.\u0026rdquo; But allows you to whitelist individual sites if you wish.\nblog.mozilla.org/blog/2019\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-22 09:46:44 -0400", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Mar 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/22/good-feature-addition.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F22%2Fgood-feature-addition.html" }, { "id": 525, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Homeless Homeboy’s Poetry”\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-21 12:08:19 -0400", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Mar 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/21/homeless-homeboys-poetry.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F21%2Fhomeless-homeboys-poetry.html" }, { "id": 526, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Average media consumption for US adults\u0026hellip;.\n\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-21 11:50:10 -0400", "date": "11:50 p.m. on Mar 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/21/average-media-consumption.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F21%2Faverage-media-consumption.html" }, { "id": 527, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That’s a milestone:\n“The number of global subscriptions to online video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime surpassed cable TV for the first time in 2018\u0026hellip;Worldwide, the streaming services added 131.2 million new subscribers for a total of 613.3 million\u0026hellip;”\napple.news/A_3IEjFy4\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-21 11:46:30 -0400", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Mar 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/21/thats-a-milestone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F21%2Fthats-a-milestone.html" }, { "id": 528, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gotta go do some of these in Maryland sometime this summer: www.atlasobscura.com/things-to\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-20 20:27:04 -0400", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Mar 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/20/gotta-go-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F20%2Fgotta-go-do.html" }, { "id": 529, "type": "post", "title": "Building in \"Web Stuff\" and Micro.blog", "text": "This is a great quote on #indieweb publishing and #microblog in specific\u0026hellip;. Build in \u0026ldquo;web stuff\u0026rdquo; if you want it to last:\n \u0026ldquo;Micro.blog is not an alternative silo: instead, it’s what you build when you believe that the web itself is the great social network. That’s the important part: even if Micro.blog doesn’t last (though I believe it will), the idea — that the web itself is where we are and where we talk to each other — will continue. And: Micro.blog could be just one of thousands of similar services. And those services would all work together, because they’re made of web-stuff.\u0026quot;\u0026lt;\n http://inessential.com/2018/02/01/why_micro_blog_is_not_another_app_net\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-20 20:13:47 -0400", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Mar 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/20/building-in-web.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F20%2Fbuilding-in-web.html" }, { "id": 530, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#Google Graveyard of dead products, and when and why they went the way of all flesh. gcemetery.co\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-20 17:57:39 -0400", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Mar 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/20/google-graveyard-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F20%2Fgoogle-graveyard-of.html" }, { "id": 531, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Adding \u0026ldquo;Hey Siri\u0026rdquo; functionality directly into Airpods was smart. I keep awaiting for Apple to announce a new Siri that is literally 200% better at speech recognition, though.\nwww.cnet.com/news/appl\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-20 10:52:58 -0400", "date": "10:52 p.m. on Mar 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/20/adding-hey-siri.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F20%2Fadding-hey-siri.html" }, { "id": 532, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On ACA’s ninth anniversary, threats remain while popularity soars. #ACAanniversary #ProtectOurCare www.onlineathens.com/news/2019\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-20 10:33:56 -0400", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Mar 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/20/on-acas-ninth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F20%2Fon-acas-ninth.html" }, { "id": 533, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This article convinced me to make it a habit to journal at least one sentence per day using #DayOne app, but some might also make it to my #Microblog. jamesclear.com/journalin\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-19 11:38:13 -0400", "date": "11:38 p.m. on Mar 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/19/this-article-convinced.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F19%2Fthis-article-convinced.html" }, { "id": 534, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yet one more object lesson of why to federate and distribute your social content, no trust any one network with it. #Indiweb #microblog boingboing.net/2019/03/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-18 10:35:38 -0400", "date": "10:35 p.m. on Mar 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/18/yet-one-more.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F18%2Fyet-one-more.html" }, { "id": 535, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Beto O\u0026rsquo;Rourke raised massive $6.1 million his first day in the 2020 race. The largest one day haul yet of any candidate. www.cnn.com/2019/03/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-18 07:31:45 -0400", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Mar 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/18/beto-orourke-raised.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F18%2Fbeto-orourke-raised.html" }, { "id": 536, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another argument for not trusting your social posting to any single social net. #indieweb apple.news/ArcNSwA8j\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-17 14:10:37 -0400", "date": "2:10 p.m. on Mar 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/17/another-argument-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F17%2Fanother-argument-for.html" }, { "id": 537, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dog Bar #outsiderart #outsiderartist\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-16 20:48:17 -0400", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Mar 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/16/dog-bar-outsiderart.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F16%2Fdog-bar-outsiderart.html" }, { "id": 538, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“In the Garden with Elvis”\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-16 20:42:26 -0400", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Mar 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/16/in-the-garden.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F16%2Fin-the-garden.html" }, { "id": 539, "type": "post", "title": "How Software, Data, and a Hell of a Lot of Work Helped Me Lose 110 pounds in 25 Months", "text": " If I kept going at that rate I would reliably be up to 300 pounds by summer.\n I had cholesterol levels that were not good for anybody — much less for someone like me with a family history that looks like a American Heart Association horror anthology of strokes, heart attacks and emergency artery bypass surgeries.\nA sleep study I took, that had me wired up like Neo in the first Matrix movie, showed I had “severe” sleep apnea. People die of that. Then came the heart attack scare.\nA full dress rehearsal of the abyss.\nThe scare was this: Although I had no symptoms at all that day, on the trip home from work I had a near-fainting incident that came out of nowhere — and with no immediately clear cause. This sent me to a weekend emergency room visit. Thankfully it was not heart problems but during the several day hospital stay doctors thought it might have been.\nIt was a full “dress rehearsal” for a stepping into the abyss. I could see where this was leading to, and it was a scary place. For a weekend they watched me closely to figure how what the hell just happened, not being entirely sure if I had a “vascular event” — the cold clinical term for heart attack — or not.\nIt was the health equivalent of the vision of the Giant that Agent Cooper would occasionally see in the show Twin Peaks, that would appear in surreal visions warning him of grave danger ahead.\n “Nooooooo…..” I had previously had some success with weight loss, but never more then varying blips or rushes of success for a few months followed by regain when stress, life work swarmed back. In each failed blip though, I would learn a bit more about how to eat healthier, how to plan foods, how to exercise more, but none of the blips lasted more than a few months, tops.\n I had previously learned though, that the “secret” of getting to a healthy weight was no real secret. It was well summed up in an old Bloom County comic strip I remembered where Milo keeps trying to tell Opus it was simple: “ how about eating less and exercise?” I knew HOW to do this, I never got the HOW TO KEEP DOING IT part.\n “How about eating less and exercise…” But that night, alone in the emergency room, my doctors still worried, I lay awake hearing the machine go “beep, beep, beep” to and being thankful for each beep. I was ready. Ready to “new leaf” my health and to make choices that this time, I would not just do, but — for the best I could — keep doing.\nI began on January 1st — seemed appropriate a New Years Resolution. At least I would have the company of millions of others resolving for a healthier new year. But in prep for that day, over Christmas I had done some research and had dropped sufficient hints to my spouse for some key tools to help.\nGeekery — which has always been both a core part of me and at best a mixed blessing — this time would turn out to be a key ally.\n Because this was not just any January, this was January 2014, and some key health tools had just come into existence for the consumer market that someone like me who is unabashedly a nerd at heart, could grasp onto. Here were they most important tools. And basically there were five.\nOne: a digital, wirelessly networked scale.\nI had to stop “flying blind” on my weight. So it had to have a scale with the following traits: dead simple to use, track weight precisely but also lean vs fat weight, and sync effortlessly to the cloud. There are a lot of good ones out there. Here is one.\nTwo: Food and exercise tracking App on my phone. Another area I had to stop “flying blind” on was my eating — and in specific my daily calories in versus calories burned. There are a million apps in this space, and I tried them all, but I winnowed it down to apps that can best do this: help me set my needed daily calorie goal, assist me in adding and tracking almost any food within 30 seconds, have a huge a database of foods, and show at a glance how I’m netting out on calories in vs out each day.\nI settled on two apps I used in combination. One was My Fitness Pal.... MFP has an unrivaled and simple food database, and a good visual for calorie intake vs. burn. I knew I had to start tracking virtually everything I eat and all my steps per day — and I know I will be doing some form of this for the rest of my life.\nThree: an activity tracking wearable.\nThis tool is all about how to track every single step and movement and nudge you to up your daily activity. I work at a desk, and often have long hours. I’d need something to help me get a handle on how to get more active.\nFrankly sitting was killing me.\nHere is what the activity band needed to be: given that you wear it 24/7 it had to be a non-ugly fashion accessory, it had to accurately track steps, it had to wirelessly sync to the cloud, and battery life needed to be one week minimum.\nAll other features were nice but extras.\nBattery life alone ruled out the Apple Watch. Here too, there was a plethora of choices. I ended up on this one.\nI wore my first tracker for tracker for one entire week where purposefully I did not do even one extra step than I usually did. I needed to see how I was doing in my “normal” state, and wow — what a sedentary panda-like creature I turned out to have been. I was only clocking in at about 2,000 steps at most during a normal day. The tracker helped me see my progress as I slowly tried to ratchet things up from there.\nThe more I did the more it “earned me back” some calories each day in my quest for my daily net calories goal.\n Four: Trend based weight tracking tools. Although all the apps had some version of this, the best one I found was an online only website, Trendweight. It’s created by a web developer who built it for himself first, he got it right for all of us. It works with both the FitBit Aria Scale or a Withings WiFi Scale, and it automatically syncs to both web services to plot a moving average from your daily weight alongside your daily scale weight. Invaluable.\nSo I would weigh in daily but frankly not care about the daily data. Each days weigh in was purely valuable as one more data point helping form the trend line.\n Loseit Reddit Community Lastly: Community online: It was important to have a community, but also that I didn’t push this in-front of all my friends, “spamming” them with the ups and downs of this effort. Here places like Reddit’s Loseit, NerdFitness, Facebook Groups for others trying to get fit, and others.\nWith those tools in hand it was easier to go for the long distance changes I knew I needed to do. As Milo said: “Eat less and exercise.”\n “Don’t break the chain…” I took some wisdom from Jerry Seinfeld’s advice as to how to build long term goals: set a few simple daily tasks, track daily and then think of each day as a link in the chain.\nSeinfeld said: “After a few days you’ll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain. Don’t break the chain.”\nFor me, each day’s heath chain link was: eat a net total of 1,600 calories, get 10,000 steps minimum, get 7 hours of sleep or more. Longer term goals would take care of themselves. Just do your best to not “break the chain” that day. And when you did break it, don’t freak out, but just start the chain back up. It was that simple, and that hard.\nLink after link after link.\nAnd for the first 7 months of loss not one person but me could tell. But over 25 months, bit by bit I lost over 110 pounds. I dropped five suit sizes, and most importantly, my doctor is happy with my cholesterol tests and blood pressure. And I’ve been approved to ditch the sleep apnea mask.\nI have lots of big and small lessons learned in the process, but here are the big six:\nONE: Trust the “signal” of the trendline, ignore the “noise” of the day to day flux.\nCare about the trend, the core average direction and ignore both odd spikes and big short term drops. This is not a straight line. There are victories and defeats but don’t stress. Watch the direction, watch the pattern. Like Nate Silver and others aggregating political polls day to day into one “metascore” of aggregated polls, what matters is this core line.\n TWO: The aphorism, “You can’t outrun your fork” is true. Don’t try to. This single meal is over 2,000 calories — 400 calories more than my daily goal Exercise is a distant second to eating clean in tema of its effect on weight loss. About 10–20 percent of weight loss is exercise at most, and by contrast about 80–90 percent of success in weight loss is nutrition. You simply can’t out-exercise a bad diet, you can’t burn off enough calories to make up for eating poorly or too much.\nThere are a million other health reasons to exercise daily, but for weight loss, if something has to give, triage to eat healthy and miss the mark on exercise for the day. Then pick both back up.\nTHREE: Trust math and play a long game.\nHealth is all about “compound interest” of thousands of healthy acts. Each step counts, each food choice counts. For the first six months I could not break 6,000 steps a day no matter how hard I tried.\nThen bit by bit, to a 13,000 a day target that was pretty doable and normal.\nGetting healthy is not about a Herculean sprint, it’s about dozens (hundreds?) of small healthy choice per day, for life.\nIt’s about choosing to walk back from the client meeting to work in 15 minutes for free — versus Ubering it in 10 minutes paying $8 bucks. It’s about striving to not break the chain of good habits — and restarting when you do. It’s about striving to hit your daily step goal every day, that somehow adds up to millions of steps over time. It’s just like compound interest of all these acts adding up. And the simple math of caloric intake and caloric burn works over time, trust it.\nEspecially during plateaus, or spikes of weight gain, patiently trust that if you just stick to the system, keep not breaking the chain, you can rest assured that in the the long run the math will work. That’s what math does.\nFOUR: Open data is dramatically better than closed.\n It was critical that my apps could speak to each other and to the cloud, not just to what companies each toolmaker had deals with. My web-based trend tools needed to talk with my scale which needed to speak to my phone. We work so hard for the health data about steps, weight, fat percentage, etc, that should be our data open to use with whatever tools we wish. Not all vendors treat it as such.\nFor instance, I actually stopped using the FitBit band and platform, and moved to the Jawbone UP platform because of the Jawbone choice to support for the more open Apple HealthKit integration, and chose a more open data policy, and FitBit’s chose not to support either.\nLASTLY: I learned the bigger lesson that an intentionally active life is the best kind of life. Now that I have this as more of lifestyle engrained two year habit, I just KNOW that each day I am up for getting at least 13,000 steps of activity somewhere. So get that activity in the richest, least boring, most fun way possible.\n Just like you should avoid “empty calories” in foods where you can, avoid “empty burned calories” where you can. So just like some foods have “empty calories” that are calories but not particularly good for you nutritionally, just so I would focus on avoiding “empty burned calories” which so many hours spent on a treadmill were. Burn your calories wisely and well.\nLook 10,000 steps on a treadmill is better than not doing them all.\n But far better still was 10,000 steps exploring new DC neighborhoods near my work, 10,000 steps through museums or malls, 10,000 steps hiking around lakes and through forests trails. Or even 10,000 steps doing chores — where at least there in exchange for burned calories, I get vacuumed floors or a cleaned up garage.\n But however you do it: it reminded me the truth that a calorie is not a unit of fat it is a unit of energy . Technically a food calorie is what is called a “kilocalorie,” which is the amount of energy needed to raise 1 gram of water from 15 to 16 °C. It’s about action. And every day’s calories are best seen as a set of potential energy to be spent. So do it in the best way. And life is really meant to be actively lived, and that is much more richly done exploring, climbing, running and zooming through it, not just sitting through it as goes by around you like a parade you aren’t actually in. My challenges now: how to keep this going after no longer striving to lose anymore. I’m where I need to be today in weight.\nNow it’s about how to cement this into the rest of my life, permanently and for good.\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-16 17:04:54 -0400", "date": "5:04 p.m. on Mar 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/16/how-software-data.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F16%2Fhow-software-data.html" }, { "id": 540, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#Beto seeing far more search traffic than all other candidates combined since announcing.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-15 12:35:14 -0400", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Mar 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/15/beto-seeing-far.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F15%2Fbeto-seeing-far.html" }, { "id": 541, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chaz and me.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-14 09:26:38 -0400", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Mar 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/14/chaz-and-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F14%2Fchaz-and-me.html" }, { "id": 542, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#Facebook decieded we all were giving up FB for Lent today. Suddently a more decentralized, federated social platform seeming a bit better.\nwww.bbc.com/news/tech\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-13 20:35:43 -0400", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Mar 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/13/facebook-decieded-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F13%2Ffacebook-decieded-we.html" }, { "id": 543, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been trying out #Firefox Send\u0026hellip; Works like a charm: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-13 15:10:04 -0400", "date": "3:10 p.m. on Mar 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/13/been-trying-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F13%2Fbeen-trying-out.html" }, { "id": 544, "type": "post", "title": "Me. #perspective", "text": "Me. #perspective\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-13 00:01:05 -0400", "date": "12:01 p.m. on Mar 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/13/000105.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F13%2F000105.html" }, { "id": 545, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chaz and water\u0026hellip; #perspectivephotography #minpin\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-12 23:45:00 -0400", "date": "11:45 p.m. on Mar 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/12/chaz-and-water.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F12%2Fchaz-and-water.html" }, { "id": 546, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy birthday, the World Wide Web turns 30 today. Half the world is online. Other half on the way.\nGood on you Sir Tim. It’s on us not to mess it up.\nwebfoundation.org/2019/03/w\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-12 07:54:44 -0400", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Mar 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/12/happy-birthday-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F12%2Fhappy-birthday-the.html" }, { "id": 547, "type": "post", "title": "That will make my #indieweb project of migrating last posts from Medium.com", "text": "That will make my #indieweb project of migrating last posts from Medium.com to the open web via Micro.blog a lot easier: www.manton.org/2019/03/1…\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-11 16:42:53 -0400", "date": "4:42 p.m. on Mar 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/11/164253.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F11%2F164253.html" }, { "id": 548, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That will make my #indieweb project of migrating last posts from Medium.com to the open web via Micro.blog a lot easier: www.manton.org/2019/03/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-11 16:42:29 -0400", "date": "4:42 p.m. on Mar 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/11/that-will-make.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F11%2Fthat-will-make.html" }, { "id": 549, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Love More” #art\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-10 00:44:30 -0400", "date": "12:44 p.m. on Mar 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/09/love-more-art.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F09%2Flove-more-art.html" }, { "id": 550, "type": "post", "title": "Snowfall at Whiteflint Station", "text": "Snowfall at Whiteflint Station\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-08 20:00:57 -0400", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Mar 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/08/200057.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F08%2F200057.html" }, { "id": 551, "type": "post", "title": "Churn #art #painting", "text": "Churn #art #painting\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-08 19:31:02 -0400", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Mar 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/08/193102.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F08%2F193102.html" }, { "id": 552, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yellow #art #painting\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-08 19:27:16 -0400", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Mar 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/08/yellow-art-painting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F08%2Fyellow-art-painting.html" }, { "id": 553, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve always thought #FireFox should compete for marketshare by being the best, most privacy focused browser on the market. They seem to have gotten that idea, too. www.zdnet.com/article/f\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-08 14:25:13 -0400", "date": "2:25 p.m. on Mar 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/08/ive-always-thought.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F08%2Five-always-thought.html" }, { "id": 554, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Meet the new boss\u0026hellip;same as the old boss\u0026hellip;” FB use down 15 million but they went to Instagram. apple.news/Ae3IPxeNq\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-07 23:29:36 -0400", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Mar 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/07/meet-the-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F07%2Fmeet-the-new.html" }, { "id": 555, "type": "post", "title": "Ex-vines", "text": "Ex-vines\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-07 22:31:50 -0400", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Mar 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/07/223150.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F07%2F223150.html" }, { "id": 556, "type": "post", "title": "Insightful article on parenting teens, and exhaustion… grownandflown.com/mom-of-te…", "text": "Insightful article on parenting teens, and exhaustion… grownandflown.com/mom-of-te…\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-07 11:39:05 -0400", "date": "11:39 p.m. on Mar 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/07/113905.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F07%2F113905.html" }, { "id": 557, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Insightful article on parenting teens, and exhaustion\u0026hellip; grownandflown.com/mom-of-te\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-07 11:38:00 -0400", "date": "11:38 p.m. on Mar 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/07/insightful-article-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F07%2Finsightful-article-on.html" }, { "id": 558, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Keep it Simple\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-07 01:05:44 -0400", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Mar 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/07/keep-it-simple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F07%2Fkeep-it-simple.html" }, { "id": 559, "type": "post", "title": "Getting there, bit by bit on my Micro.bog, HTTPS all working: timothychambers.net", "text": "Getting there, bit by bit on my Micro.bog, HTTPS all working: timothychambers.net\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-06 16:08:29 -0400", "date": "4:08 p.m. on Mar 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/06/160829.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F06%2F160829.html" }, { "id": 560, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Getting there, bit by bit on my Micro.bog, HTTPS all working: timothychambers.net\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-06 16:08:15 -0400", "date": "4:08 p.m. on Mar 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/06/getting-there-bit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F06%2Fgetting-there-bit.html" }, { "id": 561, "type": "post", "title": "Small Shifts Back to the Web's Roots", "text": "Another story I\u0026rsquo;m watching on how do \u0026ldquo;slow media\u0026rdquo; - from this blogger. Will be fun to watch his efforts and compare notes:\n \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m optimistic that the movement away from social media is good for the Open Web. Since I scaled back my use of social media a year ago, I blogged more, re-subscribed to many RSS feeds, and grew increasingly interested in the IndieWeb — all small shifts back to the Open Web\u0026rsquo;s roots.\u0026quot;\u0026lt;\n dri.es/pulling-t\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-05 17:57:26 -0400", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Mar 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/05/small-shifts-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F05%2Fsmall-shifts-back.html" }, { "id": 562, "type": "post", "title": "The promise and peril of decentralized social networks and federated systems…", "text": "The promise and peril of decentralized social networks and federated systems: huffduffer.com/adactio/5…\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-05 11:24:54 -0400", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Mar 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/05/112454.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F05%2F112454.html" }, { "id": 563, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lights\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-05 01:06:44 -0400", "date": "1:06 p.m. on Mar 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/05/lights.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F05%2Flights.html" }, { "id": 564, "type": "post", "title": "Love", "text": "Love\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-04 20:16:05 -0400", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Mar 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/04/201605.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F04%2F201605.html" }, { "id": 565, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“States Names” #art\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-04 19:58:28 -0400", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Mar 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/04/states-names-art.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F04%2Fstates-names-art.html" }, { "id": 566, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sphere #sculpture\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-04 19:56:14 -0400", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Mar 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/04/sphere-sculpture.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F04%2Fsphere-sculpture.html" }, { "id": 567, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "America\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-04 19:51:50 -0400", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Mar 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/04/america.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F04%2Famerica.html" }, { "id": 568, "type": "post", "title": "RIP You Rascal You", "text": "RIP You Rascal You\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-04 16:46:51 -0400", "date": "4:46 p.m. on Mar 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/04/164651.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F04%2F164651.html" }, { "id": 569, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Artomat #art\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-04 15:51:19 -0400", "date": "3:51 p.m. on Mar 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/04/artomat-art.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F04%2Fartomat-art.html" }, { "id": 570, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another argument for a \u0026ldquo;slow media\u0026rdquo; diet, vs a \u0026ldquo;fast food\u0026rdquo; junk news information diet. www.youtube.com/watch\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-04 14:19:48 -0400", "date": "2:19 p.m. on Mar 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/04/another-argument-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F04%2Fanother-argument-for.html" }, { "id": 571, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblog creator @menton on what\u0026rsquo;s coming for Micro.blog, on this week\u0026rsquo;s podcast #micromonday monday.micro.blog/2019/03/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-04 11:15:05 -0400", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Mar 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/04/microblog-creator-menton.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F04%2Fmicroblog-creator-menton.html" }, { "id": 572, "type": "post", "title": "Not quitting Social Media: But Going Back to an \"the Artisanal internet.\"", "text": "This article from #wired, also got me relooking at #indieweb and Micro.blog. In essence, don\u0026rsquo;t quit social all together, but \u0026ldquo;curate your way to a better social media\u0026rdquo; diet. Key quote:\n This vision of decentralization is more back-to-the-land than blockchain. If portals to the digital world are so exploitative, it asks, why not curate our own? For consumers, this means forgoing convenience to control your ingredients: Read newsletters instead of News Feeds. Fall back to private group chats. Put the person back in personalization. Revert to reverse chron. Avoid virality. Buy your own server. Start a blog. Embrace anonymity. Own your own domain. Spend time on federated social networks rather than centralized ones. And when a big story breaks, consider saving your appetite for the slow-cooked, room-temp take.\u0026lt;\n www.wired.com/story/soo\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-03 23:05:22 -0400", "date": "11:05 p.m. on Mar 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/03/not-quitting-social.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F03%2Fnot-quitting-social.html" }, { "id": 573, "type": "post", "title": "#mural #muralart", "text": "#mural #muralart\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-03 15:31:31 -0400", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Mar 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/03/153131.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F03%2F153131.html" }, { "id": 574, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In my personal life, I’m increasingly trying for a “slow media” diet. Akin to “slow food” vs “fast food.” www.wired.com/2010/06/t\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-03 10:59:07 -0400", "date": "10:59 p.m. on Mar 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/03/in-my-personal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F03%2Fin-my-personal.html" }, { "id": 575, "type": "post", "title": "Blue Cam", "text": "Blue Cam\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-02 21:01:30 -0400", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Mar 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/02/210130.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F02%2F210130.html" }, { "id": 576, "type": "post", "title": "Who Owns the Digital You (Part 1 of 3)", "text": " “Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, Fifties and Sixties it was civil rights. The next two decades it’s gonna be privacy. I’m talking about the Internet. I’m talking about cell phones. I’m talking about health records and who’s gay and who’s not. And moreover, in a country born on the will to be free, what could be more fundamental than this?” — Sam Seaborne, The West Wing (Season 1, Episode 9, 1999)\u0026lt;\n This could be your day:\n…You read an article online that the average web user has hundreds, if not thousands, of web tracking files (called “cookies”) watching you browse from site-to-site and reporting back to god-knows-where. Adding insult to injury, the site where you read this article adds another cookie to your browser…\n…You log into Facebook and discover that somehow, without your approval, you are now a member of NAMBLA’s Facebook group, the result of your friends’ poor idea of a joke and the new “feature” in groups that Facebook management added thinking it would be okay to allow friends to do this without your say so…\n…From the window of your home office you see a vehicle that looks like the “fun, wacky” Google Street View truck pass by and you wonder, “Did they just get access to my WiFi passwords?”…\n…You read about how those who run the companies that know the most about you online are saying to “get over” the loss of privacy, or that if you want to be acting anonymously online “maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”…\nWith all that, you’d be forgiven for thinking, as Andrew Sullivan wrote, that online privacy is dead, and that maybe if “you don’t tense up,” over the loss, “it will hurt less.” You are not alone.\nYou may also think you have a “privacy problem,” but technically you have a bigger issue — an identity problem. A true “online identity crisis,” as it were, as online privacy is a subset of “online identity.” See: I believe you can boil down the entire multifaceted online privacy issue to a single nine-word statement and a single five-word question.\nHere is the statement: There is a “real-you” and a “digital-you.”\nThe “digital-you,” this digital doppelganger of yours, deeply, deeply affects the “real-you” (and will almost certainly outlive the “real-you” by many generations at least).\nThis “digital-you” may consist of little more than a nine-digit social security number, a wisp of an existence, but it’s there on one of various digital networks. But for most of us our digital selves are much more substantial and fleshed out. Enough to fill five or six hard disc drives at least. And if you are under 18, chances are your “digital-you” is even more substantial: certainly terabytes, maybe petabytes, of images, thoughts, writings, emails, facts, idle thoughts, blog posts, political rants, religious inklings, musical tastes, sexual fantasies, and more. Fears, hopes, and dental records all lumped together in one hard-to-imagine digital approximation of the human being you are, or were. It’s a digital echo that we all leave behind us. For some of us, the aggregate may be the truest portrait of ourselves that will ever exist.\nAnd the fate of your “digital-you” and “real-you” couldn’t be more intertwined.\nThis begs the key question I promised earlier, which is: “Who owns the digital-you?”\nFor some while, there is a quiet “identity war” going on for this ownership of the “digital-you.” A battle for your likes and your links — your interests, your passions, your information, everything about the “digital-you” that is public or that the combatants in this war help make public. And the spoils of this war are great: the central business model of most of the information marketplace right now is about offering you “free” services in exchange for information, giving up what was formerly nobody’s business but your own.\nWhat was “nobody’s business” is now big, big business.\nJack Shafer got it when he wrote:\n “…The privacy problem is really one of our own making. We’re the ones who surrender the privacy of the contents of our e-mail, calendars, and contacts to Gmail, which then sells ads against those contents. We give the mapping services our home addresses and our destinations… We share our comings and goings by checking in on Foursquare. We let iTunes catalog our music libraries in exchange for its “Genius” recommendations. We submit volumes of personal information to Facebook for Mark Zuckerberg to monetize. None of these exploitations should come as a surprise. They weren’t forced on us. If we read the voluminous “terms of service” agreements that we check yes to in return for these free services, we’d see that the providers of “free” services were very candid about how they’d use our personal information.”\u0026lt;\n And in their battle by omission or co-mission a troubling pattern forms: privacy is treated in a cavalier way, boundaries get pushed back, there is a public outcry, and then the offending company pulls their privacy standards back up, but NOT as far as they were previously. And then wash, rinse, repeat.\nThe Kenyan aphorism applies: “When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers.” In this case, it’s our identity and our privacy that does.\nThe combatants in the identity war over the “digital-you” want you to cede them control and stewardship of it. They want you to trust that they can navigate and avoid “the creepy line” of intrusion for you, even if they “walk right up to it.”\nSo who owns the Digital-You?\nI’ll explore who should in the next post in this series, but here are spoilers: not them. Or anyone like them.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-02 15:02:53 -0400", "date": "3:02 p.m. on Mar 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/02/who-owns-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F02%2Fwho-owns-the.html" }, { "id": 577, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog update: Got Instagram integration from Insta=\u0026gt;Micro.blog working. Check. Almost all third party integration working. Last big task is pointing the domain name at it.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-02 13:34:53 -0400", "date": "1:34 p.m. on Mar 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/02/microblog-update-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F02%2Fmicroblog-update-got.html" }, { "id": 578, "type": "post", "title": "Why I’m exploring Micro.blog.", "text": "Why I’m exploring Micro.blog. Don’t want to quit Facebook entirely (or other social networks) but think they shold not own the “digital me” — and want to stay at arms length from overload, and the worst of the social nets, but syndicate out to them.\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-02 13:06:18 -0400", "date": "1:06 p.m. on Mar 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/02/130618.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F02%2F130618.html" }, { "id": 579, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Foggy night walk.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-01 23:11:37 -0400", "date": "11:11 p.m. on Mar 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/01/foggy-night-walk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F01%2Ffoggy-night-walk.html" }, { "id": 580, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here was my questions to @macgenie for her Micro Monday Micro.blog interview with @menton\u0026hellip;.\nAre these features on s roadmap?\n Ability to choose on a post by post basis which social platforms you syndicate to? (Or if you wish leave it a default but being given the choice at each post publishing?)\n Visual post editing in addition to Markdown?\n Importing contacts and social users from other networks to discover them on micro.blog?\n Medium.com now allows us to export and download our content - would be great at some point to be able to import those to micro.blog\n Does FB API allow for posting into specific groups you belong to? If so posting from micro.blog into those groups might be a useful feature.\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-01 10:12:41 -0400", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Mar 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/03/01/here-was-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F03%2F01%2Fhere-was-my.html" }, { "id": 581, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Updated the #wikipedia article for micro.blog with some of what I\u0026rsquo;ve been learning -\u0026gt; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micr\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-28 13:57:22 -0400", "date": "1:57 p.m. on Feb 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/28/updated-the-wikipedia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F28%2Fupdated-the-wikipedia.html" }, { "id": 582, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good morning, Chaz! #minpin #minpinstagram #minpins\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-28 10:10:46 -0400", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Feb 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/28/good-morning-chaz.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F28%2Fgood-morning-chaz.html" }, { "id": 583, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#stickers #stickerart\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-28 10:08:29 -0400", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Feb 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/28/stickers-stickerart.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F28%2Fstickers-stickerart.html" }, { "id": 584, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Bubbles”\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-26 23:37:03 -0400", "date": "11:37 p.m. on Feb 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/26/bubbles.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F26%2Fbubbles.html" }, { "id": 585, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bottle cap Art #foundart #folkart\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-26 01:16:16 -0400", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Feb 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/26/bottle-cap-art.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F26%2Fbottle-cap-art.html" }, { "id": 586, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Free Coffee.”\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-25 18:05:28 -0400", "date": "6:05 p.m. on Feb 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/25/free-coffee.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F25%2Ffree-coffee.html" }, { "id": 587, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Moneysaorus Rex\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-23 23:35:29 -0400", "date": "11:35 p.m. on Feb 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/23/moneysaorus-rex.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F23%2Fmoneysaorus-rex.html" }, { "id": 588, "type": "post", "title": "\"Large companies aren’t good homes for beloved services...\"", "text": "Good thoughts here by Colin Devroe on the issue of trusting even giant companies iwth your digital self:\n Large companies are not good homes for beloved services. We are living in an age of the internet where if a service isn’t at hundreds-of-millions of users and throwing off tons of profit they simply aren’t worth the time for companies the size of Verizon or Google. Both of these companies have enormous cemeteries in their backyards of things they’ve built or bought and shuttered regardless of their usage or loyal users\u0026hellip;. Over the last year I’ve moved my use of platforms, services, or products to things I can control long term or are open source. Examples include my photo management process no longer being reliant on the cloud, my content all being on my own domain, and my site being on my own infrastructure. I still have more work to do but I want to future proof as much of the stuff I care about as I can.\n cdevroe.com/2019/02/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-22 11:49:20 -0400", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Feb 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/22/large-companies-arent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F22%2Flarge-companies-arent.html" }, { "id": 589, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chaz and me. ", "dateiso": "2019-02-21 21:08:45 -0400", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Feb 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/21/chaz-and-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F21%2Fchaz-and-me.html" }, { "id": 590, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A key milestone: \u0026ldquo;U.S. ad dollars spent this year on digital channels\u0026hellip;will surpass the total spent on non-digital ad channels\u0026hellip; \u0026ldquo;www.axios.com/digital-a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-20 18:51:46 -0400", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Feb 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/20/a-key-milestone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F20%2Fa-key-milestone.html" }, { "id": 591, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "OK: micro.blog update: Syndication working everywhere it can pretty flawlessly. Am exporting old WordPress.com, Medium, and Instagram content down, to import into tchambers.micro.blog. Then moving my personal domain name over. #indieweb\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-20 18:34:33 -0400", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Feb 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/20/ok-microblog-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F20%2Fok-microblog-update.html" }, { "id": 592, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Amazed to be reminded that the Blogger/Blogspot platform is almost 20 years old. Alive but zombie. #ancient\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-20 01:10:32 -0400", "date": "1:10 p.m. on Feb 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/20/amazed-to-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F20%2Famazed-to-be.html" }, { "id": 593, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Next step with Micro.blog: moving over my domain name, and getting iOS apps installed. So far, syndication to Twitter, Linkedin worked flawlessly. Still working on FB/Medium.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-19 12:17:46 -0400", "date": "12:17 p.m. on Feb 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/19/next-step-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F19%2Fnext-step-with.html" }, { "id": 594, "type": "post", "title": "Giving Micro.Blog a Whirl", "text": "Giving Micro.blog a whirl. After trying it out in beta, now am giving the lastest version a whirl as a possible \u0026ldquo;POSSE\u0026rdquo; solution - \u0026ldquo;publish once, syndicate everywhere.\u0026rdquo; Have been always looking for a solution to own your own digital identity, and syndicate out to the other giant social big guns. Before now not found anything that hit the right spot on the Venn diagram of easy but full featured enough. We\u0026rsquo;ll see. Will post here how this goes.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-19 11:23:51 -0400", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Feb 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/19/giving-microblog-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F19%2Fgiving-microblog-a.html" }, { "id": 595, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Laura.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-19 08:43:47 -0400", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Feb 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/19/laura.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F19%2Flaura.html" }, { "id": 596, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gamer Cam\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-18 22:08:02 -0400", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Feb 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/18/gamer-cam.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F18%2Fgamer-cam.html" }, { "id": 597, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Winged selfie 2 #whatliftsyou #mural #streetart #muralart cc: @kelseymontagueart\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-17 22:27:25 -0400", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Feb 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/17/winged-selfie-whatliftsyou.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F17%2Fwinged-selfie-whatliftsyou.html" }, { "id": 598, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Winged Selfie. #whatliftsyou #mural #streetart cc: @kelseymontagueart\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-17 22:17:32 -0400", "date": "10:17 p.m. on Feb 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/17/211732.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F17%2F211732.html" }, { "id": 599, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Emergency Soup.”\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-17 22:15:32 -0400", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Feb 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2019/02/17/emergency-soup.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2019%2F02%2F17%2Femergency-soup.html" }, { "id": 600, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun. Trying out this solution for Publish once, syndicate everywhere posting\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-18 13:16:43 -0400", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Nov 18, 2017", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2017/11/18/fun-trying-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2017%2F11%2F18%2Ffun-trying-out.html" }, { "id": 601, "type": "post", "title": "Here s one of the best resources for data and research on how to keep off weight once you…", "text": "One of the best resources for data and research on how to maintain a healthy weight. nwcr.ws/Research/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2016-07-12 13:35:57 -0400", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Jul 12, 2016", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2016/07/12/133557.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2016%2F07%2F12%2F133557.html" }, { "id": 602, "type": "post", "title": "Who Owns the Digital You? (Part 2 of 3)", "text": "Who Owns the Digital You? (Part 2 of 3) “Identity will be one of the defining themes in the next five years of the Web.” — Aza Raskin, Former Head of User Design Mozilla, now VP at Jawbone “The battle that is underway is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It’s a battle over choice and informed consent.” — danah boyd “Blue Beetle” gets it: He is an online commenter who wrote this about advertiser-driven free sites:\n“If you aren’t paying for it, then you aren’t the customer any more, you are the product being sold.” He understands deeply what I was trying to express in my last post.\nMost of the major players in the Internet space (Facebook, Google, etc.) have moved to a single economic model with a singular goal: to make public, monetize and commodify the “digital you” — the online persona that is your digital identity in the networked marketplaces we increasingly all inhabit.\nThey claim to do so with your privacy top of mind, and that their past privacy omissions, commissions and statements calling folks who trust them with their identities “dumb f**ks” are all sophomoric distant events. These players all clearly vie to own the “digital you.” But who should own the “digital you”? Culturally, Americans have answered this question in two seemingly contradictory ways.\nFirst, we as a culture have answered that nobody but YOU should own you. Digital or otherwise. It’s the “keep out of my business and stay off my lawn” principle.\nAs described in the Fourth Amendment, we should be free from “unreasonable searches” and James Madison specifically called out that this freedom included our “papers” — the 18th century equivalent of our “digital self.” Our Supreme Court captured this same meme in 1891, when they wrote: “No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others.”\nAnd English Law prior to that also kept with the “keep out of my business and stay off my lawn” principle: “The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.”\nSo as a culture we have answered that as long as we’re not committing abject criminal acts, we have the fundamental right to “own,” “possess,” and “control” ourselves. And stay off my lawn. Period. End of story.\nWell, almost end of story.\nThere is that second answer, which is that from almost the beginning of our country onward, we Americans have felt it worthwhile to freely trade away bits and pieces of our identity to other individuals and companies in exchange for a valuable good or service.\nI could choose from countless examples but here is a fun one: starting in the 1890s, millions of Americans found it worthwhile to trade a key bit of their identity (their name and address) to the private corporation then known as the “R. W. Sears Watch Company” in exchange for an easier way to buy watches (and then later almost anything). The Sears Roebuck Catalogue began as a watch company and grew into the Amazon.com of its day using the new medium of national postal delivery. It was a trade off we as a culture deemed worth making.\nAnd we’ve continued to make some version of that trade off ever since: Whether it be letting our supermarket know every purchase we make in exchange for slightly cheaper groceries, using a speed pass to make going through private toll roads that much faster but letting the company track our use of their private roads, offering up our current location via our phone in exchange for better directions to our next appointment, or, in the current context, allowing a search engine to add a cookie to track us in limited ways, in exchange for better search results.\nThese are all trade offs that are culturally acceptable to us… as long as we are the ones making those trade offs. Share as much or as little of the “digital you” as you think worth trading — and even then only on a “need to know” basis — but YOU need to be the one in charge of how little or much that is. The technical term for this is “selective disclosure.”\nBut here is the huge issue: often we aren’t the ones in control. Not actually.\nDid you ever consciously say “yes” to the hundreds of tracking cookies on your browser? You may have clicked “yes” on the different online terms of use agreements, but did you ever REALLY say yes to allowing Facebook to know what jeans you buy, because you clicked once too fast, or to allow Apple to track your precise location 24/7, because you wanted an iTunes track bought for your phone?\nResearcher danah boyd captured this exact feeling when she wrote, “people are being duped, tricked, coerced, and confused into doing things where they don’t understand the consequences” and she adds that when services claim to give you control but then do so only with confusing and seemingly purposefully bad user interfaces, “that is completely unfair. It gives users the illusion of choice and hides the details away from them ‘for their own good.’”\nLet’s be frank: this and this and this are just not made to be understood. Lawyers were paid good money to ensure you wouldn’t understand and or read too closely.\nAuthor Dan Gilmor sums it up well (as he often does):\n“We should all be uncomfortable about moving more and more of our cyber-activities into the embrace of a single company — and I don’t care if it’s Google… or Facebook or anyone else… Easy to use, which Facebook certainly is, does not equate with good for you in the end… The only party who should own your identity online is you.” Amen. But how?\nThe building blocks have been obvious for some while…I’ll cover that in the next post.\n ", "dateiso": "2015-10-18 19:50:51 -0400", "date": "7:50 p.m. on Oct 18, 2015", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2015/10/18/195051.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2015%2F10%2F18%2F195051.html" }, { "id": 603, "type": "post", "title": "More AMP HTML Reactions and Links", "text": "More AMP HTML Reactions and Links Other reactions around Medium.com and elsewhere to Google’s AMP HTML project:\nJeremy Keith thinks “The big players sure are going to a lot of effort to reinvent RSS” but that ultimately it’s another output format and that publishers view of supporting it should be “Sure why not?” And that maybe, just maybe, “ By showing that there is life beyond big bloated invasive web pages, perhaps the AMP project will work as a demo of what the whole web could be.”\nSasha Aickin looks it over and is not impressed with it’s “openness.”\nAMP: When the “Open Web” is neither “Open” nor “Web”\nToday Google launched the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, or AMP for short. According to the launch blog post:medium.com Tim Kadlec is impressed with early results:\nThe AMP Project is reporting some rather significant improvements for publishers using the AMP pages: anywhere from 15–85% improvement in Speed Index scores when compared to the original article. And thinks it might set some interesting incentives:\nThe advantage that AMP has over anyone else who might try to make similar claims is that AMP provides clear incentive by promising better methods of distribution for AMP content than non-AMP content. The distribution model is slightly more fuzzy at the moment than the performance impact, but with a little imagination you can see the potential. The AMP Project is promising a much-needed revenue stream for publishers through soon to be added functionality for subscription models and advertising. Google, for its part, will be using AMP pages in their news and search products at the very least. AMP and Incentives\nIncentives are fascinating. Dangle the right carrot in front of people and you can subtly influence their behavior. But…timkadlec.com But he is clearly mixed on it’s openness as well:\nThere’s a smart team behind AMP and I do think there’s value in what they’re doing. I’m hopeful that, eventually, AMP will evolve into something that really does benefit the web as a whole — not just a specific version of it.\nFor me: jury is still out. As folks here think more about love to hear your thoughts. Interesting to see a Wordpress CMS plug in already exists… (I love Wordpress for just that reason)…\nAutomattic/amp-wp\namp-wp - WordPress plugin for adding AMP supportgithub.com And also from Jeremy Keith some PHP for converting HTML to AMP HTML is here:\n ", "dateiso": "2015-10-12 09:58:32 -0400", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Oct 12, 2015", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2015/10/12/095832.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2015%2F10%2F12%2F095832.html" }, { "id": 604, "type": "post", "title": "Who Owns the Digital You? (Part 1 of 3)", "text": "Who Owns the Digital You? (Part 1 of 3) “Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, Fifties and Sixties it was civil rights. The next two decades it’s gonna be privacy. I’m talking about the Internet. I’m talking about cell phones. I’m talking about health records and who’s gay and who’s not. And moreover, in a country born on the will to be free, what could be more fundamental than this?” — Sam Seaborne, The West Wing (Season 1, Episode 9, 1999) This could be your day:\n…You read an article online that the average web user has hundreds, if not thousands, of web tracking files (called “cookies”) watching you browse from site-to-site and reporting back to god-knows-where. Adding insult to injury, the site where you read this article adds another cookie to your browser…\n…You log into Facebook and discover that somehow, without your approval, you are now a member of NAMBLA’s Facebook group, the result of your friends’ poor idea of a joke and the new “feature” in groups that Facebook management added thinking it would be okay to allow friends to do this without your say so…\n…From the window of your home office you see a vehicle that looks like the “fun, wacky” Google Street View truck pass by and you wonder,“Did they just get access to my WiFi passwords?”…\n…You read about how those who run the companies that know the most about you online are saying to “get over” the loss of privacy, or that if you want to be acting anonymously online “maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”…\nWith all that, you’d be forgiven for thinking, as Andrew Sullivan wrote, that online privacy is dead, and that maybe if “you don’t tense up,” over the loss, “it will hurt less.” You are not alone.\nYou may also think you have a “privacy problem,” but technically you have a bigger issue — an identity problem. A true “online identity crisis,” as it were, as online privacy is a subset of “online identity.” See: I believe you can boil down the entire multifaceted online privacy issue to a single nine-word statement and a single five-word question.\nHere is the statement: There is a “real-you” and a “digital-you.”\nThe “digital-you,” this digital doppelganger of yours, deeply, deeply affects the “real-you” (and will almost certainly outlive the “real-you” by many generations at least).\nThis “digital-you” may consist of little more than a nine-digit social security number, a wisp of an existence, but it’s there on one of various digital networks. But for most of us our digital selves are much more substantial and fleshed out. Enough to fill five or six hard disc drives at least. And if you are under 18, chances are your “digital-you” is even more substantial: certainly terabytes, maybe petabytes, of images, thoughts, writings, emails, facts, idle thoughts, blog posts, political rants, religious inklings, musical tastes, sexual fantasies, and more. Fears, hopes, and dental records all lumped together in one hard-to-imagine digital approximation of the human being you are, or were. It’s a digital echo that we all leave behind us. For some of us, the aggregate may be the truest portrait of ourselves that will ever exist.\nAnd the fate of your “digital-you” and “real-you” couldn’t be more intertwined.\nThis begs the key question I promised earlier, which is: “Who owns the digital-you?”\nAt this moment, there is a quiet “identity war” going on for this ownership of the “digital-you.” A battle for your likes and your links — your interests, your passions, your information, everything about the “digital-you” that is public or that the combatants in this war help make public. And the spoils of this war are great: the central business model of most of the information marketplace right now is about offering you “free” services in exchange for information, giving up what was formerly nobody’s business but your own.\nWhat was “nobody’s business” is now big, big business.\nJack Shafer got it when he wrote:\n“…The privacy problem is really one of our own making. We’re the ones who surrender the privacy of the contents of our e-mail, calendars, and contacts to Gmail, which then sells ads against those contents. We give the mapping services our home addresses and our destinations… We share our comings and goings by checking in on Foursquare. We let iTunes catalog our music libraries in exchange for its “Genius” recommendations. We submit volumes of personal information to Facebook for Mark Zuckerberg to monetize. None of these exploitations should come as a surprise. They weren’t forced on us. If we read the voluminous “terms of service” agreements that we check yes to in return for these free services, we’d see that the providers of “free” services were very candid about how they’d use our personal information.” And in their battle by omission or co-mission a troubling pattern forms: privacy is treated in a cavalier way, boundaries get pushed back, there is a public outcry, and then the offending company pulls their privacy standards back up, but NOT as far as they were previously. And then wash, rinse, repeat.\nThe Kenyan aphorism applies: “When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers.” In this case, it’s our identity and our privacy that does.\nThe combatants in the identity war over the “digital-you” want you to cede them control and stewardship of it. They want you to trust that they can navigate and avoid “the creepy line” of intrusion for you, even if they “walk right up to it.”\nSo who owns the Digital-You?\nI’ll explore who should in the next post in this series, but here are spoilers: not them. Or anyone like them.\n ", "dateiso": "2015-10-11 16:50:50 -0400", "date": "4:50 p.m. on Oct 11, 2015", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2015/10/11/165050.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2015%2F10%2F11%2F165050.html" }, { "id": 605, "type": "post", "title": "Internet, You aren’t Helping: How Bad Data Spreads Faster than Good", "text": "Internet, You aren’t Helping: How Bad Data Spreads Faster than Good Fascinating tool that tracks how rumors and misinformation and unverified claims spread far faster than solid, well sourced data does online…\n ", "dateiso": "2015-10-10 12:20:48 -0400", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Oct 10, 2015", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2015/10/10/122048.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2015%2F10%2F10%2F122048.html" }, { "id": 606, "type": "post", "title": "NY Times Open Sources “The Hive” a Platform for Crowdsourcing News and Info", "text": "NY Times Open Sources “The Hive” a Platform for Crowdsourcing News and Info Looks pretty cool, and props to the NY Times for open sourcing this platform, called “The Hive.”\n“We were intrigued by the idea of designing a service that defined the pieces of a crowdsourcing process in a highly flexible, customizable and modular way, and how such a platform could expand the set of things available to crowdsource….The system we built is Hive, an open-source platformthat lets developers produce crowdsourcing applications for a variety of contexts.” Curious to see what folks do with this. You can see “The Hive” platform in action here.\n ", "dateiso": "2015-10-10 12:12:36 -0400", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Oct 10, 2015", "permalink": "https://www.timothychambers.net/2015/10/10/121236.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timothychambers.net%2F2015%2F10%2F10%2F121236.html" } ]