My blogging story should be titled ‘the never-ending experiment’. I am constantly changing things, reinventing myself, migrating, testing and checking whether I have found what I was looking for, even though I often don’t know what I actually wanted to find.
Today, I cleaned up my social media accounts. Some time ago, I created an account on Bluesky. I thought it was a good idea. After a few weeks or months (I don’t remember anymore), I decided it wasn’t a good idea.
Hi there.
Here is a second part of links to interesting blogs, sites, projects and articles. It was busy week so I didn’t have much time to read and research but I think It also will be a good occasion for you to find something interesting sources.
I found innovative projecr and thought-provoking articles. I hope it’ll be hopeful and inspired for you.
Ghost v6
Hello!
This is new (and first) serie of posts on my blog. Sometimes I share my thoughts but sometimes I have many articles from blogs and so on which I want to share with others. And this is area where I’ll do it.
I planning to share my discovering every few days. Maybe one a week, maybe rarely. Time will tell.
Here is first issue. Take it, read it, discover it, and be inspired.
Every day, we use an average of a dozen or so apps on our smartphones. So one more won’t make a difference. And it’s worth it.
It’s worth starting to use an RSS reader. There are dozens of them. Everyone will find one that suits them: free, paid, with basic functions or a content management powerhouse, available on one device, synchronising via the cloud or through an account created on the website.
Travelling by train (whether on holiday or to work) is always a great opportunity for me to observe nature and the changing seasons. View on fields, landscape without cars and civilisation (sometimes) is great.
The creation of Threads based on open source may make it even harder for independent platforms like Mastodon to educate less knowledgeable Internet users that it’s an open source platform more appropriate than Threads (a closed digital garden). They may say: hey, after all, Threads is open source too. A clever move by Meta. Likewise with AI. After all, Llama AI is also open source (but we know it’s part of big tech company).
When I look at screenshots of Apple’s operating system after the introduction of Liquid Glass, I have one thought:
Every year, companies try to introduce new ideas and come up with new features. Completely unnecessarily. If they have come up with something useful and sufficient, they should nurture and develop it, rather than forcibly replacing it with new ideas under pressure from the cycle of releasing new things and products.
Andy Hawthorne writes on his blog:
Don’t sand off your weird edges to fit some internet shape; celebrate them. Somewhere out there is a reader who says, “Aha! Someone else who collects spoons and names their houseplants after distant relatives.”
This is the essence of blogging. This diversity. Sometimes surprising. Unpredictable associations, insights, comparisons, or observations. A touch of madness in everyday life that can entertain, surprise, and show how different we are, and yet in this diversity we love to provide ourselves with pleasant experiences and spend time together.
The creation of Threads based on open source may make it even harder for independent platforms like Mastodon to educate less knowledgeable Internet users that it’s an open source platform more appropriate than Threads (a closed digital garden). They may say: hey, after all, Threads is open source too. A clever move by Meta. Likewise with AI. After all, Llama AI is also open source (but we know it’s part of big tech company). Always one step ahead of the community’s ability to pull others out from under the power of big tech.
I’ve read article by Tomasz Dunia on his blog. This is article from 2023 but still actual. Tomasz writes about Internet and… Outernet. What is Outernet?
(…) the name Internet as an internal network dominated by corporations. Outernet, on the other hand, is like the outskirts of that internal network, a no man’s land. Outernet is a place where no algorithms track us, where we can create our own space and connect with people who, like us, care about their privacy.
I decided to join ‘Micro.blog Question Challenge’ by Robert Birming. This is an initiative borrowed from Ava’s Bearblog. I think it’s great way to learn something about bloggers. Especially when they are starting writing. As it is in my case.
So you can find my answers on the eight questions below:
Why did you make the blog in the first place? Why did you choose Micro.blog? Have you blogged on other platforms before?
This week is UN Open Source Week, and we’re happy to share that today, Mastodon was added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance’s DPG Registry.
A goal of the DPGA is to promote digital public goods in order to create a more equitable world. Being recognised as a DPG increases the visibility, support for, and prominence of open projects that have the potential to tackle global challenges. To become a digital public good, all projects are required to meet the DPG Standard to ensure that they truly encapsulate open-source principles and what it means to be a digital public good.
I used to think that Bluesky could promote these types of standards more effectively. However, for some time now, I have seen that Mastodon does it better. Even though it is much smaller and less recognizable. It chose a different path than Bluesky. This is very good news.
The Fediverse is protected from takeover as long as we are spread out on many servers. If one server dominates, takeovers become easier.
Mastodon.social is currently 25.5% of the active Fediverse. This proportion is way too large and seems to be increasing.
Larger servers also tend to have worse moderation and are harder to defederate, threatening safety.
It’s really important and makes that moderation is much better. This approach works well in many situations, not only in Fediverse.
In the Reeder app, you can directly follow RSS feeds from micro.blog. I love this reader. I’ve been testing it for a few weeks now and it has replaced my podcast app, YouTube (subscriptions tab) and, of course, my RSS reader. It is a paid app, but well worth the price. It’s worth a try.
In AI era many people say that we don’t need to learn languages, don’t need to read books, don’t need to do many things and activities which were our daily life.
Everything of this we have on the Internet thanks for AI. Yes and no.
I’ve read on The New Yorker article What’s Happening to Reading?:
Large language models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, are, among other things, reading machines.
