#web20 — Public Fediverse posts

5 social media tips for Santa Maria businesses to grow visibility, revenue | Chamber Commentary | Commentary https://www.byteseu.com/2027559/ #business #California #ChamberCommentary #ChamberOfCommerce #Cyberspace #DigitalMedia #GuestCommentary #HumanCommunication #marketing #MassMedia #OliviaMarketingGroup #OliviaMelikhov #omg #Opinion #SantaMaria #SmallBusiness #SocialInfluence #SocialMedia #Technology #Web20 #WorldWideWeb #Yelp

"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

"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

"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

"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

[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

[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

[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

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

I will never forgive del.icio.us !!! @openlink.bsky.social will fix bookmarking once and for all, leveraging an #AI Agent that's loosely coupled with #LLMs and #DataSpaces (databases, knowledge graphs, and file system doc collections). #Web20 has cost everyone so much.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kb2wztiwowhlfv6vhzkxepry/post/3lbgb6f4nd22d

del.icio.us

"The parable of the ox"

Wunderbar! Einige Tags, die mir direkt dazu einfallen:
#parabel #ökonomie #märkte #gefangenendilemma #doppeltekontingenz #spieltheorie #beobachtungzweiterordnung #web20

https://www.johnkay.com/2012/07/25/the-parable-of-the-ox/

Our #ODSBriefcase module hasn't changed an iota since it was created in the early days of the #Blogosphere.

What's changed is the fact that more tools are now using existing open standards (#RSS, #ActivityStreams, #Atom, #ActivityPub etc.) thanks to the #Web20 implosion (punctuated by #Twitter's recent dysfunction).

Open standards ensure interoperability and loose-coupling -- which ensures better solutions and longevity :)

/cc @observablehq @mauforonda @Mastodon @judell

#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

@aniltj,

"..And a core component that they are trying to break is the first class support for JSON-LD within the standard, that gives the data representation its power and flexibility."

Yep!

Unfortunately for them, #Fediverse apps exist, and the broader community is much wiser due to the #Web20 experience.

#JSONLD is a #JSON dialect that makes it easier to harness the fundamental essence of the #Web:

Name everything unambiguously using a #Hyperlink to make #DataConnectivity magic happen.

Nice Introduction to Linked Data by Tom Murphy at: http://bit.ly/dpGpz3 . #linkeddata #socialmedia #e20 #web20 #scrm

Does anyone know of a platform independent solution for verifiable user identity, delivered by any #web20, #e20, #socialmedia platform?

A single #WebID is the "Magic Key" for #meshing disparate #linkeddata across: #Facebook #LinkedIn #Plaxo #MySpace #web20 #e20 platforms etc.

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.

@lispi314 @atomicpoet Yes!

Clients (User-Agents) and Servers have to be loosely-coupled, which is what open standards have always enabled. Typically, #BigTech conflates both via tightly-coupled proprietary implementations tucked behind compelling #UI/#UX -- a technique that's worked successfully all the way up to the #Web20 implosion.

#Web30 #SemanticWeb #LinkedData

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

@atomicpoet,

The gut-response is always a #Twitter vs @Mastodon comparison. I fell for that initially, but quickly realized how Mastodon was a game-changer on a new level.

Link: https://medium.com/@kidehen/mastodon-a-viable-twitter-alternative-and-much-more-be09dc1279ca

Fundamentally, Twitter has destroyed the #Web20 model while Mastodon has unleashed the #Fediverse (a #Web30 paradigm collective).

#BigSocial and #BigTech (in general) have opened the eyes of many, moving the innovation pendulum back to the #Web 😀

#DataSpaces #WebWeWant #SocialMedia

@atomicpoet,

Regarding "Personal data is the new oil." [1], the #Fediverse will take us to a better place where "Personal data is the new electricity" conducted via hyperlinks [2].

Oil reflects the current extractive (and polluting) mindset that drives #Web20 #DataSilos and #SurveillanceCapitalism.

Electricity aligns with technological inflection that ushers in a new frontier :)

[1] https://blog.atomicpoet.org/#Personal-data-is-the-new-oil

[2] https://medium.com/virtuoso-blog/what-is-a-sparql-endpoint-and-why-is-it-important-b3c9e6a20a8b

#HyperData #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #WebWeWant

@nilsvissenberg,

Yep!

A picture speaks a thousand words!

#Web20 silos are dead++.

#Web30 #Fediverse #DataConnectivity #Web30 #SemanticWeb #RWW #WebWeWant

Oversight: Thank you for volunteering, citizen.: via @youtube . #TEMPORA #PRISM #Web20 #Privacy #SocialMedia

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

#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

🌐 SOCIAL MEDIA
🔴 Digg Reboots with AI & Reddit’s Co-Founder

🪧 Kevin Rose & Alexis Ohanian have bought back Digg, aiming to restore its community-driven roots.

🪧 AI-powered moderation & engagement will enhance discussions without replacing human interaction.

🪧 A March 8 launch is rumored, with Justin Mezzell as CEO & Rose as board chair.

#Digg #AI #SocialMedia #Web20 #Reddit

Digg Again

Kevin Rose (ex Digg) and Alexis Ohanian (ex Reddit) have teamed up and acquired Digg!

I think there is a good chance for Digg to become popular again.

Digg aims to build the kind of community-first social platform that basically no longer exists on the internet. And its new founding team thinks AI could be the secret to pulling it off.

I’m not convinced it’s going to be because of AI tools.

It’s likely to be because Reddit upsets its users and they switch back to Digg.

Digg is coming back, thanks to its founder — and Reddit’s, The Verge

#AI #SocialMedia #Web #web20

Hey you security people! Your firewall is creating all these CORS errors in my browser console and making these SaaS sites behave poorly! Fix that crap!

Really? Reallllly???

#cors #web20isGoingWell #web20

busybee: Notes: Why you’ll leave X (as well as Instagram and all the other private platforms) https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/chatter/15268-Why-youll-leave-X-as-well-as-Instagram-and-all-the-other-private-platforms #Enshittification #IndieWeb #Notes #Web20 #Blog

Da hat sich jemand sehr viel Mühe gemacht und mir vor drei Wochen von der anderen Seite der Erde eine Ansichtskarte auf die Reise geschickt! Kam heute an.

#web20 #barcamp

Given the latest developments in the #Web20 and #enshittification, I wonder why no one ever did a #Web20IsGoingJustGreat project a la Molly White’s.

Maybe because it would be mostly a tribute to three or four scumbag billionaires?

This is it, folks, the final post of my Web 2.0 memoir. Thanks for reading over the past 14 months and please consider buying the book. -> After leaving ReadWriteWeb in October 2012, it becomes apparent that the Web 2.0 era is over. I reflect on what the Web 2.0 bubble meant and how the internet industry continues to evolve. https://cybercultural.com/p/067-end-of-web20/ #InternetHistory #Web20

In early December 2011, I travel to San Francisco for due diligence with SAY Media as it prepares to acquire ReadWriteWeb. Then, on the 14th, the transaction goes through and I no longer own RWW. (part 065 of my Web 2.0 memoir, which completes the 20 chapters! Just 2 more posts to go, for the book's epilogue) https://cybercultural.com/p/065-selling-readwriteweb/ #InternetHistory #Web20

The day after the final Web 2.0 Summit closes in October 2011, Sean and I visit the SAY Media office in San Francisco to meet its CEO. In the days after, SAY presents an offer to acquire ReadWriteWeb. (part 064 of my Web 2.0 memoir) https://cybercultural.com/p/064-saymedia-offer-for-readwriteweb/ #InternetHistory #Web20

In October 2011 in San Francisco, I attend what turns out to be the last ever Web 2.0 conference. During the event, my COO Sean and I meet with 5 potential acquirers for ReadWriteWeb. (part 063 of my serialized Web 2.0 memoir; and the start of the final chapter!) https://cybercultural.com/p/063-the-last-web20-conference-2011/ #InternetHistory #Web20