#indieweb 2021-10-31

2021-10-31 UTC
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Loqi
The livestream has started! https://indieweb.live
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Loqi
The livestream has ended
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[tw2113_Slack_]
not every entity online needs its own universe!
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[tw2113_Slack_]
yes, WWE and Marvel have their own
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[tw2113_Slack_]
Facebook doesn't need to follow with their suite of applications
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j12t
Wide ranging, really interesting conversation about metaverse and related subjects
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[chrisaldrich]
A lot of this metaverse business sounds like what Ramon Llull (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull) was creating in the 13th century with his art of memory and combinatoric wheels. Admittedly, it was a single user space, but he was creating images in his mind and then combinatorially combining them with each other to create new external/imagined ideas, thoughts, and experiences. It gets (a lot) complicated to see this without
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[chrisaldrich]
significant background reading and experience of what he was doing. (I think even Frances Yates misunderstood some of his intention in her magesterial tome.) Indieweb is doing some of what he imagined, but rather than doing it in our physical brains (memory), we're doing together from website to website in a similar communal manner.
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[chrisaldrich]
Looks like /Readwise is building a multi-use reader with RSS, highlighting, newsletters, and learning at its core: https://readwise.io/read
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