#meta 2020-10-18

2020-10-18 UTC
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@MGrayboshAuthor
↩️ My preferred #blogging platform is my own #website, hosted by a reliable provider like @Dreamhost under a domain name I rent annually. If you visit it, you'll find that it loads almost instantly even on 2G. No JS, no cookies, no BS. #WritingCommunity #IndieWeb #FuckMedium
(twitter.com/_/status/1317626620014956552)
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@Shoq
↩️ And this time, it could use the @indiewebcamp ideas of @kevinmarks and others, to prevent the big evil silos from ever metastasizing again. Humanity needs social media. But it doesn't have to be owned and controlled by corporate juggernauts. It can be a public utility.
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@Shoq
↩️ We have to stop thinking our future is written in stone, just because there's a lot of rocks around. Remember, AT&T (#1), IBM, Microsoft and the Soviet Union were behemoths no one thought could ever be diminished. They all were.
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@Shoq
↩️ Most of you aren't technical, and have no idea how simple Facebook programming actually is. And existing global cloud computing capacity makes the start-up hardware costs a less than major issue.
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@Shoq
↩️ Too many people spend much too much time documenting the state of this dysfunctional bag of shit we're trapped in, and not enough time discussing what we might to to punch our way out of it.
(twitter.com/_/status/1317836102707924994)
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@voxpelli
↩️ There’s already @indiewebcamp and related movements, Twitter isn’t upheld by a technical challenge but through the networks effects that gives it immensely more value than what any decentralized version has yet achieved
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loqi.me
created /TiddlyMap (+160) "prompted by [chrisaldrich] and dfn added by [chrisaldrich]"
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