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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@vga256",
        "url": "https://dialup.cafe/@vga256",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110669588833954487",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>can anyone tell me what the hashtag people use for web 1.0/oldwideweb stuff? the word is totally escaping me</p><p>edit: it was <a href=\"https://dialup.cafe/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>, thanks <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://ecoevo.social/@ubi\">@<span>ubi</span></a></span></p>",
        "text": "can anyone tell me what the hashtag people use for web 1.0/oldwideweb stuff? the word is totally escaping meedit: it was #indieweb, thanks @ubi"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-06T22:51:51+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38235260",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@vga256",
        "url": "https://dialup.cafe/@vga256",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110669498849875845",
    "content": {
        "html": "A screenshot of tomo's new website plan homepage. It is presented as a wordperfect document loaded on a 1980s amber CGA terminal.<br /><br />\nThe post reads:<br /><br />\nDate: Thursday June 22nd, 2023<br />\nFrom: @vga256<br />\nGroups: tomo.dev<br />\nSubject: what have i done<br /><br />\n&gt; so this is the day it all began. i barfed out a mastodon post lamenting <br />\nthe loss of USENET. <br /><br />\n       | i can't believe i'm saying this - i just realized that i want #usenet groups back. to clarify - I'd like to see a usenet back, minus the \"big 8\" cabal, minus 200TB / day binaries, and all  of the ugly crap we've seen since the 80s. <br />\ni'd like to see something like a new usenet offering activitypub integration, minimal data transfer (text-only), and easy group management. <br /><br />\n&gt; a few hours later, the lamentation crystallized a bit more, and became <br />\nthe proposal for a design:",
        "text": "A screenshot of tomo's new website plan homepage. It is presented as a wordperfect document loaded on a 1980s amber CGA terminal.\n\n\nThe post reads:\n\n\nDate: Thursday June 22nd, 2023\n\nFrom: @vga256\n\nGroups: tomo.dev\n\nSubject: what have i done\n\n\n> so this is the day it all began. i barfed out a mastodon post lamenting \n\nthe loss of USENET. \n\n\n       | i can't believe i'm saying this - i just realized that i want #usenet groups back. to clarify - I'd like to see a usenet back, minus the \"big 8\" cabal, minus 200TB / day binaries, and all  of the ugly crap we've seen since the 80s. \n\ni'd like to see something like a new usenet offering activitypub integration, minimal data transfer (text-only), and easy group management. \n\n\n> a few hours later, the lamentation crystallized a bit more, and became \n\nthe proposal for a design:"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-06T22:28:58+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38235261",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@ubi",
        "url": "https://ecoevo.social/@ubi",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://ecoevo.social/@ubi/110669613870663691",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://dialup.cafe/@vga256\">@<span>vga256</span></a></span> <a href=\"https://ecoevo.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> ?</p>",
        "text": "@vga256 #indieweb ?"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-06T22:58:13+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38234792",
    "_source": "7235",
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}

Adam Mosseri on why ActivityPub

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        "name": "Manton Reece",
        "url": "https://www.manton.org/",
        "photo": "https://micro.blog/manton/avatar.jpg"
    },
    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2023/07/06/adam-mosseri-on.html",
    "name": "Adam Mosseri on why ActivityPub",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I\u2019ve been blogging short posts this week about Meta\u2019s launch of Threads, but I think it\u2019s worth a slightly longer post with a quote from this interview with the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/podcasts/special-episode-metas-twitter-rival-arrives-with-adam-mosseri.html\">on the Hard Fork podcast</a>. Adam has a couple answers to <em>why ActivityPub</em>. The part that is most revealing to me is that he sees the industry going this way already:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I do think that decentralization \u2014\u00a0but more specifically or more broadly \u2014 more open systems\u00a0are where the industry is getting pulled and is going to go over time. And for us, a new app offers us an opportunity to meaningful participate in that space, in the way that it would be very difficult to port an incredibly large app like Instagram over, and so to lean into where the industry is going.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This didn\u2019t happen by accident. Many developers have been working to bring awareness to the problems of massive, centralize platforms \u2014\u00a0and bloggers and journalists have been doing the same \u2014 so much that users increasingly understand the value of decentralization and content ownership. Not everyone has jumped into Mastodon for various reasons, and not all smaller platforms have taken off, but it still helps get to where we are today that one of the most closed platforms ever (Facebook) is on the verge of rolling out support for an open protocol.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/\">Eugen Rochko also blogged about this</a> as an important milestone:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The fact that large platforms are adopting ActivityPub is not only validation of the movement towards decentralized social media, but a path forward for people locked into these platforms to switch to better providers. Which in turn, puts pressure on such platforms to provide better, less exploitative services. This is a clear victory for our cause, hopefully one of many to come.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s next? Imagine if later this year or early next year, Tumblr is able to follow through on their goal to support ActivityPub. Having such large platforms be even halfway interoperability was only a dream a year ago.</p>",
        "text": "I\u2019ve been blogging short posts this week about Meta\u2019s launch of Threads, but I think it\u2019s worth a slightly longer post with a quote from this interview with the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, on the Hard Fork podcast. Adam has a couple answers to why ActivityPub. The part that is most revealing to me is that he sees the industry going this way already:\n\nI do think that decentralization \u2014\u00a0but more specifically or more broadly \u2014 more open systems\u00a0are where the industry is getting pulled and is going to go over time. And for us, a new app offers us an opportunity to meaningful participate in that space, in the way that it would be very difficult to port an incredibly large app like Instagram over, and so to lean into where the industry is going.\n\nThis didn\u2019t happen by accident. Many developers have been working to bring awareness to the problems of massive, centralize platforms \u2014\u00a0and bloggers and journalists have been doing the same \u2014 so much that users increasingly understand the value of decentralization and content ownership. Not everyone has jumped into Mastodon for various reasons, and not all smaller platforms have taken off, but it still helps get to where we are today that one of the most closed platforms ever (Facebook) is on the verge of rolling out support for an open protocol.\nEugen Rochko also blogged about this as an important milestone:\n\nThe fact that large platforms are adopting ActivityPub is not only validation of the movement towards decentralized social media, but a path forward for people locked into these platforms to switch to better providers. Which in turn, puts pressure on such platforms to provide better, less exploitative services. This is a clear victory for our cause, hopefully one of many to come.\n\nWhat\u2019s next? Imagine if later this year or early next year, Tumblr is able to follow through on their goal to support ActivityPub. Having such large platforms be even halfway interoperability was only a dream a year ago."
    },
    "published": "2023-07-06T15:06:06-05:00",
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    "post-type": "article",
    "_id": "38232651",
    "_source": "12",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@moonview",
        "url": "https://toot.garden/@moonview",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://toot.garden/@moonview/110667602359898976",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://suboptimalism.neocities.org/writings/yesterweb\"><span>https://</span><span>suboptimalism.neocities.org/wr</span><span>itings/yesterweb</span></a></p><p>finding out that <a href=\"https://toot.garden/tags/yesterweb\">#<span>yesterweb</span></a>  blew up due to a 'digital guerilla' manipulating things behind the scenes, trying to make YW into a 'post-marxist' movement based in the <a href=\"https://toot.garden/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> while keeping all of that on the down-low to attract regular nostalgic webdevs into the community was... Not on my 2023 bingo card frankly!</p>",
        "text": "https://suboptimalism.neocities.org/writings/yesterwebfinding out that #yesterweb  blew up due to a 'digital guerilla' manipulating things behind the scenes, trying to make YW into a 'post-marxist' movement based in the #indieweb while keeping all of that on the down-low to attract regular nostalgic webdevs into the community was... Not on my 2023 bingo card frankly!"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-06T14:26:40+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38227711",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Manton Reece",
        "url": "https://www.manton.org/",
        "photo": "https://micro.blog/manton/avatar.jpg"
    },
    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2023/07/06/ive-been-saying.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I\u2019ve been saying for a while that the fediverse will likely evolve to having maybe 10 medium-sized platforms, not 1000+ small servers. It won\u2019t be a failure if Threads is one of those. It\u2019s still much better than a single platform with a billion users.</p>",
        "text": "I\u2019ve been saying for a while that the fediverse will likely evolve to having maybe 10 medium-sized platforms, not 1000+ small servers. It won\u2019t be a failure if Threads is one of those. It\u2019s still much better than a single platform with a billion users."
    },
    "published": "2023-07-06T08:52:49-05:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38226775",
    "_source": "12",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@rmdes",
        "url": "https://mstdn.social/@rmdes",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mstdn.social/@rmdes/110666915024092591",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://techforgood.social/@dimi\">@<span>dimi</span></a></span> none, or rather my <a href=\"https://micro.blog\"><span>https://</span><span>micro.blog</span><span></span></a> which allows me to be in all of them from my blog <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "@dimi none, or rather my https://micro.blog which allows me to be in all of them from my blog #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-06T11:31:52+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38224954",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

First thoughts about Threads

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    "published": "2023-07-06T04:52:34+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2023/my-first-thoughts-about-threads",
    "name": "First thoughts about Threads",
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        "text": "Meta\u2019s new social network is interesting: an obvious strategic shot at Twitter just as that network is running into trouble, as well as a way to iterate on its aging Facebook property. To that end, it makes sense that Meta would piggyback on the fediverse of independent social networks that interconnect through the open ActivityPub protocol, and I\u2019m genuinely very excited to see it take that leap. Meta is already the closed social networking top dog by a long shot, and by embracing Mastodon et al, it puts itself in a position of working with the open web to compete with Twitter instead of battling with both entities. For perhaps the first time ever, it also aligns Meta with the open web.By working with Instagram\u2019s accounts and social graph, and concentrating on one form factor, it gets a lot right that other decentralized social networks haven\u2019t managed yet. There\u2019s no waitlist or complicated registration procedure to figure out: if you\u2019re on Instagram, you hit a single button and you\u2019re set up.The feed starts off by showing you content from influencers and people you\u2019re already friends with on Instagram, bypassing the cold start problem that many social networks suffer from. The more people you follow on Threads, the more the feed seamlessly segues into content from people you follow. Like Instagram, there\u2019s always some new stuff in there, and there\u2019s no way to get to a chronological feed. The algorithm abides. I hate algorithmic feeds, and I find this one somewhere between annoying and maddening. I\u2019ve found myself muting brands with wild abandon, but I recognize that I\u2019m not the target audience \u2014 I can see how this would be more accessible for more casual users. Crucially, though, once federation is launched I\u2019ll be able to access Threads users from the social networking interface of my choice \u2014 a huge advantage over any other mainstream social networking platform, and a way to support power users without having to explicitly build for them.It\u2019s fairly easy to find existing friends and people you\u2019re interested in, and there\u2019s a great inline \u201cadd friend\u201d option as you see new folks pass through the feed. This isn\u2019t an entirely new mechanism - Instagram has this, and we even built it into Elgg twenty years ago - but it\u2019s noticeably easier than Mastodon in particular.The content in my feed is less cerebral and much friendlier than I get on Mastodon, which probably makes it more accessible. Of course, as soon as federation launches, I\u2019ll be able to follow folks on Threads from my Mastodon profile and vice versa. This is a boon for the fediverse overall: Threads will bring the celebrities, while Mastodon will bring the academics and activists. The net result will be a mix of everything and everyone, with a choice of user interfaces and host services, in a way that a closed social network could never manage.Because the goal is, in effect, to grow a bigger pie for this kind of service, I think Meta would be wise to think about how to help build an ecosystem of interoperable tools and services. Assuming Threads takes off, ActivityPub will be the way social networks interoperate for at least the next decade and the majority of ActivityPub profiles will be Meta-hosted. Given this, providing an easy to use SDK, potentially an AWS-like cloud service to make it as easy as possible to build new apps on top of the protocol, and some funding would be a great way to create developer leverage and differentiate themselves from Twitter\u2019s extortionate API pricing. (If Meta doesn\u2019t do this, by the way, this would make an amazing startup for someone else. Hell, I\u2019d gladly talk to investors myself about building this.)All in: I don\u2019t hate it. Despite the gnashing of teeth in the fediverse about Meta\u2019s arrival, if Threads implements ActivityPub cleanly I think it\u2019s actually going to be a decent addition. It may even be a boon to the whole open social web that validates the space and creates a stronger ecosystem of developers and platforms. Imagine that.",
        "html": "<p>Meta\u2019s <a href=\"https://threads.net\">new social network</a> is interesting: an obvious strategic shot at Twitter just as that network is running into trouble, as well as a way to iterate on its aging Facebook property. To that end, it makes sense that Meta would piggyback on the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse\">fediverse</a> of independent social networks that interconnect through the open <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub\">ActivityPub protocol</a>, and I\u2019m genuinely very excited to see it take that leap. Meta is already the closed social networking top dog by a long shot, and by embracing Mastodon et al, it puts itself in a position of working <em>with</em> the open web to compete with Twitter instead of battling with both entities. For perhaps the first time ever, it also aligns Meta with the open web.</p><p>By working with Instagram\u2019s accounts and social graph, and concentrating on one form factor, it gets a lot right that other decentralized social networks haven\u2019t managed yet. There\u2019s no waitlist or complicated registration procedure to figure out: if you\u2019re on Instagram, you hit a single button and you\u2019re set up.</p><p>The feed starts off by showing you content from influencers and people you\u2019re already friends with on Instagram, bypassing the cold start problem that many social networks suffer from. The more people you follow on Threads, the more the feed seamlessly segues into content from people you follow. Like Instagram, there\u2019s always some new stuff in there, and there\u2019s no way to get to a chronological feed. The algorithm abides. I <em>hate</em> algorithmic feeds, and I find this one somewhere between annoying and maddening. I\u2019ve found myself muting brands with wild abandon, but I recognize that I\u2019m not the target audience \u2014 I can see how this would be more accessible for more casual users. Crucially, though, once federation is launched I\u2019ll be able to access Threads users from the social networking interface of my choice \u2014 a huge advantage over any other mainstream social networking platform, and a way to support power users without having to explicitly build for them.</p><p>It\u2019s fairly easy to find existing friends and people you\u2019re interested in, and there\u2019s a great inline \u201cadd friend\u201d option as you see new folks pass through the feed. This isn\u2019t an entirely new mechanism - Instagram has this, and we even built it into Elgg twenty years ago - but it\u2019s noticeably easier than Mastodon in particular.</p><p>The content in my feed is less cerebral and much friendlier than I get on Mastodon, which probably makes it more accessible. Of course, as soon as federation launches, I\u2019ll be able to follow folks on Threads from my Mastodon profile and vice versa. This is a boon for the fediverse overall: Threads will bring the celebrities, while Mastodon will bring the academics and activists. The net result will be a mix of everything and everyone, with a choice of user interfaces and host services, in a way that a closed social network could never manage.</p><p>Because the goal is, in effect, to grow a bigger pie for this kind of service, I think Meta would be wise to think about how to help build an ecosystem of interoperable tools and services. Assuming Threads takes off, ActivityPub will be <em>the</em> way social networks interoperate for at least the next decade <em>and</em> the majority of ActivityPub profiles will be Meta-hosted. Given this, providing an easy to use SDK, potentially an AWS-like cloud service to make it as easy as possible to build new apps on top of the protocol, and some funding would be a great way to create developer leverage and differentiate themselves from Twitter\u2019s extortionate API pricing. (If Meta <em>doesn\u2019t</em> do this, by the way, this would make an amazing startup for someone else. Hell, I\u2019d gladly talk to investors myself about building this.)</p><p>All in: I don\u2019t hate it. Despite the gnashing of teeth in the fediverse about Meta\u2019s arrival, if Threads implements ActivityPub cleanly I think it\u2019s actually going to be a decent addition. It may even be a boon to the whole open social web that validates the space and creates a stronger ecosystem of developers and platforms. Imagine that.</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https://werd.io/file/64a648806b5c0ef97f00ba22\" alt=\"A screenshot from Meta's new Threads app\" width=\"461\" height=\"1000\" /></p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Ben Werdmuller",
        "url": "https://werd.io/profile/benwerd",
        "photo": "https://werd.io/file/5d388c5fb16ea14aac640912/thumb.jpg"
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    "post-type": "article",
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@liztai",
        "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@liztai",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/110665189612509226",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>The way I blog has drastically changed since I discovered the IndieWeb. For one, I'm less precious with my blog posts. I allow mistakes, errors, and no longer think chronologically. Every post is an evolving document.</p><p><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Blogging\">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Website\">#<span>Website</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Writing\">#<span>Writing</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"http://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/06/being-an-imperfect-gardener-of-my-digital-garden/\"><span>http://</span><span>elizabethtai.com/2023/07/06/be</span><span>ing-an-imperfect-gardener-of-my-digital-garden/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "The way I blog has drastically changed since I discovered the IndieWeb. For one, I'm less precious with my blog posts. I allow mistakes, errors, and no longer think chronologically. Every post is an evolving document.#IndieWeb #Blogging #Website #Writing http://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/06/being-an-imperfect-gardener-of-my-digital-garden/"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-06T04:13:04+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38220977",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@brettk",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@brettk",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@brettk/110664994545204313",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Sabbatical accomplishment! I finally cut version 4.0.0 of this gem for integrating Jekyll with the Webmention.io service, which enables webmentions for static sites. <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/jekyll\">#<span>jekyll</span></a>: <a href=\"https://b-ark.ca/2023/07/05/jekyll-webmention-4.html\"><span>https://</span><span>b-ark.ca/2023/07/05/jekyll-web</span><span>mention-4.html</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Sabbatical accomplishment! I finally cut version 4.0.0 of this gem for integrating Jekyll with the Webmention.io service, which enables webmentions for static sites. #indieweb #jekyll: https://b-ark.ca/2023/07/05/jekyll-webmention-4.html"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-06T03:23:28+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38220521",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@sass",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/@sass",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@sass/110664762666866056",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://c.im/@jake4480\">@<span>jake4480</span></a></span> Awesome! I\u2019ve been maintaining this list of *boutique* infosec-related blogs (<a href=\"https://shellsharks.com/infosec-blogs#boutique-security-blogs\"><span>https://</span><span>shellsharks.com/infosec-blogs#</span><span>boutique-security-blogs</span></a>) for a couple of years now. (This is my alt acct, I\u2019m also <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://infosec.exchange/@shellsharks\">@<span>shellsharks</span></a></span> )</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/infosec\">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/cybersecurity\">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a></p>",
        "text": "@jake4480 Awesome! I\u2019ve been maintaining this list of *boutique* infosec-related blogs (https://shellsharks.com/infosec-blogs#boutique-security-blogs) for a couple of years now. (This is my alt acct, I\u2019m also @shellsharks )#indieweb #infosec #cybersecurity"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-06T02:24:30+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38219853",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@BinaryDigit",
        "url": "https://mstdn.games/@BinaryDigit",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mstdn.games/@BinaryDigit/110664743575316132",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Popular Social Media Apps</p><p><a href=\"https://binarydigit.cafe/popular-social-media-apps/\"><span>https://</span><span>binarydigit.cafe/popular-socia</span><span>l-media-apps/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mstdn.games/tags/Health\">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.games/tags/Tech\">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.games/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.games/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.games/tags/socialmedia\">#<span>socialmedia</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Popular Social Media Appshttps://binarydigit.cafe/popular-social-media-apps/#Health #Tech #fediverse #indieweb #socialmedia"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-06T02:19:38+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38219854",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

Meta unspools Threads

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2023-07-05T23:08:17+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2023/meta-unspools-threads",
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        "Technology"
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    "bookmark-of": [
        "https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-unspools-threads"
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    "name": "Meta unspools Threads",
    "content": {
        "text": "A lot of people in the fediverse are rightly worried about what the arrival of Threads (which is Mastodon-compatible) will bring. I think it's probably a positive addition for most people, and Casey Newton's writeup here does a good job of explaining why. #Technology",
        "html": "<p>A lot of people in the fediverse are rightly worried about what the arrival of Threads (which is Mastodon-compatible) will bring. I think it's probably a positive addition for most people, and Casey Newton's writeup here does a good job of explaining why. <a href=\"https://werd.io/tag/Technology\" class=\"p-category\">#Technology</a></p>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Ben Werdmuller",
        "url": "https://werd.io/profile/benwerd",
        "photo": "https://werd.io/file/5d388c5fb16ea14aac640912/thumb.jpg"
    },
    "post-type": "bookmark",
    "_id": "38218147",
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Dogs

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2023-07-05T22:32:43+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2023/dogs",
    "name": "Dogs",
    "content": {
        "text": "Our baby loves dogs.His eyes light up as soon as he sees one. His arms extend outwards, his lips turn up, and it\u2019s a matter of seconds before he\u2019s unable to constrain his joy any longer and something between a delighted squeal and an unhinged canine howl is let loose in its general direction. Sometimes, the dog is receptive to this small, hairless symbiote riding atop a strange hooman. Other times, the dog will give me a long look as if to ask, \u201cwhy?\u201d and also, \u201chow make go away?\u201dIf the dog is a known quantity, for example one of the two dogs owned by his aunts in Oregon who he happens to be visiting with this week, we might allow him to get closer. Tentatively, he might reach out for a stroke or receive a gentle but unsanitary lick from a likeminded fluffball.As I write this, he is lying in a travel crib, by mutual agreement sleeping soundly for an hour to an hour and a half but in actuality singing at the top of his voice. His songs don\u2019t yet have words or a tune to speak of. They\u2019re a direct outpouring from his soul, unfiltered by templated meaning or rote learning. He has no idea that we\u2019re listening. He\u2019s just happy.He burps when he wants to burp. He farts when he wants to fart. He lets his joy and his displeasure be known whenever they are felt. Sometimes he makes weird crunching noises like a fax machine even though he has never heard or seen one. He can be mesmerized for hours on end by videos of dancing fruits and vegetables set to a MIDI bossa nova beat (the pineapple winks knowingly; he has very clearly seen some things, but we\u2019re left to guess exactly what they might be). He enjoys bouncing up and down on his weary collection of human trampolines and absolutely must explore the whole house, his tiny hands slap-slap-slapping on the wooden floors as he crawls around at high speed, at least once per day.I feel like we somehow lose this fearlessness when we get older. We are not, unkind words from people who should know better aside (c\u2019mon), uninhibited babies. We get wrapped up in the to-ing and fro-ing of adulthood, and in particular in the whole business of being who we think we should be instead of who we actually are. We wear formal attire as adult cosplay and sometimes dine at fancy restaurants and read literature and ponder whether we should acquire a metal fish slice because Wirecutter says that no kitchen should be without one. We have more conversations about compound interest (behold its power!) than we could have ever predicted.\u201cBurpus,\u201d I say, matter-of-factly, when he burps. \u201cFartacus,\u201d I announce when he farts. My own unseemly childishness hides behind his perfectly acceptable baby-ness, as if having a baby is umbrella insurance for acting like one. When I\u2019m the Burpus, I apologize. When he\u2019s the Burpus, I herald it.Adults are expected to hide their humanity behind a theatrical mask. Babies are allowed to hang loose.The people we allow to be themselves, when it really works and is done in a place where we can see it, are also heralded for it. Writers shed light on their humanity, and through it, ours. Artists make us see the world in a whole new way. Musicians help us feel. If any of them held back and let their humanity lie behind the mask, they would fail. It would be bad art, reflecting the mask itself rather than the people underneath. Even the great entrepreneurs put their inner selves out there. It is not unthinking or fearless; these are some of the most anxious people you will ever meet. They are terrified of what they\u2019re doing because we\u2019ve all been conditioned to be afraid of it. But they do it anyway, and it improves the experience of being alive and being human. Artists provide their own umbrella insurance for the rest of us, in a way. They teach us to loosen the mask just enough to let us remember who we are.My baby has woken up now and is exploring a sunbeam as it falls across a leather chair. He turns and looks at me and smiles broadly before dropping to the floor and slap-slap-slapping his way across the floor. His mask has not yet grown, and somehow, I hope it won\u2019t. I hope he gets to be himself forever: hanging loose, pure and joyful and free.Part of the Indieweb Carnival for July: moments of joy.",
        "html": "<p>Our baby loves dogs.</p><p>His eyes light up as soon as he sees one. His arms extend outwards, his lips turn up, and it\u2019s a matter of seconds before he\u2019s unable to constrain his joy any longer and something between a delighted squeal and an unhinged canine howl is let loose in its general direction. Sometimes, the dog is receptive to this small, hairless symbiote riding atop a strange hooman. Other times, the dog will give me a long look as if to ask, \u201cwhy?\u201d and also, \u201chow make go away?\u201d</p><p>If the dog is a known quantity, for example one of the two dogs owned by his aunts in Oregon who he happens to be visiting with this week, we might allow him to get closer. Tentatively, he might reach out for a stroke or receive a gentle but unsanitary lick from a likeminded fluffball.</p><p>As I write this, he is lying in a travel crib, by mutual agreement sleeping soundly for an hour to an hour and a half but in actuality singing at the top of his voice. His songs don\u2019t yet have words or a tune to speak of. They\u2019re a direct outpouring from his soul, unfiltered by templated meaning or rote learning. He has no idea that we\u2019re listening. He\u2019s just happy.</p><p>He burps when he wants to burp. He farts when he wants to fart. He lets his joy and his displeasure be known whenever they are felt. Sometimes he makes weird crunching noises like a fax machine even though he has never heard or seen one. He can be mesmerized for hours on end by videos of dancing fruits and vegetables set to a MIDI bossa nova beat (the pineapple winks knowingly; he has very clearly seen some things, but we\u2019re left to guess exactly what they might be). He enjoys bouncing up and down on his weary collection of human trampolines and absolutely must explore the whole house, his tiny hands slap-slap-slapping on the wooden floors as he crawls around at high speed, at least once per day.</p><p>I feel like we somehow lose this fearlessness when we get older. We are not, unkind words from people who should know better aside (<em>c\u2019mon</em>), uninhibited babies. We get wrapped up in the to-ing and fro-ing of adulthood, and in particular in the whole business of being who we think we should be instead of who we actually are. We wear formal attire as adult cosplay and sometimes dine at fancy restaurants and read <em>literature</em> and ponder whether we should acquire a metal fish slice because Wirecutter says that no kitchen should be without one. We have more conversations about compound interest (behold its power!) than we could have ever predicted.</p><p>\u201cBurpus,\u201d I say, matter-of-factly, when he burps. \u201cFartacus,\u201d I announce when he farts. My own unseemly childishness hides behind his perfectly acceptable baby-ness, as if having a baby is umbrella insurance for acting like one. When I\u2019m the Burpus, I apologize. When <em>he\u2019s</em> the Burpus, I herald it.</p><p>Adults are expected to hide their humanity behind a theatrical mask. Babies are allowed to hang loose.</p><p>The people we allow to be themselves, when it really works and is done in a place where we can see it, are <em>also</em> heralded for it. Writers shed light on their humanity, and through it, ours. Artists make us see the world in a whole new way. Musicians help us <em>feel</em>. If any of them held back and let their humanity lie behind the mask, they would fail. It would be bad art, reflecting the mask itself rather than the people underneath. Even the great entrepreneurs put their inner selves out there. It is not unthinking or fearless; these are some of the most anxious people you will ever meet. They are terrified of what they\u2019re doing because we\u2019ve all been conditioned to be afraid of it. But they do it anyway, and it improves the experience of being alive and being human. Artists provide their own umbrella insurance for the rest of us, in a way. They teach us to loosen the mask just enough to let us remember who we are.</p><p>My baby has woken up now and is exploring a sunbeam as it falls across a leather chair. He turns and looks at me and smiles broadly before dropping to the floor and slap-slap-slapping his way across the floor. His mask has not yet grown, and somehow, I hope it won\u2019t. I hope he gets to be himself forever: hanging loose, pure and joyful and free.</p><p><em>Part of <a href=\"https://jamesg.blog/2023/07/01/indieweb-carnival/\">the Indieweb Carnival for July: moments of joy</a>.</em></p>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Ben Werdmuller",
        "url": "https://werd.io/profile/benwerd",
        "photo": "https://werd.io/file/5d388c5fb16ea14aac640912/thumb.jpg"
    },
    "post-type": "article",
    "_id": "38217832",
    "_source": "191",
    "_is_read": false
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@thudfactor",
        "url": "https://social.horrorhub.club/@thudfactor",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.horrorhub.club/@thudfactor/110663678930172480",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I\u2019ve been reading my own movie reviews which is why I have to share this Night of the Lepus review with y\u2019all. </p><p><a href=\"https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/movies\">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/rabbits\">#<span>rabbits</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.filmhydra.com/movies/1970/night-of-the-lepus/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>filmhydra.com/movies/1970/nigh</span><span>t-of-the-lepus/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I\u2019ve been reading my own movie reviews which is why I have to share this Night of the Lepus review with y\u2019all. #movies #rabbits #indiewebhttps://www.filmhydra.com/movies/1970/night-of-the-lepus/"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-05T21:50:27+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38217150",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@jake4480",
        "url": "https://c.im/@jake4480",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://c.im/@jake4480/110662711709235633",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://birdga.me\"><span>https://</span><span>birdga.me</span><span></span></a> is awesome. Play around with that one! \ud83d\udc26 </p><p><a href=\"https://ooh.directory\"><span>https://</span><span>ooh.directory</span><span></span></a> is a GREAT searchable directory of over 1900 blogs!</p><p><a href=\"https://rotatingsandwiches.com\"><span>https://</span><span>rotatingsandwiches.com</span><span></span></a> is fairly useless, but it looks nice and delivers what it promises. \ud83e\udd6a </p><p><a href=\"https://c.im/tags/CoolWebsites\">#<span>CoolWebsites</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/directory\">#<span>directory</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/directories\">#<span>directories</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/TinyWebsites\">#<span>TinyWebsites</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/sandwich\">#<span>sandwich</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/sandwiches\">#<span>sandwiches</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/RotatingSandwiches\">#<span>RotatingSandwiches</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/interactive\">#<span>interactive</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/game\">#<span>game</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/games\">#<span>games</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/websites\">#<span>websites</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/weird\">#<span>weird</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/useless\">#<span>useless</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/WeirdWeb\">#<span>WeirdWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/WeirdWebsites\">#<span>WeirdWebsites</span></a></p>",
        "text": "https://birdga.me is awesome. Play around with that one! \ud83d\udc26 https://ooh.directory is a GREAT searchable directory of over 1900 blogs!https://rotatingsandwiches.com is fairly useless, but it looks nice and delivers what it promises. \ud83e\udd6a #CoolWebsites #directory #directories #TinyWebsites #sandwich #sandwiches #RotatingSandwiches #interactive #game #games #websites #weird #useless #IndieWeb #WeirdWeb #WeirdWebsites"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-05T17:42:55+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38214290",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@stefan",
        "url": "https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110662655084075314",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>You can now vote in the inaugural Tiny Awards for a website that \"best embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt web\".</p><p><a href=\"https://tinyawards.net\"><span>https://</span><span>tinyawards.net</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TinyAwards\">#<span>TinyAwards</span></a></p>",
        "text": "You can now vote in the inaugural Tiny Awards for a website that \"best embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt web\".https://tinyawards.net#indieweb #TinyAwards"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-05T17:28:31+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38214019",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@tchambers",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@tchambers",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/110662151885100614",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://goblin.camp/@timmy\">@<span>timmy</span></a></span> My motivation is help create a safe, less toxic, more open, social web. </p><p>One that makes centralization of power harder, and users empowered. I see that as a decades-long project that began with the <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> movement and spread into the <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Fediverse\">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> and adjacent movements. </p><p>Meta is \"in the fold\" of acitivtypub whether the entire fedi blocks them or not. My strategy here is on how to best defend the open social web and hold them accountable.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html\"><span>https://www.</span><span>timothychambers.net/2023/06/23</span><span>/project-and-the.html</span></a></p>",
        "text": "@timmy My motivation is help create a safe, less toxic, more open, social web. One that makes centralization of power harder, and users empowered. I see that as a decades-long project that began with the #indieweb movement and spread into the #Fediverse and adjacent movements. Meta is \"in the fold\" of acitivtypub whether the entire fedi blocks them or not. My strategy here is on how to best defend the open social web and hold them accountable.https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-05T15:20:32+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38212219",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@murb",
        "url": "https://todon.nl/@murb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://todon.nl/@murb/110662028031135694",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://m.tzyl.eu/@ton\">@<span>ton</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@FranciscovanJole\">@<span>FranciscovanJole</span></a></span> maar tot die tijd dus caching of CDNs of dus link services. Ik vind het een beetje in strijd met het <a href=\"https://todon.nl/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> idee dat hosting complexer wordt door <a href=\"https://todon.nl/tags/mastodon\">#<span>mastodon</span></a>.</p>",
        "text": "@ton @FranciscovanJole maar tot die tijd dus caching of CDNs of dus link services. Ik vind het een beetje in strijd met het #indieweb idee dat hosting complexer wordt door #mastodon."
    },
    "published": "2023-07-05T14:49:02+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38211714",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@arvid",
        "url": "https://fikaverse.club/@arvid",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fikaverse.club/@arvid/110661591459674327",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\"Efter fem \u00e5rs karant\u00e4n har jag hittat ett nytt s\u00e4tt att f\u00f6rh\u00e5lla mig till sociala medier som jag faktiskt tror p\u00e5. L\u00f6st inspirerat av indieweb-r\u00f6relsen. Jag ska skriva och l\u00e4gga ut material som vanligt p\u00e5 min hemsida. Efter det kommer jag \u00e4ven dela vidare p\u00e5 olika plattformar f\u00f6r att l\u00e4ttare n\u00e5 ut till och h\u00e5lla kontakten med b\u00e5de gamla och nya bekanta...\"</p><p><a href=\"https://arvidmarklund.se/20230705.html\"><span>https://</span><span>arvidmarklund.se/20230705.html</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://fikaverse.club/tags/socialamedier\">#<span>socialamedier</span></a> <a href=\"https://fikaverse.club/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fikaverse.club/tags/syndikering\">#<span>syndikering</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\"Efter fem \u00e5rs karant\u00e4n har jag hittat ett nytt s\u00e4tt att f\u00f6rh\u00e5lla mig till sociala medier som jag faktiskt tror p\u00e5. L\u00f6st inspirerat av indieweb-r\u00f6relsen. Jag ska skriva och l\u00e4gga ut material som vanligt p\u00e5 min hemsida. Efter det kommer jag \u00e4ven dela vidare p\u00e5 olika plattformar f\u00f6r att l\u00e4ttare n\u00e5 ut till och h\u00e5lla kontakten med b\u00e5de gamla och nya bekanta...\"https://arvidmarklund.se/20230705.html#socialamedier #indieweb #syndikering"
    },
    "published": "2023-07-05T12:58:01+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "38209944",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}