Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

Got my OpenPGP Key email IDs certified with my European eID through the German AusweisApp2 software made by Governikus - Check out their service here: https://pgp.governikus.de/pgp/index.html

Google embedded a new tracking method called FLoC in Chrome & is turning it on by default.

Consequently, we've enhanced the tracker blocking in our Chrome extension to block FLoC (update pending store approval).

Extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/duckduckgo-privacy-essent/bkdgflcldnnnapblkhphbgpggdiikppg

Post:
https://spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-with-duckduckgo/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1380491878513131524

@dansup
it is truly wonderful that you take this into consideration, and are willing to regress on stuff you already built! Thank you 🙏

(PS. You might also consider 'deception pattern' as per candidate IETF preferred terminology: https://github.com/ietf/terminology )

Did you know about the 💖 wonderful humanetech decision made by @dansup for #pixelfed ?

Such a hopeful move for #fediverse as a playground and innovation space for humane technologists.

Just quoted it in a post to the new #SocialHub related Lemmy space I created yesterday:

https://lemmy.ml/post/59581/comment/47782

But here are the original toots: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/105779625029204812

Manage media with Drive, a new way to browse, edit and organize your photos and videos.

Available soon! #pixelfed #drive

The Network Timeline is now available!

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/2719 #pixelfed

Fediverse article is published! https://eric442.substack.com/p/what-is-the-fediverse

“…the IndieWeb is a toolkit. A collection of ideas, technologies, and services that can help you solve some particularly tricky problems. If you're wanting to get involved in the #IndieWeb, the first question you need to ask is: what problem do I have?” https://theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/one-year-in-the-indieweb

WordPress, Micropub and Featured Images https://jan.boddez.net/articles/wordpress-micropub-and-featured-images

#code #indieweb #micropub #plugins #wordpress

@arteteco
Running WithKnown #indieweb for my blog https://blog.rmendes.net for bookmarks, links, reading list, archive.

And running #wordpress for my landing page/cv/work related stuff at my naked domain rmendes.net
Both are far from what I want them to look/feel like but it's a work in progress :)

The whole thing have been running on #yunohost for a while and then I moved to using #cloudron to handle the entire stack underneath the apps I need.

Corteza is a low code build platform (think building ERP/CRM like things) that is using #ActivityPub to share data between servers.
https://cortezaproject.org/corteza-release-2020-12/
#FediApps

Wow!! It is revolutionary.. the #NoPhone 🤯

https://www.thenophone.com/

They even have a TED talk!

I help build publishing tools for the open web.

https://ghost.org/features/

#introductions #indieweb #opensource

What's Included:

(1) NoPhone
Less anxiety
Improved eye contact
Real friends
Human-to-human connection

What's Not Included:

Texting your ex-boyfriend
Location tracking
Social media apps
Suspicious browsing history
Data overages
Dead batteries
A working phone

I said before that centralized social networks are currently playing a losing game: there's no way to make all political parties happy.

But a top-down solution which *assumes* gatekeepers will *codify* a losing game for the citizens legislators are *intending* to protect.

We need to make ourselves visible, show a real effort for a system that empowers and delivers agency to our citizens.

Legislators should know that this is a viable path, otherwise they'll write legislation that assumes gatekeepers-only, because gatekeepers is all they know.

This is a good start, but it's not enough. It should be clear from watching the video that most people in congress had never even heard of such a direction before... certainly didn't know this work has been ongoing for over a decade.

The federated social web community has been at this work for over a decade. I'm proud to have been part of the ActivityPub standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

There's also further research happening for the next generation of this work in @spritelyproject.

But...

There's another way to look at this situation: as my friend Randy Farmer said to me: "Society is interpreting centralization of communication as a pathogen. What we're seeing right now is an immune response."

There's good reason to be concerned about gatekeepers to our communication, so 16 times in 6 pages isn't so surprising.

Yet, we've *built* alternatives to gatekeeping social networks across ActivityPub and other fediverse projects... how many times are those mentioned? Not once.