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Tantek ()'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 17:03:00 EDT 
Tantek
Join the open social web or be relegated the same fate as AOL, who couldn't even sustain their dominant instant messaging silo.
#Twitter, #Pinterest, #Snapchat, #Quora, you're not special enough to survive on your own. And tick-tock #TikTok.
#fediverse threads
https://www.threads.net/@evanprodromou/post/C46RHmMv1te:
“If Meta can join the Fediverse, what's your excuse?”
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Tantek ()'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 16:49:00 EST
Tantek
I felt the #earthquake here in #SanFrancisco. A single quick sharp jolt with rapid decay, duration less than 2s, meaning it was relatively nearby and small in magnitude
I was about to say, perhaps #earthquakes are the last use-case for #Twitter because yes I reflexively checked it and did see posts about it from folks, including a few friends.
Then I checked https://indieweb.social/tags/earthquake and it has plenty of recent #fediverse posts about the earthquake, several @sfba.social.
Feels like something big has shifted.
The #federated #IndieWeb has replaced another #socialMedia silo use-case.
This is post 7 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
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Post glossary:
silo
https://indieweb.org/silo
social media
https://indieweb.org/social_media
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Tantek ()'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 22:30:00 EST
Tantek
Time to begin again: restarting my #100Days of #IndieWeb project for 2024, as a #100Posts of IndieWeb project, and congrats to the IndieWeb community on a fully completed 2023 IndieWeb Gift Calendar!
Last year I completed 48 out of a planned 100 posts in my #100DaysOfIndieWeb project, for nearly 48 days (some days had multiple posts). Instead of resetting my goals accordingly, say down to 50, I’m going for 100 again, however, this time for 100 posts rather than 100 days, having learned that some days I find the time for multiple posts, and other days none at all.
Looking back to the start of last year’s 100 Days project, it’s been one year since I encouraged everyone to own their own notes¹. Since then many have started, restarted, or expanded their personal sites to do so. Some have switched from a #Twitter account to a #Mastodon (or other #fediverse) account as a stopgap for short-form status posts. A step in the right direction, yet also an opportunity to take the leap this year to fully own their identity and posts on the web.
In 2023 Twitter also broke all existing API clients (including my website). I did not feel it was worth my time to re-apply for an API key and rebuild/retest any necessary code for my semi-automatic #POSSE publishing, not knowing when they might break things again (since there was no rational reason for them to have broken things in the first place).
I manually POSSEd a few posts after that, yet from the lack of interactions, either Twitter’s feed algorithm² isn’t showing my posts, or people have largely left or stopped using Twitter.
Either way, when your friends stop seeing your posts on a silo, there’s no need to spend any time POSSEing to it.
On the positive side, the IndieWeb community really came together in 2023, shining brightly even through the darker days of December.
We, the IndieWeb community (and some beyond!) provided a gift (or often multiple) to the rest of community for every single day of December 2023³, the first time we successfully filled out the whole month since the 2018 IndieWeb Challenge⁴, and only the second time ever in the seven years of the IndieWeb Challenge-turned-Gift-Calendar.
By going through the various gifts (more than 2 per day on average!), there are many interesting numbers and patterns we could surface. That deserves its own post however, as does a summary of the 48 posts⁵ of my 2023 100 Days of IndieWeb attempt, so I’ll end this post here.
Happy New Year to all, with an especially well deserved congratulations to the IndieWeb community and everyone who contributed to the 2023 Gift Calendar. Well done!
Let’s see what else we can create & share on our personal sites in 2024 and continue setting a higher bar for the independent web by showing instead of telling. #ShowDontTell
This is post 1 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
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Post glossary:
API
https://indieweb.org/API
POSSE
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
silo
https://indieweb.org/silo
¹ https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
² https://indieweb.org/algorithmic_feed
³ https://indieweb.org/2023-12-indieweb-gift-calendar
⁴ https://indieweb.org/2018-12-indieweb-challenge
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 21:20:57 EST 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://500ish.com/mastodon-brought-a-protocol-to-a-product-fight-ba9fda767c6a
#Medium link; don't be surprised if it does weird things before showing you the article.
"Mastodon brought a protocol to a product fight"
> Yes, yes, the network is under immense strain as people flee the Elon strain infecting Twitter. But come on, there are folks who really believe this is going to replace, or even stand alongside Twitter, as a massively scaled social network? I call bullshit. While it’s impressive that millions of users have apparently given Mastodon a try, the product is far too slapdash and clunky to keep folks engaged. A lump of coal.
No, it isn't meant to be a #Twitter replacement. Keep your Twitter account until you no longer want it--or the company closes and the site shuts down--you can use Mastodon alongside Twitter.
And the #Fediverse networks are much more than just #Mastodon. Don't think you have experienced the network and all it has to offer if all you've done is briefly tried to use Mastodon, because you haven't experienced it.
> I’ve somehow avoided signing up for the service up until now. Largely because signing up was and is so comically obtuse — pick your server everyone, hope you choose wisely!
Have you not used e-mail? It works the same way. You pick a server, such as Gmail or Outlook dot com, and sign up. Please tell me you realize that the people you communicate with are not all on the same e-mail service that you use.
> But, but, it’s not a product, it’s a protocol. Yeah, that’s a nice thing to say. And to believe in. But I truly believe the ship has sadly sailed for such idealism in this space. Jack Dorsey can talk about how this should have been what Twitter was from the get go until he’s bluesky in the face. It’s just not going to happen. And he’s more to blame for that than most everyone else. As is he for the Elon element of this current equation. But that’s a different story.
Okay, so how about this story: Twitter has only been profitable two or three years of its entire history. Since it started, it has existed by burning through investors' funds. Eventually, with or without Elon Musk's ownership, that runs out. Without such funding, their corporate-centralized ( #corpocentric ) model cannot exist very long. And same for their centralized competitors, such as Post.news, Gab, Parler, and so on. What is left is either #federated or #peer-to-peer approaches, where no single entity is responsible for funding and managing the entire network. So whether it is the #Fediverse ( with #ActivityPub and #OStatus and their successors ) & the Federation ( with #Diaspora ) or #Bluesky, or #Twister, or #NOSTR, the eventual future of #socnets is #decentralized, if not entirely peer-to-peer unless a national government takes over Facebook and Twitter in order to provide effectively unlimited resources. It is the protocol that makes it possible for thousands or millions of instances to displace and replace one big centralized instance.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 20:58:05 EST
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://prodromou.pub/@evan/109498060348615260
@evan@prodromou.pub @evan@identi.ca ( and formerly @evan@e14n.com ) has said this a few times, but here it is again.
"Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers.
You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave.
You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you.
You know you're going to be ashamed of it later.
Just stop posting.
Do it here, not there. Connect here, not there.
Don't reply, don't like, don't retweet.
Stop feeding your life into the machine."
This was true before Elon #Musk bought #Twitter, but I guess it wasn't as important before.
I don't fully agree, simply because there may be some advantages to many people who continue to use Twitter instead of moving to the #Fediverse (e.g., #GNU_Social, #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Misskey, #PixelFed, #Lenny / #Lemmy, etc) or they would have moved over already.
Also, because unless one self-hosts one's own presence, an angry instance admin is all it takes to lose all posts and connections and have to start over. Or, if one has contacts on a different instance, then irate instance admins participating in #blockwars (including #fediblock) can separate the person from some portion of their contacts.
So remember, everything that Twitter is or can do to you, your Fediverse instance can also do. Most instances will never do most of those things, but pretending that one is safe here could result in disappointment in the future. -
Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Monday, 30-Apr-2018 22:53:40 EDT 
Zed Ex Fuuma
I updated my blog. I dunno how good my writing is, but I hope I can cover things well.
https://whole-net-digest.retrodigital.net/wp/2018/05/01/on-the-future-of-the-net/
I want to expand my blog eventually, and feature interviews and the like. If you have any suggestions, please give me a toot!
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Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 23:10:06 EDT
Zed Ex Fuuma
Still have a #Twitter and #Facebook account...
Birdsite I never even really use nowadays, and I never even post on Facebook. I don't know what's holding me back from deleting these accounts... well, I have family on Facebook, but nothing like that on twitter.
I kinda want to delete my facebook tho even if family is on there because family keeps posting stuff about #vaccines causing #autism. I only shake my head whenever I hear that.
Tips anyone?
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Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Sunday, 11-Mar-2018 17:58:55 EDT
Zed Ex Fuuma
Good evening #SDF and the wider #Fediverse! I'm still working on getting myself free from the clutches of #google and #comcast, but I feel like I'm 50% of the way there. I still use #twitter and #facebook, but feel bad about it. I can't give up facebook over night like I can twitter however, as it's the only way to really get in contact with family for now. How do you peeps deal with having to use a service you want no part of? Also, #MetaARPA is scheduled for next month at this rate :D
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Tantek ()'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2018 18:44:00 EST
Tantek
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Timur Demin (tdemin)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2017 07:33:30 EST 
Timur Demin
Looks like I'm abandoning on my #Mastodon account. I've migrated back to #Twitter since it introduced the #280characters limit. And yes, there are better clients than Mastodon now has. #TweetDeck is not as good as Mastodon's web client, but in general it's OK.
Maybe I'll be back at some point.
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Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2017 16:10:06 EDT 
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
♻ Silverwizard @HippyWizard: #Wikipedia #deletionists are actively stupid and pro-ignorance, it's the only explanation ¶ via #Twitter, 'cos his #Friendica instance is down https://twitter.com/HippyWizard/status/901572815668826117 -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2017 16:08:10 EDT
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
♻ Laurel L. Russwurm @laurelrusswurm: It's easier to tear down than create. ¶ via #Twitter https://twitter.com/laurelrusswurm/status/901571855731044362 -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2017 16:06:25 EDT
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
♻ Laurel L. Russwurm @laurelrusswurm: That's why I contribute so little to @Wikipedia. It's not the work, it's that I've better things to do than stave off deletionist cliques. ¶ via #Twitter, because I haven't fixed the #Twitterbridge on s.russwurm.org yet… https://twitter.com/laurelrusswurm/status/901565998221979649 -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2017 17:57:07 EDT
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
m♻ Andrew Sullivan Cant @andrew_s_cant: NVM I found it. Its like the deleter believed the event just did not happen to not meet the criteria ¶ via #Twitter https://twitter.com/andrew_s_cant/status/901543565544890368 -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2017 17:54:59 EDT
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
♻ Andrew Sullivan Cant @andrew_s_cant: Is there are link for the deleted page, to see the justification for deletion? Maybe its something we can address. ¶ via #Twitter https://twitter.com/andrew_s_cant/status/901539335408943104 -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2017 15:24:25 EDT
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
♻ Sunflower @keeferrourke: At any rate, regardless of who recreates the page, I think it should still be recreated. Calling out the deletionist on the Talk page is probably the best idea here. Particularly emphasise the uniqueness of the conference and you should have a case. Other conferences and events have their own articles. ¶ via #Twitter https://twitter.com/keeferrourke/status/901505908357902336 -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2017 15:20:28 EDT
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
♻ Sunflower @keeferrourke: Do you have a copy of the article still? Perhaps I could post it, mention the deletion in the talk page, and you could contribute to it? ¶ via #Twitter https://twitter.com/keeferrourke/status/901505205648445443 -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2017 15:19:08 EDT
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
♻ Sunflower @keeferrourke: interesting that the #deletionist does not welcome discussion on their talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alex_Shih ¶ via #Twitter https://twitter.com/keeferrourke/status/901504960394932224 -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2017 13:47:21 EDT
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
♻ Марсио Baрbado, Jр. @mbjunior: Detetionism is a Wikipedia thing. Both bots and humans perform it. And yes, it sucks. ¶ via #Twitter https://twitter.com/mbjunior/status/901500354591903744 -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2017 13:33:27 EDT
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
♻ Sunflower @keeferrourke: I have a Wikipedia account and could contribute to the page probably. It might also be worth sending a notice to kwlug-disc about this. ¶ via #Twitter https://twitter.com/keeferrourke/status/901495249842864128
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