Dominik Schwind

It's not something I had to think about a lot, because honestly my personal sensibilities are are even more vanilla than most corporate social media sites. Alas, he is of course absolutely right, people should be able to let their freak flag fly on their own websites and curators (human or semi-automated like webrings) should give them spaces to do so.

Trust me on the websites.

(Oh. And the sunscreen.)

This is amazing

Personal websites are the best

Oh, interesting idea! The wavey underline reminds me of a spellchecker, though.

I think that's the first time I read "Maybe ActivityPub is not a good idea because it brings Mastodons toxicity into otherwise calmer spaces" but it's not as far-fetched as I thought it would be and it's not a good sign for ActivityPub.

The whole problem space of social norms, audience etc. is super interesting, especially in spaces like the IndieWeb and the Fediverse which are by definition fractured and diverse.

Absolutely. You should have a personal website, even if it is just a simple landing page.

Oh.

Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these people

I like links

This is quite a list.

Oh. There it is.

Great. Well done, Discord.

I think this is the last post I link to on the topic of Social Media bridges. It is a really good one, though.

I'm pretty sure that's it:

And maybe what’s missing now is simply connection.

The connections and communications moved to "Social Media" and will probably stay there.

Personal websites are the best

These days its all meme accounts

I mean I host stuff there, they're great

I absolutely agree - all of this is way too complicated. And I do this stuff for a living.

I haven't laughed so hard in weeks

Yes. You, too.

It's a bit sad but yes. Sure, there's Mastodon but even there it doesn't just feel the same.

This is interesting. I didn't expect POSSE explained on The Verge in that much detail

I'm not on threads (because Europe) but this is still highly amusing to me. I guess that's how religions start?

They're talking about wordpress.com, which is a bit mindbloggling.

Go do it!

Honestly: yes. I just feel bad for people who haven't found their group chats, yet.

We might need a conversation platform for only the cool people. Globally.

What.