Notices by Dave Winer ☕️ (davew@mastodon.social)

@evan

good review, i loved it, and also found the fact that i knew it was all done in a single shot was distracting. i'd rather have not looked for it. that said it was a huge achievement, beautiful piece of work.

There’s no reason RSS and social media have to be separate worlds. RSS is the easiest and fastest way to connect systems. When I see people endorse RSS over social sites I think we took a wrong turn somewhere because all these systems should be connected on the open web.

@kims

his mind is a miracle, it thinks of these things. amazing.

Think about this -- a fediverse just for blogs. It wouldn't try to deal with the limits of social media, go right to the answer.

The list of features --

https://textcasting.org/

@pfefferle -- i don't think anyone will believe how many slashes i have on scripting.com.

@pfefferle -- congrats on the new version. i guess i was online just as you announced it. ;-)

@evan

I think it might work better if you had massive demonstrations telling Americans to wake the fuck up.

@evan

Do you really think the American military would follow an order to attack Canada?

But then I can’t imagine viewing it from your point of view.

@briankrebs

but it's a different kind of ransomware.

those computers control all the money in the world.

by owning those systems, they have all the money. they don't actually need to blackmail anyone. it's a perfect crime that way.

@molly0xfff

i heard it described as being the same kind of reaction the usenet people had when AOL users arrived on the internet.

@soapdog

i just get tired of hearing that, esp when there's a big dose of rudeness thrown in (you're being perfectly polite).

Why are all the people who hate AI so pissy about it.

Has anyone come up with a variant of JSON that allows comments? I've started using names like "comment1" etc to shoehorn comments in. A complete hack, impossible to maintain over time. The idea of not being able to put notes in your config.json files is absolutely ridiculous.

a little fix that would make social web a lot more useful and less hate-filled and abusive...

make replies visible only to the person being replied to.

if they feel the reply should be public, they can RT it.

@cstross

i promise you i do not write for money and never have, even though as a result of my writing people have learned about what i do and in the process i made some money from it.

not here to argue. just that there probably are plenty of people who write and do not do it for money, all i was saying i am one of them.

@cstross

I’m a blockhead, having only, briefly, been paid a pittance for writing, yet doing it every day for over 30 years.

WordPress could be the foundation for the revival of the read-write web.

If you think woke is the problem, try reading the US Constitution and amendments. Really read them. Pretend you didn't know it was the Constitution. One woke idea after another. Basically if you don't believe in woke, you're in the wrong freaking country.

This is the view of my Mastodon account from Threads. I have now followed this on Threads.

https://www.threads.net/fediverse_profile/davew@mastodon.social

The net result is now I should see posts from each of these accounts from the other.

Only a manic wiring maniac could find this interesting. 😄

One way to help RSS-based podcasts is to promote individual episodes from the past. Sometimes shows are done, but the archive contains good stuff. Not everything is based on current events. Music, art, history for example.