#indieweb 2026-04-02

2026-04-02 UTC
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Loqi Homebrew Website Club - Pacific is starting soon! Join us! https://events.indieweb.org/J2F3dbpSaYOL
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[artlung] ^ We are indeed started up!
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[tantek] [artlung] ++
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Loqi [artlung] has 32 karma in this channel over the last year (253 in all channels)
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[capjamesg] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/02/uk-social-media-users-less-active-on-tech-platforms-rise-of-video-apps
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[capjamesg] > Ofcom said just under half of adult social media users (49%) now post, share or comment compared with 61% in 2024. The proportion exploring new websites has also fallen, from 70% to 56%.
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bearina. Interesting!
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Silverzin Helloo
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bearina. Hi Silverzin!
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[artlung] Ambitious goal. https://about.surf.social/surf-launches-surf-social-websites/ … curious to see if the term “social website” will catch on. Interesting which silos they include.
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[tantek] Eh, how are http://surf.social subdomains not just year another platform that online communities don't control? Feels very XKCD 927
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[tantek] Or for the LoTR fans, very one (platform) ring to control all the other (platform) rings
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[artlung] I very much like the idea of empowering folks to make ad-hoc, contingent mashups from sites elsewhere. Anything that puts pressure on silos to make sharing more open feels valuable to me. (Even from a would-be silo)
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[artlung] Teach people they don't need to use the app.
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[Kupietz] `@tantek that was kind of my first thought. "A silo of silos", or, "come enjoy the open internet, under our brand"
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[tantek] [Kupietz] we've seen this before
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[Kupietz] I see the appeal of a tool that would make "mashups" of silo'ed content easier in general, that's a neat idea. But, perhaps a protocol that does that, rather than a branded platform.
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[tantek] What is FriendFeed
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Loqi FriendFeed was a silo for posting content, as well as an aggregator of feeds and posts from other sites, and notably the inventor of the "Like" button in 2007 https://indieweb.org/FriendFeed
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[tantek] Still worth creating a stub page for, to at least put "FriendFeed" in its See Also 😆
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