You know you have way too much power when you can spin up a WHOLE gTLD just for your company. This is actually the kind of world the Web3 community would encourage.
Today has content!
For real though, I’ve been thinking more and more about the stuff I do on the side and the usefulness of it. I half promised a competitor to a platform BY myself in less time (grossly overestimating the effort and care it takes to build these platforms) and now I sometimes feel like I’ve wasted two years of my life on this stuff. It’s not like I don’t believe in the open social Web, I just challenge my thoughts on its viability in the next decade as well as the active moves working to divest from things like it into more proprietary stacks.
One thing that trips me up a lot is how a lot of the stuff in the open social Web is stuck on text (barely anything around multimedia). Text seems easy but photos require a whole different level of care and thought that’s consistently an afterthought. I don’t see much nudging on it in the IndieWeb - some progress on handling them is made in mainline projects like Mastodon but again, it’s marginal. It’s not that people are playing to catch up - I don’t think this is an interest for most at all (and it’s a safe way to prevent any of the harm found in silos from leaking into our space) but I do think we should be aiming to ween people off these platforms. I see more and more asks for alternatives and I can’t even comfortably recommend most that meet feature parity.
I’m sad. And I’m hoping to use this as motivation to keep hammering on things.
I’ve seen this a lot (that using static files uses less power) but with no evidence or stats (and tbh it just seems like another agenda item to do static only sites)
I’ve seen this inconsistent number of reactions on mobile and Web so this is definitely a server side issue but if it’s intended then it’s very weird.
Hope you are resting up during eternal Caturday.
It’s kinda wild how the @ubuntu account has just turned into a Microsoft dev channel about 40% of the time. My thoughts about Canonical being bought by Microsoft in 2023 doesn’t feel too loony now.
