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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@xandra",
        "url": "https://tilde.zone/@xandra",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://tilde.zone/@xandra/111209519497071133",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>WOOHOOO! <a href=\"https://marigold.town/\"><span>https://</span><span>marigold.town/</span><span></span></a> is LIVE! &lt;3 the webhost with a small-town vibe is up and residency applications are open!</p><p>i hope if you have any interest in personal websites, <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>, or <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a>, you'll give it a look over and check out all of our amazing residents! :) they put in a lot of work to get their shops up by launch, but we did it! :')</p><p>thank you to everyone who's participating so far and those who have been interested. i'm so glad there's so many people who are interested in bringing some whimsy back into the <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/internet\">#<span>internet</span></a> &lt;3  i hope they inspire you to create your own whimsical personal website, if even it's just about something you enjoy.</p><p>this project has been super fun to launch, and there's more coming! residency applications are open, if you're game! :)</p>",
        "text": "WOOHOOO! https://marigold.town/ is LIVE! <3 the webhost with a small-town vibe is up and residency applications are open!i hope if you have any interest in personal websites, #indieweb, or #webdev, you'll give it a look over and check out all of our amazing residents! :) they put in a lot of work to get their shops up by launch, but we did it! :')thank you to everyone who's participating so far and those who have been interested. i'm so glad there's so many people who are interested in bringing some whimsy back into the #internet <3  i hope they inspire you to create your own whimsical personal website, if even it's just about something you enjoy.this project has been super fun to launch, and there's more coming! residency applications are open, if you're game! :)"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-10T07:23:19+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

Threats against ActivityPub

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    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2023/10/09/threats-against-activitypub.html",
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        "html": "<p>Evan Prodromou had <a href=\"https://evanp.me/2023/10/06/activitypub-the-socialcg-and-the-social-web/\">an important post a few days ago</a>, arguing for backwards compatibility with future ActivityPub work and discouraging competing protocols. I found some things to agree with in his post, but I\u2019m less certain that there is a single path forward. On Bluesky and others, Evan writes:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We get exponential growth based on having one protocol, not a half dozen. I think Blue Sky, Nostr, and others are a threat to ActivityPub breaking out and becoming ubiquitous. There can\u2019t be multiple winners. I often reference <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe's_Law\">Metcalfe\u2019s Law</a> in this regard; one big connected internetwork is much better than 3 or 4 disconnected ones.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Maybe. But the web has always been more muddled than that. We have multiple feed formats, like RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed, and it\u2019s okay. We have multiple blog APIs, like MetaWeblog, AtomPub, and Micropub, and it\u2019s okay. We have multiple social web notification mechanisms, like ActivityPub, WebSub, and Webmention, and it\u2019s okay.</p>\n<p>What makes it all work is that <em>the web</em> is the network. The fediverse is one aspect of that network. If we go too far elevating the fediverse as the only ubiquitous network, it risks disconnecting it from the blogosphere (!) and the rest of the web. Already I\u2019d argue that some Mastodon decisions have isolated the platform, such as loading content via JavaScript so there are no longer basic HTML web pages for post permalinks.</p>\n<p>ActivityPub is a huge success story. Yet there are still good ideas to pull from competing protocols. For example:</p>\n<ul><li>Bluesky is using domain names for user identity. I\u2019d love to see the fediverse adopt this in addition to email-style identifiers.</li>\n<li>Nostr is less verbose than ActivityPub. I\u2019d love to see cleaner ActivityPub responses without JSON-LD.</li>\n</ul><p>If we never let other protocols get off the ground, there would be fewer experiments to help push ActivityPub along. It\u2019s also curious that with Mastodon so well established, Bluesky recently hit 1 million users as an invite-only beta. How? Answering that may help Mastodon and ActivityPub adoption too.</p>",
        "text": "Evan Prodromou had an important post a few days ago, arguing for backwards compatibility with future ActivityPub work and discouraging competing protocols. I found some things to agree with in his post, but I\u2019m less certain that there is a single path forward. On Bluesky and others, Evan writes:\n\nWe get exponential growth based on having one protocol, not a half dozen. I think Blue Sky, Nostr, and others are a threat to ActivityPub breaking out and becoming ubiquitous. There can\u2019t be multiple winners. I often reference Metcalfe\u2019s Law in this regard; one big connected internetwork is much better than 3 or 4 disconnected ones.\n\nMaybe. But the web has always been more muddled than that. We have multiple feed formats, like RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed, and it\u2019s okay. We have multiple blog APIs, like MetaWeblog, AtomPub, and Micropub, and it\u2019s okay. We have multiple social web notification mechanisms, like ActivityPub, WebSub, and Webmention, and it\u2019s okay.\nWhat makes it all work is that the web is the network. The fediverse is one aspect of that network. If we go too far elevating the fediverse as the only ubiquitous network, it risks disconnecting it from the blogosphere (!) and the rest of the web. Already I\u2019d argue that some Mastodon decisions have isolated the platform, such as loading content via JavaScript so there are no longer basic HTML web pages for post permalinks.\nActivityPub is a huge success story. Yet there are still good ideas to pull from competing protocols. For example:\nBluesky is using domain names for user identity. I\u2019d love to see the fediverse adopt this in addition to email-style identifiers.\nNostr is less verbose than ActivityPub. I\u2019d love to see cleaner ActivityPub responses without JSON-LD.\nIf we never let other protocols get off the ground, there would be fewer experiments to help push ActivityPub along. It\u2019s also curious that with Mastodon so well established, Bluesky recently hit 1 million users as an invite-only beta. How? Answering that may help Mastodon and ActivityPub adoption too."
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Ben Werdmuller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Re-introducing comments

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    "url": "https://werd.io/2023/re-introducing-comments",
    "name": "Re-introducing comments",
    "content": {
        "text": "This blog has had kind of a weird relationship with comments since I started it ten years ago. My previous blogs, in contrast, have always intentionally been spaces that can be homes for conversations. Over the years lots of people have asked me to fix this situation.So, okay! Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve chosen to do:As of today, you can comment on every blog post. I\u2019ve chosen to use Commento, an open source comments platform. You can leave anonymous comments, authenticate independently, or use a few common SSO providers.As an indieweb platform, the underlying Known software that powers this site supports webmentions. These haven\u2019t displayed well on my site for a little while, so I\u2019m committing to fixing them by next Monday, October 16. At this point every webmention that\u2019s been sent will be displayed.",
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    "post-type": "article",
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    "author": {
        "name": "@janDeni",
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    "url": "https://toki.social/@janDeni/111204825819176937",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://gender.systems/@kvuzet\">@<span>kvuzet</span></a></span> I've seen multiple web rings from Gen z folks. It gives me hope. A lot of people are looking to <a href=\"https://toki.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> and <a href=\"https://toki.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> stuff. An economy based on surveillance and advertising can only live for so long before people stop accepting it. The companies won't take it easy but it's going to keep shifting</p>",
        "text": "@kvuzet I've seen multiple web rings from Gen z folks. It gives me hope. A lot of people are looking to #indieweb and #smallweb stuff. An economy based on surveillance and advertising can only live for so long before people stop accepting it. The companies won't take it easy but it's going to keep shifting"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-09T11:29:39+00:00",
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    "url": "https://mas.to/@jasm1nii/111204757923508393",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>i really want to reorganize my blog files, but i also don't want to lose my old <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/webmentions\">#<span>webmentions</span></a>... is there an easy way to retain them if the post slug changes? <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "i really want to reorganize my blog files, but i also don't want to lose my old #webmentions... is there an easy way to retain them if the post slug changes? #indieweb"
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    "published": "2023-10-09T11:12:23+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39127951",
    "_source": "7235",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@Sjwillis",
        "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@Sjwillis",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@Sjwillis/111195015818204442",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Thanks to some creative wget and command line-fu I now have a local copy of the Thoreau.eserver.org materials. I had linked to so much of Thoreau's writing on the eserver site from my journals, I was bummed to lose all the links so updating the journal to point to my local mirror. You can't rely on remote data being around. Own your data!<br /><a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/selfhosting\">#<span>selfhosting</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Thanks to some creative wget and command line-fu I now have a local copy of the Thoreau.eserver.org materials. I had linked to so much of Thoreau's writing on the eserver site from my journals, I was bummed to lose all the links so updating the journal to point to my local mirror. You can't rely on remote data being around. Own your data!\n#selfhosting #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-07T17:54:51+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39117447",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@devils",
        "url": "https://denden.world/@devils",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://denden.world/@devils/111193384754244681",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Hey there, I finished my blog page, as well as my latest article about text art history <img alt=\":kirby_happy:\" height=\"16\" src=\"https://files.mastodon.social/cache/custom_emojis/images/000/693/912/original/43225a5ddd2f6d40.png\" title=\":kirby_happy:\" width=\"16\" />\u200b</p><p>You can check it out here: <a href=\"https://yourdevilfriends.art/blog.html\"><span>https://</span><span>yourdevilfriends.art/blog.html</span><span></span></a></p><p>I've yet to convert it to be mobile-friendly- when I do, I'll let you know as well!</p><p><a href=\"https://denden.world/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://denden.world/tags/WebDev\">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href=\"https://denden.world/tags/TextArt\">#<span>TextArt</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Hey there, I finished my blog page, as well as my latest article about text art history \u200bYou can check it out here: https://yourdevilfriends.art/blog.htmlI've yet to convert it to be mobile-friendly- when I do, I'll let you know as well!#IndieWeb #WebDev #TextArt"
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    "published": "2023-10-07T11:00:03+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
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    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@HongPong",
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@HongPong/111191453057787230",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://evanp.me/author/evanprodromou/\">@<span>evanprodromou</span></a></span> check out the <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/drupal\">#<span>drupal</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> module is really good<br /><a href=\"https://www.drupal.org/project/indieweb\"><span>https://www.</span><span>drupal.org/project/indieweb</span><span></span></a><br />also activitypub<br /><a href=\"https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub\"><span>https://www.</span><span>drupal.org/project/activitypub</span><span></span></a><br />and reader gizmo<br /><a href=\"https://www.drupal.org/project/reader\"><span>https://www.</span><span>drupal.org/project/reader</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "@evanprodromou check out the #drupal #indieweb module is really good\nhttps://www.drupal.org/project/indieweb\nalso activitypub\nhttps://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub\nand reader gizmo\nhttps://www.drupal.org/project/reader"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-07T02:48:47+00:00",
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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        "text": "More Thoughtful Reading & Writing on the Web - Tantek\n\n\n\n\n  The combination of taking more time (as longer form writing encourages) and publishing on a domain associated with your name, your identity, enables & incentivizes more thoughtful writing. More thoughtful writing elevates the reader to a more thoughtful state of mind.",
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    "post-type": "bookmark",
    "_id": "39107994",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@omz13",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/@omz13",
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    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@omz13/111187433743489977",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction\">#<span>introduction</span></a></p><p>Hi, I'm David.</p><p>I design, create, and write about things. I was raised in the UK but now live in Luxembourg with my wife, two kids, and a number cats.</p><p>I started programming when cpus had 8 bits and V.32 was new. I've worked with blue chip titans to small code shops. I\u2019m currently involved with <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> and have implemented IndieAuth, TicketAuth, Micropub, Microsub, and WebSub; development in <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/GoLang\">#<span>GoLang</span></a> on the server and <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/GoLang\">#<span>GoLang</span></a> and <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/SwiftUI\">#<span>SwiftUI</span></a> on the client.</p>",
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    "published": "2023-10-06T09:46:37+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
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        "name": "@docpop",
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@docpop/111184124970897004",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Tomorrow I'll be interviewing <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle\">@<span>pfefferle</span></a></span> for the Press This podcast. We'll talk about his <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> plugin for <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/WordPress\">#<span>WordPress</span></a> and his Open Web Lead at <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Automattic\">#<span>Automattic</span></a>. </p><p>Do you have any questions you'd like me to ask Matthias tomorrow about his plugins, the <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a>, or the <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a>? Let me know and I'll try to include them.</p>",
        "text": "Tomorrow I'll be interviewing @pfefferle for the Press This podcast. We'll talk about his #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress and his Open Web Lead at #Automattic. Do you have any questions you'd like me to ask Matthias tomorrow about his plugins, the #IndieWeb, or the #fediverse? Let me know and I'll try to include them."
    },
    "published": "2023-10-05T19:45:10+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39101375",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@calebjasik",
        "url": "https://mas.to/@calebjasik",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mas.to/@calebjasik/111183899784897470",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Style your RSS feeds! <a href=\"https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-styling/\"><span>https://</span><span>darekkay.com/blog/rss-styling/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://aboutfeeds.com\"><span>https://</span><span>aboutfeeds.com</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/rss\">#<span>rss</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/xsl\">#<span>xsl</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/feeds\">#<span>feeds</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Style your RSS feeds! https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-styling/https://aboutfeeds.com#rss #xsl #feeds #indieweb"
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    "published": "2023-10-05T18:47:53+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39101376",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@ApisNecros",
        "url": "https://ioc.exchange/@ApisNecros",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://ioc.exchange/@ApisNecros/111182969888190071",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Is there any downside to using <a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/LetsEncrypt\">#<span>LetsEncrypt</span></a>'s <a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/certbot\">#<span>certbot</span></a> to get free SSL certs for my sites? Like, are they considered \"good\" certs? I really don't have anything too sensitive going on on my sites, save for a git repo, so I'm not too pressed about the quality. But, is there some gotcha I'm missing?</p><p><a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/SysAdmin\">#<span>SysAdmin</span></a> <a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/technology\">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/WebDev\">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
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    },
    "published": "2023-10-05T14:51:24+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@nhoizey",
        "url": "https://mamot.fr/@nhoizey",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mamot.fr/@nhoizey/111181980056429229",
    "content": {
        "html": "Screenshot of How I am blogging the IndieWeb way",
        "text": "Screenshot of How I am blogging the IndieWeb way"
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    "published": "2023-10-05T10:39:41+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Paul Robert Lloyd",
        "url": "https://paulrobertlloyd.com",
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    },
    "url": "https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/278/n1/",
    "published": "2023-10-05T10:17:15+00:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Seriously considering a trip to Nuremberg to attend <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2023/Nuremberg\">IndieWebCamp</a>.</p>",
        "text": "Seriously considering a trip to Nuremberg to attend IndieWebCamp."
    },
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39096486",
    "_source": "3686",
    "_is_read": true
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@liztai",
        "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@liztai",
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        "html": "<p>In this post, i outline how I'm blogging the <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> way - by pivoting from \"magazine mode\" to \"digital garden\".</p><p><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wordpress\">#<span>Wordpress</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Blogs\">#<span>Blogs</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Writing\">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/WritingCommunity\">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/03/how-i-am-blogging-the-indieweb-way/\"><span>https://</span><span>elizabethtai.com/2023/07/03/ho</span><span>w-i-am-blogging-the-indieweb-way/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "In this post, i outline how I'm blogging the #Indieweb way - by pivoting from \"magazine mode\" to \"digital garden\".#blogging #Wordpress #Blogs #Writing #WritingCommunityhttps://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/03/how-i-am-blogging-the-indieweb-way/"
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

More Thoughtful Reading & Writing on the Web

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        "text": "Ben Werdmuller \nrecently published an inspiring and thought-provoking blog post:\n  \u201cSubscribing to the blogs of people I follow on Mastodon\u201d. \n\nBeyond the insights and excellent developer how-to in his post, I believe it points to something larger: a fundamental thoughtfulness difference between writing rapid short-form posts (whether tweets or toots) and medium or longer form writing (on blogs or journals), and the impact of that difference on readers: that the act of reading more thoughtful writing nudges & reinforces a reader into a more thoughtful state of mind.\n\n\nIf you have not read \n  Derek Powazek\u2019s watershed blog post \n\u201cThe Argument Machine\u201d, \nI highly recommend you do so. In the nearly ten years since his post, Derek\u2019s hypothesis of Twitter\u2019s user interface design being the ultimate machine to create & amplify disputes has been repeatedly demonstrated.\n\n\nDerek\u2019s post predated Mastodon\u2019s release by nearly three years. Ironically, by replicating much of Twitter\u2019s user experience, Mastodon has in many ways also replicated its Argument Machine effects, except distributed across more servers.\n\n\nI\u2019ve witnessed numerous otherwise rational, well-intentioned individuals write reactive posts on Mastodon, exactly what the Twitter-like interface encourages. Quick emotional responses rather than slower, more thoughtful posts and replies. \n\n\nI\u2019ve seen the artificial urgency of tweets & toots bleed over into emotional essays on public mailing lists. New participants join a list and immediately make entitled demands. Fearful bordering on paranoid assumptions are used to state assertions of \u201cfacts\u201d without citations. Arguments are made that\n  appeal to emotion \n  (argumentum ad passiones) \nrather than reasoning from principles and shared values.\n\n\nImplicit in Ben\u2019s post, \u201cSubscribing to the blogs of people\u201d \n(emphasis mine), is a preference for reading longer form writing, published on a site a human owns & identifies with (a la \n  #indieweb), \nneither silo nor \n  someone \n    else\u2019s garage.\n\n\nThe combination of taking more time (as longer form writing encourages) and publishing on a domain associated with your name, your identity, enables & incentivizes more thoughtful writing. More thoughtful writing elevates the reader to a more thoughtful state of mind.\n \n\nThere is also a self-care aspect to this kind of deliberate shift. Ben wrote that he found himself \u201ccraving more nuance and depth\u201d among \u201cquick, in-the-now status updates\u201d. I believe this points to a scarcity of thoughtfulness in such short form writings. Spending more time reading thoughtful posts not only alleviates such scarcity, it can also displace the artificial sense of urgency to respond when scrolling through soundbyte status updates. \n\n\nWhen I returned from \n #W3CTPAC, \n I made a list of all the thoughts, meetings, sessions that I wanted to write-up and publish as blog posts to capture my experiences, perspectives, and insights beyond any official minutes.\n\n\nYet due to distractions such as catching up on short form posts, it took me over a week to write-up even a \n  summary of my \n   TPAC week, nevermind the queue of per-topic notes I wanted to write-up. To even publish that I had to stop and cut-off reading short form posts, as well as ignoring (mostly postponing) numerous notifications.\n\n\nThere\u2019s a larger connection here between \n  thoughtful \n  reading, \nand finding, restoring, and rebuilding the ability to focus, a key to thoughtful \n  writing. \nIt requires not only reducing time spent on short form reading (and writing), but also reducing \n  notifications, \nespecially push notifications. That insight led me to wade into and garden the respective IndieWeb wiki pages for\n notifications, \n push notifications, \n and document a new page for \n notification fatigue. \n That broader topic of what do to about notifications is worth its own blog post (or a few), and a good place to end this post.\n\n\nThanks again Ben for your blog post. May we spend more time reading & writing such thoughtful posts.",
        "html": "<p>\n<a class=\"h-card\" href=\"https://werd.io/\">Ben Werdmuller</a> \nrecently published an inspiring and thought-provoking blog post:\n  \u201c<a href=\"https://werd.io/2023/subscribing-to-the-blogs-of-people-i-follow-on-mastodon\">Subscribing to the blogs of people I follow on Mastodon</a>\u201d. \n\nBeyond the insights and excellent developer how-to in his post, I believe it points to something larger: a fundamental thoughtfulness difference between writing rapid short-form posts (whether tweets or toots) and medium or longer form writing (on blogs or journals), and the impact of that difference on readers: that the act of reading more thoughtful writing nudges &amp; reinforces a reader into a more thoughtful state of mind.\n</p>\n<p>\nIf you have not read \n  <a class=\"h-card\" href=\"https://powazek.com/\">Derek Powazek</a>\u2019s watershed blog post \n\u201c<a href=\"https://powazek.com/posts/3368\">The Argument Machine</a>\u201d, \nI highly recommend you do so. In the nearly ten years since his post, Derek\u2019s hypothesis of Twitter\u2019s user interface design being the ultimate machine to create &amp; amplify disputes has been repeatedly demonstrated.\n</p>\n<p>\nDerek\u2019s post predated Mastodon\u2019s release by nearly three years. Ironically, by replicating much of Twitter\u2019s user experience, Mastodon has in many ways also replicated its Argument Machine effects, except distributed across more servers.\n</p>\n<p>\nI\u2019ve witnessed numerous otherwise rational, well-intentioned individuals write reactive posts on Mastodon, exactly what the Twitter-like interface encourages. Quick emotional responses rather than slower, more thoughtful posts and replies. \n</p>\n<p>\nI\u2019ve seen the artificial urgency of tweets &amp; toots bleed over into emotional essays on public mailing lists. New participants join a list and immediately make entitled demands. Fearful bordering on paranoid assumptions are used to state assertions of \u201cfacts\u201d without citations. Arguments are made that\n  <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion\">appeal to emotion</a> \n  (<i>argumentum ad passiones</i>) \nrather than reasoning from principles and shared values.\n</p>\n<p>\nImplicit in Ben\u2019s post, \u201cSubscribing to the <em>blogs</em> of <em>people</em>\u201d \n(<em>emphasis</em> mine), is a preference for reading longer form writing, published on a site a human owns &amp; identifies with (a la \n  <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span></a>), \nneither silo nor \n  <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2023/022/t2/own-your-notes-domain-migration\">someone \n    else\u2019s garage</a>.\n</p>\n<p>\nThe combination of taking more time (as longer form writing encourages) and publishing on a domain associated with your name, your identity, enables &amp; incentivizes more thoughtful writing. More thoughtful writing elevates the reader to a more thoughtful state of mind.\n</p> \n<p>\nThere is also a self-care aspect to this kind of deliberate shift. Ben wrote that he found himself \u201ccraving more nuance and depth\u201d among \u201cquick, in-the-now status updates\u201d. I believe this points to a scarcity of thoughtfulness in such short form writings. Spending more time reading thoughtful posts not only alleviates such scarcity, it can also displace the artificial sense of urgency to respond when scrolling through soundbyte status updates. \n</p>\n<p>\nWhen I returned from \n <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/w3cTPAC\">#<span class=\"p-category\">W3CTPAC</span></a>, \n I made a list of all the thoughts, meetings, sessions that I wanted to write-up and publish as blog posts to capture my experiences, perspectives, and insights beyond any official minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\nYet due to distractions such as catching up on short form posts, it took me over a week to write-up even a \n  <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2023/262/b1/w3c-technical-plenary-tpac\">summary of my \n   <span class=\"p-category\">TPAC</span> week</a>, nevermind the queue of per-topic notes I wanted to write-up. To even publish that I had to stop and cut-off reading short form posts, as well as ignoring (mostly postponing) numerous notifications.\n</p>\n<p>\nThere\u2019s a larger connection here between \n  <span class=\"p-category\">thoughtful</span> \n  <span class=\"p-category\">reading</span>, \nand finding, restoring, and rebuilding the ability to focus, a key to thoughtful \n  <span class=\"p-category\">writing</span>. \nIt requires not only reducing time spent on short form reading (and writing), but also reducing \n  <span class=\"p-category\">notifications</span>, \nespecially push notifications. That insight led me to wade into and garden the respective IndieWeb wiki pages for\n <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/notification\">notifications</a>, \n <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/push_notification\">push notifications</a>, \n and document a new page for \n <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/notification_fatigue\">notification fatigue</a>. \n That broader topic of what do to about notifications is worth its own blog post (or a few), and a good place to end this post.\n</p>\n<p>\nThanks again Ben for your blog post. May we spend more time reading &amp; writing such thoughtful posts.\n</p>"
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    "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/111179525055159056",
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        "html": "<p>Lol I finally found the long lost Bridgy tutorial! FYI this program allows your social media post replies to appear as comments on your blog. </p><p>Setting up WordPress.Com : jgmac1106 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive</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/Tech\">#<span>Tech</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://archive.org/details/drmacswordpresstutorial\"><span>https://</span><span>archive.org/details/drmacsword</span><span>presstutorial</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Lol I finally found the long lost Bridgy tutorial! FYI this program allows your social media post replies to appear as comments on your blog. Setting up WordPress.Com : jgmac1106 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive#Indieweb #Blogging #Tech https://archive.org/details/drmacswordpresstutorial"
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    "published": "2023-10-05T00:15:20+00:00",
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    "author": {
        "name": "@pablo",
        "url": "https://social.lifeofpablo.com/@pablo",
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    "url": "https://social.lifeofpablo.com/@pablo/111175139352078441",
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        "html": "<p>I built a website on my recent Climate Week NYC adventures</p><p><a href=\"https://lifeofpablo.com/blog/climate-week-build-1hr-website\"><span>https://</span><span>lifeofpablo.com/blog/climate-w</span><span>eek-build-1hr-website</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.lifeofpablo.com/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lifeofpablo.com/tags/BuildaWebsiteinanHour\">#<span>BuildaWebsiteinanHour</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lifeofpablo.com/tags/webdesign\">#<span>webdesign</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lifeofpablo.com/tags/climateweeknyc\">#<span>climateweeknyc</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lifeofpablo.com/tags/earth\">#<span>earth</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I built a website on my recent Climate Week NYC adventureshttps://lifeofpablo.com/blog/climate-week-build-1hr-website#indieweb #BuildaWebsiteinanHour #webdesign #climateweeknyc #earth"
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    "published": "2023-10-04T05:40:00+00:00",
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        "html": "<p>Okay, I'm going to try syndicating an <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> reply from my website to Mastodon...</p>",
        "text": "Okay, I'm going to try syndicating an #indieweb reply from my website to Mastodon..."
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