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I'd like to see a mutual defense pact among the open source projects who depend on the stability each others' work. Not with the people, but the projects. Sort of like a NATO of open source. Where this comes from -- I'm tired of being treated like the proprietor of RSS 2.0. I transferred all my rights to Harvard in 2003. You have just as much interest in RSS 2.0 remaining stable as I do. The opposite of Embrace and Extend, rather Embrace and Preserve.

I've never been very interested in what Kimmel says but I am now.

Saturday session in the sun

Buenos días, Cáceres!

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. (The joke is the S in MCP stands for security, but that’s another post.) They say to think of it like “like a USB-C port for AI applications” because it allows interoperability between AI chatbots and other tools. Here’s some of the MCP stuff happening across the Automattic solar … Continue reading MCP Everywhere →

September 12-19, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #036 Thursday, September 18 at 10:00am Online! Zoom! Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks ...

Highly recommend today's Bill Simmons podcast where he talks about the Jimmy Kimmel situation. His perspective is very good, he says Kimmel doesn't need ABC. And I believe him.

There should be a ChatGPT "personality" for the chatbot. I'd like to start with a black lab. When I say "good work" that reinforces that what it did should be a priority. If I say that and give it a treat (by typing "treat") that should get double emphasis. I might like it better if I could train it. I don't mind a little enthusiasm, but I want it to respond to me with respect.

I'm going to call it social web not open social web. You don't need the "open" part. The web is open. It's like saying "wet water."

Cross-posted from my daveverse site. I hadn’t considered the point of view of people who worked at Netscape when it disappeared just as RSS 0.9.1 was being adopted by the blogosphere in 1999. We did try to get in touch with them, even when they didn’t work there, but no one...

Bluesky is spinning out the PLC directory:

After considering several jurisdictions, legal structures, and potential parent organizations, the new entity will form as a Swiss Association. In a period of international uncertainty around Internet governance, Switzerland provides a credibly neutral and stable global home.

I like this. They’ve always acknowledged that PLC wasn’t intended to be permanent. Now there’s progress that’s better without waiting for it to be perfect.

Smart move by Mastodon to get into the hosting business:

This could be a fully operated server under the organisation’s own domain run by our team (with moderation included, on request); or, we can work with an organisation’s in-house operations team, via a support contract.

I’ve noticed whenever I catch Mastodon’s financial reports that individual donations have dropped. It’s hard to make donations work unless you have frequent NPR-style fundraising. Hosting will be mostly for larger institutions, not trying to compete with all the many smaller indie servers.

The penalty for ABC and Disney should be we stop watching their stuff.

The challenge we face in the open social web is seducing people off the silos with fun toys to play with that from the start don't rely on a bigco to run it, the back-end is a server you could run for $20 a month on digital ocean for example. But the logical network isn't tied to the physical server, we use urls or dns to find other nodes. They can be hosted anywhere. The reason to run lots of servers is to demonstrate that it's only as centralized as the web itself, from day 1.

This is the 108th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Robert Birming and his blog, birming.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbo...

For fans of the Juwel 3 typewriter that appears in the Netflix series Wednesday, there’s a tiny little simulacra in LEGO set 76781 Wednesday & Enid’s Dorm Room.  With the recent drop of the second season and Halloween around the corner, I was surprised to see the set on clearance at Target for about $30.