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Here’s an inspiring presentation from John o’Nolan of ghost.org. It’s the best explanation I’ve seen of the Fediverse as the escape hatch from the cesspit of commercial social media. youtu.be/30ixDZOFE...
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Stop comparing Mastodon and Threads/Bluesky. It's a category mistake.
These things are not apples and apples. Mastodon is a grassroots alternative to the ugly silos of commercial social media. It offers baked-in interoperability, decentralization, cooperation and a future that isn’t based on enshittification. Mastodon is everything Threads/Bluesky is not. I’ve seen shiny-faced developers from Threads and
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I was a bit pissed off the other day when I looked up an old Twitter thread to find it had been spammed by someone at <a href="https://bland.ai" rel="nofollow">bland.ai</a> . Not cool. Despite the shitty tactic,
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Today's rabbit-hole - the IndieWeb and Micro.blog
Over a week ago I read this article by Cory Doctorow and it sparked a cascade of neurons that have been tickled over the past few years. It was a short hop from that article, to the state of the IndieWeb, to realising what a shit-show the whole social-media world
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Wow, that was a whole new rabbit-hole. I wanted to consolidate my identity, cross-post to Mastodon and dive into the whole IndieWeb thing; micro.blog ticked all the boxes. Of course, that was a whole new world of procrastination because it had to be set up perfectly. Almost there...
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Dance like nobody's watching, blog like nobody's reading
I like to write and I'd like to get better at it, but if you think you have to come up with something profound it's a great excuse to procrastinate. Twitter is quick and ok for random shower-thoughts, but not for anything meatier. Google+ used to
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Kids Cant Use Computers and This Is Why Consumer Electronics Sucks
<img src="/uploads/2023/datamation-cover-june-15th-19851.jpg"> I saw an article today called Kids Can’t Use Computers… And This Is Why It Should Worry You and it bugged me so much I had to respond at length. I agree with some of it, but the general