Thanks Gregor! @atmlutter I didnât realize youâre in Toronto. An #indieweb meetup sounds fun!
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David Bryant (orangemoose.com)One more Webmention test, this time having updated my theme so reply contexts should not be included in the post content. Thanks for the testing help https://orangemoose.com!
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David Bryant (orangemoose.com)Thanks for the mention!
Aaron Parecki (aaronparecki.com)I’ve talked about this a lot with @dcwalk_. My sense is that “decentralization” is often so vapid a term that it’s necessary to investigate exactly what is being decentralized and how, and what’s being missed.
@ntnsndr recently published a great article about this. He points out that many decentralized systems lead to centralized outcomes (Bitcoin mining power is a good example) and argues “The rhetoric of decentralization thus obscures other aspects of the re-ordering it claims to describe. It steers attention from where concentrations of power are operating, deferring worthwhile debate about how such power should operate.”
In other words, beyond not meaning anything in particular, “decentralization” can be deceiving. If we think strongly enough of a technical system to believe it can change the world, we owe it to ourselves to be specific about how this change might occur.
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tl;dr: agreed!
Marty McGuire (martymcgui.re)Marty makes a quirky grin while staring into his phone It looks like I will be speaking at IndieWeb Summit! Specifically, Iâll be giving a keynote about how to âOwn Your Mobile Experienceâ. As a long-time enthusiast for these tiny computers we carry, I try to make most of the things I can do o...
Sounds great! I’ve been trying to find ways to improve my use of IndieWeb building blocks on mobile. Looking forward to getting some new ideas from your talk
Continuing to extend the pathway from easily following websites to having them in your social reader.
Thanks for this writeup, Chris. I probably haven’t thought as much as I should about following posts, so your documentation is really helpful.
You’ve reminded me that I’d like to eventually figure out a good way to have Yarns import and export OPML files. Given that the impetus of Yarns vs a hosted server is to own your feeds, it’s a shame I haven’t implemented better data portability yet.
Another idea your post brings to mind, is that it would nice to have an option to automatically create following posts (and add to the blogroll) when adding a new feed (and subsequently remove following posts when unfollowing). This should be fairly easy to implement, and would take advantage of Parse-This since its integrated into Yarns already.
Additional would be a bookmarklet for adding feeds.
As usual, you’re a fount of good ideas. I won’t have time to implement any of these things before IWS, but one of them might be a nice project for that weekend.
Aaron Parecki (aaronparecki.com)I didnât realize that youâre in Toronto! I hope your talk went well and that youâre having a great time here!
Thanks! That makes sense. I haven’t used indieweb.xyz much (yet) so I wasn’t familiar with the UI.
In this case, it makes sense to me to thread replies as you’ve done, though obviously the icons weren’t apparent to me.
One thing I’m confused about is why my reply is categorized as a bookmark, since it is marked up with ‘u-in-reply-to’ and not ‘u-bookmark-of’. Either way, I’ll continue to post to /en/bookclub and will let you know if I have any other comments.
Appreciate the help!
I’ve been wanting to read Mike Monteiro’s Ruined By Design, so I’m happy that @chrisaldrich suggested this book for an IndieWeb Book Club.
My first impression (based on the publisher’s blurb and Chris’s description) is that Monteiro’s book shares a lot of concerns with my research, namely how we can design systems that reflect our values. The blurb lists examples of designs working as intended, and in the process making the world worse:
The combustion engine which is destroying our planetâs atmosphere and rapidly making it inhospitable is working exactly as we designed it. Guns, which lead to so much death, work exactly as theyâre designed to work. And every time we âimproveâ their design, they get better at killing. Facebookâs privacy settings, which have outed gay teens to their conservative parents, are working exactly as designed. Their âreal namesâ initiative, which makes it easier for stalkers to re-find their victims, is working exactly as designed. Twitterâs toxicity and lack of civil discourse is working exactly as itâs designed to work.
The world is working exactly as designed. And itâs not working very well. Which means we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence. As designers, we need to see ourselves as gatekeepers of what we are bringing into the world, and what we choose not to bring into the world. Design is a craft with responsibility. The responsibility to help create a better world for all.
I strongly agree with the claims of responsibility made in this passage. When we make things, we are responsible for carefully considering their potential consequences. And if we make things with negative effects we failed to foresee, we should respond to those effects with diligence and purpose.
I feel some apprehension about how this book might present designers’ “amazing amount of power.” I think designers work within a profound network of constraints, and I’m curious how this will be addressed. That said, I’ll reserve judgement until I’ve read the book, and I’m looking forward to seeing what others have to say.
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