Gregory's Server@tomw I reminisce on those days, and the more decentralized web back then I hardly participated in, but it was hecka interesting. Things definitely became more stale as they got more centralized. Instead of using a variety of different websites we slowly became addicted to single native versions of social media platforms on our phones and engaged constantly in what would become known as "doomscrolling."
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@tomw @Zolytech Unfortunately, I still think the "actual writing" via blogs is still not in style. I keep a comment section going on my blog in hopes that some day...people will want to have a conversation there instead of via social media. At least decentralized social media is a push in the right direction.  @bryanruby @Zolytech Yeah, blog comments mostly died off somewhere mid-decade in favour of sharing the link with your comment :( With respect to blogs, social media and comments, I discovered something cool the other day: With the ActivityPub plugin, Wordpress blogs and Mastodon get intertwined - the blog behaves like a mastodon user that can be followed, and comments on the blog's postings in Mastodon get mirrored back to the blog. @HansZauner @bryanruby @Zolytech This does sound neat, but I wonder what it looks like in use – wouldn't want to add lots of auto posted noise to the network @tomw @HansZauner @Zolytech I noticed there is also an ActivityPub module for Drupal also being developed. I agree with Tom though, I would be careful in its usage until you confirm it's a natural fit for your Mastadon instance/audience. There is a fine line between providing useful content via links and spamming the fediverse. @bryanruby @tomw @HansZauner Yeah, the thing about the fediverse is, while there's a lot of posts of course, we're not being bombarded with insane algorithm tweaked content and advertisements. So compared to what most of us have become accustomed to, its very "quiet" out here. |
@Zolytech It was quite a slow transition – for example I think it's only in the last few years that a surprising number of people abandoned actual *writing* in favour of overly long Twitter threads. The instant engagement is just too tempting. But it was all built on someone else's private island.