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Ben Werdmuller Supports Webmention
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Is Ignorance Bliss?

[Jared White]

I've been thinking about this paragraph since I read it:

"In times past, we would worry about singular governmental officials such Joseph Goebbels becoming a master of propaganda for their cause. Today’s problem is massively scaled out in ways Goebbels could only dream of: now everyone can be their own Goebbels. Can someone please tell me what the difference is between an “influencer” holding a smartphone and…a propagandist? Because I simply can’t see the distinction anymore."

This brings me back to Renee DiResta's Invisible Rulers: whoever controls the memes controls the universe.

#Democracy

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Is Bluesky federated like Masto?

This is one of the dialogs you encounter when getting started with Bluesky. It's easy to see how new users might be led believe that Bluesky is federated, as Mastodon is. I'm a developer and I was confused by what it was saying.

Is Bluesky is federated?

Tantek Çelik Updates instantly via WebSub Supports Webmention Valid

remembering losing #aaronsw twelve years ago today, and drawing connections with:* Lawrence Lessig’s https://lessig.tumblr.com/post/56888930628/on-the-emptiness-in-the-concept-of-neutrality* Ben Werdmüller’s https://werd.io/2025/building-an-open-web-that-protects-us-from-harm...

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Matt 4.1

Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big eclipse thing that ended up amazing, this year I’m replicating what I did a few years ago and celebrating in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. My birthday today has already been lovely. Saw the amazing … Continue reading Matt 4.1 →

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

Palmetto State Park. San Marcos River, trail, and old CCC building.

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YouTube channels have feeds. Here's the feed for my YouTube channel. And a canonical JSONification of the feed (this is how FeedLand gets the data from any type of feed, RSS, Atom or RDF, the YouTube feed is Atom). I did not know they had feeds, in fact I thought I heard they specifically did not have feeds. I've subscribed to the feed in FeedLand and it seems to work, and also included it in my blogroll category, so it should show up in my blogroll, and possibly in the Little Feed Reader on Bluesky. Oh the power of interop. All of this, and more, was discovered by Andrew Shell. Two suggestions. 1. Include descriptions with the items. 2. Use enclosures for the videos. Atom does enclosures differently from RSS, but it can be made to work, imho. No matter what, thank you YouTube, and it's a great start.

Ben Werdmuller Supports Webmention
• Ben Werdmuller

Building an open web that protects us from harm

We live in a world where right-wing nationalism is on the rise and many governments, including the incoming Trump administration, are promising mass deportations. Trump in particular has discussed building camps as part of mass deportations. This question used to feel more h...

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

There are a bunch of interesting new smart glasses at CES — see this post by Victoria Song at The Verge — but I’m still looking for something simpler. Looks like normal glasses, can take photos, no screen, optionally you can talk to it, not made by Meta.

Adactio Supports Webmention Valid

25, 20, 15, 10, 5

I have a feeling that 2025 is going to be a year of reflection for me. It’s such a nice round number, 25. One quarter of a century. That’s also how long myself and Jessica have been married. Our wedding anniversary was last week. Top tip: if you get married in year ending ...

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Ouch. Pretty good game until everything unraveled on the 1 yard line. Great season overall for UT though. 🏈

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Status Quo

I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

On Core Int 624 we talk all about Micro.one! Daniel checks it out live on the show for the first time and has feedback about the sign up process and business.

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Hachyderm and Threads

The popular Mastodon server Hachyderm.io has defederated with Threads. They have a long post with their reasoning: Threads’ recent changes in their moderation policies, both what they’ve put in and what they’ve taken out (read the diff), puts their moderation practices in d...

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

Catching up on the Bluesky world, I missed this note in Last Week in Bluesky about trending topics:

The technological underpinning of how Trending Topics work on Bluesky is noteworthy: every trending topic is a custom feed. Every time a new topic is trending, a new custom feed gets created, giving the team better control over the topic. It also allows for new possibilities that have not yet been explored, such as archiving and documenting feeds after the trend is over, or other options that have not yet been explored.

I like it. Technical choices affect what’s possible with moderation.

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Good questions from Phil Jones re Wednesday's podcast. I'm glad to get to answer these questions. There's more to wpIdentity than is obvious at first glance, for example it has a relatively complete storage system built in for developers to use. I used one of its features yesterday in the connection between Bingeworthy and the profile display app.