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Kimberly Hirsh shares LGBTQ+ organizations to donate to:

GLSEN is my go-to resource for LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education.

The Trevor Project is a suicide prevention and crisis intervention program for LGBTQ+ young people.

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Basically we have to bring politics to the people.

The W3C should've gotten behind RSS long before they endorsed ActivityPub. They're controlled by big companies who are truly scared of interop, explains why most of their proposed standards go nowhere. BTW, I figure if Matt can openly discuss what's undermining WordPress as an open standard (which it is) no reason I can't tell the truth why the social web is not a web. It's all a big corporate con. Everywhere you look, ripping us off and selling us out.

To answer Mark Cuban's question of what could we do now to make things better. I forgot that I have two ready-made answers. First, get the Democrats or whatever its successor is called, on the air 365 days a year, every year, not just in election years, and have it do many t...

Rebecca has articulated this incredibly well and I also enjoyed Jatan’s addendum. There seems to be no longer a space for thoughtfulness, for true comprehension in the public online space. We’re all too happy to mock, to ridicule, to attack, to insult and in the process, we’...

It's a no-blogging Wednesday, will return tomorrow.

Vincent Ritter: Silence. I wasn’t sure that Vincent would blog something, but I’m glad he did. Personal blogs can help us connect with people, walk a little bit in their shoes, even if we don’t always agree on everything.

I’ve now read Adam Newbold’s post Accountability and I will reply tomorrow. I still have him muted but I’ve caught up on most of his posts and boosts. Thanks for your patience. I’ve been doing this a long time, hopefully one more day won’t kill the platform that I’ve dedicated my career to.

Wednesday session

Worked mostly behind the scenes today, a lot in email. I’m planning a couple new posts for tomorrow. If I post them now I’ll never get a break. 🙂 Also some private messages of support. There are people who think our mission here is valuable but they don’t want to get caught up in a public debate. ❤️

Made it 3 weeks into 2025 before I saved a blog post bookmark with the tags “2025”, “web”, and “drama” 🤪

Congrats to Daniel Supernault on the Kickstarter! It’s great timing for Pixelfed and I expect it’s going to well exceed its goal.

To take a break from the 4000 client projects I’m coding all at once I just spent a few minutes reading through some good old internet drama that I’m not going to link here because it’s not worth sharing (even though I admit I had quite a blast going through it). I try to st...

Are you keeping cozy during eternal Caturday?

In an attempt to turn lemons into lemonade, I’m reviewing our community guidelines to see what we can improve. We can do a better job of highlighting that Micro.blog can be a safe place for the LGBTQ+ community. What I said in the Kickstarter video in 2017 is still true: indie blogs, safe community.

In 30 years of working on apps and the web, I’ve never had a falling out like this with another developer. It’s depressing. There are lessons here in why social media brings out the worst in us, amplifying disagreements. Things I’ve written a lot about! But seeing it happen live is something else.

I’ve had to mute Adam Newbold. We’re a couple days in to Trump’s second term and we’re fighting amongst ourselves instead of working. In one day we went from friendly competition and shared values to an unrecoverable train wreck. I have so many things to improve in Micro.blog. Hope to make some progress on something positive today. A lot of people use both omg.lol and Micro.blog and I’m very sorry to them that this happened. ❤️

I’m going to be hosting Research By The Sea on Thursday, February 27th right here in Brighton. I’m getting very excited and nervous about it. The nervousness is understandable. I want to do a good job. Hosting a conference is like officiating a wedding. You want to put peop...

Some interesting experiments in web typography here.

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A few people seem confused about why I might prefer a conversation to continue in email. It’s a better place to find common ground. Also helps avoid saying anything disparaging about someone in public. We have enough threads on social media that escalated to hurtful comments. I stand by this.