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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://shellsharks.social/@shellsharks/114099059739939089",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I've seen a surge of <a href=\"https://shellsharks.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> manifestos and \"love letters\" to a variety of personal website-related things of late. These are awesome and I've done my best to collect them all and share them in my Scrolls newsletter. Those also inspired me to pen my own love letter of sorts - dedicated to LINKS! </p><p><a href=\"https://shellsharks.com/hyperlink-travel\"><span>https://</span><span>shellsharks.com/hyperlink-trav</span><span>el</span></a></p><p>There's a bit of a \"space travel\" theme to it, as I tried to toy with the \"hyperlink\" \u2194\ufe0f \"hyperspace\" similarity. I hope you enjoy it!</p>",
        "text": "I've seen a surge of #IndieWeb manifestos and \"love letters\" to a variety of personal website-related things of late. These are awesome and I've done my best to collect them all and share them in my Scrolls newsletter. Those also inspired me to pen my own love letter of sorts - dedicated to LINKS! \n\nhttps://shellsharks.com/hyperlink-travel\n\nThere's a bit of a \"space travel\" theme to it, as I tried to toy with the \"hyperlink\" \u2194\ufe0f \"hyperspace\" similarity. I hope you enjoy it!"
    },
    "published": "2025-03-03T14:51:24+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "44076624",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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James jamesg.blog

Grouping link posts in a web reader

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    "author": {
        "name": "#webmention",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/webmention",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://bonn.social/@kklein/114098258139324172",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Hurrah! Das <a href=\"https://bonn.social/tags/activitypub\">#<span>activitypub</span></a> Plugin von <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle\">@<span>pfefferle</span></a></span>, mit dem ich im letzten Jahr noch Probleme hatte (mit dem Plugin, nicht mit Matthias \ud83d\ude1c !) funktioniert jetzt offenbar: Neue <a href=\"https://bonn.social/tags/WordPress\">#<span>WordPress</span></a> Beitr\u00e4ge landen in meinem Mastodon-Stream, und Likes und Reposts landen \u00fcber das <a href=\"https://bonn.social/tags/webmention\">#<span>webmention</span></a> Plugin wieder im Blog. Yay!</p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle\"></a>",
        "text": "Hurrah! Das #activitypub Plugin von @pfefferle, mit dem ich im letzten Jahr noch Probleme hatte (mit dem Plugin, nicht mit Matthias \ud83d\ude1c !) funktioniert jetzt offenbar: Neue #WordPress Beitr\u00e4ge landen in meinem Mastodon-Stream, und Likes und Reposts landen \u00fcber das #webmention Plugin wieder im Blog. Yay!"
    },
    "published": "2025-03-03T11:27:33+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "44075070",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fed.sfl.pro.br/display/e5ca8dd2-1767-c58b-f36d-292384747094",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://fed.sfl.pro.br/search?tag=IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fed.sfl.pro.br/search?tag=Blogues\">#<span>Blogues</span></a></p><p>Ainda Estou Aqui e a Unidade Nacional -<br /><a href=\"https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-03-03-unidade-nacional.pt.html\">blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-03-0\u2026</a></p><blockquote>N\u00e3o me escapa a ironia de que o filme tenha sido co-produzido e distribu\u00eddo por uma empresa cujo departamento de jornalismo roteirizou e promoveu os dois \u00faltimos golpes, transformando sua fic\u00e7\u00e3o em realidade.</blockquote><p>Por <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://snac.lx.oliva.nom.br/lxo\">@<span>lxo</span></a></span></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://snac.lx.oliva.nom.br/lxo\"></a>",
        "text": "#IndieWeb #Blogues\n\nAinda Estou Aqui e a Unidade Nacional -\nblog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-03-0\u2026N\u00e3o me escapa a ironia de que o filme tenha sido co-produzido e distribu\u00eddo por uma empresa cujo departamento de jornalismo roteirizou e promoveu os dois \u00faltimos golpes, transformando sua fic\u00e7\u00e3o em realidade.Por @lxo"
    },
    "published": "2025-03-03T11:01:07+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "44074702",
    "_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/@hackleberry/114095115468286959",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I sometimes think it would have been cool if instead of html we got some sort of lua-y language.</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/lua\">#<span>lua</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I sometimes think it would have been cool if instead of html we got some sort of lua-y language.\n\n#lua #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2025-03-02T22:08:19+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "44070229",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@ChrisHardie/114094984830391472",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I finally finished and published my post on how far I'll go to generate an <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/RSS\">#<span>RSS</span></a>  feed of your RSS-less web content. If you find it useful please share and/or submit to Hacker News. <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/openweb\">#<span>openweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>  <a href=\"https://tech.chrishardie.com/2025/rss-feed-of-your-website/\"><span>https://</span><span>tech.chrishardie.com/2025/rss-</span><span>feed-of-your-website/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I finally finished and published my post on how far I'll go to generate an #RSS  feed of your RSS-less web content. If you find it useful please share and/or submit to Hacker News. #openweb #indieweb  https://tech.chrishardie.com/2025/rss-feed-of-your-website/"
    },
    "published": "2025-03-02T21:35:06+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "44070122",
    "_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/@indieaisle/114094931439342360",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>You should offer an email sign up as an alternative method for your audience to receive updates from you. Our latest service offers a simple signup form to start your email list.</p><p><a href=\"https://indieaisle.com/indieaisle/email-newsletter-list/\"><span>https://</span><span>indieaisle.com/indieaisle/emai</span><span>l-newsletter-list/</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/personalwebsite\">#<span>personalwebsite</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/email\">#<span>email</span></a></p>",
        "text": "You should offer an email sign up as an alternative method for your audience to receive updates from you. Our latest service offers a simple signup form to start your email list.\n\nhttps://indieaisle.com/indieaisle/email-newsletter-list/\n#indieweb #personalwebsite #email"
    },
    "published": "2025-03-02T21:21:31+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "44070123",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.mkj.earth/@mkj/114094840947013933",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>New blog post up. Bit of a \"today I learned\" about a convenient piece of syntax handled by Pelican's Markdown interpreter which allows setting a CSS class or a HTML ID for an image from within the Markdown source.</p><p>It's either</p><p>![](){: .css-class}</p><p>or</p><p>![](){: <a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/example\">#<span>example</span></a>-element-id}</p><p>Blog post has a bit more detail.</p><p><a href=\"https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/pelican-image-html-id-css-class/\"><span>https://</span><span>michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/</span><span>pelican-image-html-id-css-class/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/BlogPost\">#<span>BlogPost</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/Pelican\">#<span>Pelican</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/PelicanSSG\">#<span>PelicanSSG</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/SmolWeb\">#<span>SmolWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/PersonalWebSite\">#<span>PersonalWebSite</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/TIL\">#<span>TIL</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/TodayILearned\">#<span>TodayILearned</span></a></p>",
        "text": "New blog post up. Bit of a \"today I learned\" about a convenient piece of syntax handled by Pelican's Markdown interpreter which allows setting a CSS class or a HTML ID for an image from within the Markdown source.\n\nIt's either\n\n![](){: .css-class}\n\nor\n\n![](){: #example-element-id}\n\nBlog post has a bit more detail.\n\nhttps://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/pelican-image-html-id-css-class/\n\n#BlogPost #Pelican #PelicanSSG #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #SmolWeb #PersonalWebSite #TIL #TodayILearned"
    },
    "published": "2025-03-02T20:58:31+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "44070124",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

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    "url": "https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2025/03/ekhla/",
    "content": {
        "text": "Folks may be interested to see that I've now got an RSS feed for my salary page, which is also on the Fediverse via @www.jvt.me.salary-parrot.net in case y'all wanna know when there are any updates to it \ud83d\udc40",
        "html": "<p>Folks may be interested to see that I've now got <a href=\"https://www.jvt.me/salary.xml\">an RSS feed</a> for <a href=\"https://www.jvt.me/salary/\">my salary page</a>, which is also on the Fediverse via <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://rss/@www.jvt.me.salary\">@www.jvt.me.salary</a></span>-parrot.net in case y'all wanna know when there are <em>any</em> updates to it \ud83d\udc40</p>"
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "Jamie Tanna",
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        "photo": "https://www.jvt.me/img/profile.png"
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    "post-type": "note",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://front-end.social/@elly/114094734495451115",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Why Personal Websites Matter More Than Ever</p><p>\ud83d\udd16 <a href=\"https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-personal-websites-matter-more-than-ever/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>joanwestenberg.com/why-persona</span><span>l-websites-matter-more-than-ever/</span></a><br />\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https://ellyloel.com/bookmarks/why-personal-websites-matter-more-than-ever/\"><span>https://</span><span>ellyloel.com/bookmarks/why-per</span><span>sonal-websites-matter-more-than-ever/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://front-end.social/tags/Why\">#<span>Why</span></a> you need a personal website <a href=\"https://front-end.social/tags/Community\">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href=\"https://front-end.social/tags/Feeds\">#<span>Feeds</span></a> <a href=\"https://front-end.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://front-end.social/tags/Web\">#<span>Web</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Why Personal Websites Matter More Than Ever\n\n\ud83d\udd16 https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-personal-websites-matter-more-than-ever/\n\ud83d\udd17 https://ellyloel.com/bookmarks/why-personal-websites-matter-more-than-ever/\n\n#Why you need a personal website #Community #Feeds #IndieWeb #Web"
    },
    "published": "2025-03-02T20:31:26+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "44069577",
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    "_is_read": false
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
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        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://toot.lqdev.tech/@lqdev/114094103654121514",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Week of March 2, 2025 - Post Summary <a href=\"https://toot.lqdev.tech/tags/weeklysummary\">#<span>weeklysummary</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.lqdev.tech/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.lqdev.tech/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://www.luisquintanilla.me/feed/2025-03-02-weekly-post-summary?utm_medium=feed\"><span>https://www.</span><span>luisquintanilla.me/feed/2025-0</span><span>3-02-weekly-post-summary?utm_medium=feed</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Week of March 2, 2025 - Post Summary #weeklysummary #blogging #indieweb https://www.luisquintanilla.me/feed/2025-03-02-weekly-post-summary?utm_medium=feed"
    },
    "published": "2025-03-02T17:51:00+00:00",
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Ben Werdmuller werd.io/profile/benwerd

The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back.

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    "published": "2025-03-02T15:00:13+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2025/the-web-was-always-about-redistribution-of-power-lets-bring",
    "name": "The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back.",
    "content": {
        "text": "I\u2019ve seen a lot\u00a0of this sentiment lately, and can relate:I miss being excited by technology. I wish I could see a way out of the endless hype cycles that continue to elicit little more than cynicism from me. The version of technology that we\u2019re mostly being sold today has almost nothing to do with improving lives, but instead stuffing the pockets of those who already need for nothing. It\u2019s not making us smarter. It\u2019s not helping heal a damaged planet. It\u2019s not making us happier or more generous towards each other. And it\u2019s entrenched in everything \u2014 meaning a momentous challenge to re-wire or meticulously disconnect.Many of us got excited about technology because of the web, and are discovering, latterly, that it was always the web itself \u2014 rather than technology as a whole \u2014 that we were excited about. The web is a movement: more than a set of protocols, languages, and software, it was always about bringing about a social and cultural shift that removed traditional gatekeepers to publishing and being heard.\n\nIt\u2019s perhaps hard to remember now, but in the early nineties, finding an audience really meant being discovered and highlighted by a small number of very rich publishing companies (or record labels, etc) who were most often not representative of their audiences. The web was a revolution: anyone could publish their words, their music, or their art, without asking anyone for permission, and they could find their communities equally permissionlessly.\n\nThe web, of course, didn\u2019t turn out to be quite as utopian as the promise. The truth is, the people who could afford to publish on the early web were also from a narrow, relatively wealthy demographic. To make publishing accessible to most people (who didn\u2019t, quite reasonably, want to learn HTML or pay for or configure a domain name and hosting), we needed a set of easy-to-use publishing platforms, which in turn became centralized single points of failure and took the place of the old gatekeepers. Replacing publishers with Facebook wasn\u2019t the original intention, but that\u2019s what happened. And in the process, the power dynamics completely shifted.\n\nThe original web was inherently about redistribution of power from a small number of gatekeepers to a large number of individuals, even if it never quite lived up to that promise. But the next iteration of the web was about concentrating power in a small set of gatekeepers whose near-unlimited growth potential tended towards monopoly. There were always movements that bucked this trend \u2014 blogging and the indie web never really went away \u2014 but they were no longer the mainstream force on the internet. And over time, the centralized platforms disempowered their users by monopolizing more and more slices of everyday life that used to be free. The open, unlimited nature of the web that was originally used to distribute equity was now being used to suck it up and concentrate it in a handful of increasingly-wealthy people.\n\nFor the people who were attracted to the near-unlimited wealth hoarding and rent-seeking potential, this new web was incredibly exciting. Conversely, for those of us who were attracted by the power redistribution more than the technology itself, it was incredibly disheartening. The reason we got involved in the first place had all but evaporated.\n\nFor a while, decentralization did become a hot topic. Unfortunately, this was more about avoiding the trappings of traditional banking \u2014 crucially, including avoiding regulatory controls \u2014 than it was about distributing power. The actual equity redistribution was mostly an illusion; although there certainly were people with their hearts in the right place in the movement, the people who truly gained from blockchain and cryptocurrencies were libertarian grifters who saw potential in moving money away from the prying eyes of regulatory oversight and saw banking regulations designed to protect people as being unnecessarily restrictive. Blockchain wore the clothes of power redistribution, but rather than empowering a large number of people, it enriched very few, often at other people\u2019s expense.\n\nI do think the brief popularity of blockchain helped bring attention to decentralization, which was useful. I don\u2019t know that as much attention would have been paid to the new crop of decentralized social networks like Mastodon and BlueSky, for example, had Web3 not previously seeded some of the core ideas in a more mainstream consciousness. The web3 community was also the most successful at, for example, embedding identity in the browser. It wasn\u2019t valueless as a movement, but it fell far short of the hype.\n\nWhich brings us to AI, the current hotness. Like any software technology, it\u2019s being sold to us as an empowering tool. But the broad perception is that it\u2019s anything but: models are trained, unpaid, on the work of artists, writers, and researchers, who are already relatively low-paid, in order to build value for a small handful of vendors who are making deals worth tens or hundreds of billions of dollars. Or as one commenter put it:The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from skill the ability to access wealth.If you think this is hyperbole, consider Marc Benioff\u2019s comments about not hiring any more software engineers in 2025:\u201cWe\u2019re not adding any more software engineers next year because we have increased the productivity this year with Agentforce and with other AI technology that we\u2019re using for engineering teams by more than 30% \u2013 to the point where our engineering velocity is incredible. I can\u2019t believe what we\u2019re achieving in engineering.\u201dWhether you care about software engineering jobs or not, the same dynamics are underway for writers, artists, and any other creative job. Even the productivity gains that are being realized through use of AI tools are benefiting a small number of wealthy companies rather than individuals. This is the exact opposite of the power redistribution that led to so many people seeing such promise in the web.\n\nIt\u2019s very hard to get excited about technology that redistributes wealth and power in favor of people who already have it.\n\nThe trajectory of the web \u2014 starting as a tool for redistributing power and becoming one that entrenches it \u2014 was not inevitable. It was the result of specific choices: business models that prioritized monopolization, technologies designed for centralization, and a relentless focus on extracting value rather than creating it. If we want a different future, we have to make different choices.\n\nWhat does an alternative look like? It starts with software designed for people rather than for capital. The web once thrived on protocols instead of platforms \u2014 email, RSS, blogs, personal websites \u2014 before closed networks turned users into data sources. We are now seeing efforts to return to that ethos. The Fediverse, open-source publishing tools, community-run platforms, and decentralized identity projects all point to a path where individuals have more control over their online lives. They aren\u2019t perfect, but they represent a fundamental shift in intention: building systems that work for people instead of on them.\n\nThe first wave of the web was decentralized by default but only accessible to a small number of people. The second wave was more accessible but centralized by profit motives. If there is to be a third wave, it will have to be intentional: built with equity and accessibility as core values, not an afterthought. That\u2019s a hard road, because open and ethical technology doesn\u2019t attract billion-dollar investments the way extractive models do. But if history has shown anything, it\u2019s that the web\u2019s greatest strength is in the people who believe it can be better. The real question is not whether more equitable software is possible: it\u2019s whether enough of us are willing to build it.\n\nFor many of us, the social movement, rather than the underlying technology, was always the point. We need that movement more than ever before. Hopefully building it is something that more of us can get excited about.",
        "html": "<p><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/67c4726e020c107599039d03\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" /></p><p>I\u2019ve seen a lot\u00a0<a href=\"https://scottboms.com/documenting/through-lines-247\">of this sentiment</a> lately, and can relate:</p><blockquote><p>I miss being excited by technology. I wish I could see a way out of the endless hype cycles that continue to elicit little more than cynicism from me. The version of technology that we\u2019re mostly being sold today has almost nothing to do with improving lives, but instead stuffing the pockets of those who already need for nothing. It\u2019s not making us smarter. It\u2019s not helping heal a damaged planet. It\u2019s not making us happier or more generous towards each other. And it\u2019s entrenched in everything \u2014 meaning a momentous challenge to re-wire or meticulously disconnect.</p></blockquote><p>Many of us got excited about technology because of the web, and are discovering, latterly, that it was always the web itself \u2014 rather than technology as a whole \u2014 that we were excited about. The web is a movement: more than a set of protocols, languages, and software, it was always about bringing about a social and cultural shift that removed traditional gatekeepers to publishing and being heard.</p><p>It\u2019s perhaps hard to remember now, but in the early nineties, finding an audience really meant being discovered and highlighted by a small number of very rich publishing companies (or record labels, etc) who were most often not representative of their audiences. The web was a revolution: anyone could publish their words, their music, or their art, without asking anyone for permission, and they could find their communities equally permissionlessly.</p><p>The web, of course, didn\u2019t turn out to be quite as utopian as the promise. The truth is, the people who could afford to publish on the early web were also from a narrow, relatively wealthy demographic. To make publishing accessible to most people (who didn\u2019t, quite reasonably, want to learn HTML or pay for or configure a domain name and hosting), we needed a set of easy-to-use publishing <em>platforms</em>, which in turn became centralized single points of failure and took the place of the old gatekeepers. Replacing publishers with Facebook wasn\u2019t the original intention, but that\u2019s what happened. And in the process, the power dynamics completely shifted.</p><p>The original web was inherently about redistribution of power from a small number of gatekeepers to a large number of individuals, even if it never quite lived up to that promise. But the next iteration of the web was about concentrating power in a small set of gatekeepers whose near-unlimited growth potential tended towards monopoly. There were always movements that bucked this trend \u2014 blogging and the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org\">indie web</a> never really went away \u2014 but they were no longer the mainstream force on the internet. And over time, the centralized platforms disempowered their users by <a href=\"https://werd.io/2018/the-unbearable-monopolization-of-being\">monopolizing more and more slices of everyday life that used to be free</a>. The open, unlimited nature of the web that was originally used to distribute equity was now being used to suck it up and concentrate it in a handful of increasingly-wealthy people.</p><p>For the people who were attracted to the near-unlimited wealth hoarding and rent-seeking potential, this new web was incredibly exciting. Conversely, for those of us who were attracted by the power redistribution more than the technology itself, it was incredibly <em>disheartening</em>. The reason we got involved in the first place had all but evaporated.</p><p>For a while, decentralization did become a hot topic. Unfortunately, this was more about avoiding the trappings of traditional banking \u2014 crucially, including avoiding regulatory controls \u2014 than it was about distributing power. The actual equity redistribution was mostly an illusion; although there certainly were people with their hearts in the right place in the movement, the people who truly gained from blockchain and cryptocurrencies <a href=\"https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/\">were libertarian grifters</a> who saw potential in moving money away from the prying eyes of regulatory oversight and saw banking regulations designed to protect people as being unnecessarily restrictive. Blockchain wore the clothes of power redistribution, but rather than empowering a large number of people, it enriched very few, often at other people\u2019s expense.</p><p>I do think the brief popularity of blockchain helped bring attention to decentralization, which was useful. I don\u2019t know that as much attention would have been paid to the new crop of decentralized social networks like Mastodon and BlueSky, for example, had Web3 not previously seeded some of the core ideas in a more mainstream consciousness. The web3 community was also the most successful at, for example, embedding identity in the browser. It wasn\u2019t valueless as a movement, but it fell far short of the hype.</p><p>Which brings us to AI, the current hotness. Like any software technology, it\u2019s being sold to us as an empowering tool. But the broad perception is that it\u2019s anything but: models are trained, unpaid, on the work of artists, writers, and researchers, who are already relatively low-paid, in order to build value for a small handful of vendors who are making deals worth tens or hundreds of billions of dollars. Or <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/112782711430862267\">as one commenter put it</a>:</p><blockquote><p>The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from skill the ability to access wealth.</p></blockquote><p>If you think this is hyperbole, consider Marc Benioff\u2019s comments about <a href=\"https://www.salesforceben.com/salesforce-will-hire-no-more-software-engineers-in-2025-says-marc-benioff/\">not hiring any more software engineers in 2025</a>:</p><blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re not adding any more software engineers next year because we have increased the productivity this year with Agentforce and with other AI technology that we\u2019re using for engineering teams by more than 30% \u2013 to the point where our engineering velocity is incredible. I can\u2019t believe what we\u2019re achieving in engineering.\u201d</p></blockquote><p>Whether you care about software engineering jobs or not, the same dynamics are underway for writers, artists, and any other creative job. Even the productivity gains that are being realized through use of AI tools are benefiting a small number of wealthy companies rather than individuals. This is the <em>exact opposite</em> of the power redistribution that led to so many people seeing such promise in the web.</p><p>It\u2019s very hard to get excited about technology that redistributes wealth and power in favor of people who already have it.</p><p>The trajectory of the web \u2014 starting as a tool for redistributing power and becoming one that entrenches it \u2014 was not inevitable. It was the result of specific choices: business models that prioritized monopolization, technologies designed for centralization, and a relentless focus on extracting value rather than creating it. If we want a different future, we have to make different choices.</p><p>What does an alternative look like? It starts with software designed for people rather than for capital. The web once thrived on protocols instead of platforms \u2014 email, RSS, blogs, personal websites \u2014 before closed networks turned users into data sources. We are now seeing efforts to return to that ethos. The Fediverse, open-source publishing tools, community-run platforms, and decentralized identity projects all point to a path where individuals have more control over their online lives. They aren\u2019t perfect, but they represent a fundamental shift in intention: building systems that work for people instead of <em>on</em> them.</p><p>The first wave of the web was decentralized by default but only accessible to a small number of people. The second wave was more accessible but centralized by profit motives. If there is to be a third wave, it will have to be intentional: built with equity and accessibility as core values, not an afterthought. That\u2019s a hard road, because open and ethical technology doesn\u2019t attract billion-dollar investments the way extractive models do. But if history has shown anything, it\u2019s that the web\u2019s greatest strength is in the people who believe it can be better. The real question is not whether more equitable software is possible: it\u2019s whether enough of us are willing to build it.</p><p>For many of us, the social movement, rather than the underlying technology, was always the point. We need that movement more than ever before. Hopefully building it is something that more of us can get excited about.</p>"
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    "url": "https://gts.sfl.pro.br/@me/statuses/01JNBJ9ZRH95ZN6KNDBA08RZ10",
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        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://gts.sfl.pro.br/tags/jab%C3%A1\">#<span>Jab\u00e1</span></a> <a href=\"https://gts.sfl.pro.br/tags/blogue\">#<span>Blogue</span></a> <a href=\"https://gts.sfl.pro.br/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://gts.sfl.pro.br/tags/ia\">#<span>IA</span></a></p><p>O uso de voc\u00e1bulos menos usuais na linguagem falada ou escrita \u00e9, necessariamente, sintoma de arrog\u00e2ncia?</p><p><a href=\"https://sfl.pro.br/blog/a-beleza-das-palavras-raras.html\">https://sfl.pro.br/blog/a-beleza-das-palavras-raras.html</a></p>",
        "text": "#Jab\u00e1 #Blogue #indieweb #IA\n\nO uso de voc\u00e1bulos menos usuais na linguagem falada ou escrita \u00e9, necessariamente, sintoma de arrog\u00e2ncia?\n\nhttps://sfl.pro.br/blog/a-beleza-das-palavras-raras.html"
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    "url": "https://social.familylison.com/@samuel/114092275256030526",
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        "html": "<p>Today I wrote an article about the <a href=\"https://social.familylison.com/tags/Metaverse\">#<span>Metaverse</span></a> and my first week back working on coding my own survival game project within <a href=\"https://social.familylison.com/tags/OpenSimulator\">#<span>OpenSimulator</span></a>.</p><p>Come check out my article on my corner of the interwebs on my <a href=\"https://social.familylison.com/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> website.</p><p>Let me know what you think!</p><p><a href=\"https://samuellison.com/2025/03/02/my-week-in-the-metaverse.html\"><span>https://</span><span>samuellison.com/2025/03/02/my-</span><span>week-in-the-metaverse.html</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Today I wrote an article about the #Metaverse and my first week back working on coding my own survival game project within #OpenSimulator.\n\nCome check out my article on my corner of the interwebs on my #Indieweb website.\n\nLet me know what you think!\n\nhttps://samuellison.com/2025/03/02/my-week-in-the-metaverse.html"
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@chaosabsurd/114090668651031561",
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        "html": "<p>Tired of big tech deciding how your social media looks, works, and feels?</p><p>At StreamGrid, YOU control the experience. Pick your background, colors, theme\u2014your profile is 100% yours. And best of all? No ads. No algorithms. Just people.</p><p>Join the alternative social revolution: [StreamGrid.link]</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Decentralization\">#<span>Decentralization</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMediaFreedom\">#<span>SocialMediaFreedom</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/NoAlgorithms\">#<span>NoAlgorithms</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Customization\">#<span>Customization</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Tired of big tech deciding how your social media looks, works, and feels?\n\nAt StreamGrid, YOU control the experience. Pick your background, colors, theme\u2014your profile is 100% yours. And best of all? No ads. No algorithms. Just people.\n\nJoin the alternative social revolution: [StreamGrid.link]\n\n#Decentralization #SocialMediaFreedom #NoAlgorithms #Customization #IndieWeb"
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    "url": "https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/114089299078313860",
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        "html": "<p>The world is a mess. I invite you to carve out a couple hours to watch \u201cWhat\u2019s Up Doc?\u201d this month. It\u2019ll be fun. Once you do, post about it! <a href=\"https://artlung.com/whatsupdoc-imc/\"><span>https://</span><span>artlung.com/whatsupdoc-imc/</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/movies\">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/comedy\">#<span>comedy</span></a></p>",
        "text": "The world is a mess. I invite you to carve out a couple hours to watch \u201cWhat\u2019s Up Doc?\u201d this month. It\u2019ll be fun. Once you do, post about it! https://artlung.com/whatsupdoc-imc/ #indieweb #movies #comedy"
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@readbeanicecream/114089139707406690",
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        "html": "<p>So, I have been trying out this <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> thing for about month (short month, I know... but I take the wins where I can find them).</p><p>Just wondering if <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/personalweb\">#<span>personalweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/lazyweb\">#<span>lazyweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/bloggers\">#<span>bloggers</span></a> had any <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/tips\">#<span>tips</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/tricks\">#<span>tricks</span></a> or <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/feedback\">#<span>feedback</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"http://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/\"><span>http://</span><span>readbeanicecream.surge.sh/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogs\">#<span>blogs</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogger\">#<span>blogger</span></a></p>",
        "text": "So, I have been trying out this #blogging thing for about month (short month, I know... but I take the wins where I can find them).\n\nJust wondering if #indieweb #smallweb #personalweb #lazyweb #bloggers had any #tips #tricks or #feedback \n\nhttp://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/\n\n#blogs #blog #blogger"
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        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Business\">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Findings\">#<span>Findings</span></a> <br />The future of the internet \u00b7 Smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences <a href=\"https://ilo.im/162kss\"><span>https://</span><span>ilo.im/162kss</span><span></span></a> </p><p>_____<br /><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Survey\">#<span>Survey</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Internet\">#<span>Internet</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Disruption\">#<span>Disruption</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Web\">#<span>Web</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Community\">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Curation\">#<span>Curation</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Website\">#<span>Website</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Blog\">#<span>Blog</span></a></p>",
        "text": "#Business #Findings \nThe future of the internet \u00b7 Smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences https://ilo.im/162kss \n\n_____\n#Survey #Internet #Disruption #Web #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Community #Curation #Website #Blog"
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    "published": "2025-03-01T20:41:10+00:00",
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    "url": "https://pony.social/@axxuy/114088736911991142",
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        "html": "<p>New post up<br /><a href=\"https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/februaryreview/\"><span>https://</span><span>axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/febr</span><span>uaryreview/</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/blogpost\">#<span>blogpost</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/personalsite\">#<span>personalsite</span></a></p>",
        "text": "New post up\nhttps://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/februaryreview/\n#blog #blogpost #indieweb #personalsite"
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    "published": "2025-03-01T19:06:10+00:00",
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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