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Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text

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Instagram’s co-founders launch Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text door Casey Newton (The Verge)

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram, announced Artifact, a news app that uses machine learning and algorithmic recommendations to serve a feed of stories to readers.

Instagram’s oprichter neemt een afslag om een sociaal netwerk rondom tekst te ontwikkelen. Aangezien Instagram de genesis was van visuele sociale netwerken, ben ik benieuwd wat dit gaat doen. Ik heb me ingeschreven voor de beta. De inzet van machine learning en algoritmes… het kan eng klinken, maar algoritmes hoeven niet per se iets slechts te zijn.

The Best Time to Own a Domain Was 20 Years Ago…

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The Best Time to Own a Domain Was 20 Years Ago; The Second Best Time Is Today (blog.jim-nielsen.com)

Mastodon has a verification system built on the humble rel=me which gained coverage on The Markup (found via adactio links). It allows you to verify that your Mastodon profile controls a particular domain (e.g. I have verified jim-nielsen.com, something nobody else in the world can claim to do witho…

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In an internet connected world, domains are a currency of value. Do you want to own your value, or let someone else own it?

Winter Cleaning

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Winter Cleaning door Jamie Todd Rubin (jamierubin.net)

black classic car inside the garage Photo by Mike B on Pexels.com
While on winter break I decided to tackle some winter cleaning that I’ve put off for years. I decided to clean up my files and data and organize them into something more useful. This was part of the personal automation effort that I…

Wat een herkenbaar moment van Jamie Todd Rubin. Al je documenten, projecten, foto’s, media, verspreid over allerhande harddisks, folders en services. Hoe ruim je dat op? Hij legt stap voor stap uit hoe hij de keuzes maakt en waarom. Met uiteindelijk dat mooie gevoel: "Everything was in its place, and everything had a place to go. It’s nice to know that when I create something, there is a clear and obvious place to put it."

Het is herkenbaar want ik loop na 30 jaar computeren tegen dezelfde vraagstukken. En ik zou er eens iets mee moeten doen. Deze gids kan me helpen.

Should the Fediverse Be Measured Like a Regular Social Network?

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Should the Fediverse Be Measured Like a Regular Social Network? (Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.)

Measuring Mastodon based on daily active users doesn’t make sense because maximizing user counts is not the goal. Building a sustainable network is.

De berichten over de dip in gebruikers op Mastodon missen een belangrijk punt volgens Ernie Smith (en ik denk dat hij een goed punt heeft):

Mastodon, and fediverse technologies like it, are doing something significantly harder than just building yet another social network with central ownership and a single point of failure. We owe it to this work to not measure it like it’s just another social network, because it’s trying to do something harder—it’s trying to build a foundation for social media that doesn’t have to be commercial.

Door nieuwe communicatie te meten met oudere meetinstrumenten, mis je een relevante blik op de toekomst. Is het aantal dagelijkse gebruikers echt relevant? Of zijn andere metrics van dienst hier? En welke zijn dat dan?

Likes considered harmful?

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Likes considered harmful? (Scripting News)

On Micro.blog there’s a debate about whether Likes are harmful.

Thanks to protocols and W3C recommendations I can like, bookmark, annotate anything on my own site. I can send out a notification I liked what you wrote. You can decide to receive this notification, moderate it or publish it on your own site. That’s up to you. As it is on Micro.blog. Whether that’s harmful, I don’t know. Are hitparades harmful? Top 10 lists?