What is a silo?

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        "html": "<p>I read <a href=\"https://substack.com/profile/5475310-jatan-mehta\">Jatan Mehta</a>'s argument about WordPress.com, and while I respect his perspective, I must respectfully disagree with some of his statements. Let me offer a rebuttal to address the concerns in his article <strong><a href=\"https://thoughts.jatan.space/p/avoid-blogging-platform-silos\">Medium, WordPress.com and social platforms are siloes you should try avoiding</a></strong>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://substack.com/profile/5475310-jatan-mehta\">Jatan Mehta</a> asserts that blogging on platforms like WordPress.com can lead to being \"semi-locked-in\" regarding owning the connection to your audience. He\u2019s conveniently found a way to apply the \"semi-locked-in\" label to WordPress.com by focusing on how mailing lists are managed. He argues that social media platforms often make it difficult to move your followers to a new platform and that WordPress.com and Medium have adopted similar tactics, hindering portability. He conveniently ignores that as long as you own your domain, your \"followers\" can always find you.</p>\n<p>Before I start, one major issue with Jatan's article is the comparison of WordPress.com, a blogging platform and content management system, with microblogging and social messaging platforms like micro.blog. It's crucial to recognise that WordPress.com doesn't include any social messaging features \u2013 it never has. He might as well be comparing pawpaw and papaya. I don\u2019t think anyone in the <a href=\"https://news.indieweb.org/en\">IndieWeb</a> community would apply the word \"silo\" to self-hosted WordPress websites.</p>\n<p>While I understand the concern about maintaining a connection with your audience, Jatan's argument overlooks some important aspects of using WordPress.com and similar blogging platforms. Let's delve into these points:</p>\n<ol><li>Standardisation and Portability: Jatan acknowledges that blogs are largely standardised, allowing easy movement from one platform to another. This is even easier if your website has a domain name. This is a crucial advantage of blogging platforms like WordPress.com. Unlike social media platforms, where your content's fate is tied to the platform's existence, a blog can be exported in a format other platforms can understand. Thus, even if WordPress.com were to suspend your account (an unlikely scenario for most users who adhere to platform guidelines), you still have the option to take your content and migrate it elsewhere without losing your valuable thoughts and contributions.</li>\n<li>Audience Ownership: Jatan raises concerns about owning the connection with your readers and followers on WordPress.com. The idea that you \"own your followers\" bothers me. While it's true that some blogging platforms, such as Medium, force you to retain followers within their ecosystem, it's essential to consider that your primary means of communication with your audience on WordPress.com is through your content \u2013 your blog posts. Your readers subscribe to your blog and follow you (via RSS) to receive updates directly from you. While there might be other mechanisms like \"Follow\" buttons or email subscription lists, the heart of your connection with your audience remains rooted in the content you produce, not just the platform-specific features. Regarding Jatan's notion of exporting his micro.blog followers and forcing them to follow him on another platform is far-fetched. How exactly does he plan to make that work? Again, The idea that you \"own your followers\" bothers me.</li>\n<li>Diverse Engagement Options: WordPress.com provides multiple avenues for engaging with your audience. While some may prefer direct email subscriptions or RSS feeds, others might find value in following your blog through the platform's built-in \"Follow\" mechanism. Different people have different preferences, and offering a variety of options can be advantageous in reaching a broader audience. Automattic has acquired the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/\">ActivityPub</a> plug-in! With this development, I'm confident that WordPress.com will soon be able to facilitate rich conversations with Mastodon instances. This integration holds great promise for enhancing the platform's capabilities and fostering more dynamic interactions across the web. Remember that engagement methods should complement one another rather than create a rigid either/or choice.</li>\n<li>Medium's Algorithmic Challenge: Jatan highlights his struggles with Medium's algorithm, which impacts the visibility of his posts to his followers. While algorithmic challenges can affect content reach on some platforms, this is not an inherent limitation of all blogging platforms, including micro.blog and WordPress.com. The reach on micro.blog is noticeably lower compared to other platforms. The community size is relatively small, and Manton's intentional design choices constrain the behaviours that expand reach. WordPress.com, for instance, provides various ways to optimise your content's discoverability, such as SEO tools, tags, and categories, but the platform lacks any algorithmic system. Engaging with your audience through WordPress.com is a more direct and transparent process compared to social media algorithms, where your content's reach is often at the mercy of platform-specific algorithms.</li>\n<li>RSS and Email: Jatan mentions RSS and email subscribers as the solution to platform lock-in. He\u2019s on the right path to how to avoid platform lock-in, whether micro.blog or otherwise. He conveniently ignores that WordPress.com supports both. WordPress.com supports RSS follows via JetPack\u2019s Reader. They call this feature \"follow\". As a WordPress.com user, I can follow <em>any</em> blog vis RSS feed, whether hosted on WordPress.com or micro.blog. Anyone can sign-up to get my newsletter. They don\u2019t need a WordPress.com account to do so. When I want to leave WordPress.com, I can export all the email addresses to a CSV file and import them into my new platform. I can export all my JetPack Reader follows as an OPML file and follows those blog in another RSS aggregator.</li>\n<li>\n<p>Comments: There's an important distinction to be made when leaving comments on micro.blog posts versus WordPress.com websites. On micro.blog, leaving a comment to a blog post requires having a micro.blog account, whereas on WordPress.com, no account is needed to leave a comment. WordPress.com relies on the Akismet service, which has proven incredibly effective in keeping spam at bay. After over 20 years of using WordPress, I can confidently say that Akismet has not failed me. It's a reliable tool that ensures the comments section remains a clean and engaging space for readers and bloggers alike.</p>\n</li>\n</ol><p>Manton wrote about <a href=\"https://book.micro.blog/silos/\">silos</a> in his book:</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Not all centralized services are silos. The key trait of silos is isolation. Silos wall-off and limit our control over content, usually by storing all content at the silo\u2019s own domain name rather than allowing personal domain names.\n</p></blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://substack.com/profile/5475310-jatan-mehta\">Jatan's</a>'s preference for email and RSS-based direct engagement with his audience is valid. I\u2019ve always encouraged my readers to use RSS. Additionally, the portability and standardisation of WordPress.com blogs ensure that my content remains under my control. While platforms may offer additional engagement options, the primary connection with your audience lies in the value of your content. Embracing diverse methods of engaging with your audience can amplify your reach and impact, making blogging platforms like WordPress.com valuable tools for building an online presence and sharing your thoughts with the world.</p>\n<p>As Manton said in his book under the section, <strong><a href=\"https://book.micro.blog/owning-your-content/\">Owning your content</a></strong>.</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I think in the tech world \u2014 and especially as programmers \u2014 we tend to make things more complicated than they need to be. We know too much about content ownership, most of it irrelevant for mainstream users.</p>\n<p>  If you want to control your content on the web, post it at your own personal domain name. That\u2019s it. Everything else you want to do is icing on the cake.<br />\u2026<br />Owning your content isn\u2019t about portable software. It\u2019s about portable URLs and data. It\u2019s about domain names.</p>\n<p>  When you write and post photos at your own domain name, your content can outlive any one blogging platform. In all the years of blogging at manton.org, I\u2019ve switched blogging platforms and hosting providers a few times. The posts and URLs can all be preserved through those changes because it\u2019s my own domain name.</p>\n<p>  If you can\u2019t use your own domain name, you can\u2019t own it. Your content will be forever stuck at those silo URLs, beholden to the whims of the algorithmic timeline and shifting priorities of the executive team.\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve had my domain for over 20 years, and this blog has lived on <a href=\"http://manila.userland.com/\">UserLand Manila</a>, Blogger, WordPress.com, and MoveableType before I settled on self-hosted WordPress. I'll never be locked in as long as I can export my content and my audience can access RSS.</p>\n<p>NOTE: Both <a href=\"https://micro.blog/moonmehta\">@moonmehta</a> and I are part of the micro.blog community. I supported the original Kickstarter! However, it's worth mentioning that my primary website is self-hosted WordPress. For those interested in a self-hostable, single-user, IndieWeb-friendly microblogging open-source software, check out <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/microblog.pub\">microblog.pub</a>.</p>",
        "text": "I read Jatan Mehta's argument about WordPress.com, and while I respect his perspective, I must respectfully disagree with some of his statements. Let me offer a rebuttal to address the concerns in his article Medium, WordPress.com and social platforms are siloes you should try avoiding.\nJatan Mehta asserts that blogging on platforms like WordPress.com can lead to being \"semi-locked-in\" regarding owning the connection to your audience. He\u2019s conveniently found a way to apply the \"semi-locked-in\" label to WordPress.com by focusing on how mailing lists are managed. He argues that social media platforms often make it difficult to move your followers to a new platform and that WordPress.com and Medium have adopted similar tactics, hindering portability. He conveniently ignores that as long as you own your domain, your \"followers\" can always find you.\nBefore I start, one major issue with Jatan's article is the comparison of WordPress.com, a blogging platform and content management system, with microblogging and social messaging platforms like micro.blog. It's crucial to recognise that WordPress.com doesn't include any social messaging features \u2013 it never has. He might as well be comparing pawpaw and papaya. I don\u2019t think anyone in the IndieWeb community would apply the word \"silo\" to self-hosted WordPress websites.\nWhile I understand the concern about maintaining a connection with your audience, Jatan's argument overlooks some important aspects of using WordPress.com and similar blogging platforms. Let's delve into these points:\nStandardisation and Portability: Jatan acknowledges that blogs are largely standardised, allowing easy movement from one platform to another. This is even easier if your website has a domain name. This is a crucial advantage of blogging platforms like WordPress.com. Unlike social media platforms, where your content's fate is tied to the platform's existence, a blog can be exported in a format other platforms can understand. Thus, even if WordPress.com were to suspend your account (an unlikely scenario for most users who adhere to platform guidelines), you still have the option to take your content and migrate it elsewhere without losing your valuable thoughts and contributions.\nAudience Ownership: Jatan raises concerns about owning the connection with your readers and followers on WordPress.com. The idea that you \"own your followers\" bothers me. While it's true that some blogging platforms, such as Medium, force you to retain followers within their ecosystem, it's essential to consider that your primary means of communication with your audience on WordPress.com is through your content \u2013 your blog posts. Your readers subscribe to your blog and follow you (via RSS) to receive updates directly from you. While there might be other mechanisms like \"Follow\" buttons or email subscription lists, the heart of your connection with your audience remains rooted in the content you produce, not just the platform-specific features. Regarding Jatan's notion of exporting his micro.blog followers and forcing them to follow him on another platform is far-fetched. How exactly does he plan to make that work? Again, The idea that you \"own your followers\" bothers me.\nDiverse Engagement Options: WordPress.com provides multiple avenues for engaging with your audience. While some may prefer direct email subscriptions or RSS feeds, others might find value in following your blog through the platform's built-in \"Follow\" mechanism. Different people have different preferences, and offering a variety of options can be advantageous in reaching a broader audience. Automattic has acquired the ActivityPub plug-in! With this development, I'm confident that WordPress.com will soon be able to facilitate rich conversations with Mastodon instances. This integration holds great promise for enhancing the platform's capabilities and fostering more dynamic interactions across the web. Remember that engagement methods should complement one another rather than create a rigid either/or choice.\nMedium's Algorithmic Challenge: Jatan highlights his struggles with Medium's algorithm, which impacts the visibility of his posts to his followers. While algorithmic challenges can affect content reach on some platforms, this is not an inherent limitation of all blogging platforms, including micro.blog and WordPress.com. The reach on micro.blog is noticeably lower compared to other platforms. The community size is relatively small, and Manton's intentional design choices constrain the behaviours that expand reach. WordPress.com, for instance, provides various ways to optimise your content's discoverability, such as SEO tools, tags, and categories, but the platform lacks any algorithmic system. Engaging with your audience through WordPress.com is a more direct and transparent process compared to social media algorithms, where your content's reach is often at the mercy of platform-specific algorithms.\nRSS and Email: Jatan mentions RSS and email subscribers as the solution to platform lock-in. He\u2019s on the right path to how to avoid platform lock-in, whether micro.blog or otherwise. He conveniently ignores that WordPress.com supports both. WordPress.com supports RSS follows via JetPack\u2019s Reader. They call this feature \"follow\". As a WordPress.com user, I can follow any blog vis RSS feed, whether hosted on WordPress.com or micro.blog. Anyone can sign-up to get my newsletter. They don\u2019t need a WordPress.com account to do so. When I want to leave WordPress.com, I can export all the email addresses to a CSV file and import them into my new platform. I can export all my JetPack Reader follows as an OPML file and follows those blog in another RSS aggregator.\n\nComments: There's an important distinction to be made when leaving comments on micro.blog posts versus WordPress.com websites. On micro.blog, leaving a comment to a blog post requires having a micro.blog account, whereas on WordPress.com, no account is needed to leave a comment. WordPress.com relies on the Akismet service, which has proven incredibly effective in keeping spam at bay. After over 20 years of using WordPress, I can confidently say that Akismet has not failed me. It's a reliable tool that ensures the comments section remains a clean and engaging space for readers and bloggers alike.\n\nManton wrote about silos in his book:\n\n  Not all centralized services are silos. The key trait of silos is isolation. Silos wall-off and limit our control over content, usually by storing all content at the silo\u2019s own domain name rather than allowing personal domain names.\n\nJatan's's preference for email and RSS-based direct engagement with his audience is valid. I\u2019ve always encouraged my readers to use RSS. Additionally, the portability and standardisation of WordPress.com blogs ensure that my content remains under my control. While platforms may offer additional engagement options, the primary connection with your audience lies in the value of your content. Embracing diverse methods of engaging with your audience can amplify your reach and impact, making blogging platforms like WordPress.com valuable tools for building an online presence and sharing your thoughts with the world.\nAs Manton said in his book under the section, Owning your content.\n\n  I think in the tech world \u2014 and especially as programmers \u2014 we tend to make things more complicated than they need to be. We know too much about content ownership, most of it irrelevant for mainstream users.\n  If you want to control your content on the web, post it at your own personal domain name. That\u2019s it. Everything else you want to do is icing on the cake.\n\u2026\nOwning your content isn\u2019t about portable software. It\u2019s about portable URLs and data. It\u2019s about domain names.\n  When you write and post photos at your own domain name, your content can outlive any one blogging platform. In all the years of blogging at manton.org, I\u2019ve switched blogging platforms and hosting providers a few times. The posts and URLs can all be preserved through those changes because it\u2019s my own domain name.\n  If you can\u2019t use your own domain name, you can\u2019t own it. Your content will be forever stuck at those silo URLs, beholden to the whims of the algorithmic timeline and shifting priorities of the executive team.\n\nI\u2019ve had my domain for over 20 years, and this blog has lived on UserLand Manila, Blogger, WordPress.com, and MoveableType before I settled on self-hosted WordPress. I'll never be locked in as long as I can export my content and my audience can access RSS.\nNOTE: Both @moonmehta and I are part of the micro.blog community. I supported the original Kickstarter! However, it's worth mentioning that my primary website is self-hosted WordPress. For those interested in a self-hostable, single-user, IndieWeb-friendly microblogging open-source software, check out microblog.pub."
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        "html": "<p>At 5pm UK time / 12 noon ET / 9am ET I am hosting a Build a Website in an Hour event \ud83c\udf10<br />\u2029In the meeting, you have one hour to either start a new website (it can be as small or as big as you want!) or improve an existing website.<br />\u2029Last time, we had people build a bookmarks list, a PNG file header reader, an I, Spy game, and more!\u2029Find more information on the event page. No need to RSVP.<br />\u2029<a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/personalwebsites\">#<span>personalwebsites</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/2023/09/build-a-website-in-an-hour-IlkuPP6V6dNW\"><span>https://</span><span>events.indieweb.org/2023/09/bu</span><span>ild-a-website-in-an-hour-IlkuPP6V6dNW</span></a></p>",
        "text": "At 5pm UK time / 12 noon ET / 9am ET I am hosting a Build a Website in an Hour event \ud83c\udf10\n\u2029In the meeting, you have one hour to either start a new website (it can be as small or as big as you want!) or improve an existing website.\n\u2029Last time, we had people build a bookmarks list, a PNG file header reader, an I, Spy game, and more!\u2029Find more information on the event page. No need to RSVP.\n\u2029#indieweb #personalwebsiteshttps://events.indieweb.org/2023/09/build-a-website-in-an-hour-IlkuPP6V6dNW"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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        "text": "No more 404\n\n\n\nI really, really like the progressive enhancement approach that Remy is taking here with outbound links:\n\n\n  When a real user clicks on a link, it\u2019s swapped out to be redirected through my own endpoint that checks if the URL is still OK, and if so permanently redirects the visitor, otherwise my endpoint checks the Web Archive for the URL and permanently redirects to that instead.\n\n\nI think I\u2019m going to do the same! I\u2019d have to rewrite the server-side code in PHP, but that shouldn\u2019t be too tricky.\n\nThis could a project for the next Indie Web Camp I attend.",
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        "html": "<p>Blogging the <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> way (PESOS) to be specific, and treating my blog as a digital garden instead of a polished, professional magazine made <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> joyful again. I can be as spontaneous and imperfect as I want - I am having so much fun &amp; am blogging so much compared to before where 2-3 posts a month was plenty. <br />And I think my <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> is more interesting too. </p><p><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Writing\">#<span>Writing</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/06/being-an-imperfect-gardener-of-my-digital-garden/\"><span>https://</span><span>elizabethtai.com/2023/07/06/be</span><span>ing-an-imperfect-gardener-of-my-digital-garden/</span></a></p>",
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "bookmark-of": [
        "https://briankoberlein.com/"
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    "content": {
        "text": "Brian Koberlein\n\n\n\nWhat a beautiful website!",
        "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://briankoberlein.com/\">\nBrian Koberlein\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<p>What a beautiful website!</p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Jeremy Keith",
        "url": "https://adactio.com/",
        "photo": "https://adactio.com/images/photo-150.jpg"
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    "post-type": "bookmark",
    "_id": "39038865",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@capjamesg",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@capjamesg",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@capjamesg/111142266433874750",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>This weekend I am hosting a Build a Website in an Hour event \ud83c\udf10</p><p>In the meeting, you have one hour to either start a new website (it can be as small or as big as you want!) or improve an existing website.</p><p>Last time, we had people build a bookmarks list, a PNG file header reader, an I, Spy game, and more!</p><p>Find more information on the event page. No need to RSVP.</p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/personalwebsites\">#<span>personalwebsites</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/2023/09/build-a-website-in-an-hour-IlkuPP6V6dNW\"><span>https://</span><span>events.indieweb.org/2023/09/bu</span><span>ild-a-website-in-an-hour-IlkuPP6V6dNW</span></a></p>",
        "text": "This weekend I am hosting a Build a Website in an Hour event \ud83c\udf10In the meeting, you have one hour to either start a new website (it can be as small or as big as you want!) or improve an existing website.Last time, we had people build a bookmarks list, a PNG file header reader, an I, Spy game, and more!Find more information on the event page. No need to RSVP.#indieweb #personalwebsiteshttps://events.indieweb.org/2023/09/build-a-website-in-an-hour-IlkuPP6V6dNW"
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    "published": "2023-09-28T10:19:59+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@cambridgeport90",
        "url": "https://social.platypush.tech/@cambridgeport90",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.platypush.tech/@cambridgeport90/111139566007929514",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://c.im/@jake4480\">@<span>jake4480</span></a></span> My Wordpress implementation will also have what the <a href=\"https://social.platypush.tech/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> calls post kinds. All those location based short posts you see? Will count on my site as check ins...and will have their own feed, so if you only want to see, say,my longer stuff, don't subscribe to every feed.</p>",
        "text": "@jake4480 My Wordpress implementation will also have what the #Indieweb calls post kinds. All those location based short posts you see? Will count on my site as check ins...and will have their own feed, so if you only want to see, say,my longer stuff, don't subscribe to every feed."
    },
    "published": "2023-09-27T22:53:14+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39031187",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@liztai",
        "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@liztai",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/111135496121294724",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>2023 - I'm the happiest I've ever been on <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/SocialMedia\">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a>. Discovering the <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Fediverse\">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> and <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Mastodon\">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> has been really a joyous moment as I was really hating ad avalanche and algorithm-controlled environments. Then I discovered the <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> and began reclaiming my content, and I've been blogging more than ever.<br />That's when I realiesd that I had given these platforms SO MUCH OF FREE CONTENT.<br />That said, 2023 is also the year I've been the most overwhelmed by ..</p>",
        "text": "2023 - I'm the happiest I've ever been on #SocialMedia. Discovering the #Fediverse and #Mastodon has been really a joyous moment as I was really hating ad avalanche and algorithm-controlled environments. Then I discovered the #Indieweb and began reclaiming my content, and I've been blogging more than ever.\nThat's when I realiesd that I had given these platforms SO MUCH OF FREE CONTENT.\nThat said, 2023 is also the year I've been the most overwhelmed by .."
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        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.design/@nsmsn/111133551092223657",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Thanks to WordPress, Hum, and iwantmyname, I now have a personal link shortener for my website.</p><p>Now I can do dumb stuff: like <a href=\"http://nicks.im/son\"><span>http://</span><span>nicks.im/son</span><span></span></a> redirects to my about page.</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.design/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Thanks to WordPress, Hum, and iwantmyname, I now have a personal link shortener for my website.Now I can do dumb stuff: like http://nicks.im/son redirects to my about page.#IndieWeb"
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    "published": "2023-09-26T21:23:33+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@schizanon",
        "url": "https://mas.to/@schizanon",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mas.to/@schizanon/111132903787860464",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>If you're looking for a replacement for <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/googlePodcasts\">#<span>googlePodcasts</span></a> on <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/android\">#<span>android</span></a> consider <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/AntennaPod\">#<span>AntennaPod</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/\"><span>https://</span><span>f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh</span><span>.antennapod/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/podcast\">#<span>podcast</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/podcasts\">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/google\">#<span>google</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/rss\">#<span>rss</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/foss\">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/opensource\">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/mobile\">#<span>mobile</span></a></p>",
        "text": "If you're looking for a replacement for #googlePodcasts on #android consider #AntennaPod https://f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/#podcast #podcasts #google #rss #indieweb #foss #opensource #mobile"
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Ben Werdmuller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Parenting in the age of the internet

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        "text": "I learned to read and write on computers.Our first home computer, the Sinclair ZX81, had BASIC shortcuts built into the keyboards: you could hit a key combination and words like RUN, THEN, and ELSE would spit out onto the screen. I wrote a lot of early stories using those building blocks.Our second, the Atari 130XE, had similar BASIC instructions, but also had a much stronger software ecosystem. In one, you would type a rudimentary story, and 8-bit stick figure characters would act it out on screen. \u201cThe man walks to the woman\u201d; \u201cThe wumpus eats the man.\u201dWe never had a games console in the house, much to my chagrin, although the Atari could take games cartridges, and I once got so far in Joust that the score wrapped back around to 0. But mostly, I used our computers to write stories and play around a little bit with simple computer programming (my mother taught me a little BASIC when I was five).We walk our son to daycare via the local elementary school. This morning, as we wheeled his empty stroller back past the building, a school bus pulled up outside and a stream of eight-year-olds came tumbling out in front of us. As we stood there and watched them walk one by one into the building, I saw iPhone after iPhone after iPhone clutched in chubby little hands. Instagram; YouTube; texting.It\u2019s obvious that he\u2019ll get into computers early: he\u2019s the son of someone who learned to write code at the same time as writing English and a cognitive scientist who does research for a big FAANG company. Give him half a chance and he\u2019ll already grab someone\u2019s phone or laptop and find modes none of us knew existed \u2014 and he\u2019s barely a year old. The only question is how he\u2019ll get into computers.I\u2019m adamant with him, as my parents were with me, that he should see a computer as a creation, not a consumption device. At their best, computers are tools that allow children to create things themselves, and learn about the world in the process. At their worst, they\u2019re little more than televisions, albeit with a near-infinite number of channels, that needlessly limit your horizons. For many kids, social media is such a huge part of of their life that being an influencer is their most hoped-for job. No thank you: not for my kid.But, of course, if we can steer away from streaming media and Instagram\u2019s hollow expectations, there\u2019s a ton of fun to be had. This is one area where I think generative AI could be genuinely joyful: the fun that I had writing stories for those 8-bit stick figures, transposed to a whole universe of visual possibilities. That is, of course, unless using those tools prevents him from learning to draw himself.He\u2019s entering a very different cultural landscape where computers occupy a very different space. Those early 8-bit machines were, by necessity, all about creation: you often had to type in a BASIC script before you could use any software at all. In contrast, today\u2019s devices are optimized to keep you consuming, and to capture your engagement at all costs. Those iPhones those kids were holding are designed to be addiction machines.Correspondingly, our role as parents is to teach responsible use. If we are to be good teachers, that also means we have to demonstrate responsible use: something I am notoriously bad at with my own phone. I\u2019ve got every social network installed. I sometimes lose time to TikTok. I\u2019m a slave to my tiny hand-computer in every way I possibly can be. I tell myself that I need to know how it all works because of what I do for a living, but the real truth is, I love it. I don\u2019t need to be on social media; I don\u2019t need to be a part of the iPhone Upgrade Program. I just am.I think responsible use means dialing up the ratio of creation to consumption for me, too. If I\u2019m to convey that it\u2019s better to be an active part of shaping the world than just being a passive consumer of it, that\u2019s what I have to do. This is true in all things \u2014 a core, important lesson is that there isn\u2019t one way to do things, and life is richer if you don\u2019t follow the life templates that are set out for us \u2014 but in some ways I feel it most acutely in our relationship to technology.There will certainly be peer pressure. His friends will have iPhones. I don\u2019t think withholding technology is the right thing to do: consider those kids whose parents never let them have junk food, who then go out and have as much junk food as possible as soon as they can. Instead, if he has an iPhone, he will learn how to make simple iPhone apps. You\u2019d better believe that he\u2019ll learn how to make websites early on (what kind of indieweb advocate would I be otherwise?). He will be writing stories and editing videos and making music. And, sure, he\u2019ll be consuming as part of that \u2014 but, in part, as a way to get inspired about making his own things.These days, creating also means participating in online conversations. As he gets older, we\u2019ll need to have careful discussions about the ideas he encounters. I\u2019m already imagining that first conversation about why Black Lives Matter is an important movement and how to think about right-wing content that seeks to minimize other people. I don\u2019t want our kid to be a lurker who thinks people should be happy with what they get; I want him to feel like the world is his oyster, and that he can help change it for the better. Our devices can be a gateway to bigger ideas, or they can be a path to a constrained walled garden of parochial thought. It all requires guidance and trust.The computer revolution happened between my birth and his. Realizing so makes me feel as old as dust, but more importantly, it opens up a new set of parental responsibilities. I want to help him be someone who creates and affects the world, not someone who lets the world happen to him. And there\u2019s so much world to see.",
        "html": "<p><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/6512dffa60ef6cec0e07d652/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"A toddler using an iPhone on the floor\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" /></p><p>I learned to read and write on computers.</p><p>Our first home computer, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81\">the Sinclair ZX81</a>, had BASIC shortcuts built into the keyboards: you could hit a key combination and words like RUN, THEN, and ELSE would spit out onto the screen. I wrote a lot of early stories using those building blocks.</p><p>Our second, the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family\">Atari 130XE</a>, had similar BASIC instructions, but also had a much stronger software ecosystem. In one, you would type a rudimentary story, and 8-bit stick figure characters would act it out on screen. \u201cThe man walks to the woman\u201d; \u201cThe <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wumpus\">wumpus</a> eats the man.\u201d</p><p>We never had a games console in the house, much to my chagrin, although the Atari could take games cartridges, and I once got so far in <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joust_(video_game)\">Joust</a> that the score wrapped back around to 0. But mostly, I used our computers to write stories and play around a little bit with simple computer programming (my mother taught me a little BASIC when I was five).</p><p>We walk our son to daycare via the local elementary school. This morning, as we wheeled his empty stroller back past the building, a school bus pulled up outside and a stream of eight-year-olds came tumbling out in front of us. As we stood there and watched them walk one by one into the building, I saw iPhone after iPhone after iPhone clutched in chubby little hands. Instagram; YouTube; texting.</p><p>It\u2019s obvious that he\u2019ll get into computers early: he\u2019s the son of someone who learned to write code at the same time as writing English and a cognitive scientist who does research for a big <a href=\"https://www.fastcompany.com/90790394/what-are-the-faang-companies\">FAANG</a> company. Give him half a chance and he\u2019ll <em>already</em> grab someone\u2019s phone or laptop and find modes none of us knew existed \u2014 and he\u2019s barely a year old. The only question is <em>how</em> he\u2019ll get into computers.</p><p>I\u2019m adamant with him, as my parents were with me, that he should see a computer as a <em>creation</em>, not a <em>consumption</em> device. At their best, computers are tools that allow children to create things themselves, and learn about the world in the process. At their worst, they\u2019re little more than televisions, albeit with a near-infinite number of channels, that needlessly limit your horizons. For many kids, social media is such a huge part of of their life that <a href=\"https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2022/8/31/23328677/kid-influencer-ryans-world-ellie-zeiler\">being an influencer is their most hoped-for job.</a> No thank you: not for <em>my</em> kid.</p><p>But, of course, if we can steer away from streaming media and Instagram\u2019s hollow expectations, there\u2019s a ton of fun to be had. This is one area where I think generative AI could be genuinely joyful: the fun that I had writing stories for those 8-bit stick figures, transposed to a whole universe of visual possibilities. That is, of course, unless using those tools prevents him from learning to draw himself.</p><p>He\u2019s entering a very different cultural landscape where computers occupy a very different space. Those early 8-bit machines were, by necessity, all about creation: you often had to type in a BASIC script before you could use any software at all. In contrast, today\u2019s devices are optimized to keep you consuming, and to capture your engagement at all costs. Those iPhones those kids were holding are designed to be addiction machines.</p><p>Correspondingly, our role as parents is to teach responsible use. If we are to be good teachers, that also means we have to <em>demonstrate</em> responsible use: something I am notoriously bad at with my own phone. I\u2019ve got every social network installed. I sometimes lose time to TikTok. I\u2019m a slave to my tiny hand-computer in every way I possibly can be. I tell myself that I need to know how it all works because of what I do for a living, but the real truth is, I love it. I don\u2019t <em>need</em> to be on social media; I don\u2019t <em>need</em> to be a part of the iPhone Upgrade Program. I just am.</p><p>I think responsible use means dialing up the ratio of creation to consumption for me, too. If I\u2019m to convey that it\u2019s better to be an active part of shaping the world than just being a passive consumer of it, that\u2019s what I have to do. This is true in all things \u2014 a core, important lesson is that there isn\u2019t one way to do things, and life is richer if you don\u2019t follow the life templates that are set out for us \u2014 but in some ways I feel it most acutely in our relationship to technology.</p><p>There will certainly be peer pressure. His friends will have iPhones. I don\u2019t think <em>withholding</em> technology is the right thing to do: consider those kids whose parents never let them have junk food, who then go out and have as much junk food as possible as soon as they can. Instead, if he has an iPhone, he will learn how to make simple iPhone apps. You\u2019d better believe that he\u2019ll learn how to make websites early on (what kind of indieweb advocate would I be otherwise?). He will be writing stories and editing videos and making music. And, sure, he\u2019ll be consuming as part of that \u2014 but, in part, as a way to get inspired about making his own things.</p><p>These days, creating also means participating in online conversations. As he gets older, we\u2019ll need to have careful discussions about the ideas he encounters. I\u2019m already imagining that first conversation about why Black Lives Matter is an important movement and how to think about right-wing content that seeks to minimize other people. I don\u2019t want our kid to be a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker\">lurker</a> who thinks people should be happy with what they get; I want him to feel like the world is his oyster, and that he can help change it for the better. Our devices can be a gateway to bigger ideas, or they can be a path to a constrained walled garden of parochial thought. It all requires guidance and trust.</p><p>The computer revolution happened between my birth and his. Realizing so makes me feel as old as dust, but more importantly, it opens up a new set of parental responsibilities. I want to help him be someone who creates and affects the world, not someone who lets the world happen to him. And there\u2019s so much world to see.</p>"
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        "name": "@s3thi",
        "url": "https://fantastic.earth/@s3thi",
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    "url": "https://fantastic.earth/@s3thi/111131720137914399",
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        "html": "<p>i just added a page to my personal website that catalogs all the books, music, and games that are deeply important to me in some way.</p><p>i'm calling it The Loved List, shamelessly stealing the term from Anthony Fantano's website.</p><p><a href=\"https://ankursethi.in/the-loved-list/\"><span>https://</span><span>ankursethi.in/the-loved-list/</span><span></span></a></p><p>maybe one day i'll turn this into a nice gallery of sorts, with cover art and links and metadata and all sorts of bells and whistles. for now, a plain list is all i have the time to do.</p><p><a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a></p>",
        "text": "i just added a page to my personal website that catalogs all the books, music, and games that are deeply important to me in some way.i'm calling it The Loved List, shamelessly stealing the term from Anthony Fantano's website.https://ankursethi.in/the-loved-list/maybe one day i'll turn this into a nice gallery of sorts, with cover art and links and metadata and all sorts of bells and whistles. for now, a plain list is all i have the time to do.#indieweb #webdev #blog"
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        "name": "@hugo",
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    "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@hugo/111131354845291055",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Idea</p><p>Is there such a thing as an embed / quote posting tool for the <a href=\"https://mastodon.xyz/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>? An easy to use tool like the hosted <a href=\"https://mastodon.xyz/tags/webmention\">#<span>webmention</span></a> [Endpoint](<a href=\"https://webmention.herokuapp.com\"><span>https://</span><span>webmention.herokuapp.com</span><span></span></a>) but for displaying a snippet of a page based on its h-entry / other <a href=\"https://mastodon.xyz/tags/microformats\">#<span>microformats</span></a>?</p>",
        "text": "IdeaIs there such a thing as an embed / quote posting tool for the #indieweb? An easy to use tool like the hosted #webmention [Endpoint](https://webmention.herokuapp.com) but for displaying a snippet of a page based on its h-entry / other #microformats?"
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    "published": "2023-09-26T12:05:01+00:00",
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        "name": "@alexture",
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        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://todon.eu/@alexture/111131154307922893",
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        "html": "<p>Enjoy the difference</p><p><a href=\"https://alexsirac.com/854-2/\"><span>https://</span><span>alexsirac.com/854-2/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://todon.eu/tags/en\">#<span>en</span></a> <a href=\"https://todon.eu/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://todon.eu/tags/indieWeb\">#<span>indieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Enjoy the differencehttps://alexsirac.com/854-2/#en #fediverse #indieWeb"
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    "author": {
        "name": "@xandra",
        "url": "https://tilde.zone/@xandra",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://tilde.zone/@xandra/111129585468442880",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>we're slowly starting to populate <a href=\"https://marigold.town\"><span>https://</span><span>marigold.town</span><span></span></a> in the <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> space. &lt;3</p><p>one project, the marigold.town museum of art, is accepting applications for any <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/artist\">#<span>artist</span></a> of many <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/media\">#<span>media</span></a> types! super exciting stuff: <a href=\"https://museumofart.marigold.town/apply.html\"><span>https://</span><span>museumofart.marigold.town/appl</span><span>y.html</span></a></p>",
        "text": "we're slowly starting to populate https://marigold.town in the #indieweb #webdev space. <3one project, the marigold.town museum of art, is accepting applications for any #artist of many #media types! super exciting stuff: https://museumofart.marigold.town/apply.html"
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    "published": "2023-09-26T04:35:03+00:00",
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

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    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2023/09/25/when-we-first.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>When we first added ActivityPub support to Micro.blog years ago, I used the phrase \u201cMastodon-compatible\u201d because I was worried that \u201cActivityPub\u201d would be confusing for normal people. It now seems time to adopt \u201cfediverse\u201d as a term throughout our UI instead. Curious how Threads will handle this.</p>",
        "text": "When we first added ActivityPub support to Micro.blog years ago, I used the phrase \u201cMastodon-compatible\u201d because I was worried that \u201cActivityPub\u201d would be confusing for normal people. It now seems time to adopt \u201cfediverse\u201d as a term throughout our UI instead. Curious how Threads will handle this."
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    "published": "2023-09-25T12:26:13-05:00",
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