Meta joining the Fediverse is like AOL joining the internet: something that will bring a mass amount of people in, create some friction, but ultimately make the net better as more people federating on #Mastodon, #kbin, #lemmy, #pixelfed and other parts of the Fediverse make open protocols that much stronger.
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
Watching #Elon and now #Reddit CEO Huffman run the same play, it makes me think that Matt Muellenweg may be the only tech CEO left that I can think of has any credibility on the #OpenWeb. #WordPress#Automattic
I’m writing about the current tension between keeping the internet open (but vulnerable to getting scraped by #AI and exploited by big corporations) and maintaining #privacy (but effectively losing open access to information, creating a lot of small locked off spaces, and getting rid of any indexing, search, or APIs)
Would love to hear thoughts or get links. Thank you!
Do you want to add a "log in with your fediverse account" functionality to your site? I am working on a self-hosted node.js server that lets you do just that.
I never really understand why people bother to imbed text from other sites into their web pages. It never made sense to me. How about just quote the damn text and link to the original. It's not as if HTML weren't designed to do just that!
There wouldn't be so many broken #Twitter or other imbeds if people had been sensible from the beginning. I've seen this from #Substack as well. Why give platforms that control?
We need responsible people to STOP pushing only #Mastodon as this is not helping, just look at the SPAM currently spewing from this process. With this mess we are building a codebase and an instance that are "too big to fail" this is absurdly stupid and not needed.
Please link and talk about the #openweb or the #fediverse to start to compost the mess you are making, thanks.
The Medium is The Message is part one of a series (probably). In it, I argue that #Threads is not the assumed victory for the #fediverse it appears to be.
Longterm interpolation with Threads sends the wrong signal— not that Meta and Mastodon use #ActivityPub, a protocol the average user doesn’t understand, but that both share the same beliefs for the #openweb. #PostsFromJason#FediSeriesFJ
Remember “Open APIs?” How Tim O’Reilly told us they were how we would build the “open web” in “Web 2.0?”
Turns out an Open API is open in the sense that a gate owned by someone else is open. In that it can just as easily be closed and locked at their whim.
"They’ve already laid claim to our collective land, labor and attention. With AI, they want to own our thoughts and the last shred of agency that comes with them. If we fail to defend our personal sovereignty at this juncture, a dark age of the corporate singularity awaits us."
"To land a real blow, look for where the machines are at their most materialized. Take aim at their massive bodies of data and strike there with conviction."
I'll tell you all, a whole LOT of people on the #Fediverse (especially those on bigger instances) that I have respect for are showing their true colors over these last couple of days and it's really a shame.
It's like they don't even acknowledge Meta/FB's history of doing business plus deep down, they give you know what about the #openweb these days.
Project Tapestry will weave your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline. How? We’re glad you asked.
Today we have a blog post and screencast from developer Craig Hockenberry that takes you under the hood of our Project Tapestry prototype and shows off the approach behind the API that makes the app so exciting. So grab your favorite beverage and follow along!