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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #web20, aggregated by home.social.

  1. "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

  2. "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

  3. "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

  4. "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

  5. "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

  6. 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

  7. "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" 👉🏻 fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the

    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

  8. "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 👉🏻 bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-brie

    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

  9. "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 👉🏻 bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-brie

    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

  10. "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 👉🏻 bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-brie

    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

  11. "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 👉🏻 bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-brie

    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

  12. 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

  13. [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.

    habr.com/ru/articles/953340/

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

  14. [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.

    habr.com/ru/articles/953340/

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

  15. [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.

    habr.com/ru/articles/953340/

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

  16. [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.

    habr.com/ru/articles/953340/

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

  17. Remembering Jess Search and the early noughties web

    With ShootingPeople – the groundbreaking email community Jess Search co-founded with Cath LeCouteur – closing after 27 years, I’m revisiting a piece I wrote after Jess's death in 2023 which looked back not only at her impact, but that happy era online after the dotcom crash and before smart phones – when the VCs had left. The decisions Jess and Cath made over two decades ago seem more relevant than ever, as the web looks again towards small and human-run communities across the fediverse, grappling with questions of moderation and sustainability, while trying to chart a different course to the web monopolies. This post-crash and pre-2.0 era that Shooting People exploded in, wasn’t so much about a business model, it was a period of post-web/pre-tech-dystopia, open, queer-punk peer-to-peer culture.

    25.netribution.co.uk/nic/remem

  18. Remembering Jess Search and the early noughties web

    With ShootingPeople – the groundbreaking email community Jess Search co-founded with Cath LeCouteur – closing after 27 years, I’m revisiting a piece I wrote after Jess's death in 2023 which looked back not only at her impact, but that happy era online after the dotcom crash and before smart phones – when the VCs had left. The decisions Jess and Cath made over two decades ago seem more relevant than ever, as the web looks again towards small and human-run communities across the fediverse, grappling with questions of moderation and sustainability, while trying to chart a different course to the web monopolies. This post-crash and pre-2.0 era that Shooting People exploded in, wasn’t so much about a business model, it was a period of post-web/pre-tech-dystopia, open, queer-punk peer-to-peer culture.

    25.netribution.co.uk/nic/remem

  19. Remembering Jess Search and the early noughties web

    With ShootingPeople – the groundbreaking email community Jess Search co-founded with Cath LeCouteur – closing after 27 years, I’m revisiting a piece I wrote after Jess's death in 2023 which looked back not only at her impact, but that happy era online after the dotcom crash and before smart phones – when the VCs had left. The decisions Jess and Cath made over two decades ago seem more relevant than ever, as the web looks again towards small and human-run communities across the fediverse, grappling with questions of moderation and sustainability, while trying to chart a different course to the web monopolies. This post-crash and pre-2.0 era that Shooting People exploded in, wasn’t so much about a business model, it was a period of post-web/pre-tech-dystopia, open, queer-punk peer-to-peer culture.

    25.netribution.co.uk/nic/remem

  20. Remembering Jess Search and the early noughties web

    With ShootingPeople – the groundbreaking email community Jess Search co-founded with Cath LeCouteur – closing after 27 years, I’m revisiting a piece I wrote after Jess's death in 2023 which looked back not only at her impact, but that happy era online after the dotcom crash and before smart phones – when the VCs had left. The decisions Jess and Cath made over two decades ago seem more relevant than ever, as the web looks again towards small and human-run communities across the fediverse, grappling with questions of moderation and sustainability, while trying to chart a different course to the web monopolies. This post-crash and pre-2.0 era that Shooting People exploded in, wasn’t so much about a business model, it was a period of post-web/pre-tech-dystopia, open, queer-punk peer-to-peer culture.

    25.netribution.co.uk/nic/remem

  21. Remembering Jess Search and the early noughties web

    With ShootingPeople – the groundbreaking email community Jess Search co-founded with Cath LeCouteur – closing after 27 years, I’m revisiting a piece I wrote after Jess's death in 2023 which looked back not only at her impact, but that happy era online after the dotcom crash and before smart phones – when the VCs had left. The decisions Jess and Cath made over two decades ago seem more relevant than ever, as the web looks again towards small and human-run communities across the fediverse, grappling with questions of moderation and sustainability, while trying to chart a different course to the web monopolies. This post-crash and pre-2.0 era that Shooting People exploded in, wasn’t so much about a business model, it was a period of post-web/pre-tech-dystopia, open, queer-punk peer-to-peer culture.

    25.netribution.co.uk/nic/remem

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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...
    danthornton.net/2025/09/and-no

    #Typepad #Blogging #Web20

  28. 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

  29. 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

    osnews.com/story/143246/you-no

    #Web20

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

    image via arstechnica.com

    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

  31. 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.

  32. 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.

  33. 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.

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

    The Future of #Comments is Lies, I Guess
    aphyr.com/posts/388-the-future

    "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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. @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.

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