fluffy rambles: Twitter alternatives

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    "published": "2022-04-27T16:36:32-07:00",
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        "html": "<p>Because of Twitter\u2019s <a href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-reaches-deal-buy-twitter-rcna25806\">impending buyout</a> a lot of people are talking about alternatives to Twitter, including Mastodon. I could write a bunch of long rambles about this, but I already have:</p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/1912-Slowcial-networking\">Slowcial networking</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2316-Distributed-toxicity-and-the-IndieWeb\">Distributed toxicity and the IndieWeb</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/12455-Indieweb-vs-Fediverse\">Indieweb vs. Fediverse</a></li>\n</ul><p>Basically, my problem with Twitter isn\u2019t that it\u2019s centralized, but that it\u2019s Twitter.</p>\n\n\n<h3><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3951-Twitter-alternatives#3951_h3_1_Mastodon\"></a>Mastodon</h3><p>Mastodon has some good stuff going for it; communities can be small and it can be an easy way for folks to share things without needing An Blog\u2122. But it\u2019s still an environment where much of the motivation is around hot takes and cold takedowns. I see so much toxicity take place all the time from people criticizing each other and turning a simple misunderstanding into a Fediverse-wide dogpile. Perhaps not to the same extent as what happens on Twitter daily, but it happens, and it\u2019s getting worse.</p><p>There are also many, many technological issues with Mastodon which need addressing. The biggest one is the privacy model. <em>At best</em> you can sorta-limit a post\u2019s reach, but the permissions are precisely inverted (since it\u2019s based on sending it to people who follow you, rather than people you follow, or better yet a <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/12341-Private-friends-only-IndieWeb-stuff\">fullly-controled access model</a>, but also what few privacy options <em>do</em> exist are mostly a veneer around an insecure protocol. Your DMs are visible to the admin of your instance, as well as the admins on the instance that you\u2019re messaging, for example.</p><p>Mastodon, being ActivityPub, also aspires to interoperate with other ActivityPub things, but this leads to even more of a mismatch. Not all ActivityPub things are built with a Mastodon experience in mind, and even things that are Mastodon-like (such as Pleroma) don\u2019t abide by the same security model. As I understand it, \u201cunboostable\u201d Mastodon toots are still quite boostable from Pleroma. Including DMs.</p><p>The entire privacy model is also predicated on ActivityPub being push-based; the way a post is \u201cprivate\u201d is simply by it not being available in an outbox/feed. This means that there\u2019s no way for followers to backfill when granted access.</p><p>ActivityPub being purely push-based also exacerbates some reliability and scaling issues. If an instance goes down, then other instances trying to send a message to it get stuck in a retry loop. A much better approach is for failed pushes to just fall on the floor and for the instance to backfill them through a pull when it comes back online. Which is exactly how RSS/Atom + WebSub works, <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2535-ActivityPub-hot-take\">just saying</a>.</p><p>I <em>appreciate</em> the interactions I have <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/mastodon\">on Mastodon</a> and it\u2019s definitely an environment which is\u2026 less <em>bad</em> than Twitter. But it still leaves a lot to be desired, and if Mastodon were to get as popular as Twitter, it\u2019ll have many of the same problems, and probably plenty of new ones too.</p><p>I know I sound like a broken record on this, but my preferred way of publishing and sharing my thoughts remains posting to this site and having the interactions take place here. The unfortunate reality is that most people only follow me on Twitter and Mastodon so I will continue to <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/POSSE\">POSSE</a> my posts there, and it\u2019ll be a long time before I can stop posting the \u201cprivacy stub\u201d posts for my <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/3922\">authenticated posts</a>, but that\u2019s the balance I\u2019m comfortable with.</p><p>The blog does present a barrier to being able to quickly share my thoughts with the world, but it turns out I <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/1912-Slowcial-networking\">don\u2019t really need to do that anyway</a>; I\u2019m not an Influencer\u2122 and I don\u2019t really desire to be one, either.</p><p>I do still <a href=\"https://plush.city/@fluffy/106597162850559257\">have fun on Mastodon</a>, and I occasionally <a href=\"https://twitter.com/fluffy/with_replies\">fall into conversations on Twitter</a>, but I\u2019m finding myself doing less and less of that, and I feel like I\u2019m better for it.</p><h3><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3951-Twitter-alternatives#3951_h3_2_Tumblr\"></a>Tumblr</h3><p>My big hope is that Tumblr realizes that they\u2019re in a really good position to become an IndieWeb provider, and does so. It wouldn\u2019t take much for them, either:</p>\n<ul><li>Allow subscribing to external RSS/Atom feeds</li>\n<li>Accept external <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/webmention\">webmentions</a> as notes</li>\n<li>Send webmentions for reblogs of external items (which would require removing the <code>href.li</code> link wrappers, but it\u2019s incredibly unclear what purpose those serve anyway)</li>\n</ul><p>Tumblr has found that they Get It and know how to build a social networking site that\u2019s not completely awful, and their current renaissance (with their experiments in monetization, ad-free and \u201cblaze\u201d in particular) has them on a really good path forward. Tumblr also still has many of the toxicity problems inherent in a wide-scale timeline-based quick-interaction social network, but I\u2019d be much more comfortable with the idea of social media turning more Tumblr-like than it turning more Twitter-like.</p><h3><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3951-Twitter-alternatives#3951_h3_3_Facebook\"></a>Facebook</h3><p>As much as I dislike Facebook, it does have some stuff going for it:</p>\n<ul><li>A good privacy model</li>\n<li>Moderated user groups</li>\n</ul><p>The user-facing privacy model isn\u2019t too far-removed from how I implemented privacy in Publ (which was modeled after Google+\u2019s \u201ccircles\u201d concept, incidentally), and user groups just feel like a special case of <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/u-syndication\">syndication</a> (as implemented on e.g. <a href=\"https://news.indieweb.org/en/submit\">IndieWeb News</a>). Distributed privacy is <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/12341-Private-friends-only-IndieWeb-stuff\">a work in progress</a> but great strides have taken place. There\u2019s still a long ways to go, though, especially around use cases like webmention. But lack of post privacy clearly hasn\u2019t been a detriment to folks using Twitter or Mastodon so far.</p><p>(Twitter <em>does</em> provide \u201clocked accounts\u201d but those are a pretty gnarly hack and break a lot of things, even on Twitter. Needing multiple identities to curate an audience is not a scalable solution either way.)</p><h3><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3951-Twitter-alternatives#3951_h3_4_Blogging-or-just-dont-do-social\"></a>Blogging (or: just don\u2019t do social media)</h3><p>I feel like in general, humans just weren\u2019t built to be so interconnected. We operate best when we have small, localized communities of shared interest. Expanding out from that based on referrals works well. Being forced to operate at large scale thanks to algorithmic discovery just leads to problems all around.</p><p>When I write a blog entry, it\u2019s mostly to keep my friends in the loop on what\u2019s going on with me, or to share some sort of unstructured musing (such as this). I also have control over the presentation based on the sort of content it is; this website isn\u2019t one-size-fits-all, and I can post <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/\">all sorts of other things</a> to it, each with a presentation that\u2019s better for the content in question (and allows for easier perusal). I also still don\u2019t really care about instant engagement. I want people to come across is organically, while perusing the Internet or doing a search. I love seeing conversations pop up on other sites (yes, even Hacker News and Reddit) without it necessarily being put on my doorstep. I also keep my comments mostly open (but <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/comment-policy\">moderated</a>) because that\u2019s an interaction model that I\u2019m comfortable with.</p><p>I like that I can keep control over my own domain, and that I\u2019m not subject to the rules of the platform, or needing Maximum Engagement to generate ad revenue and so on. And I can choose not to allow abusive responses or spam to be a part of what I present along with my own subject matter.</p><p>And most of all, I like that a single unhinged billionaire can\u2019t decide to take over my personal website as part of a categorical power grab.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3951-Twitter-alternatives#comments\">comments</a></p>",
        "text": "Because of Twitter\u2019s impending buyout a lot of people are talking about alternatives to Twitter, including Mastodon. I could write a bunch of long rambles about this, but I already have:\nSlowcial networking\nDistributed toxicity and the IndieWeb\nIndieweb vs. Fediverse\nBasically, my problem with Twitter isn\u2019t that it\u2019s centralized, but that it\u2019s Twitter.\n\n\nMastodonMastodon has some good stuff going for it; communities can be small and it can be an easy way for folks to share things without needing An Blog\u2122. But it\u2019s still an environment where much of the motivation is around hot takes and cold takedowns. I see so much toxicity take place all the time from people criticizing each other and turning a simple misunderstanding into a Fediverse-wide dogpile. Perhaps not to the same extent as what happens on Twitter daily, but it happens, and it\u2019s getting worse.There are also many, many technological issues with Mastodon which need addressing. The biggest one is the privacy model. At best you can sorta-limit a post\u2019s reach, but the permissions are precisely inverted (since it\u2019s based on sending it to people who follow you, rather than people you follow, or better yet a fullly-controled access model, but also what few privacy options do exist are mostly a veneer around an insecure protocol. Your DMs are visible to the admin of your instance, as well as the admins on the instance that you\u2019re messaging, for example.Mastodon, being ActivityPub, also aspires to interoperate with other ActivityPub things, but this leads to even more of a mismatch. Not all ActivityPub things are built with a Mastodon experience in mind, and even things that are Mastodon-like (such as Pleroma) don\u2019t abide by the same security model. As I understand it, \u201cunboostable\u201d Mastodon toots are still quite boostable from Pleroma. Including DMs.The entire privacy model is also predicated on ActivityPub being push-based; the way a post is \u201cprivate\u201d is simply by it not being available in an outbox/feed. This means that there\u2019s no way for followers to backfill when granted access.ActivityPub being purely push-based also exacerbates some reliability and scaling issues. If an instance goes down, then other instances trying to send a message to it get stuck in a retry loop. A much better approach is for failed pushes to just fall on the floor and for the instance to backfill them through a pull when it comes back online. Which is exactly how RSS/Atom + WebSub works, just saying.I appreciate the interactions I have on Mastodon and it\u2019s definitely an environment which is\u2026 less bad than Twitter. But it still leaves a lot to be desired, and if Mastodon were to get as popular as Twitter, it\u2019ll have many of the same problems, and probably plenty of new ones too.I know I sound like a broken record on this, but my preferred way of publishing and sharing my thoughts remains posting to this site and having the interactions take place here. The unfortunate reality is that most people only follow me on Twitter and Mastodon so I will continue to POSSE my posts there, and it\u2019ll be a long time before I can stop posting the \u201cprivacy stub\u201d posts for my authenticated posts, but that\u2019s the balance I\u2019m comfortable with.The blog does present a barrier to being able to quickly share my thoughts with the world, but it turns out I don\u2019t really need to do that anyway; I\u2019m not an Influencer\u2122 and I don\u2019t really desire to be one, either.I do still have fun on Mastodon, and I occasionally fall into conversations on Twitter, but I\u2019m finding myself doing less and less of that, and I feel like I\u2019m better for it.TumblrMy big hope is that Tumblr realizes that they\u2019re in a really good position to become an IndieWeb provider, and does so. It wouldn\u2019t take much for them, either:\nAllow subscribing to external RSS/Atom feeds\nAccept external webmentions as notes\nSend webmentions for reblogs of external items (which would require removing the href.li link wrappers, but it\u2019s incredibly unclear what purpose those serve anyway)\nTumblr has found that they Get It and know how to build a social networking site that\u2019s not completely awful, and their current renaissance (with their experiments in monetization, ad-free and \u201cblaze\u201d in particular) has them on a really good path forward. Tumblr also still has many of the toxicity problems inherent in a wide-scale timeline-based quick-interaction social network, but I\u2019d be much more comfortable with the idea of social media turning more Tumblr-like than it turning more Twitter-like.FacebookAs much as I dislike Facebook, it does have some stuff going for it:\nA good privacy model\nModerated user groups\nThe user-facing privacy model isn\u2019t too far-removed from how I implemented privacy in Publ (which was modeled after Google+\u2019s \u201ccircles\u201d concept, incidentally), and user groups just feel like a special case of syndication (as implemented on e.g. IndieWeb News). Distributed privacy is a work in progress but great strides have taken place. There\u2019s still a long ways to go, though, especially around use cases like webmention. But lack of post privacy clearly hasn\u2019t been a detriment to folks using Twitter or Mastodon so far.(Twitter does provide \u201clocked accounts\u201d but those are a pretty gnarly hack and break a lot of things, even on Twitter. Needing multiple identities to curate an audience is not a scalable solution either way.)Blogging (or: just don\u2019t do social media)I feel like in general, humans just weren\u2019t built to be so interconnected. We operate best when we have small, localized communities of shared interest. Expanding out from that based on referrals works well. Being forced to operate at large scale thanks to algorithmic discovery just leads to problems all around.When I write a blog entry, it\u2019s mostly to keep my friends in the loop on what\u2019s going on with me, or to share some sort of unstructured musing (such as this). I also have control over the presentation based on the sort of content it is; this website isn\u2019t one-size-fits-all, and I can post all sorts of other things to it, each with a presentation that\u2019s better for the content in question (and allows for easier perusal). I also still don\u2019t really care about instant engagement. I want people to come across is organically, while perusing the Internet or doing a search. I love seeing conversations pop up on other sites (yes, even Hacker News and Reddit) without it necessarily being put on my doorstep. I also keep my comments mostly open (but moderated) because that\u2019s an interaction model that I\u2019m comfortable with.I like that I can keep control over my own domain, and that I\u2019m not subject to the rules of the platform, or needing Maximum Engagement to generate ad revenue and so on. And I can choose not to allow abusive responses or spam to be a part of what I present along with my own subject matter.And most of all, I like that a single unhinged billionaire can\u2019t decide to take over my personal website as part of a categorical power grab.\n\ncomments"
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Chris Aldrich stream.boffosocko.com/profile/chrisaldrich

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        "text": "@alexwilliams Micro.blog is an inexpensive turnkey IndieWeb friendly solution for doing something like that. Bring your own domain or subdomain and you're off to the races with all the benefits and none of the overhead or work.",
        "html": "<a href=\"https://twitter.com/alexwilliams\">@alexwilliams</a> Micro.blog is an inexpensive turnkey IndieWeb friendly solution for doing something like that. Bring your own domain or subdomain and you're off to the races with all the benefits and none of the overhead or work."
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Chris Aldrich stream.boffosocko.com/profile/chrisaldrich

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        "text": "@wynlim Your site is awesome. I love the design/simplicity, ideas, & writing. I'm seeing so many topics/collections I love including digital gardens, notes, IndieWeb, etc., and you're following so many people I know and read myself. Such a small world.",
        "html": "@wynlim Your site is awesome. I love the design/simplicity, ideas, & writing. I'm seeing so many topics/collections I love including digital gardens, notes, IndieWeb, etc., and you're following so many people I know and read myself. Such a small world."
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Chris Aldrich stream.boffosocko.com/profile/chrisaldrich

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        "text": "@okikio_dev This is a good place to start: https://indieweb.org/Webmention\n\nThere are lots of implementations in many languages you can use as examples or borrow from. Ask in chat.indieweb.org/dev/ for pointers/advice/help to cut through documentation and jargon.",
        "html": "<a href=\"https://twitter.com/okikio_dev\">@okikio_dev</a> This is a good place to start: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Webmention\">https://indieweb.org/Webmention</a><br />\nThere are lots of implementations in many languages you can use as examples or borrow from. Ask in chat.indieweb.org/dev/ for pointers/advice/help to cut through documentation and jargon."
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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        "text": "The lost thread\n\n\n\n\n  Twit\u00adter\u2019s only con\u00adclu\u00adsion can be abandonment: an over\u00addue MySpace-ification. I am totally con\u00adfi\u00addent about this prediction, but that\u2019s an easy confidence, because in the long run, we\u2019re all MySpace-ified.\n\n\nWhat Robin said.",
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Chris Aldrich stream.boffosocko.com/profile/chrisaldrich

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        "text": "@lauren_n_roth I'd buy! I can't wait to see what you come up with...\n\nI've been helping to collect some prior art, examples, and UI patterns here if it helps to jumpstart your research/work: https://indieweb.org/directory",
        "html": "<a href=\"https://twitter.com/lauren_n_roth\">@lauren_n_roth</a> I'd buy! I can't wait to see what you come up with...<br />\nI've been helping to collect some prior art, examples, and UI patterns here if it helps to jumpstart your research/work: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/directory\">https://indieweb.org/directory</a>"
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Fabio Russo fabiorusso.net

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        "html": "<p>Welcome to all new faces. I hope some of you become passionate about the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org\">indieweb</a> and our slice of it \ud83d\ude42</p>",
        "text": "Welcome to all new faces. I hope some of you become passionate about the indieweb and our slice of it \ud83d\ude42"
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Chris Aldrich stream.boffosocko.com/profile/chrisaldrich

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        "text": "Not sure why, but seems like a lot of people on Twitter are sharing this link about downloading an archive of your data: https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data\n#OwnYourData #IndieWeb",
        "html": "Not sure why, but seems like a lot of people on Twitter are sharing this link about downloading an archive of your data: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data\">https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data</a><br /><a href=\"http://stream.boffosocko.com/tag/OwnYourData\" class=\"p-category\">#OwnYourData</a> <a href=\"http://stream.boffosocko.com/tag/IndieWeb\" class=\"p-category\">#IndieWeb</a>"
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Matthias Pfefferle notiz.blog/author/matthias-pfefferle/

Die (Twitter) Posse

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        "text": "Im modernen Sprachgebrauch wird der Begriff [Posse] in \u00fcbertragenem Sinn [\u2026] genutzt, um als grotesk empfundene Vorg\u00e4nge in Gesellschaft und Politik zu beschreiben.\nhttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse\n\n\n\n\nWer sich (aus gegebenem Anlass) sorgen um Twitter macht, sollte sich mal mit der etwas anderen POSSE befassen.\n\n\n\n\nPOSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.\nhttps://indieweb.org/POSSE\n\n\n\n\nInstalliert euch WordPress! Ver\u00f6ffentlicht Texte, Bilder, Videos und Ideen nicht auf Twitter sondern auf eurer eigenen Seite! Teilt eure Inhalte \u00fcber Twitter!\n\n\n\nUnd sollte Twitter \u201everschwinden\u201c, teilt es \u00fcber Mastodon! usw, usw\u2026\n\n\n\nSchaut euch dazu gerne auch mal Brid.gy an!",
        "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Im modernen Sprachgebrauch wird der Begriff [Posse] in \u00fcbertragenem Sinn [\u2026] genutzt, um als grotesk empfundene Vorg\u00e4nge in Gesellschaft und Politik zu beschreiben.</p>\n<a href=\"https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse\">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse</a>\n</blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Wer sich (<a href=\"https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/twitter-offenbar-doch-zum-verkauf-bereit-was-hat-elon-musk-vor-17982559.html\">aus gegebenem Anlass</a>) sorgen um Twitter macht, sollte sich mal mit der etwas anderen <strong>POSSE</strong> befassen.</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>POSSE</strong> is an abbreviation for <strong>Publish (on your) Own Site, <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Category:syndication\">Syndicate</a> Elsewhere</strong>, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/social_media\">social media</a> silos) with <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/original_post_link\">original post links</a> to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.</p>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/POSSE\">https://indieweb.org/POSSE</a>\n</blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Installiert euch WordPress! Ver\u00f6ffentlicht Texte, Bilder, Videos und Ideen nicht auf Twitter sondern auf eurer eigenen Seite! Teilt eure Inhalte \u00fcber Twitter!</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Und <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/site-deaths\">sollte Twitter \u201everschwinden\u201c</a>, <a href=\"https://notiz.blog/2020/12/31/activitypub-fuer-wordpress/\">teilt es \u00fcber Mastodon</a>! usw, usw\u2026</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schaut euch dazu gerne auch mal <a href=\"https://notiz.blog/2014/01/16/bridgy-webmentions-fuer-twitter-und-facebook/\">Brid.gy</a> an!</p>"
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Kimberly Hirsh, PhD kimberlyhirsh.com

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        "html": "<p>Everybody on Twitter wants to know where to go now. The answer is your own website, syndicating out to wherever else people end up. This is the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a>. Let me know if you\u2019d be interested in a talk about how to get set up.</p>",
        "text": "Everybody on Twitter wants to know where to go now. The answer is your own website, syndicating out to wherever else people end up. This is the IndieWeb. Let me know if you\u2019d be interested in a talk about how to get set up."
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Jeremy Cherfas jeremycherfas.net

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        "html": "<p>As I continue reading and sometimes re-posting things written on this day, I've decided to do one more thing at the end of a session: go to a random site in the IndieWeb WebRing. Today, I found something that resonates down the years: how to organise the content of a weblog.</p>",
        "text": "As I continue reading and sometimes re-posting things written on this day, I've decided to do one more thing at the end of a session: go to a random site in the IndieWeb WebRing. Today, I found something that resonates down the years: how to organise the content of a weblog."
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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

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David Shanske david.shanske.com

IndieAuth Spec Updates 2022 - April 21, 2022

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David Shanske david.shanske.com

IndieAuth Spec Updates 2022 - April 21, 2022

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David Shanske david.shanske.com

IndieAuth Spec Updates 2022 - April 21, 2022

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Tim Apple timapple.com

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    "url": "https://timapple.com/2022/04/16/im-looking-for.html",
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        "html": "<p>I\u2019m looking for tech podcast suggestions, more unique stuff\u2026 based on indieweb, alt operating systems, or other interesting and less common things???</p>",
        "text": "I\u2019m looking for tech podcast suggestions, more unique stuff\u2026 based on indieweb, alt operating systems, or other interesting and less common things???"
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Kevin Marks known.kevinmarks.com/profile/kevinmarks

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    "content": {
        "text": "Always nice to see more webmention support. Did you hook up brid.gy to get tweets too?"
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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

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    "type": "entry",
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    "url": "https://aaronparecki.com/2022/04/14/8/web",
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        "https://twitter.com/aaronpk/status/1514662705616986124"
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    "content": {
        "text": "elon can have twitter but he can never have my website"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Aaron Parecki",
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        "photo": "https://aaronparecki.com/images/profile.jpg"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "type": "entry",
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    "url": "https://adactio.com/links/18980",
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        "text": "A Web Renaissance\n\n\n\n\n  Thanks to the mistrust of big tech, the creation of better tools for developers, and the weird and wonderful creativity of ordinary people, we\u2019re seeing an incredibly unlikely comeback: the web is thriving again.\n\n\nSmart analyis from Anil, though I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d agree with his emphasis on tools and frameworks\u2014it\u2019s the technology built into browsers that has really come along in leaps and bounds, allowing people to do more with less code.\n\nBut then there\u2019s this:\n\n\n  So if we have the tech, then why hasn\u2019t it happened already? The biggest thing that may be missing is just awareness of the modern web\u2019s potential. Unlike the Facebooks and Googles of the world, the open, creative web doesn\u2019t have a billion-dollar budget for promoting itself. Years of control from the tech titans has resulted in the conventional wisdom that somehow the web isn\u2019t \u201cenough\u201d, that you have to tie yourself to proprietary platforms if you want to build a big brand or a big business.\n\n\nTrue! Anil also points to an act of rebellion and resistance:\n\n\n  Get your own site going, though, and you\u2019ll have a sustainable way of being in control of your own destiny online.",
        "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://anildash.com/2022/04/13/a-web-renaissance/\">\nA Web Renaissance\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Thanks to the mistrust of big tech, the creation of better tools for developers, and the weird and wonderful creativity of ordinary people, we\u2019re seeing an incredibly unlikely comeback: the web is thriving again.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Smart analyis from Anil, though I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d agree with his emphasis on tools and frameworks\u2014it\u2019s the technology built into browsers that has really come along in leaps and bounds, allowing people to do more with less code.</p>\n\n<p>But then there\u2019s this:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>So if we have the tech, then why hasn\u2019t it happened already? The biggest thing that may be missing is just awareness of the modern web\u2019s potential. Unlike the Facebooks and Googles of the world, the open, creative web doesn\u2019t have a billion-dollar budget for promoting itself. Years of control from the tech titans has resulted in the conventional wisdom that somehow the web isn\u2019t \u201cenough\u201d, that you have to tie yourself to proprietary platforms if you want to build a big brand or a big business.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>True! Anil also points to an act of rebellion and resistance:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Get your own site going, though, and you\u2019ll have a sustainable way of being in control of your own destiny online.</p>\n</blockquote>"
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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

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