#anil-dash — Public Fediverse posts

🤣 "People Love to Work Hard" - said no one ever, except maybe Anil Dash on his endless tour of every social media platform known to man! 💼✨ The real MVPs here are the stock photos of smiling workers—clearly happy with their mandatory overtime! 📸🏆
https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/06/people-love-to-work-hard/ #PeopleLoveToWorkHard #SmilingWorkers #AnilDash #SocialMediaTour #StockPhotoHumor #OvertimeStruggles #HackerNews #ngated

🤣 "People Love to Work Hard" - said no one ever, except maybe Anil Dash on his endless tour of every social media platform known to man! 💼✨ The real MVPs here are the stock photos of smiling workers—clearly happy with their mandatory overtime! 📸🏆
https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/06/people-love-to-work-hard/ #PeopleLoveToWorkHard #SmilingWorkers #AnilDash #SocialMediaTour #StockPhotoHumor #OvertimeStruggles #HackerNews #ngated

Wikipedia celebrated its 25th birthday this month. Given the centrality of Wikipedia to so much activity online, it is hard to remember (or to imagine, for those who are younger) a time without Wikipedia. The latest statistics are impressive:

Wikipedia is viewed nearly 15 billion times every month.

Wikipedia contains over 65 million articles across more than 300 languages.

Wikipedia is […]

Wikipedia celebrated its 25th birthday this month. Given the centrality of Wikipedia to so much activity online, it is hard to remember (or to imagine, for those who are younger) a time without Wikipedia. The latest statistics are impressive:

Wikipedia is viewed nearly 15 billion times every month.

Wikipedia contains over 65 million articles across more than 300 languages.

Wikipedia is […]

Sunday Paper: Markdown’s Quiet Power, Systems, AWS’s Reality Check, Apple’s Creator Studio

https://islandinthenet.com/sunday-paper-markdown-systems-power-and-platforms/

A great new piece by Anil Dash (@anildash) on the *shitshow* (my words) that is OpenAI's Atlas, and the dangers of anti-web technology in general:

https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

I disagree with him, however, and fundamentally, about CLIs, but that is the *only* part of his piece I feel he gets wrong. I think he either doesn't like them (ie. a subjective taste thing) or simply doesn't understand their capabilities and culture enough. That is not uncommon, and its perfectly ok. He's a brilliant thinker and writer and we're lucky to have him crafting and sharing his essays with us so often!

On a related note, I've been privately sketching out some pieces about the power and pleasure and idealism of CLIs for several years, mostly as private WIPs. Seeing Mr. Dash get CLIs so wrong (cue the obligatory XKCD about seeing someone being wrong on the Internet -- the worst sin to a hyper-geek) has pushed me over the edge into deciding I should polish something up and share it too. About Terminals, CLIs, shells, REPLs, APIs and TUIs in general. I've been using them daily -- and building things out of them, and shipping -- for several decades. Ditto on GUIs. So... I have *thoughts* on it. :-) Backed by loads of observation and hands-on experiences.

#AI
#OpenAI
#Atlas
#AntiWeb
#AnilDash
#CLI

Typepad shutting down: One of the old school blog platforms, it'd been pretty moribund for the last few years and is now closing
https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html
#shutdown #anildash #sixapart #typepad #weblogs #blogs #+

Anil Dash: The Internet of Consent. “Nobody asks for anything, they just take it. There’s not even an acknowledgement, that any of this stuff is happening let alone a conversation about it. Meanwhile, we’ve been telling our kids that the standard for decent people is enthusiastic consent. That’s very evidently not the case for the tycoons running the technology industry.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/anil-dash-the-internet-of-consent/

Creativerly 287 is out featuring a new deep dive about #Webstudio, the open-source #Framer and #Webflow alternative, updates and news from #Humane and #Flipboard, and insightful and exciting articles from #StaceDErasmo, #JoannaWeber, #ChaseMcCoy, and #AnilDash.

Read the whole newsletter here:

https://creativerly.com/between-process-and-vision/

"... what we can take away from hearing 'wherever you find podcasts' at the end of every episode we listen to is that, sometimes without us knowing, radical systems can survive and even thrive in the modern world of tech and media. They can inspire new creators to make similar systems that are unowned, uncentralized, and a little bit uncontrollable."

#AnilDash, 2024

https://www.anildash.com/2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/

#podcasts

"... what we can take away from hearing 'wherever you find podcasts' at the end of every episode we listen to is that, sometimes without us knowing, radical systems can survive and even thrive in the modern world of tech and media. They can inspire new creators to make similar systems that are unowned, uncentralized, and a little bit uncontrollable."

#AnilDash, 2024

https://www.anildash.com/2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/

#podcasts

The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
The internet seems ripe for change, and millions of people seem poised to connect in new ways, as they reconsider their relationship to technology.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/
#anildash #beautifulweb #indieweb

Anything that Anil Dash writes is worth reading and this, his first article for Rolling Stone, is no different. I haven’t quoted it here, but I love the first paragraph. What goes around, comes around, eh?

[T]his new year offers many echoes of a moment we haven’t seen in a quarter-century. Some of the most dominant companies on the internet are at risk of […]

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2024/01/03/remember-distinct-music-scenes-and-culinary-traditions-yeah-theyre-coming-back/

Anil's Internet optimism: Anil Dash talks about forces that may lead to more interesting stuff happening on the Internet again. I'm skeptical but I like his hope.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/
#internet #anildash #culture #+

Economics has the “Lump of Labour Fallacy”; tech needs the “Lump of Social Community” fallacy

Apparently Bluesky is dead.  It’s not, of course, but Anil Dash using Threads points at some apocalyptic “Bluesky would have won if it hadn’t been for you pesky Meta engineers”-type arguments which are trying to establish themselves. Anil is even making wild claims of monopoly being exerted.

This is all (a) premature and (b) groundless; it’s entirely possible that with the decline of Twitter, in another universe where Meta had chosen to not launch Threads, the userbase might simply have evaporated like dew in the morning.

Bluesky has its own community which is definitely growing, but which has also spent most of the past few months attempting to make people feel safe rather than welcome – my experience is that BS user discussion has been more about “how do I block?” rather than “how do I send (e.g.) GIFs”, the latter appearing trivial but actually being a part of richer, phatic communication.

If we are to pretend that this is all about stealing portions of a fixed market share from each other, where is the outcry about the unfairness of Mastodon having to suffer the privations caused by both Bluesky and Threads?

Economists already understand this stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

There is practically an infinite space for free expression, and people use tools in front of them to connect with different communities, differently.

There are many words for those who point at real or hypothetical cohorts of people to claim eminent domain over them, and few of the terms are terribly pleasant.

#anilDash #bluesky #lumpOfLabour #lumpOfSocialMedia #threads

https://alecmuffett.com/article/108282

"Right now, all of the places we can assemble on the web in any kind of numbers are privately owned. And privately-owned public spaces aren’t real public spaces. They don’t allow for the play and the chaos and the creativity and brilliance that only arise in spaces that don’t exist purely to generate profit. And they’re susceptible to being gradually gaslighted by the companies that own them."

- #AnilDash

https://anildash.com/2012/12/18/rebuilding_the_web_we_lost/

Online code collaboration tool Glitch votes to unionize - Employees of online software collaboration tool Glitch today announced their intentions to unionize.... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/H-zrqjc_1VU/ #anildash #glitch #apps

Glitch is bringing remix culture back to the web with a $30 million Series A round - Building apps and tools on the web shouldn’t just be for the technically inclined. In the early days... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DqO1zqJmEhc/ #recentfunding #diversity #inclusion #startups #anildash #glitch #tc