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   Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 05:04:05 JST Tim Chambers

   He is right: "Currently, the web is lacking in compassion, but this is not a human failing. This is a design issue."

   "The algorithms that make social media so compelling have harmful consequences and should be regulated, argues Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the web."
   https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/internet-social-media-world-wide-web-tim-berners-lee-b1247551.html

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 06:11:26 JST Tim Chambers

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     @serapath which other projects do you like and think have more potential than solid?

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     𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇨🇦) (serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 06:11:27 JST 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇨🇦)

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     @tchambers imho he had his fame and chances and was the director of the w3c for a long time but failed to design the right protections. his latest project solid pods takes a lot of attention away from much better projects that actually could deliver what solid pods cant. So while problems are obvious - the big question is more like where to look for solutions 🤷♀️

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 06:32:40 JST Tim Chambers

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     • dat ecosystem

     @serapath @dat_ecosystem Thanks 👍

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     𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇨🇦) (serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 06:32:41 JST 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇨🇦)

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     @tchambers

     the proper way out would be "public key addressed" data, where a "pod provider" is similar to a "bittorrent seeder" making sure the dataset is available, but no pod provider is authoritative and more providers means more safety/redundancy/protection against any single provider ceasing their service.

     a keypair ownwr could always sign new updates to their existing datasets.

     this exists in dat @dat_ecosystem which started in 2013, but without more funding things move slow

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     𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇨🇦) (serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 06:32:42 JST 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇨🇦)

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     @tchambers

     there is nothing ready - the questiin is what is the right approach.

     pods are federated. you chose and maybe transition to a different pod provider, but either ways, its always just one pod provider and if people dont want to risk their data they better use a big secure pod provider so they can trust they do proper backups and wont unexpectedly shutting down. this happens often with fediverse instances