I continue to doubt that Apple can roll back external payment links now that the genie is out of the bottle. The appeals court was not persuaded that they should block the order. So we’ll have months of users using external links and the world not ending.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Congrats to A New Social on announcing Bounce, a way to move followers between Bluesky and the fediverse. I like how they’re previewing what followers (and follows) will move. Migrating accounts currently feels very blind, as you cross your fingers and hope everything works across fediverse servers.
Next Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf is happening!
Next Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf is happening!
Just a tiny bit of reflection, outside Alpine.
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Bounce lets you move your followers from Bluesky to Mastodon
[Cameron Faulkner at The Verge]
Bounce is a game-changer for the open social web:
"Bounce is built on the work of Bridgy Fed, which makes your Bluesky posts visible on Mastodon and vice versa. Using Bounce will bridge your accounts, in case you haven’t already set up Bridgy Fed. Then, Bounce can move your account from Bluesky to Mastodon by shifting personal data servers and utilizing the native “move” functionality that ActivityPub and AT Protocol have in common. A New Social CEO and executive director Anuj Ahooja tells The Verge, “Folks on Bluesky will likely never even know you’ve Bounced to Mastodon.”"
This prevents any one service on the open social web from locking you in. Which, after all, is the promise and the power of the platform.
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Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Bounce lets you move your followers from Bluesky to Mastodon
[Cameron Faulkner at The Verge]
Bounce is a game-changer for the open social web:
"Bounce is built on the work of Bridgy Fed, which makes your Bluesky posts visible on Mastodon and vice versa. Using Bounce will bridge your accounts, in case you haven’t already set up
This court order is a wild overreach, undermining the privacy of OpenAI users and developers. This would do far more damage than whatever harm The New York Times is alleging about copyright.
Now a personal comment. What pisses me off most about Bluesky is the environment all this is happening in. We need an open social web. They've got a lot of people convinced they are it. They are not and they know it. And they keep leading people on. They should either deliver, now, or get out of the way.
Regular readers of my blog know that I've been calling out Bluesky and people associated with it for saying they're an open platform, and part of the web, when they are neither. Why don't people, esp journalists, call them out on this? We've been around this loop over and ove...
It’s literally three minutes into CSS Day and I’ve already learned about some CSS I didn’t know about.
It’s literally three minutes into CSS Day and I’ve already learned about some CSS I didn’t know about.
What is the most chaotic page on your website?
At Homebrew Website Club last night we got onto the topic of chaos and websites. I asked What is the most chaotic page on your website? To my surprise, everyone had a slightly different answer: from pages with an “earthquake mode” to a web page whose background colour changes...
Started with a sketch
When I design web pages, I usually start with an idea or concept I want to explore. Here are a few examples of things I have wanted to play with:
A two-column layout that uses black, white, and grey A site that only uses two colours A web page that uses text with unusual spa...
On my way to California, the slow route. 🚂
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
The Darkest Day: A fantasy Doctor Who season
I can’t help myself. I’ve loved every moment of the rebooted Doctor Who on Disney+, but it appears to have hit a bit of a pause while Disney considers whether to renew its co-production. With its future unclear (although I’m certain it’s coming back before too long), I’ve b...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
The Darkest Day: A fantasy Doctor Who season
If I was Doctor Who showrunner ...
This might be a bit dark, but for day 4 of the photo challenge, I was stuck in traffic and looked to my left at this cemetery off MLK. So many stories here.
Can David Frum hear me?
I've been enjoying the new David Frum podcast. He's very good at thinking and does a lot of it, and expresses himself very well. I read all his columns and have read two of his books, even though I don't share much of his pre-Trump politics, I find it interesting to hear how...
Wednesday session in Amsterdam
Wednesday session in Amsterdam
Eugen Rochko on the phased rollout for Mastodon quote posts:
When we released post editing for #Mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We’re taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the upcoming 4.4 version of Mastodon will begin displaying quote posts from other servers and software. Once this is widely deployed on the network, 4.5 will bring the long awaited ability to quote posts.
I blogged about the Mastodon proposal earlier.
My keynote for FediForum
FediForum is a virtual conference that starts tomorrow. If they had asked me to keynote, this is roughly what I would say.
Imho this stuff is pretty freaking simple, esp since there are well over 20 years of prior art to use, and not that many ways to do what we're trying to...