Richard MacManus

New from @martinsfp on @TheNewStack (commissioned by moi): A Developer’s Guide to ActivityPub and the Fediverse, featuring the one and only @evan. https://thenewstack.io/a-developers-guide-to-activitypub-and-the-fediverse/ #Fediverse #WebDev

The social web went mainstream in 2009, with everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Ashton Kutcher on Twitter — including via iPhone or Android apps. But Web 2.0 capitalism was also ramping up, with "content farms" overtaking blogs and Facebook acquiring FriendFeed. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2009/ #InternetHistory #Web20

In-depth story about my favourite dystopian app, Sam Altman's Worldcoin and its iris-scanning Orb. The company is desperately trying to spin it as an open source benefit to humanity, but oh boy... you just can't trust ANY company, let alone a crypto one. The last line is a doozy, a quote from one of the Worldcoin execs: "It’s about execution now and explaining to people that, actually, we’re not going to steal your soul."

Indeed.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-12/how-worldcoin-is-building-digital-ids-to-combat-the-ai-apocalypse (search for it on archive.fo)

I just sent an email to premium subscribers of Cybercultural, my newsletter. Firstly, to tell them their names will be listed in the Acknowledgements of the book version of "Bubble Blog", my memoir. But also to apologize for there being no bonus content in the post-Substack era of Cybercultural, since I don't have a paywall on my 11ty website. I am considering setting up a Patreon, to make it easier to offer bonus content to supporters. Does anyone know of other, perhaps fediverse-tech, options?

Makes me smile warmly when I come across a new web dev expert, perhaps via a link from someone, and it goes to their Twitter/X page, but then I see they've stopped posting on X and are pointing to their Mastodon page. So I follow them on Mastodon, also knowing X doesn't get to access that person's thoughts anymore. Slowly but surely, the brains of the web dev community are shifting to the decentralized web — where of course they truly belong. #CircleOfLife #Fediverse

If, like me, you can't get enough @evan content, check out this interview @ChrisPirillo did for @TheNewStack (where I work too). https://thenewstack.io/the-fediverse-what-it-is-why-its-promising-whats-next/ #Fediverse

Every now and then I check to see if I have any messages on X/Twitter, but I don’t think I’ll bother doing that anymore…

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Must-read post about #search on Mastodon. Has made me adjust my own take on this issue. -> "Mastodon is not Google or any other full-text engine, nor should it be. It is a platform for community and conversation. Just as conversations do not echo in an enclosed space forever, conversation search should be somewhat ephemeral."
https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/112649725372562847

I’ve just discovered the most 2024 app yet. This is the Worldcoin of this year, I’m calling it now!

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This is my favourite yet, especially the Beatles reference… #googleaioverviews (via https://www.instagram.com/p/C7btGs-Bovd/?igsh=MWgyeHVnMGZmaWZ2MA==)

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