On a night like tonight, how utterly stupid is it that governments and news organizations don't have their own #mastodon and #peertube servers. Instead they let tech mega corps and even cable companies stand between them and an informed public. Fucking ridiculous. #SocialWeb#Iran
@molly0xfff is a leading cryptocurrency critic, but get to know her and you’ll see she’s anything but cynical about the future of the web. Hear why this researcher, writer and software engineer thinks so in this fascinating conversation with @mike:
The vibes on Threads have been shifted. The For you feed brings up negative and controversial posts. Unsurpisingly no such negativity exists on my chronological feeds on Mastodon.
Former CEO of Twitter wanted to build a social protocol no-one can control, like SMTP or HTTP for social media. Bluesky’s ATProto was supposed to be an open source protocol that Twitter could eventually utilize, but then Musk happened and Bluesky started taking it to the wrong direction and everything fell apart in Dorsey’s mind.
A very revealing interview. I now see even more future in W3C’s ActivityPub.
"But the real tragedy of Reader was that it had all the signs of being something big, and Google just couldn’t see it. Desperate to play catch-up to Facebook and Twitter, the company shut down one of its most prescient projects; you can see in Reader shades of everything from Twitter to the newsletter boom to the rising social web."
Technocrats are using the language of revolution as a means of winning hearts and minds.
Lower-level fiefdoms are perhaps sincere in their attempt to make a better web. But mostly, we are witnessing a Potemkin revolution by the same folks who made their fortunes off our data and content.
Jack Dorsey is not a revolutionary. Mark Zuckerberg is not a revolutionary. Andreessen Horowitz, Sam Altman, and Steve Huffman are not revolutionaries.
The natural end state of hashtags is to eventually serve as subreddits for the #SocialWeb. but here they would overlap, allowing us to visit any space in the Venn diagram of all the tagged posts we're interested in.
Today is a good day to explain the Fediverse to peoples and share this text about it!
»Web – The fediverse, explained:
The buzziest new thing in social networking is a big deal. It’s also very confusing. And it’s not actually new. Let’s talk about it.«
I've got some thoughts about how the tech world ignores the needs of users with cognitive disabilities like dementia. Hit me hard this week.
There are degrees of dementia. Some people live with mild or moderate forms for years and deserve respect, dignity and as much freedom as we can offer them. That includes access to the internet.
If every article, podcast episode and video was natively an #ActivityPub post, we'd need quote posts but want them to operate differently. They should count as a boost but with a clear indication that the person you are following also wants you to see their comment. How should that look? Maybe they wouldn't themselves be boostable... #SocialWeb
Could #matrix become the groups functionality for the #SocialWeb? AKA could our identities be made to be shared between that service and #ActivityPub etc? Both are FOSS and decentralized, right? Thanks.
Part 6 of "A Guide to Implementing ActivityPub in a Static Site (or Any Website)" is now out.
Sorry about the delay, this is the part that not many people will like, I assume. I try to explain how to implement the inbox, which by nature is dynamic non-static.
Have you heard of any arguments from #threads users for not turning on federation? I can't imagine one. Any failure to do so yet has to be people who haven't heard of it or don't understand what it is. #SocialWeb
The diversity of network and UX types across the fediverse/social web that my little Friendica server sees is astounding. This is just Diaspora and ActivityPub federated content since Bluesky is integrated through a client API not AT. #fediverse#SocialWeb#ActivityPub#diaspora#Bluesky#friendica
What about an #IIW session next week where we remind each other what we wanted the #socialweb to be ≈15 years ago before the big platforms took over and it all became non-viable since?
Which parts of the vision are again relevant and can we make them happen this time around now that we have a resurgence of the #fediverse?
What about an IIW session next week where we remind each other what we wanted the #socialweb to be ≈15 years ago before the big platforms took over and it all became non-viable since?
Which parts of the vision are again relevant and can we make them happen this time around now that we have a resurgence of the #fediverse?