The web is not thriving for indie publishers. We can only hope Google doesn’t lose sight of small indie websites, and how *they* can earn a living in the AI era. That was the beauty of the Web 2.0 era — there were opportunities for *everyone* to thrive. I see Google, AI companies and big publishers like Reddit thriving in this era…but surely Google knows that isn’t enough for the broader web ecosystem to thrive. Ref: Google’s “from our point of view the web is thriving."
C.IM
Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick@c.im)
Attached: 1 image Google's Nick Fox questions the CTR studies done on AI Overviews and says the web is thriving, @JohnMu echoed that the web is th...
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We are aliens from another planet. “This is certainly the most visible fediverse content has ever been inside of Threads, but the world of ActivityPub is still not a first-class citizen inside of Threads. You still have to opt-in to sharing your posts, you still have to have a separate account to connect to, and you’ll still have to go to the dedicated feed to see what’s new. (If you post something and get fediverse replies, those are still separate too.)”
Mastodon
The Verge (@verge@mastodon.social)
Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds https://www.theverge.com/news/688267/threads-fediverse-feed-search
What do you call your personal website these days? (if none of these options, please comment)
Updated my Tumblr (velvetsfan.com) for the first time in months…was listening to some music and wanted to post about it somewhere. I miss soup.io, which was a smaller, quirkier version of Tumblr, and where I used to post artsy-fartsy stuff that didn’t fit into my tech blogging world. Tumblr was the one that survived, but now it’s owned by one of the self-important crazy Tech Lords and so I am not so keen on using it. Is there a fedi version of Tumblr with some traction? #AskingForAFriend
I watched Mountainhead over the past 2 nights (couldn’t get through it in one night, it made me too anxious!). It was ok entertainment in the end, but a bit too over-the-top for my liking. Of course you recognize the All-In Podcast crew, Musk, Altman and the rest of that lot in the 4 main characters. Maybe too close to the bone for many of us who work in tech? I enjoyed Succession a lot more, because it didn’t try so hard to be a parody. It kind of felt like sitting thru an All-In episode. image
In 1997, the first browser war began amid new internet trends like 'push' and DHTML. Meanwhile, instant messaging apps like ICQ and AIM became popular and GeoCities achieved 1 million users.
Cybercultural
What the Internet Was Like in 1997
In 1997, the first browser war begins amid new internet trends like 'push' and DHTML. Meanwhile, instant messaging apps like ICQ and AIM become pop...
 #InternetHistory
Here's my writeup of #FediForum, in which I ask the question: is the fediverse making meaningful progress vs. centralized platforms? The post includes [@_elena](
Mastodon
Elena Rossini ⁂ (@_elena@mastodon.social)
671 Posts, 469 Following, 10.8K Followers · Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who ❤️ #FOSS 🎬 Director of...
 )'s excellent video and has discussion of @Christine Lemmer-Webber's presentation, Bounce (by @Anuj Ahooja & [@snarfed.org](
snarfed.org
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@snarfed.org snarfed.org snarfed snarfed@ryanb.org Open source and professional software engineer, father, pianist, writer, climate hawk,...
 )), Surf (by [@mike](
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Mike McCue (@mike) on Flipboard
CEO, Co-founder Flipboard. I love design, startups, exploration, photo journalism and classic wooden boats. Also posting at @mike@flipboard.social
 ) & [@marci](
Flipboard
Marci McCue (@marci) on Flipboard
Working at Flipboard. Born and raised in the Bay Area. Believe that voter registration is the path to true representation and that fact-based journ...
 )), Channels.org (by @npub1qm36...d0q6 & @npub1dadl...y568 team), & Bandwagon (by @Ben Pate 🤘🏻). Thx also @Johannes Ernst & @npub1yazx...h0xs for FediForum. The headline is via Christine: "we can’t succeed without joy." https://thenewstack.io/bringing-joy-back-to-the-web-fediverse-vs-centralized-apps/
I’m sure we will hear a lot about Bill Atkinson (RIP) over the next few days, but I want to point out the huge influence of #HyperCard on the Web. @Tim Berners-Lee himself mentioned it in his original WWW proposal (
Cybercultural
1990: Programming the World Wide Web
In the final few months of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee and his CERN colleague Robert Cailliau develop the world’s first browser, create the HTML markup...
), early web browsers like ViolaWWW were modeled on HyperCard (
Cybercultural
1992: The Web vs Gopher, and the First External Browsers
Three non-CERN web browsers are released over 1992 — Erwise, ViolaWWW and MidasWWW — at a time when there are less than 20 websites in the worl...
), and even JavaScript owed a debt to it (HyperCard included an object oriented scripting language called HyperTalk;
Cybercultural
1995: The Birth of JavaScript
JavaScript is invented in a two-week flurry in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, a newly hired developer at browser company Netscape. The idea is to extend...
).
Every time I have to google this... I guess they had to come up with something to shortcut forcing a linebreak, but it never sticks in my head. #Markdown image