Jeremy Cherfas

I did a silly little thing in WordPress that made me inordinately happy and advanced my #indieweb progress.

There’s probably a piece to be written someday that digs deep into the way liberal podcasts tends to pair well with the open podcast ecosystem and the way conservative podcasts pairs with over-the-top premium subscription models (see also: Glenn Beck and his activities with The Blaze), but this is not that day.

“The federated nature of Mastodon, GnuSocial, the blogosphere and indeed the multiply-linked web is now seen as confusing by those used to Twitter’s silo.”

And also by those not used to Twitter’s silo.

Lookout world food. @ColinKhoury talking about #changingglobaldiets website on the podcast tomorrow.

I think I’ll wait until @cleverdevil’s memory thing tweaks are in the Known core before adopting – but I like the idea.

@LukasRosenstock Absolutely. Make it easy to host an indieweb capable domain and business can only grow.

Mashup: Email Debt Forgiveness Day @replyall gimletmedia.com/episode/9… and The Holiday Industrial Complex @planetmoney www.npr.org/sections/…

Achievement unlocked (thanks to huge help from the #indieweb community) – now receiving webmentions at Eat This Podcast. But lots still to be done.

Working my way through Chris Aldrich’s guide to bringing Twitter @mentions home, and while the WP site is not responding, this #WithKnown site is. But, in the absence of a /mentions page, where on Earth are those backlinks going? And can I display them?

@MarkedApp It’s not really a writing app though, is it? I love it for proofing.

My review of Hold Still by Sally Mann www.jeremycherfas.net/reviews/h…

Another dead mic for @bartona104 blog.patreon.com/promote-p…

We tested Lydon against a bunch of other people, and he came out top among Britain’s housewives because they felt he was so uncompromising, he’d never just do an ad for the money - he’d only do it if he genuinely believed what he was saying.

In other words, he was the best person to do what we were paying him to do, because he would never do what we were paying him to do, so if he did that, it’s OK.

@kevinmarks Interesting piece, although @Withknown didn’t like @velartrill’s URL

So Mastodon is what we don’t need. What do we need right now?

Decentralized protocols — true distributed social platforms — are very possible. There’s already a chat protocol, called Tox, that leverages a distributed hash table to store information globally across all instances, without permitting anyone to access information they don’t have the key for. It has many different clients, no centralized API with absurd limitations, and no one specially privileged official client. It’s not for persistent messaging and posts, of course, but it’s not terribly difficult to imagine a protocol that could archive content locally, that operates without any central servers or control. If we’re going to allow ourselves to be driven off Twitter, let’s not be lazy about it. Let’s work together and build something no corporation can control, and no one accident — or calculated act of malice — can wipe out.

More great advocacy for the #indieweb from @chrisaldrich.

One of the things I have a hard time wrapping my head around is the different ways in which people use different silos. Some, obviously, are different. Like super short-form Twitter. But for the others? Is it just that they want to be where all their contacts are, or is there more to it than that? Heck, I can scarcely decide whether to put things on 10C or pNut or both, so I often don’t bother.

Interesting conversation with @_amanda_j_lee about food prices and nutrition in Australia www.eatthispodcast.com/australia…

This is part of an ongoing project, trying to determine algorithmically what constitutes a reliable piece of news online. Good luck with that, although I suspect it will have no impact on people who have no desire to judge accuracy in the first place.