#digital_technologies — Public Fediverse posts

(Reading through the explanations on why Echofeed is being shut down, I feel the painful technical part of it more and more and I'm kind of sad there wasn't a chance to provide more help to still sort of keep that running. But I am also left wondering whether this is sort of a watershed moment of learning that this POSSE approach often proposed by the IndieWeb crowd actually just works in a very limited DYIish content for people who are able to handle that on their very own within their very own small scale with handcrafted solutions - which excludes everyone not really able of doing so at all. And it makes me wonder whether, ultimately, the idea proposed by ATProto - keep all your data in one single repository and available, visible to multiple different applications catering to different needs - might generally be smarter than having to copy data all around the 'net dozens and dozens of times.) #digital_technologies #indieweb #atproto #sustainability

(Reading through the explanations on why Echofeed is being shut down, I feel the painful technical part of it more and more and I'm kind of sad there wasn't a chance to provide more help to still sort of keep that running. But I am also left wondering whether this is sort of a watershed moment of learning that this POSSE approach often proposed by the IndieWeb crowd actually just works in a very limited DYIish content for people who are able to handle that on their very own within their very own small scale with handcrafted solutions - which excludes everyone not really able of doing so at all. And it makes me wonder whether, ultimately, the idea proposed by ATProto - keep all your data in one single repository and available, visible to multiple different applications catering to different needs - might generally be smarter than having to copy data all around the 'net dozens and dozens of times.) #digital_technologies #indieweb #atproto #sustainability

Each and every time users decides to stay on a difficult instance because moving elsewhere means losing all their history and communications, that bright north star of the Fediverse is losing a bit of its shine. (Just imagine losing all your messages while switching your e-mail provider... .) #outerworld #digital_technologies #rant_but_only_half

Each and every time users decides to stay on a difficult instance because moving elsewhere means losing all their history and communications, that bright north star of the Fediverse is losing a bit of its shine. (Just imagine losing all your messages while switching your e-mail provider... .) #outerworld #digital_technologies #rant_but_only_half

Something about omg.lol that goes unnoticed too often and this feels a bit sad so here we are:

"url.town doesn’t have any overly lofty ambitions; we’re just building our own directory of really nice websites. We’re not trying to fully recreate the original Yahoo! or DMOZ directories. We’re not aiming for some astronomical number of links. This is just one space on the web, tied to a community that loves to share neat things with one another. Quality matters much more than quantity. There’s no need to share everything just for the shake of sharing it; it’s much better to share things that are useful or interesting."

https://url.town/about 

Given the predominance of search indexes and model-based suggestions and recommendations, maybe things such as web directories are an interesting step both "back" and "forth" to creating meaningful structure and navigation across a wide range of sites and systems while making sure this is data someone has actually in a way reviewed and considered interesting or relevant - even though, knowing, it's a matter of community and trust at the very end. And maybe this conclusion makes sense in many aspects of digital tools off the path of difficult big tech corporations: Community and trust. #linkdump #omgdotlol #digital_technologies #internet_meta

Something about omg.lol that goes unnoticed too often and this feels a bit sad so here we are:

"url.town doesn’t have any overly lofty ambitions; we’re just building our own directory of really nice websites. We’re not trying to fully recreate the original Yahoo! or DMOZ directories. We’re not aiming for some astronomical number of links. This is just one space on the web, tied to a community that loves to share neat things with one another. Quality matters much more than quantity. There’s no need to share everything just for the shake of sharing it; it’s much better to share things that are useful or interesting."

https://url.town/about 

Given the predominance of search indexes and model-based suggestions and recommendations, maybe things such as web directories are an interesting step both "back" and "forth" to creating meaningful structure and navigation across a wide range of sites and systems while making sure this is data someone has actually in a way reviewed and considered interesting or relevant - even though, knowing, it's a matter of community and trust at the very end. And maybe this conclusion makes sense in many aspects of digital tools off the path of difficult big tech corporations: Community and trust. #linkdump #omgdotlol #digital_technologies #internet_meta