Are you blissfully unaware during eternal Caturday?

Hear hear, this is absurd in the extreme. @railsconf do the right thing here and refuse to platform scammers and bastardization of open standards. "web3" **is not the web** and never will be.
Sage Griffin 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 https://twitter.com/sgrif
Folks, if you're as upset as I am that @railsconf is using it's platform to amplify the voices of grifters and scammers with their web3 track, please make sure you make i...
Had a modern Miracle Max dream last night.
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"Links on the Internet last forever or a year, whichever comes first" gwern.net/Archiving-URLs
CryptPad. Collaboration that the server cannot spy on. Interesting. cryptpad.fr
Last month was the anniversary of two #IndieWeb #distributedWeb building block specifications becoming @W3C Recommendations:
* 5y Webmention: https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-webmention-20170112/
* 4y WebSub: https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-websub-20180123/
Both specs are peer-to-peer mechanisms, Webmention for a site to notify another of a new or updated link to it, and WebSub for a site to broadcast (or subscribe to) notifications for when that site has published new content.

Bridgy is a good source of metrics for Webmention. The Bridgy stats from last June https://snarfed.org/2021-06-05_bridgy-stats-update-6 show steady growth in both total Webmentions sent and perhaps more importantly, unique domains sending and receiving Webmentions. In addition the number of implementations & support libraries continues to grow, interoperable across multiple languages: https://indieweb.org/Webmention-developer#Implementations

Webmentions still have interesting social and UX challenges. While spam has not (yet) been a major challenge, there is the larger challenge of how to semi-automatically moderate and/or prioritize handling webmentions received from others, especially people you have not met before. The nascent Vouch extension https://indieweb.org/Vouch has been prototyped and implemented on some sites yet needs some work to address the more sublte social challenges. There are challenges with even trusting and displaying the icons of authors who have sent webmentions. Pixelated icons https://indieweb.org/pixelated are one possible approach.

WebSub has shown slower growth. While the number of sites that provide WebSub notifications for new content continues to grow: https://indieweb.org/WebSub#IndieWeb_Examples the number of hubs and hub implementations have been fairly stable for the past year https://indieweb.org/WebSub#Hubs as well as implementations that consume WebSub notifications: https://indieweb.org/WebSub#Consuming_Implementations

The key next step for WebSub is more Reader implementations, e.g. in modern Social Readers https://indieweb.org/social_reader to provide realtime updates immediately when publishing sites post new content. Once there is broader incentive for more sites to provide WebSub notifications, consuming sites such as readers will have more incentive to implement receiving WebSub notifications, reinforcing a positive implementation feedback loop.

With the combination of Social Readers showing new posts in real time via WebSub and personal sites showing new comments & other responses in real time via Webmention, the peer-to-peer web will provide a responsive experience comparable to centralized social media silos.

Want to support Webmention and/or WebSub on your own site?

Drop by the IndieWeb Developer chat and say hi!

https://chat.indieweb.org/dev
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RIP bud Clark.
Twenty years ago today, I plucked my eyebrows for a cosplay event celebrating my aunt's birthday. She loved my look. My eyebrows never grew back. Apparently, sometimes, they ... just don't. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kYQBYv…
Happily and obsessively playing Pokémon Legends Arceus. instagr.am/p/CZdhYwlAyC3/
It should go without saying but if anyone ever sees an NFT being minted of something I created or had a hand in (Sockpuppet, busybee comics, the Sad Crab/This Kills The Crab meme, etc.) you can assume that I have nothing to do with the NFT and you should probably let me know.

Although it makes a good point, the "False balance" article seems to accept the widely held assumption that Rogan is just "letting people voice their views" without interrupting them but he did so recently with guest Josh Szeps to wrongly argue against covid myocarditis evidence.

So now with a negative PCR and negative rapid - I guess didn't have covid, I just felt like crap! But here's the weird thing - the central portland testing center I went to sent my sample all the way to the LA suburbs to test!

January 2022 Time and Money: Studying and Youtube

My whole January 2022 report is out now - how I spent my time and money. anomalily.net/jan-2022/
Someone's minted NFTs of many of my songs and albums on this fucking worthless platform. I guess I've finally hit the big time, by getting the music I make very little money on stolen from me. Ugh. I hate the DMCA, but I hate NFTs more. XOXO
HitPiece - Music NFTs https://twitter.com/joinhitpiece
We are out here today. Where are you #NFTCommmunity ?
Why yes, I did spend 2.5 hours forcing excel to be design software again. But now I have a report of how I spent my time in January 2022!
Great hire. It took some time, but I think @coach_cristobal got it right!
SOURCES: Former Auburn/LSU/Clemson/Alabama DC Kevin Steele who just became the new Maryland defensive coordinator, is leaving to become Miami’s new DC for Mario Cristob...
Yuuuuup.
I'm old enough to remember when web2.0 meant XMLHttpRequest (aka AJAX), not whatever retconned meaning is required for someone's web3.0 narrative that is 100% them talki...