For the past few years, I’ve been running #WeDistribute, a tech blog / news publication dedicated to open source, decentralized social communication systems. It’s evolved from a tiny personal blog to something that kind of resembles a news outlet.

This is a musing on my journey, and my hopes on where I can take this thing.

https://deadsuperhero.com/2024/05/my-hopes-for-we-distribute/

It’s so messed up that OS vendors just assume it’s okay to throw ads onto your desktop or your phone. My Samsung just started throwing them in my notifications, and there’s no way to turn them off.

I didn’t want to have to root my phone and install a different version of Android on it, but this is downright hostile.

I’ve gone ahead and forked the #WordPress plugin we’re using for liveblogging. If anyone is interested in helping build this thing together, check it out:

https://codeberg.org/Context/DrumBeat