Good feeling this morning, walking to get coffee and then fixing a couple bugs. Micro.blog does so much behind the scenes that is not obvious unless you have years of using the platform… Always something to smooth over, or expose more bits of info about what it’s doing.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Ben Werdmuller
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Escape from Twitter: The Future of Social Media Is Decentralized
This is a pretty great article about the decentralized social web, which quotes Christine Lemmer-Webber, Blaine Cook, and me.
It’s in Polish, but if you don’t speak the language, the “translate” button on your browser works pretty well.
Here are the full remarks I sent Micha...
I thought Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul would be all spectacle. After watching it, I’m not sure how to feel. As a kid I went to see a fight on closed-circuit TV, a quick knockout, over while I got popcorn. That was a lifetime ago. Now he’s 58 years old and back… Like time slows down, but not enough.
We’ve got a new Core Int out today. Daniel and I talk about Apple’s Image Playground and SwiftUI.
Ben Werdmuller
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Biden Asked Microsoft to “Raise the Bar on Cybersecurity.” He May Have Helped Create an Illegal Monopoly.
[Renee Dudley, with research by Doris Burke, at ProPublica]
Security lapses in Microsoft's own products led to hacks that in turn pushed President Biden to ask for help from it and other tech companies to improve White House security. Microsoft saw it as an ...
I have another Bluesky-related feature ready to roll out in Micro.blog, but will wait until Monday. Bluesky is growing so fast, I’m sure they have their hands full, no sense in adding any extra hits to the API on a Friday afternoon.
Randomly drove by Terrible Love and had to stop. It’s a coffee shop in an old boiler room in Hyde Park. ☕️
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
What I want from Mozilla
Like many of you, I received a survey today with the title: “What is your dream for Mozilla?” I filled it in, but the potential for Mozilla is so expansive and critical to the future of the internet that I wanted to address my thoughts in greater depth here.
Mozilla de...
Hot Tubbing an Online Community by Caleb John Clark, 1999
Today's song: Tea for two and two for tea.
When I was a boy my mother would sometimes say if I didn't stop belching I wouldn't be able to stop.
Why Repubs won? They campaigned in a new way that the Dems apparently didn't notice (neither did I, not claiming to be better). Repubs were more creative and improvisational. They didn't worry what Jake Tapper or Ezra Klein would think, so came off as more genuine. It's a TV show, acting and suspension of disbelief are what count. It has nothing to do with anything else. Sorry it has to be that way but that's how it is. I don't think they hate women btw, they would have voted for Roseanne Barr or Melissa McCarthy. Maybe Chris Rock, they probably would have really liked Will Smith. Idiocracy was incredibly prescient. No joke.
I predict that people will come to appreciate features that Mastodon has that the other twitter-like social web apps don't.
Thanks @leo for the mention of Micro.blog on This Week in Google! Great discussion about Bluesky and other networks too.
I added a screen shot to the WordLand placeholder page.
The I-35 upper decks will be demolished soon. This view is going to look a lot different.
Spotify removed the latest episode of my podcast Timetable because it used copyrighted music. True! The whole shtick of the episode was that the song Thunder Road is playing in the background while I talk. I regret nothing.
Ben Werdmuller
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Newsletter platform beehiiv launches multi-million dollar journalism fund
[Sara Fischer at Axios]
"Beehiiv, a newsletter startup taking aim at Substack, says it's making a "multi-million dollar investment" to create a new "beehiiv Media Collective" of journalists on its platform."
Beehiiv's new fund for independent journalists wil...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Is BlueSky the new Twitter, and if so is that a good thing?
[Mathew Ingram at The Torment Nexus]
Mathew 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 s...
Great post by Ben Werdmuller about Bluesky’s popularity and the fediverse. To his list of what works well at Bluesky, I would add this: Bluesky usernames are domain names and millions of people are cool with it. I consider that a win for the IndieWeb.