People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Wow, I hadn’t heard about this yet but can’t wait. War of the Rohirrim coming at the end of the year, trailer here on YouTube. Love an animated Lord of the Rings.
More on the fediverse stars symbol, this time from Manuel Moreale:
I am no fediverse citizen but I do consider myself a good citizen of the web. I try my best to make it a better place and I try to encourage people to own their corners of the web. Am I excluded from your fancy club because I don’t “federate”?
This gets back to my point about “social web” vs. fediverse. Manu has a fantastic blog and he’s making the web better. The social web (IndieWeb!) should connect seamlessly to blogs without an extra protocol layer over the web.
Nice update to ChatGPT for Mac: option-space now brings up results in a small floating window. Good for quick answers, but can still be collapsed back into the main window. Whoever is working on the Mac app is doing good work. It’s like a case study in sticking with AppKit.
Finished reading: The Exchange by John Grisham. A sequel to The Firm. I usually try to find something positive to say about a book… I didn’t enjoy this after the first few chapters. But it’s short and I wanted to know how it ended. 📚
Full audio for Kamala Harris's acceptance speech at the DNC.
Thanks to Ian Landsman for converting the video to MP3.
My blog post about the speech.
Podcast: 37 minutes.
People over protocols over platforms.inspired by today’s #indieweb #fediverse #ActivityPub #decentralized #socialMedia lunch meetup at #XOXO #XOXOConf (@xoxo@xoxo.zone)This is post 16 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts← https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-adoption→ 🔮
Feasting on fresh Florida shrimp, corn, and tomatoes. 🦐 🌽 🍅
Penn family farm at Cedar Hill State Park.
Formation
Beach day
For many archivists, alarm bells are ringing. Across the world, they are scraping up defunct websites or at-risk data collections to save as much of our digital lives as possible. Others are working on ways to store that data in formats that will last hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of years.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Loco Cafe in Denton. ☕️
Ben Werdmuller follows up on the fediverse symbol, blogging that Meta should be commended for adopting ActivityPub before any other large network:
Whatever you think about Meta’s goals for participating, I do also think Meta’s presence gives the network a sort of legitimacy that it was otherwise struggling to achieve.
I agree. I have nitpicks with the (for now) partial rollout on Threads, but overall it’s a good thing.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
This proposed image for the fediverse is good; I like it a lot.
But I don't know that the combative language on this site is helpful. The Meta iconography isn't right, I agree, but there's something off about calling them “a large corporation that is joining in as late” (sic).
For one thing, Meta is early; for another, it seems to me that we want companies to participate? I don’t think seeking ideological purity is useful (and run the risks of the movement shooting itself in the foot).
Whatever you think about Meta’s goals for participating, I do also think Meta’s presence gives the network a sort of legitimacy that it was otherwise struggling to achieve. That’s a net benefit: we must grow the network.
I also agree with the point, made by Chris Messina, Manton Reece and others, that the right phrase is the social web, not the fediverse. The web is the network.
I like the proposed symbol for the fediverse: ⁂. It’s just unicode so doesn’t need anything special to use everywhere on the web. Part of me still thinks we should move toward “social web” as a phrase, though. The web should be the social network.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
