“I rarely just tweet something, unless it’s truly ephemeral (or a reply, obviously). I prefer to blog first and let Twitter get a copy. This is part of owning my own content.” — Brent Simmons on his blogging setup
“I rarely just tweet something, unless it’s truly ephemeral (or a reply, obviously). I prefer to blog first and let Twitter get a copy. This is part of owning my own content.” — Brent Simmons on his blogging setup
This is going to seem like a joke but it's not: in ~1978, there was a minor crisis around connecting the various networks (ARPA, CYCLADES, etc) into an "inter-network environment", aka the internet. Some of the discussions seems similar to our discussion of interoperability between content types in ActivityPub networks. I think it would behoove fediverse nerds to read up on this stuff.
1978 paper summarizing the issue (PDF): https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien20.pdf
IndieWeb is more and more starting to feel like a genuine social network for me. It’s happening slowly, but I’m building up a list of people that I follow in my reader, and I get the odd interaction back here and there. And it’s not all just inside chat about IndieWeb plumbing. Good stuff!
(Not saying it wasn’t already a social network for other people – this is just my own experience. If I’d been blogging to my own site for 20 years, or joined micro.blog, I’m sure I’d be there already!)
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so wait, you're trying to sell me on a social media site that's like mastodon, but one big instance so everyone can see and interact with everyone else's content? sounds like a moderation nightmare. what happens if the admins have drama? you can't just leave and go somewhere nicer
wait, server costs are paid for by ads? seriously? why would i want ads in the middle of my timeline?
and the timeline isn't even chronological, so i have no clue what's actually going on at any point? forget it, i'm out
The only countries worth being in are ones where you get straight lemon juice when you order lemonade, in my opinion. #food #travel https://rhiaro.co.uk/2019/06/only