#web20 — Public Fediverse posts

I absolutely adore the new design of the Cloudflare dashboard. Those 3D-ish buttons have neat Web 2.0 vibes. 😍

#web20 #nostalgia #oldweb #design

@collective_truth Ever heard of ambient intimacy by any chance? That seems to be more fitting with what you've said RE: working with people, not just with computers.

If anything, that's one of the strongest selling points behind #Mastodon and #Fediverse. In a way, the way #Web20 was first envisioned by a group of pioneers over 2 decades ago, never mind the blogosphere from 30+s years ago.

I'd venture to state we've come a long way, although not done yet!

.cc @timbray

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116891415911514354

You know what? Whenever people may ask me why I heart #Mastodon big time and why I'm no longer interested in traditional enshittified #SocialMedia tools, I'm going to start sharing this fabulous blog post by @timbray that pretty much nails it, as far as I am concerned.

In fact, for those folks who were using Twitter circa 2006 to 2010 it's a lovely trip down the memory lane of what #Web20 promised back then 👌🏻😎

#SovereignByDesign #Fediverse #FuckTheAlgorithm #Enshittification

@harold Well, for what's worth, for someone who is now sitting on the other side of the spectrum, i.e. no traditional "socials", no algos messing around with my feed, no Slack, etc. etc. I *do* appreciate you're still blogging away after all of these years, Harold 🙏🏻😊

Every time my RSS newsfeeds update for new content, I smile and dive right in, enjoying the ride of what #Web20 promised to us all of those years ago.

We mustn't forget 🤘🏻😎

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hikingdude/116877070611436923

Every time I get told off we are powerless towards the algorithms and traditional #SocialMedia tools taking over the Open Social Web as we know it, I take a minute, share golden gems like the one below and, all of a sudden, precious silence...

See? We *do* have a choice, we just need to exert it and enjoy the #SocialWeb as originally intended DECADES ago!

Well said, @hikingdude ! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

#SovereignByDesign #DigitalAutonomy #DigitalSovereignty #FuckTheAlgorithm #RSS #Web20

Třicet let. Tak dlouho už web existuje v podobě, kterou bychom dnes alespoň zhruba poznali — od prvních statických dokumentů přes éru aplikací běžících v prohlížeči až po kód, který se spouští na stovkách míst po celém světě jen pár milisekund od uživatele. Tenhle příběh ale není jen suchým výčtem technologií a verzí. Je to příběh jednoho kyvadla, které se celé tři dekády houpe mezi serverem a klientem — a které právě teď nachází nový bod rovnováhy někde uprostřed, na okraji sítě.

"Confused, dependent users are more profitable than competent, autonomous ones. Lock-in is more valuable than interoperability. Opacity is more valuable than transparency. The architecture of modern consumer technology has been optimized against user competence with extraordinary success"
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"It’s about being able to make informed choices instead of having choices made for you by systems optimized for someone else’s revenue"

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

"The platforms are making your information diet worse on purpose, because worse converts to engagement, and engagement converts to revenue" [2/2]

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

"The algorithm situation is the one that most directly affects daily life and receives the least serious scrutiny. […] These systems are explicitly not neutral — they’re optimized for engagement, which empirically correlates with outrage, anxiety, conflict, and tribal reinforcement, because those emotional states produce the behavioral signals the engagement metrics reward" [1/2]

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

"Whoever holds your behavioral data holds power over you. That’s true whether or not you’ve done anything wrong" [2/2]

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

"The problem is not, primarily, that services collect data. The problem is that users have been convinced to treat pervasive surveillance infrastructure as benign or beneficial, and to respond to any criticism of it as paranoia, technical elitism, or failure to appreciate convenience. The learned helplessness is the crisis. The data collection is the symptom" [1/2]

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

Going to take the liberty of adding a few noteworthy quotes below to remind me as to why I am here (#Mastodon) nowadays 😅👇🏻

"This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos"

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

"The obituary for the power user is being written right now. The people writing it are the same ones who sold you the phone, designed the app store, wrote the terms of service you didn’t read, and built the algorithm that decided you didn’t need to see this" 🤯😤

"The Slow Death of the Power User" 👉🏻 https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

A superb essay, poignant as hell. I can relate, I used to be one of those folks up to about a decade ago 😱😢

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

"With every leap in technological advancement, we witness a fierce urge to undo it. Technologies are invented, attacked, delayed, dropped, delayed, re-emerge, vanish again"

Thomas Dekeyser guest blogging in Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine 👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-brief-history-of-techno-negativity

Wonder whether that techno-negativity was as fierce in the good old #Web20 / #Enterprise20 days than nowadays with #GenAI. Did we miss it? 🤔

#SovereignByDesign #Luddism #Luddites #SocBiz

M3 MacBook Air and a freaking single web page is eating 80% of CPU due to all the ad embeds and crap.

And that’s WITH AdBlock Plus active. I fear turning it off.

The ”modern” web was a bad ideas.

#web20 #advertising #webcrap

[Перевод] Document PiP vs window.open

Всем привет! Меня зовут Максим Иванов . Сегодня я хотел бы провести небольшой исторический экскурс и объяснить, почему Document Picture-in-Picture — это не просто способ отображать видео в формате « картинка в картинке », а новое и любопытное API, которое потенциально может заменить привычный всем window.open. Возможность выводить видео в режиме PiP появилась еще в сентябре 2018 года в Chrome 69. С тех пор прошло более семи лет активного тестирования и развития. В 2019 году подобный механизм появился в Safari, а к 2020-му — и в Firefox. Теперь, когда почти каждый браузер умеет открывать видео в отдельном плавающем окне, возникает логичный вопрос: могут ли браузеры с той же легкостью открывать в отдельном окне интерактивный HTML-контент, а не только видео? И если да, то каким образом? Давайте поговорим об этом ниже.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/953340/

#pip #document #js #iframe #DocumentPictureInPicture #web #web10 #web20 #open

Remembering Jess Search and the early noughties web

https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/remembering-jess-search-and-post-crash-pre-web2-scene/

Exploring WordPress, Textcasting, and Open Web Standards

On Open Web Conversations on OpenChannels.fm

https://openchannels.fm/exploring-wordpress-textcasting-and-open-web-standards/

In this episode of the Fediverse Flows series, host Matthias Pfefferle sits down with pioneer technologist Dave Winer. The inventor of blogging, podcasting, RSS, and text casting. Together, they unpack the evolution of the open web, discussing why true interoperability and openness matter more than ever in an age of restrictive social media platforms.

Exploring WordPress, Textcasting, and Open Web Standards

@davew and @nathanwrigley talking about "Decentralisation, WordPress and Open Publishing"

https://wptavern.com/podcast/186-dave-winer-on-decentralisation-wordpress-and-open-publishing

also don't forget to listen to the openchannels podcast with @davew and me!

https://openchannels.fm/exploring-wordpress-textcasting-and-open-web-standards/

#fediverse #activitypub #wordpress #textcasting #rss #openweb #indieweb #blogs #web20 #podcast

Wrote a quick blog post about Typepad shutting down at the end of the month, which turned into a bit of a eulogy for the good bits of Web 2.0...
https://danthornton.net/2025/09/and-now-typepad-is-shutting-down/

#Typepad #Blogging #Web20

Among the hidden challenges of modern software engineering is the part where your brain just deadlocks because your company is up to its ass in so many third-party integrations with so many doofy names that you literally can't remember the one you want to use.

"I need to look at that graph I made the other day. Is that in JIRA? No, that's tickets. Oh, it's a graph, so Grafana! No, that's logs and charts. Let's see, synonym for 'graph...' Chart... diagram... you can embed them in a document and they become a figure~oh, it's Figma!"

(side note: this would not be a problem if we could get to the next phase of the design of the web where all these little resources aren't silo'd into their own services so that you have to start from the app to find the doc instead of starting from, say, the project. Or a directory of docs across heterogeneous apps. We had this solved in the nineties and took a big step back from UX when everything went Cloud.)

ETA: I was wrong it was LucidChart. 😉

#cloud #web20

You no longer need JavaScript

My goal with this article is to share my perspectives on the web, as well as introduce many aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with. I’m not trying to make you give up JavaScript, I’m just trying to show you everything that’s possible, leaving it up to you to pick what works best for whatever you’re working on.

I think there’s a lot most web developers don’t k

https://www.osnews.com/story/143246/you-no-longer-need-javascript/

#Web20

Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it

In the olden days, publishing a site on the Internet required that you figure out hosting and have at least some experience with HTML, CSS, and the other languages that make the Internet work. But the emergence of blogging and "Web 2.0" sites in the late '90s and early 2000s gave rise to a constellation of services that would offer to host all of your thoughts without requiring you to build the website part of your website. The TypePad shutdown is rough news for the site's remaining user base—and it's yet another tranche of old Internet content that will only be available via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, when it's available at all.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/one-time-wordpress-competitor-typepad-ends-its-slide-into-obscurity-by-shutting-down/

#blogging #graveyard #oldInternet #shutdown #typepad #web20

Es brauche das #Instrumentarium der #Sozialwissenschaft​en, um die #enorm​e #Flut #digital​er #Information​en #kritisch zu #reflektieren und ihr #Sinn zu geben. Ein #Beispiel für die #Wiederentdeckung eines #Theorem​s aus #vordigital​er #Zeit sei der #Vorschlag, #Ordnungsbildung im #Web20 mithilfe der #Theorie #soziale​r #Welt​en von Anselm S. #Strauss zu #untersuchen.

#Sutter / #Maasen - Die #Neuerfindung der #Soziologie S.77 f.

#Sozialwelten #Ordnungssuche #Ordnung #Ordnungsfindung

Around 2008 (+/- 3y) was the time, when that Internet (TM) #web20 has died. We believed in the freedom of speech and stuff.

After that, the (a) social #web30 brought us to algorithmic controlled mindset of people based on the most populist content.

It's legit. Populist stuff creates the most emotions thus clicks thus money.

So, do not blame single players. Blame walled gardens with capitalist interest.

#LLM tech is about to kill anything where people are able to contribute:

The Future of #Comments is Lies, I Guess
https://aphyr.com/posts/388-the-future-of-comments-is-lies-i-guess

"I strongly suspect the only reason #Mastodon hasn’t been eaten alive by LLM #spambots is because we’re just not big enough to be lucrative. But those economics are shifting, and even obscure ecological niches can be worth filling."

Back to Web 1.0? 🤨😞

#spam #moderation #web20

#Development #Trends
MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 · Why the Model Context Protocol deserves attention https://ilo.im/1640uj

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#Business #Community #OpenWeb #Web #Web20 #AI #MCP #WebDev #Frontend #Backend