#spring83 — Public Fediverse posts

🌸🎩 Spring 83: Yet another "revolutionary" #protocol that suggests new ways to #spam each other online, because the world clearly needs more of that. 🙄 Meanwhile, #GitHub continues its noble quest to replace human developers with #AI overlords—progress, amirite? 🤖💼
https://github.com/robinsloan/spring-83 #Spring83 #Overlords #TechNews #OnlineCommunication #HackerNews #ngated

Spring 83: a draft protocol intended to suggest new ways of relating online

https://github.com/robinsloan/spring-83

#HackerNews #Spring83 #draftprotocol #onlineinteraction #newwaysofrelating #techinnovation

The week before last I had the opportunity to deliver a "flash talk" at a work meetup. I opted to present a summary of what I've learned while adding support for Finger and Gopher protocols to the WordPress installation that powers DanQ.me (I also hinted at the fact that I already added Gemini and Spring '83 support, and I'm looking at other protocols).

The presentation is a shortened, Automattic-centric version of a talk I'll be delivering at Oxford Geek Nights tomorrow. If you're in or around Jericho, Oxford tomorrow, come say hi!

Read more or watch at: https://danq.me/yesterdays-internet-today-vienna

#finger #Gopher #Gemini #Spring83 #WordPress #Automattic #Oxford

I'm hoping to be speaking at Oxford Geek Nights 53 (22 Feb 2023, https://oxford.geeknights.net/)!

My working title: "Yesterday's Internet: Today!" I'm hoping to drum up some local interest in retro tech like Gopher and Finger as well as modern homages like Gemini and Spring '83!

#Oxford #OGN53 #internet #tech #gopher #finger #gemini #spring83

> You feel it, don’t you? They’re all crumbling, the platforms of the last decade. It’s unsettling, but/and also undeniably exciting. Tall trees fall in the forest, and light streams down, nourishing places it hasn’t reached in ages.

#Spring83 https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/specifying-spring-83/#summer

> Indeed, I want to make a case for protocols — for whole little social networks — as investigations and experiments. It doesn’t take a million users, or a thousand, or even a hundred, to learn genuinely interesting and important things: about the protocols themselves, about new ways of relating online, about people in all their glorious weirdness.

#Spring83 summer update: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/specifying-spring-83/#summer

🧵 I want these aesthetic windows (to other instances, #hashtags) to be somehow informed by #Spring83 https://macaw.social/@junosz/109384315959620280

@junosz Yes.

And I want to see it laid out like a bulletin board, in one screen.

cc #Spring83 https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/specifying-spring-83/

To all #spring83 and web garden fans: in 2011 Olia Lialina and I created "Once Upon," fully working implementations of social networks for Netscape 4: http://1x-upon.com/

In that version of "facebook," every user can edit a message that is loaded in a frameset.

@johnjohnston @dajbelshaw

I wonder if there is a name for things like this and #spring83 yet