Posted on Wednesday 7 Apr 2021. 880 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.
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Peter Rukavina (ruk.ca)Back in mid-March I received an email from Matt Rainnie, personable host of CBC Mainstreet: would I be interested, he asked, in being the “Spin Time DJ” for the show on an upcoming Friday.
Would I be interested? Of course I’d be interested. Had I not been dreaming of this very moment for…
We have enough social media platforms, and they are all broken. Content moderation is bust at even moderate scale, and algorithmic amplification is broken at any scale. We need a reboot. We need to double down on the ideas of Web 1.0, and the tools that make carving out your own place on the internet possible. Not more platforms luring…
Dwayne Harris (dwayne.xyz)I added support for Webmentions to the site!
Webmentions is a protocol for websites (mostly blog type sites) to automatically notify each other of responses or mentions to each other. It’s not a service (but there are services that work with it), but something that can be implemented in blogging s…
A couple of years ago I started building an IndieWeb website. Then I got painfully busy at work, stopped improving it, and basically ran out of free time to even post to it.
Fast forward a couple of years, and I’ve got a new job that’s somewhat more manageable, and during the holiday break I’m tryin…
