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   Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 19:50:32 JST Richard MacManus

   I listen to a couple of media podcasts and I think many people in "new media" these days think all the craft has gone out of online publishing — because of newsletter platforms like Substack, the dominance of 'old social' (X, FB, et al), and the decline of webpages in general. But what I've discovered since ditching Substack for an 11ty/Buttondown combo is that I'm *crafting* my own online presence again, similar to what I did with blogging in early Web 2.0. Craft on the web is *back*, not dead.

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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 19:50:32 JST Richard MacManus

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     That said, I have always been an early adopter in the 'new media' world, and so I don't think most people in that industry have grokked the importance of ActivityPub, Mastodon, platforms like Eleventy and Buttondown (both of which are very customizable and web-friendly). This is a *new* new media. Incidentally, one of these podcasts I listen to claims the "open web" is dead, but I don't think they understand what the open web is these days.

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 19:50:58 JST Tim Chambers

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     @ricmac Fully agree…