#the-web — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #the-web, aggregated by home.social.
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"These places only exist when the people investing their time and energy know that they are appreciated, credited, and supported."
Good reminder to, if you can't support the creators of your favorite websites financially, at least tell them how much you appreciate their time and effort.
https://aftermath.site/ians-shoelace-site-is-still-the-best-destination-for-tying-your-shoes/
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"These places only exist when the people investing their time and energy know that they are appreciated, credited, and supported."
Good reminder to, if you can't support the creators of your favorite websites financially, at least tell them how much you appreciate their time and effort.
https://aftermath.site/ians-shoelace-site-is-still-the-best-destination-for-tying-your-shoes/
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"These places only exist when the people investing their time and energy know that they are appreciated, credited, and supported."
Good reminder to, if you can't support the creators of your favorite websites financially, at least tell them how much you appreciate their time and effort.
https://aftermath.site/ians-shoelace-site-is-still-the-best-destination-for-tying-your-shoes/
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"These places only exist when the people investing their time and energy know that they are appreciated, credited, and supported."
Good reminder to, if you can't support the creators of your favorite websites financially, at least tell them how much you appreciate their time and effort.
https://aftermath.site/ians-shoelace-site-is-still-the-best-destination-for-tying-your-shoes/
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"These places only exist when the people investing their time and energy know that they are appreciated, credited, and supported."
Good reminder to, if you can't support the creators of your favorite websites financially, at least tell them how much you appreciate their time and effort.
https://aftermath.site/ians-shoelace-site-is-still-the-best-destination-for-tying-your-shoes/
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“Is #Bluesky on #theWeb? Yes, to an extent. I can post the url of an item I wrote on Bluesky, using an HTML link. That is how the web works…
But it doesn’t work the other way. They love it when you send people to their site, but not so much if you want to #sendthemaway—a sensitive concept to Bluesky’s #investors. Why would you do that? This is where web and silos disagree. The web says “let them go” and the silos ask “do we look like idiots?” @davew
https://daveverse.org/2026/06/01/#a9757 -
“Is #Bluesky on #theWeb? Yes, to an extent. I can post the url of an item I wrote on Bluesky, using an HTML link. That is how the web works…
But it doesn’t work the other way. They love it when you send people to their site, but not so much if you want to #sendthemaway—a sensitive concept to Bluesky’s #investors. Why would you do that? This is where web and silos disagree. The web says “let them go” and the silos ask “do we look like idiots?” @davew
https://daveverse.org/2026/06/01/#a9757 -
“Is #Bluesky on #theWeb? Yes, to an extent. I can post the url of an item I wrote on Bluesky, using an HTML link. That is how the web works…
But it doesn’t work the other way. They love it when you send people to their site, but not so much if you want to #sendthemaway—a sensitive concept to Bluesky’s #investors. Why would you do that? This is where web and silos disagree. The web says “let them go” and the silos ask “do we look like idiots?” @davew
https://daveverse.org/2026/06/01/#a9757 -
“Is #Bluesky on #theWeb? Yes, to an extent. I can post the url of an item I wrote on Bluesky, using an HTML link. That is how the web works…
But it doesn’t work the other way. They love it when you send people to their site, but not so much if you want to #sendthemaway—a sensitive concept to Bluesky’s #investors. Why would you do that? This is where web and silos disagree. The web says “let them go” and the silos ask “do we look like idiots?” @davew
https://daveverse.org/2026/06/01/#a9757 -
“Is #Bluesky on #theWeb? Yes, to an extent. I can post the url of an item I wrote on Bluesky, using an HTML link. That is how the web works…
But it doesn’t work the other way. They love it when you send people to their site, but not so much if you want to #sendthemaway—a sensitive concept to Bluesky’s #investors. Why would you do that? This is where web and silos disagree. The web says “let them go” and the silos ask “do we look like idiots?” @davew
https://daveverse.org/2026/06/01/#a9757 -
RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/114426933389090151
The web entered public domain 33 years ago.
"Imagine being able to communicate at-will with 10 million people all over the world. Imagine having direct access to catalogs of hundreds of libraries [...].
This is not a dream. It's internet."
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172276538/world-wide-web-internet-anniversary
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RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/114426933389090151
The web entered public domain 33 years ago.
"Imagine being able to communicate at-will with 10 million people all over the world. Imagine having direct access to catalogs of hundreds of libraries [...].
This is not a dream. It's internet."
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172276538/world-wide-web-internet-anniversary
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RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/114426933389090151
The web entered public domain 33 years ago.
"Imagine being able to communicate at-will with 10 million people all over the world. Imagine having direct access to catalogs of hundreds of libraries [...].
This is not a dream. It's internet."
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172276538/world-wide-web-internet-anniversary
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RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/114426933389090151
The web entered public domain 33 years ago.
"Imagine being able to communicate at-will with 10 million people all over the world. Imagine having direct access to catalogs of hundreds of libraries [...].
This is not a dream. It's internet."
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172276538/world-wide-web-internet-anniversary
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RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/114426933389090151
The web entered public domain 33 years ago.
"Imagine being able to communicate at-will with 10 million people all over the world. Imagine having direct access to catalogs of hundreds of libraries [...].
This is not a dream. It's internet."
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172276538/world-wide-web-internet-anniversary
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Here's @matthiasott on the importance of human curation in the world flooded by AI slop.
"So what becomes valuable, in a world like this? Not more content. We are drowning in content. What becomes valuable is someone you trust, saying: This is worth your time. Here’s why."
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/
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Here's @matthiasott on the importance of human curation in the world flooded by AI slop.
"So what becomes valuable, in a world like this? Not more content. We are drowning in content. What becomes valuable is someone you trust, saying: This is worth your time. Here’s why."
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/
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Here's @matthiasott on the importance of human curation in the world flooded by AI slop.
"So what becomes valuable, in a world like this? Not more content. We are drowning in content. What becomes valuable is someone you trust, saying: This is worth your time. Here’s why."
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/
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Here's @matthiasott on the importance of human curation in the world flooded by AI slop.
"So what becomes valuable, in a world like this? Not more content. We are drowning in content. What becomes valuable is someone you trust, saying: This is worth your time. Here’s why."
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/
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Here's @matthiasott on the importance of human curation in the world flooded by AI slop.
"So what becomes valuable, in a world like this? Not more content. We are drowning in content. What becomes valuable is someone you trust, saying: This is worth your time. Here’s why."
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/
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You know those back button-hijacking sites? Especially noticing this on mobile.
"Back button hijacking interferes with the browser's functionality, breaks the expected user journey, and results in user frustration."
Nice to see Google do something about this. Even if you don't use their search, this will still deter people from doing this.
A small victory for the web.
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking
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You know those back button-hijacking sites? Especially noticing this on mobile.
"Back button hijacking interferes with the browser's functionality, breaks the expected user journey, and results in user frustration."
Nice to see Google do something about this. Even if you don't use their search, this will still deter people from doing this.
A small victory for the web.
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking
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You know those back button-hijacking sites? Especially noticing this on mobile.
"Back button hijacking interferes with the browser's functionality, breaks the expected user journey, and results in user frustration."
Nice to see Google do something about this. Even if you don't use their search, this will still deter people from doing this.
A small victory for the web.
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking
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You know those back button-hijacking sites? Especially noticing this on mobile.
"Back button hijacking interferes with the browser's functionality, breaks the expected user journey, and results in user frustration."
Nice to see Google do something about this. Even if you don't use their search, this will still deter people from doing this.
A small victory for the web.
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking
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You know those back button-hijacking sites? Especially noticing this on mobile.
"Back button hijacking interferes with the browser's functionality, breaks the expected user journey, and results in user frustration."
Nice to see Google do something about this. Even if you don't use their search, this will still deter people from doing this.
A small victory for the web.
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking
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"…#theweb is not dominating #mobile the way it does desktop because it hasn't been allowed to compete. From Apple explicitly suppressing competing browsers & breaking critical features OSwide on the regular, to Google's history of discouraging internal teams from writing mobile web apps and denying competing browsers access to critical PWA features, the fix has been in for 15 yrs.
This grounding in #Apple & #Google proprietary #APIs is the root of the #duopolist's power."
https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/ -
"…#theweb is not dominating #mobile the way it does desktop because it hasn't been allowed to compete. From Apple explicitly suppressing competing browsers & breaking critical features OSwide on the regular, to Google's history of discouraging internal teams from writing mobile web apps and denying competing browsers access to critical PWA features, the fix has been in for 15 yrs.
This grounding in #Apple & #Google proprietary #APIs is the root of the #duopolist's power."
https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/ -
"…#theweb is not dominating #mobile the way it does desktop because it hasn't been allowed to compete. From Apple explicitly suppressing competing browsers & breaking critical features OSwide on the regular, to Google's history of discouraging internal teams from writing mobile web apps and denying competing browsers access to critical PWA features, the fix has been in for 15 yrs.
This grounding in #Apple & #Google proprietary #APIs is the root of the #duopolist's power."
https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/ -
"…#theweb is not dominating #mobile the way it does desktop because it hasn't been allowed to compete. From Apple explicitly suppressing competing browsers & breaking critical features OSwide on the regular, to Google's history of discouraging internal teams from writing mobile web apps and denying competing browsers access to critical PWA features, the fix has been in for 15 yrs.
This grounding in #Apple & #Google proprietary #APIs is the root of the #duopolist's power."
https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/ -
"…#theweb is not dominating #mobile the way it does desktop because it hasn't been allowed to compete. From Apple explicitly suppressing competing browsers & breaking critical features OSwide on the regular, to Google's history of discouraging internal teams from writing mobile web apps and denying competing browsers access to critical PWA features, the fix has been in for 15 yrs.
This grounding in #Apple & #Google proprietary #APIs is the root of the #duopolist's power."
https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/ -
"For seemingly no reason at all, thousands of people were telling stories about themselves, unguarded even against the background toxicity of internet comment sections. Many of them used the word “checkpoint.”"
https://longreads.com/2026/02/26/internet-checkpoint-taia777-donkey-kong/
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"For seemingly no reason at all, thousands of people were telling stories about themselves, unguarded even against the background toxicity of internet comment sections. Many of them used the word “checkpoint.”"
https://longreads.com/2026/02/26/internet-checkpoint-taia777-donkey-kong/
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"For seemingly no reason at all, thousands of people were telling stories about themselves, unguarded even against the background toxicity of internet comment sections. Many of them used the word “checkpoint.”"
https://longreads.com/2026/02/26/internet-checkpoint-taia777-donkey-kong/
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"For seemingly no reason at all, thousands of people were telling stories about themselves, unguarded even against the background toxicity of internet comment sections. Many of them used the word “checkpoint.”"
https://longreads.com/2026/02/26/internet-checkpoint-taia777-donkey-kong/
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"For seemingly no reason at all, thousands of people were telling stories about themselves, unguarded even against the background toxicity of internet comment sections. Many of them used the word “checkpoint.”"
https://longreads.com/2026/02/26/internet-checkpoint-taia777-donkey-kong/
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An article from last year that celebrates the 40th anniversary of ".com".
"Four decades ago, the first domain was registered and the initial batch of top-level domains came to be. Nearly a billion domains have been registered since then."
https://www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains
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An article from last year that celebrates the 40th anniversary of ".com".
"Four decades ago, the first domain was registered and the initial batch of top-level domains came to be. Nearly a billion domains have been registered since then."
https://www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains
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An article from last year that celebrates the 40th anniversary of ".com".
"Four decades ago, the first domain was registered and the initial batch of top-level domains came to be. Nearly a billion domains have been registered since then."
https://www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains
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An article from last year that celebrates the 40th anniversary of ".com".
"Four decades ago, the first domain was registered and the initial batch of top-level domains came to be. Nearly a billion domains have been registered since then."
https://www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains
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An article from last year that celebrates the 40th anniversary of ".com".
"Four decades ago, the first domain was registered and the initial batch of top-level domains came to be. Nearly a billion domains have been registered since then."
https://www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains
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"That's my belief. It just takes a bit of guidance and access to understandable knowledge. That word 'understandable,' it's important. You don't introduce people to website building by using geek-speak. You have to talk human to human..."
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"That's my belief. It just takes a bit of guidance and access to understandable knowledge. That word 'understandable,' it's important. You don't introduce people to website building by using geek-speak. You have to talk human to human..."
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"That's my belief. It just takes a bit of guidance and access to understandable knowledge. That word 'understandable,' it's important. You don't introduce people to website building by using geek-speak. You have to talk human to human..."
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"That's my belief. It just takes a bit of guidance and access to understandable knowledge. That word 'understandable,' it's important. You don't introduce people to website building by using geek-speak. You have to talk human to human..."
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"That's my belief. It just takes a bit of guidance and access to understandable knowledge. That word 'understandable,' it's important. You don't introduce people to website building by using geek-speak. You have to talk human to human..."
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"By the end of 1994, there were roughly 10,000 websites on the web. It was still early days and most of the websites were quite basic in structure."
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"By the end of 1994, there were roughly 10,000 websites on the web. It was still early days and most of the websites were quite basic in structure."
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"By the end of 1994, there were roughly 10,000 websites on the web. It was still early days and most of the websites were quite basic in structure."
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"By the end of 1994, there were roughly 10,000 websites on the web. It was still early days and most of the websites were quite basic in structure."
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"By the end of 1994, there were roughly 10,000 websites on the web. It was still early days and most of the websites were quite basic in structure."
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Interesting perspective.
"The rush to vilify and eliminate the comment section ignored, as Ben notes, that a subscription to news outlets doesn’t just have to provide access to journalism, it can feature participation in journalism."
Via https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w/post/3mdxqtevkxc2x
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Interesting perspective.
"The rush to vilify and eliminate the comment section ignored, as Ben notes, that a subscription to news outlets doesn’t just have to provide access to journalism, it can feature participation in journalism."
Via https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w/post/3mdxqtevkxc2x
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Interesting perspective.
"The rush to vilify and eliminate the comment section ignored, as Ben notes, that a subscription to news outlets doesn’t just have to provide access to journalism, it can feature participation in journalism."
Via https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w/post/3mdxqtevkxc2x
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Interesting perspective.
"The rush to vilify and eliminate the comment section ignored, as Ben notes, that a subscription to news outlets doesn’t just have to provide access to journalism, it can feature participation in journalism."
Via https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w/post/3mdxqtevkxc2x
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Interesting perspective.
"The rush to vilify and eliminate the comment section ignored, as Ben notes, that a subscription to news outlets doesn’t just have to provide access to journalism, it can feature participation in journalism."
Via https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w/post/3mdxqtevkxc2x
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"#TheWeb: Everything Is Shifting at Once
What makes this moment disorienting to some, but also exciting, is that multiple systems are changing simultaneously. It’s not just consumption models or discovery mechanisms or economics of the internet. It’s all of them, at the same time, and they’re interconnected.
The #consumption model used to be straightforward. A user goes to a surface, consumes content directly, and synthesizes the information themselves.
Now an AI intermediary does the #synthesis across dozens of surfaces and delivers the answer directly. The user can get what they need (achieve that conversion) without directly visiting the source anymore."
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"#TheWeb: Everything Is Shifting at Once
What makes this moment disorienting to some, but also exciting, is that multiple systems are changing simultaneously. It’s not just consumption models or discovery mechanisms or economics of the internet. It’s all of them, at the same time, and they’re interconnected.
The #consumption model used to be straightforward. A user goes to a surface, consumes content directly, and synthesizes the information themselves.
Now an AI intermediary does the #synthesis across dozens of surfaces and delivers the answer directly. The user can get what they need (achieve that conversion) without directly visiting the source anymore."
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"#TheWeb: Everything Is Shifting at Once
What makes this moment disorienting to some, but also exciting, is that multiple systems are changing simultaneously. It’s not just consumption models or discovery mechanisms or economics of the internet. It’s all of them, at the same time, and they’re interconnected.
The #consumption model used to be straightforward. A user goes to a surface, consumes content directly, and synthesizes the information themselves.
Now an AI intermediary does the #synthesis across dozens of surfaces and delivers the answer directly. The user can get what they need (achieve that conversion) without directly visiting the source anymore."
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"#TheWeb: Everything Is Shifting at Once
What makes this moment disorienting to some, but also exciting, is that multiple systems are changing simultaneously. It’s not just consumption models or discovery mechanisms or economics of the internet. It’s all of them, at the same time, and they’re interconnected.
The #consumption model used to be straightforward. A user goes to a surface, consumes content directly, and synthesizes the information themselves.
Now an AI intermediary does the #synthesis across dozens of surfaces and delivers the answer directly. The user can get what they need (achieve that conversion) without directly visiting the source anymore."
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"#TheWeb: Everything Is Shifting at Once
What makes this moment disorienting to some, but also exciting, is that multiple systems are changing simultaneously. It’s not just consumption models or discovery mechanisms or economics of the internet. It’s all of them, at the same time, and they’re interconnected.
The #consumption model used to be straightforward. A user goes to a surface, consumes content directly, and synthesizes the information themselves.
Now an AI intermediary does the #synthesis across dozens of surfaces and delivers the answer directly. The user can get what they need (achieve that conversion) without directly visiting the source anymore."