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18-May-2024
Where’s the IndieWeb going?
some random musings
Tracy Durnell, who you ought to be reading, posted The IndieWeb’s next stage?. But the growing newsletter movement shows there’s a hunger for deeper conversation — nearly every Substack newsletter I read has a lively section of thoughtful replies. Having more readers of personal websites could bolster the existing community of indie publishers. The more...
15-May-2024
BO-HWC: Social Norms in the IndieWeb:
upcoming event
Bonus Online Homebrew Website Club – Social Norms in the IndieWeb is an event this weekend organized by Sara Jakša. The description of the event includes: Let’s have a meeting connecting to the social norms on the internet. Bring any topic connected to the social norms in the internet there. If you want to interact...
23-Apr-2024
Tentative RSVP to a Tentative IndieWeb Event
I like the idea of this Zoom meeting Bonus Online Homebrew Website Club – Social Norms in the IndieWeb, it’s currently tentative, but is intentionally about the culture of the IndieWeb, and was created by Sara Jakša: Lets have a meeting connecting to the social norms on the internet. Bring any topic connected to the...
18-Apr-2024
danah boyd, “moral crumple zones”
What danah boyd told us about AI and ethics by Alex Howard, reporting on a talk danah boyd gave a talk at Georgetown University’s Center For Digital Ethics Bracing for Impact: AI in the Wild. A quote from Alex’s notes: danah gave us an important concept to consider for the rapidly expanding, emergent uses of...
07-Mar-2024
Account Takeovers in Instagram and Facebook are endemic
I learned of this via Are Technica but originally it appeared in Wired: Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law Enforcement Resources, Officials Say. The letter, on the National Association of Attorneys General website: 41 Attorneys General Call On Meta To Protect Users’ Accounts From Scammers With this letter, we request Meta take immediate action and...
04-Mar-2024
Misc Loquacious Linquacious Cascade
It’s rare for me not to sleep great. And… I’ve not slept great the last few days. The rain prevented watergoing for a few days. And now it’s persistent wind preventing ocean swimming and bodysurfing. Yes, I need the water. I mentioned The Magic Mike wetsuit in April last year and now that my prior...
01-Mar-2024
“be the change you wish to see in the indieweb”
“Interactivity of personal sites and webmentions” is a terrific piece by Jo on the upsides and nuances of webmentions. The thing it does really well is remind folks of this key thing…that on the #IndieWeb, YOU get to choose how and what you share and how and and if what may come back to you...
13-Feb-2024
People need context and guidelines to behave properly online:
a tumble of words from me based on Dan Hon’s “Stickers to Manage Replies By”
Dan Hon made some stickers. Via his newsletter: s17e10: Alt Text; Reply Management Stickers Look. I made these because I think people need better ways of managing replies in social software. They are also kind of a joke? I mean, a joke and also serious? They’re a joke in the sense that “ha ha we...
27-Dec-2023
Quote of the Day
(on Substack allowing Nazi writers to use their platform) I am not an economist, but I am pretty sure that limiting the ability of Nazis to acquire money actually does “make [the Nazi problem] worse.” I am pretty sure that money helps Nazis, actually. It certainly helps everyone else. The question of free speech is...
21-Nov-2023
Quotes of the Day
When trust and safety is going well, no one thinks about it or talks about it. And when trust and safety is going poorly, it’s usually something that leadership wants to blame on policies. Quite frankly, policies are going to be a Band-Aid if your product isn’t being designed in a way that actually doesn’t...
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