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🔗 F.C.C. Votes to Restore Net Neutrality Rules
Commissioners voted along party lines to revive the rules that declare broadband as a utility-like service that could be regulated like phones and water.
Happy to see net neutrality back in play in the US. Access to the internet is essential to be a member modern society and should be treated like a utility. -
🔗 Click Around, Find Out
Click around. Or tap around. Or do whatever you need to do in the browser of your choice. If we want the indie web to flourish, the very first thing people need to get used to is actually browsing the web again.
We call them web browsers for a reason. You're meant to browse.
My sense is that the recommendation engines for articles has the same flaw as music recommendation engines that gets people stuck in a loop. i.e. When given the option to pick between "everything" you mostly end up visiting the same 5 sites or listening to the same handful of albums because there's too much choice and we can't decide. They try to get you to explore a bit, the recommendation engines don't carry the authority or weight that a friend or blog you might follow, so you're back to the usual rotation in no time.
Want to browse more but not sure where to start? Visit to ooh.directory and start clicking. You're sure to find something of interest. -
🔗 Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
Online platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.
This tracks with my experience growing up online. AIM was good, but IRC was my gateway drug for the internet. Being able to interact with like-minded people my age across the world in real time was a real treat. Now it's the norm.
I find this move from the silos to smaller, distributed communities and platforms like Mastodon and the IndieWeb encouraging. -
🔗 Social media is sugar. It’s time we limit its negative impact
If social media is analogous to sugar, then what is the digital equivalent of eating our vegetables? I believe it involves supporting the parallel growth of democratized publications that are conversely creating an unmistakable net good in society.
Besides supporting just publications, we should be supporting platforms that allow people to create their own garden and interact with web in an open manner. Finding the IndieWeb is what started me on the path to eating my vegetables again. -
🔗 The Old Internet Shows Signs of Quietly Coming Back
Despite the new gatekeepers' best efforts, the old Internet never completely disappeared. Personal websites created by individuals that have always been the meat of the old Internet are still around. They are still about exploration, innovation, fun, and all the rest.
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