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Liked First thoughts about Threads by Ben WerdmullerBen Werdmuller (werd.io)

Meta’s new social network is interesting: an obvious strategic shot at Twitter just as that network is running into trouble, as well as a way to iterate on its aging Facebook property. To that end, it makes sense that Meta would piggyback on the fediverse of independent social networks that interc…

It doesn’t look like Threads is coming to the EU anytime soon, so I’m getting my first look second-hand. I have personal thoughts & a conflict of interest both as a Meta employee and a Mastodon user, so I won’t write anything myself about the feature in the foreseeable future, but I liked Ben’s post…

food

Liked My current approach to food (IndieWeb Carnival: Cooking) by Tracy DurnellTracy Durnell (tracydurnell.com)

In response to Sara Jakša’s call for blog posts about cooking 😀
ingredients and utensils for making coleslaw and BBQ beans laid out on the counter
I’ve gone through many phases of cooking and food over my adult life, including a number that I’m quite happy to have moved past, ranging from…

a sweet read on different eating regimens and the emotions they create

searching for a recipe

Liked Searching for a recipe by Jeremy CherfasJeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net)

We are looking after a friend’s place in the country and perhaps the hardest work is keeping on top of the vegetable garden. Ignore it for a day, and there are five large cucumbers, mocking you. My cucumber repertoire is somewhat limited; raita, quick pickle, sandwiches and, when I remember, Yan-K…

on the limits of searching for a recipe online, the problem with search engines, the problem with subscriptions, and the futility of trying to clean up this mess.

building a website

Liked So a buddy of yours wants to pick your brain because they need to build a website for something. by Chris Coyier (chriscoyier.net)

Awesome. It’s nice to feel useful. Let’s say the goal of the conversation is to get closer to making actual choices on what technologies to use. Where are you going to host it? What is the main site-building tool, if any? Where are you going to buy a domain name, if anywhere? What additional tools […]

A few questions to ask if you’re considering building a website for a project.

Cultures d’exclusion dans la Tech et dans la gouvernance d’Internet

Liked Loud Men Talking Loudly: Cultures d’exclusion dans la « Tech » et dans la gouvernance de l’Internet by XavierCoadic (xavcc.frama.io)

Anthropologie d’Internet, de l’infrastructure et de l’informatique

Je repartage cet excellent résumé (qui est sous licence CC-BY, d’ailleurs, donc vous pouvez aussi le réutiliser !) de Xavier. Un extrait de son article Je vous en partage ici une traduction au débotté issue d’un tableau présent dans ce rapport à la page 11, Cela concerne les Dynamiques (aka forces) culturelles & Effets d’exclusion…

audiobook recommendations for Pride

Liked A playlist of audiobook recommendations for Pride (Mastodon)

I made a playlist of audiobook recommendations for Pride on Libro.fm

If you get the audiobooks through the playlist, you support both my reviews and an independent bookstore of your choice.

This is great! Audiobooks are cool and LGBTQ+ books are even cooler, and this playlist, which is also hosted on my lovely Libro.fm, which has an amazing business model. Check out Jude’s list!

This moment isn’t about decentralization

Liked This moment isn’t about decentralization by Ben WerdmullerBen Werdmuller (werd.io)

I think it’s important to understand that what’s happening today in social media is not because decentralization’s time has come: it’s because Twitter’s time has gone.
Many of us have been wanting decentralized social networking for a long time — I’ve been a part of these conversations for around twenty years. It’s tempting to feel like people finally get it. But that’s a trap and a mistake. As always, quite rightly, most people want something that works for them. If decentralized tech gets them there better than the alternative (and I think it can!) then there’s a wonderful route forward for everyone. But decentralization is not the goal. The goal is always a human experience for people who do not and should not care how the sausage gets made.

Liking this and putting here with no comment, but a personal blog post on that topic may follow, tomorrow or in 3 years.

What makes RSS better than social timelines? – Tracy Durnell

Liked What makes RSS better than social timelines? by Tracy DurnellTracy Durnell (tracydurnell.com)

Replied to The Fail Whale Cascade by Luke Harris (lkhrs.com)
I’m bored of what I call “the timeline era”. Scanning an unending stream of disconnected posts for topics of interest is no longer fun, I prefer deciding what to read based on titles, or topic-based discussion.
I am a huge fan of RSS…

Loved these nice little things about RSS feeds. (I also use a feed reader to follow my Mastodon timeline; it’s nice enough because I can just « mark all as read » if I’m not in the mood, and I don’t follow too many people, but it does have its limits.)

On Glenique Frank Returning Her London Marathon Medal

Liked On Glenique Frank Returning Her London Marathon Medal and Undefeatable Bad Faith by Niko StratisNiko Stratis (Autostraddle)

In sports, we point to the trans women who place second or third or 6,160th and say that we are not winning medals anyway, so why not let us in. That we are weakened by our hormones or the years of our lives and letting in what few of us are vying for position doesn’t hurt anybody., But then what happens when we succeed? What does this say of trans women who work and train and struggle to compete with the desire to win in their hearts. They are not great betrayers of the cause by simply choosing to excel. We should all be so lucky to find ourselves at the front of the pack.

On the right to thrive and perform well as trans women in sports – can we get another narrative than « oh but trans women don’t actually win », which is currently true, but also so demeaning?

The fediverse and the AT Protocol

Liked The fediverse and the AT Protocol by Ben WerdmullerBen Werdmuller (werd.io)

Ryan discusses the differences between the fediverse and the AT Protocol:
I’m probably being a bit presumptuous, but I think there’s actually a difference between a European and American mindset here. (Mastodon is headquartered in Germany while Bluesky is rooted in San Francisco and Austin.)

Interesting take on a cultural reason why BlueSky and ActivityPub might be so different in design and in their relationship to community.