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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@Sdavidprince/113493857301115983",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Can I microblog this way on a blogger site. This is just a Post with the label 'Social' made to display the 'data:post.body' on the post display feed- I could reply and bookmark and like- Maybe short post too</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/microblog\">#<span>microblog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> (<a href=\"https://www.sdavidprince.space/2024/10/microblogging-on-blogger.html\"><span>https://www.</span><span>sdavidprince.space/2024/10/mic</span><span>roblogging-on-blogger.html</span></a>)</p>",
        "text": "Can I microblog this way on a blogger site. This is just a Post with the label 'Social' made to display the 'data:post.body' on the post display feed- I could reply and bookmark and like- Maybe short post too\n\n#microblog #indieweb (https://www.sdavidprince.space/2024/10/microblogging-on-blogger.html)"
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    "published": "2024-11-16T17:40:28+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42920603",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@TheIdOfAlan/113493244064512496",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>current playful idea is to add a \"last number of open tabs count: ##\" line to the footer of my website each time I generate it</p><p><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "current playful idea is to add a \"last number of open tabs count: ##\" line to the footer of my website each time I generate it\n\n#IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-16T15:04:31+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42919135",
    "_source": "8007",
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Escape from Twitter: The Future of Social Media Is Decentralized

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2024-11-16T13:48:46+00:00",
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    "url": "https://werd.io/2024/escape-from-twitter-the-future-of-social-media-is-decentralized",
    "name": "Escape from Twitter: The Future of Social Media Is Decentralized",
    "content": {
        "text": "This is a pretty great article about the decentralized social web, which quotes Christine Lemmer-Webber, Blaine Cook, and me.\n\nIt\u2019s in Polish, but if you don\u2019t speak the language, the \u201ctranslate\u201d button on your browser works pretty well.\n\nHere are the full remarks I sent Micha\u0142 \u201crysiek\u201d Wo\u017aniak, the author of the piece:\n\nSocial media is where people learn about the world: they discover the news, connect with each other, share the things they love and what's happening around them. We learn about art and love; about current events; and sometimes, about injustice and war \u2014 all at a global scale.\n\nThe owners of these spaces have the power to influence the global conversation to fit their business needs. Business model changes at every centralized social media company have made it harder to reach your community, but it goes beyond that. We recently saw the owner of X heavily weigh in on the US election. Previously, lapses at Facebook helped lead to genocide in Myanmar. These spaces are too important to be privately owned or to be subject to any single owner's needs or whims.\n\nDecentralized social media divests ownership back to the people. Federated social networks are co-operatives of small communities, each with their own ownership and their own rules. Fully decentralized social networks allow users to make their own choices about how their content is moderated and presented to them. There is never a single owner who can unilaterally change the conversation; the platform is owned by everybody, just as the web itself is owned by everybody.\n\nIn answer to a question about my employer, ProPublica, its involvement in the Fediverse, and advice I might have for other publishers, I wrote:\n\nProPublica was already on the fediverse before I got there. That's down to Chris Morran, a member of the audience team. But, of course, I've been a strong advocate.\n\nMy main advice is: be everywhere your audience is. That does mean Mastodon and Bluesky - and we've had strong engagement on both. Use your own domain to validate your accounts and encourage your staff to join individually. By using cutting edge social media platforms and not being afraid to experiment early, ProPublica has so far bucked the downward trends that have been seen at other publications.\n\nYou can read the whole piece here.",
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych\">This is a pretty great article about the decentralized social web</a>, which quotes <a href=\"https://dustycloud.org/\">Christine Lemmer-Webber</a>, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaine_Cook_(programmer)\">Blaine Cook</a>, and me.</p><p>It\u2019s in Polish, but if you don\u2019t speak the language, the \u201ctranslate\u201d button on your browser works pretty well.</p><p>Here are the full remarks I sent <a href=\"https://rys.io/en/index.html\">Micha\u0142 \u201crysiek\u201d Wo\u017aniak</a>, the author of the piece:</p><p><em>Social media is where people learn about the world: they discover the news, connect with each other, share the things they love and what's happening around them. We learn about art and love; about current events; and sometimes, about injustice and war \u2014 all at a global scale.</em></p><p><em>The owners of these spaces have the power to influence the global conversation to fit their business needs. Business model changes at every centralized social media company have made it harder to reach your community, but it goes beyond that. We recently saw the owner of X heavily weigh in on the US election. Previously, lapses at Facebook helped lead to genocide in Myanmar. These spaces are too important to be privately owned or to be subject to any single owner's needs or whims.</em></p><p><em>Decentralized social media divests ownership back to the people. Federated social networks are co-operatives of small communities, each with their own ownership and their own rules. Fully decentralized social networks allow users to make their own choices about how their content is moderated and presented to them. There is never a single owner who can unilaterally change the conversation; the platform is owned by everybody, just as the web itself is owned by everybody.</em></p><p>In answer to a question about my employer, ProPublica, its involvement in the Fediverse, and advice I might have for other publishers, I wrote:</p><p><em>ProPublica was already on the fediverse before I got there. That's down to <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/people/chris-morran\">Chris Morran</a>, a member of the audience team. But, of course, I've been a strong advocate.</em></p><p><em>My main advice is: be everywhere your audience is. That does mean Mastodon and Bluesky - and we've had strong engagement on both. Use your own domain to validate your accounts and encourage your staff to join individually. By using cutting edge social media platforms and not being afraid to experiment early, ProPublica has so far bucked the downward trends that have been seen at other publications.</em></p><p><a href=\"https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych\">You can read the whole piece here.</a></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": "42918361",
    "_source": "191",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.online/@jlsksr/113492300852434388",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. \ud83d\ude09 So here's Cool Personal Homepages <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/CPH\">#<span>CPH</span></a> Vol. 30: \"the museum of alexandra\" <a href=\"https://xandra.cc/\"><span>https://</span><span>xandra.cc/</span><span></span></a></p><p>PS: <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://tilde.zone/@xandra\">@<span>xandra</span></a></span> is on Mastodon!</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/smolweb\">#<span>smolweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/PersonalSites\">#<span>PersonalSites</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/homepage\">#<span>homepage</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://tilde.zone/@xandra\"></a>",
        "text": "I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. \ud83d\ude09 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 30: \"the museum of alexandra\" https://xandra.cc/\n\nPS: @xandra is on Mastodon!\n\n#SmallWeb #indieweb #smolweb #PersonalSites #homepage #blog"
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    "published": "2024-11-16T11:04:38+00:00",
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        "https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/113/492/300/943/878/285/original/5577060ec823052f.png"
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    "post-type": "photo",
    "_id": "42917257",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/113492145238804296",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Reading the docs for the new <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy\">@<span>eleventy</span></a></span> import CLI, I had to remind myself what PESOS is. It\u2019s an <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> term meaning \u201cPublish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site\u201d (<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/PESOS\"><span>https://</span><span>indieweb.org/PESOS</span><span></span></a>). I know POSSE is preferred by indie web, but I\u2019ve always thought the reverse makes more sense for social. When posting on Mastodon, I\u2019m participating in a community, so it should not be a piece of content isolated on my website. *Archiving* my Mastodon posts to my website makes more sense.</p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy\"></a>",
        "text": "Reading the docs for the new @eleventy import CLI, I had to remind myself what PESOS is. It\u2019s an #IndieWeb term meaning \u201cPublish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site\u201d (https://indieweb.org/PESOS). I know POSSE is preferred by indie web, but I\u2019ve always thought the reverse makes more sense for social. When posting on Mastodon, I\u2019m participating in a community, so it should not be a piece of content isolated on my website. *Archiving* my Mastodon posts to my website makes more sense."
    },
    "published": "2024-11-16T10:25:04+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42917100",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/113491661368737536",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>So you want to be my pen pal? <a href=\"https://robertkingett.com/posts/6662/\"><span>https://</span><span>robertkingett.com/posts/6662/</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "So you want to be my pen pal? https://robertkingett.com/posts/6662/ #IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-16T08:22:01+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42916516",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://aus.social/@claudinec/113490704075469061",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Encouraging emigration from Facebook<br /><a href=\"https://www.claudinec.net/posts/2024-11-16-leave-facebook/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>claudinec.net/posts/2024-11-16</span><span>-leave-facebook/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/mastodon\">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/facebook\">#<span>facebook</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Encouraging emigration from Facebook\nhttps://www.claudinec.net/posts/2024-11-16-leave-facebook/\n\n#fediverse #mastodon #IndieWeb #facebook"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-16T04:18:34+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42915092",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://aus.social/@claudinec/113490253564755124",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Pleased to see a few mask wearers in the photos from IndieWebCamp Berlin<br /><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/this-week/2024-11-15.html\"><span>https://</span><span>indieweb.org/this-week/2024-11</span><span>-15.html</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/CovidIsNotOver\">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Pleased to see a few mask wearers in the photos from IndieWebCamp Berlin\nhttps://indieweb.org/this-week/2024-11-15.html\n\n#IndieWeb #CovidIsNotOver"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-16T02:23:59+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42914491",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@kiko/113489529809319655",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@Gargron\">@<span>Gargron</span></a></span> The long game. Yes. It's not about growth rate, it's about sustainability, from my point of view. I'm so tired of all the hypes, the chase for the newest shit, which in the end only turns out to be a painful flash in the pan, because where the troughs are, the pigs are not far away. <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> + <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@Gargron\"></a>",
        "text": "@Gargron The long game. Yes. It's not about growth rate, it's about sustainability, from my point of view. I'm so tired of all the hypes, the chase for the newest shit, which in the end only turns out to be a painful flash in the pan, because where the troughs are, the pigs are not far away. #fediverse + #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-15T23:19:56+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42913109",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@rodmoi/113489222535624665",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>You say that you don't feel comfortable stopping by my house and knocking on my door. However, you certainly feel at ease shitting on my head at the bar.</p><p><a href=\"https://rm-o.dev/notes/traditional-families/\"><span>https://</span><span>rm-o.dev/notes/traditional-fam</span><span>ilies/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/notes\">#<span>notes</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/friends\">#<span>friends</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/families\">#<span>families</span></a></p>",
        "text": "You say that you don't feel comfortable stopping by my house and knocking on my door. However, you certainly feel at ease shitting on my head at the bar.\n\nhttps://rm-o.dev/notes/traditional-families/\n\n#indieweb #notes #friends #families"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-15T22:01:47+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42912689",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://glammr.us/@librarymonster/113489177047559317",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>ohhhh I just discovered <a href=\"https://squidge.org\"><span>https://</span><span>squidge.org</span><span></span></a> y'all look at all these <a href=\"https://glammr.us/tags/FannishTools\">#<span>FannishTools</span></a> (I knew about squidgeworld but not the other stuff, this is super cool)</p><p><a href=\"https://glammr.us/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://glammr.us/tags/Fandom\">#<span>Fandom</span></a> <a href=\"https://glammr.us/tags/Fans\">#<span>Fans</span></a></p>",
        "text": "ohhhh I just discovered https://squidge.org y'all look at all these #FannishTools (I knew about squidgeworld but not the other stuff, this is super cool)\n\n#IndieWeb #Fandom #Fans"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-15T21:50:13+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42912423",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://toot.community/@axeleroy/113488515996143017",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I realized I did not record the various changes I made to my website since its rewrite last July. Well, it's time for the first changelog!</p><p><a href=\"https://axel.leroy.sh/blog/changelog-november-2024?utm_source=mastodon\"><span>https://</span><span>axel.leroy.sh/blog/changelog-n</span><span>ovember-2024?utm_source=mastodon</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://toot.community/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.community/tags/PersonalWebsite\">#<span>PersonalWebsite</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.community/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.community/tags/NextJS\">#<span>NextJS</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.community/tags/WebDev\">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.community/tags/changelog\">#<span>changelog</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I realized I did not record the various changes I made to my website since its rewrite last July. Well, it's time for the first changelog!\n\nhttps://axel.leroy.sh/blog/changelog-november-2024?utm_source=mastodon\n\n#blog #PersonalWebsite #IndieWeb #NextJS #WebDev #changelog"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-15T19:02:06+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42910830",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/113487530195782829",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Bilmuri \u201cAmerican Motor Sports (420CC Edition)\u201d Mini Review</p><p><a href=\"https://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/bilmuri-american-motor-sports-420cc-edition-mini-review\"><span>https://</span><span>blog.shrediverse.net/posts/bil</span><span>muri-american-motor-sports-420cc-edition-mini-review</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/music\">#<span>music</span></a> <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Bilmuri \u201cAmerican Motor Sports (420CC Edition)\u201d Mini Review\n\nhttps://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/bilmuri-american-motor-sports-420cc-edition-mini-review\n\n#music #indieweb #smallweb"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-15T14:51:24+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42908161",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@brunoamaral/113486187731837524",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/\"><span>https://</span><span>musicforprogramming.net/latest</span><span>/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/\"><span>https://</span><span>musicforprogramming.net/latest</span><span>/</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/beautifulweb\">#<span>beautifulweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/code\">#<span>code</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/music\">#<span>music</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/productivity\">#<span>productivity</span></a></p>",
        "text": "https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/\n\nhttps://musicforprogramming.net/latest/\n#beautifulweb #code #indieweb #music #productivity"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-15T09:10:00+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42905041",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@brunoamaral/113485756990612821",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>The Forest Jar - The Forest Jar<br />Merch<br /><a href=\"https://theforestjar.com/\"><span>https://</span><span>theforestjar.com/</span><span></span></a><br /># <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/beautifulweb\">#<span>beautifulweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy\">#<span>philosophy</span></a></p>",
        "text": "The Forest Jar - The Forest Jar\nMerch\nhttps://theforestjar.com/\n# #beautifulweb #indieweb #philosophy"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-15T07:20:27+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "42904380",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/113485527196749206",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>So you want to be my pen pal? <a href=\"https://robertkingett.com/posts/6662/\"><span>https://</span><span>robertkingett.com/posts/6662/</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/Blog\">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/Blogs\">#<span>Blogs</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/Blogging\">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/NoPaywall\">#<span>NoPaywall</span></a></p>",
        "text": "So you want to be my pen pal? https://robertkingett.com/posts/6662/ #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb #NoPaywall"
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    "published": "2024-11-15T06:22:01+00:00",
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://ieji.de/@moksh/113482798105315143",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Does anyone mirror their website for small protocols like Gemini, Gopher, Finger, spartan, text, nex? If yes, what would the easiest way to mirror to these protocols, I am using Codeberg Pages to host my site</p><p>\u00b0  <a href=\"https://moksh.codeberg.page\"><span>https://</span><span>moksh.codeberg.page</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://ieji.de/tags/gemini\">#<span>gemini</span></a> <a href=\"https://ieji.de/tags/finger\">#<span>finger</span></a> <a href=\"https://ieji.de/tags/nex\">#<span>nex</span></a> <a href=\"https://ieji.de/tags/spartan\">#<span>spartan</span></a> <a href=\"https://ieji.de/tags/smolnet\">#<span>smolnet</span></a> <a href=\"https://ieji.de/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://ieji.de/tags/gopher\">#<span>gopher</span></a> <a href=\"https://ieji.de/tags/untrusem\">#<span>untrusem</span></a> <a href=\"https://ieji.de/tags/protocol\">#<span>protocol</span></a> <a href=\"https://ieji.de/tags/permacomputing\">#<span>permacomputing</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Does anyone mirror their website for small protocols like Gemini, Gopher, Finger, spartan, text, nex? If yes, what would the easiest way to mirror to these protocols, I am using Codeberg Pages to host my site\n\n\u00b0  https://moksh.codeberg.page\n\n#gemini #finger #nex #spartan #smolnet #indieweb #gopher #untrusem #protocol #permacomputing"
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Is BlueSky the new Twitter, and if so is that a good thing?

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2024-11-14T18:01:58+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2024/is-bluesky-the-new-twitter-and-if-so-is-that",
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    "name": "Is BlueSky the new Twitter, and if so is that a good thing?",
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        "text": "[Mathew Ingram at The Torment Nexus]\n\nMathew wrestles with where Bluesky sits in the future of social media given its connections to venture capital and blockchain supporters:\"I have no doubt that, as Cory says, Graber and the other founders of Bluesky are sincere in their desire to build an open service with a federated protocol, etc. But history has shown time and again that economic interests often interfere with the best efforts of founders.\"Here's my slightly controversial take: I think there's something to learn from blockchain and how it developed. We already see that represented in the data structures Bluesky uses behind the scenes, and beyond that, an optimistic cultural take on decentralization. That doesn't mean crypto markets aren't full of scammers - there's certainly more to avoid than to learn from - but blockchain is not an irrelevant pursuit, even if blockchains themselves are not the best route forwards.\n\nThis feels right to me:\"In the short term at least, it seems as though we could have three or four competing social networks: one, Twitter/X, is the place for right-wing Musk fans and tech bros and Trump supporters (and journalists and others who need to be there for work); Bluesky is the place for that early Twitter anything-goes vibe plus journalists and real-time news; Mastodon is the place for nerds and geeks and others who like the nuts-and-bolts of social tech; and Threads is... well, Threads is whatever is left over after all of those other things are removed :-)\"Let's see what happens.\n#Fediverse\n            [Link]",
        "html": "<p>[<a href=\"https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesky-the-new-twitter-and-if-so-is-that-a-good-thing/\">Mathew Ingram at The Torment Nexus</a>]</p><p>Mathew wrestles with where Bluesky sits in the future of social media given its connections to venture capital and blockchain supporters:</p><blockquote><p>\"I have no doubt that, as Cory says, Graber and the other founders of Bluesky are sincere in their desire to build an open service with a federated protocol, etc. But history has shown time and again that economic interests often interfere with the best efforts of founders.\"</p></blockquote><p>Here's my slightly controversial take: I think there's something to learn from blockchain and how it developed. We already see that represented in the data structures Bluesky uses behind the scenes, and beyond that, an optimistic cultural take on decentralization. That doesn't mean crypto markets aren't full of scammers - there's certainly more to avoid than to learn from - but blockchain is not an irrelevant pursuit, even if blockchains themselves are not the best route forwards.</p><p>This feels right to me:</p><blockquote><p>\"In the short term at least, it seems as though we could have three or four competing social networks: one, Twitter/X, is the place for right-wing Musk fans and tech bros and Trump supporters (and journalists and others who need to be there for work); Bluesky is the place for that early Twitter anything-goes vibe plus journalists and real-time news; Mastodon is the place for nerds and geeks and others who like the nuts-and-bolts of social tech; and Threads is... well, Threads is whatever is left over after all of those other things are removed :-)\"</p></blockquote><p>Let's see what happens.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://werd.io/tag/Fediverse\" class=\"p-category\">#Fediverse</a></p>\n            <p>[<a href=\"https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesky-the-new-twitter-and-if-so-is-that-a-good-thing/\">Link</a>]</p>"
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Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2024-11-14T16:09:37+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2024/bluesky-the-fediverse-and-the-future-of-social-media",
    "name": "Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media",
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        "text": "I care a lot about the future of social media. It\u2019s how many of us learn about the world and connect to each other; putting something so important in the hands of a handful of centralized corporations has repeatedly proven itself to be harmful. That\u2019s why I\u2019m so excited about the growth of federated and decentralized social media in the wake of Elon Musk\u2019s disastrous acquisition of X. These platforms give more control to communities and individuals, reducing the risks of a central corporation manipulating the global conversation through algorithms or other means.\n\nAlthough a lot of my focus has been on Fediverse platforms like Mastodon, from time to time I\u2019ve mentioned that I\u2019m really impressed with what the Bluesky team has achieved. The Bluesky platform is growing very quickly and seems to be the go-to choice for less-technical users like journalists, politicians, and so on who want to leave X. Bluesky offers valuable insights for anyone interested in the future of social media and how to build a vibrant alternative platform.\nEasy to understand onboarding: You register at the Bluesky site. To get you started, you can access \u201cstarter packs\u201d of users to follow around various topics, so your feed is never empty. Here\u2019s a starter pack of ProPublica journalists, for example, or people in tech from underrepresented communities.\n\nIt feels alive: The posts are both timely and engaging. This is in contrast to Mastodon, where they\u2019re purely chronologically-ordered, or Threads, where I was still seeing hopeful posts from before the election a week later (because they piggybacked on the Instagram algorithm, which is optimized for a different kind of content). News can actually break here \u2014 and so can memes. Find an old-timer and ask them about ALF: an inside joke that I absolutely refuse to log an explanation for here.\n\nSearch works universally: It simply doesn\u2019t on Mastodon, and I can only describe the search engine on Threads as weird.\n\nIt\u2019s moderated and facilitated: The site has easy-to-understand moderation. More than that, the team seems to have invested in the culture of the community they\u2019re creating. Particularly in the beginning, they did a lot of community facilitation work that set the tone of the place. The result \u2014 so far \u2014 is a palpable sense of fun in contrast to a seriousness that pervades both Threads and Mastodon.\nAt the same time, Bluesky benefits from an open mindset, an open-source codebase, and a permissionless protocol that allows anyone to build tools on top of it. Critics will note that it isn\u2019t really decentralized yet: there\u2019s one dominant personal data store that basically everyone is attached to. In contrast to Mastodon\u2019s model of co-operative communities anchored by a non-profit, Bluesky is a venture funded startup that grew out of Twitter.\n\nOther critics complain about the involvement of Jack Dorsey, who created Twitter and therefore a lot of the problems that we\u2019re all trying to get away from. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a valid complaint: he famously both established Bluesky because he felt that Twitter should have been a protocol rather than a company, and both left the board and closed his account after becoming dissatisfied with the way Bluesky was run as a moderated community. He has since described X as \u201cfreedom technology\u201d and put a ton of his own money behind Nostr. I\u2019ve personally found Nostr to be a particularly toxic decentralized network dominated by Bitcoin-loving libertarians. This may indicate where his priorities lie.\n\nI\u2019ll be honest: on paper, I like Mastodon\u2019s model better. It\u2019s a community-driven effort paid for transparently by donations, much like any non-profit. (Much like any non-profit, the bulk of the funding comes from larger entities, but these are advertised on the Mastodon website alongside smaller-dollar donors.) I also like the co-operative model where smaller communities can dictate their own norms but interoperate with the larger network, which means that, for example, communities for trans posters or journalists can provide more directed support.\n\nBut this model faces a much harder road. It means, firstly, that there is less money to go around (Bluesky has raised $36M so far; Mastodon raised \u20ac326K in 2022), and secondly, that it\u2019s harder to understand for a new user who wants to join in. It\u2019s also clear that CEO Jay Graber has established a cohesive team that by all accounts is a lot of fun to work in. That counts for a lot and has helped to establish a healthy community.\n\nEven with its hurdles, Mastodon\u2019s model embodies a rare, user-first ethos, and I believe it\u2019s worth supporting. In the end, the future of social media may depend on which values we choose to uphold.\n\nI suspect both will continue to exist side by side. If I had to guess, Bluesky might become a mainstream platform for people who want something very close to pre-acquisition Twitter (which it is rapidly becoming right now), and the Fediverse might become the default glue between any social platform. For example, I post my book reading activity on Bookwyrm, which I find more useful in its own right than Goodreads. Other people can follow and interact with my book reviews there, or they can follow from other Fediverse-compatible platforms like Mastodon. (Right now, my followers are about half and half). Mastodon itself will allow niche supportive communities to grow, and of course, the fact that Threads is building Fediverse support means that any of its hundreds of millions of users will be able to interact with anyone on any other Fediverse platform.\n\nBluesky may evolve into a streamlined alternative to Twitter, while the Fediverse could serve as a decentralized, cross-platform connector among diverse networks. This dynamic offers a promising future for users, with both worlds learning from one another in a productive tension that has the potential to strengthen the open social web. That\u2019s good news for everyone who values an open, user-driven future for social media.",
        "html": "<p><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/673620b94573ab600501f002/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Birds, flocking\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" /></p><p>I care a lot about the future of social media. It\u2019s how many of us learn about the world and connect to each other; putting something so important in the hands of a handful of centralized corporations has repeatedly proven itself to be harmful. That\u2019s why I\u2019m so excited about the growth of federated and decentralized social media in the wake of Elon Musk\u2019s disastrous acquisition of X. These platforms give more control to communities and individuals, reducing the risks of a central corporation manipulating the global conversation through algorithms or other means.</p><p>Although a lot of my focus has been on <a href=\"https://socialwebfoundation.org\">Fediverse</a> platforms like Mastodon, from time to time I\u2019ve mentioned that I\u2019m really impressed with what the <a href=\"https://bsky.social\">Bluesky</a> team has achieved. The Bluesky platform is growing very quickly and seems to be the go-to choice for less-technical users like journalists, politicians, and so on who want to leave X. Bluesky offers valuable insights for anyone interested in the future of social media and how to build a vibrant alternative platform.</p><ul><li>\n<strong>Easy to understand onboarding:</strong> You register at the Bluesky site. To get you started, you can access <a href=\"https://bsky.social/about/blog/06-26-2024-starter-packs\">\u201cstarter packs\u201d</a> of users to follow around various topics, so your feed is never empty. <a href=\"https://bsky.app/starter-pack/propublica.org/3l6iflmcj322n\">Here\u2019s a starter pack of ProPublica journalists</a>, for example, or <a href=\"https://bsky.app/starter-pack/did:plc:ug4yxu2xjor5mt7kzfdpjs5w/3l7bakgvapc2m\">people in tech from underrepresented communities</a>.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>It feels alive:</strong> The posts are both timely and engaging. This is in contrast to Mastodon, where they\u2019re purely chronologically-ordered, or Threads, where I was still seeing hopeful posts from before the election a week later (because they piggybacked on the Instagram algorithm, which is optimized for a different kind of content). News can actually break here \u2014 and so can memes. Find an old-timer and ask them about ALF: an inside joke that I absolutely refuse to log an explanation for here.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Search works universally:</strong> It simply doesn\u2019t on Mastodon, and I can only describe the search engine on Threads as <em>weird</em>.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>It\u2019s moderated and facilitated:</strong> The site has easy-to-understand moderation. More than that, the team seems to have invested in the <em>culture</em> of the community they\u2019re creating. Particularly in the beginning, they did a lot of community facilitation work that set the tone of the place. The result \u2014 so far \u2014 is a palpable sense of fun in contrast to a seriousness that pervades both Threads and Mastodon.</li>\n</ul><p>At the same time, Bluesky benefits from an open mindset, an open-source codebase, and a permissionless protocol that allows anyone to build tools on top of it. Critics will note that it isn\u2019t really decentralized yet: there\u2019s one dominant personal data store that basically everyone is attached to. In contrast to Mastodon\u2019s model of co-operative communities anchored by a non-profit, Bluesky is a venture funded startup that grew out of Twitter.</p><p>Other critics complain about the involvement of Jack Dorsey, who created Twitter and therefore a lot of the problems that we\u2019re all trying to get away from. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a valid complaint: he famously both established Bluesky because he felt that Twitter should have been a protocol rather than a company, <a href=\"https://time.com/6974971/jack-dorsey-leaves-bluesky-board/\">and both left the board and closed his account after becoming dissatisfied with the way Bluesky was run as a moderated community</a>. He has since described X as \u201cfreedom technology\u201d and <a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/08/30/jack-dorsey-backs-bitcoin-and-nostr-to-cut-censorship-with-free-speech/\">put a ton of his own money behind Nostr</a>. I\u2019ve personally found Nostr to be a particularly toxic decentralized network dominated by Bitcoin-loving libertarians. This may indicate where his priorities lie.</p><p>I\u2019ll be honest: on paper, I like Mastodon\u2019s model better. It\u2019s a community-driven effort paid for transparently by donations, much like any non-profit. (Much like any non-profit, the bulk of the funding comes from larger entities, but <a href=\"https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors\">these are advertised on the Mastodon website</a> alongside smaller-dollar donors.) I also like the co-operative model where smaller communities can dictate their own norms but interoperate with the larger network, which means that, for example, communities for trans posters or journalists can provide more directed support.</p><p>But this model faces a much harder road. It means, firstly, that there is less money to go around (Bluesky has raised <a href=\"https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bluesky-514d\">$36M so far</a>; Mastodon raised <a href=\"https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/10/annual-report-2022/\">\u20ac326K in 2022</a>), and secondly, that it\u2019s harder to understand for a new user who wants to join in. It\u2019s also clear that CEO <a href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team\">Jay Graber</a> has established a cohesive team that by all accounts <a href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/rose.bsky.team/post/3lav72lbpuk2p\">is a lot of fun to work in</a>. That counts for a lot and has helped to establish a healthy community.</p><p>Even with its hurdles, Mastodon\u2019s model embodies a rare, user-first ethos, and I believe it\u2019s worth supporting. In the end, the future of social media may depend on which values we choose to uphold.</p><p>I suspect both will continue to exist side by side. If I had to guess, Bluesky might become a mainstream platform for people who want something very close to pre-acquisition Twitter (which it is rapidly becoming right now), and the Fediverse might become the default glue between <em>any</em> social platform. For example, I post <a href=\"https://bookwyrm.social/user/benwerd\">my book reading activity on Bookwyrm</a>, which I find more useful in its own right than Goodreads. Other people can follow and interact with my book reviews there, or they can follow from other Fediverse-compatible platforms like Mastodon. (Right now, my followers <a href=\"https://bookwyrm.social/user/benwerd/followers\">are about half and half</a>). Mastodon itself will allow niche supportive communities to grow, and of course, the fact that Threads is building Fediverse support means that any of its hundreds of millions of users will be able to interact with anyone on any other Fediverse platform.</p><p>Bluesky may evolve into a streamlined alternative to Twitter, while the Fediverse could serve as a decentralized, cross-platform connector among diverse networks. This dynamic offers a promising future for users, with both worlds learning from one another in a productive tension that has the potential to strengthen the open social web. That\u2019s good news for everyone who values an open, user-driven future for social media.</p>"
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
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    "url": "https://ruhr.social/@kniebes/113482527719471745",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Seit September 2006 habe ich meinen Flickr Account und seit Mitte 2015 hatte ich das Pro-Account Abo. Ende Dezember w\u00e4re die n\u00e4chste, j\u00e4hrliche Verl\u00e4ngerung f\u00e4llig gewesen.</p><p>Aber nein! Eine automatische Verl\u00e4ngerung ist nicht mehr m\u00f6glich. PayPal wird nicht mehr akzeptiert. Nur noch Kreditkarte, ApplePay und GooglePay. Mit KK m\u00f6chte ich nicht zahlen \u2013 soweit geht mein Vertrauen in deren Datensicherheit nicht. Und ApplePay oder gar GooglePay\u2026 <a href=\"https://knieb.es/3901\"><span>https://</span><span>knieb.es/3901</span><span></span></a><br /><a href=\"https://ruhr.social/tags/Flickr\">#<span>Flickr</span></a> <a href=\"https://ruhr.social/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://ruhr.social/tags/PayPal\">#<span>PayPal</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Seit September 2006 habe ich meinen Flickr Account und seit Mitte 2015 hatte ich das Pro-Account Abo. Ende Dezember w\u00e4re die n\u00e4chste, j\u00e4hrliche Verl\u00e4ngerung f\u00e4llig gewesen.\n\nAber nein! Eine automatische Verl\u00e4ngerung ist nicht mehr m\u00f6glich. PayPal wird nicht mehr akzeptiert. Nur noch Kreditkarte, ApplePay und GooglePay. Mit KK m\u00f6chte ich nicht zahlen \u2013 soweit geht mein Vertrauen in deren Datensicherheit nicht. Und ApplePay oder gar GooglePay\u2026 https://knieb.es/3901\n#Flickr #Indieweb #PayPal"
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