twinkl.social — a horrifying and beautiful amalgamation of everything cringe and iconic about the early web, built on ATProto.
When Software Took the Word 'Social'
The 'normal' response to the Social Web
How (mostly) 'normal' people respond to the ideas of the Social Web Marketing the Social Web is a headache. Only heightened by the clashing of heads as everyone offers an opinion. Picture those dinosaurs that have their skull on the outside. That's us. No wonder it's a headache.
W Social is TruthSocial with a European accent. - We Can Just Do Things
Different politics, identical structure: wealthy insiders, community infrastructure they didn't build, and openness performed just long enough to matter. The establishment always wants its own internet.
The Atmosphere . Building the open social web
The year social networks were no longer social | TechCrunch
The term “social network” has become a meaningless association of words. Pair those two words and it becomes a tech category, the equivalent of a single
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web:<br>An Online Un-Workshop
Since the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk over three years ago, the Open Social Web has been adopted by an enthusiastic community. People world-wide are building and using open social platforms and open social protocols to better interact with others online.
The web was always social Diving into the idea of bridging different social networks and protocols like ATproto and ActivityPub to enhance the web. Looking back at my personal web journey, from Web 2.0 to now, emphasizing that building connections... herve.bzh/the-web-was-always-social/
The web was always social
herve.bzhbeing utopian about the web is very 90s but this is like everything people dreamed the web would be. I need to read more about atproto asap overreacted.io/open-social/
Cosmik Network
Semble alpha is now open! ✨ Check it out at semble.so More details in our leaflet pub! (link in next post > )
this is, I think, the path to atproto victory: social platforms have become samey network effect vehicles that exist only to copy each others' features, so all atproto has to do is build a large enough network effect of its own that it can absorb closed socials' features in the same way
norvid_studies
one thing is it seems there's a lot more fast copying for eg every 'social' thing converging on shortform video / all kind of looking like each other but with their existing users. this is a very anecdotal impression though
Many builders in the Open Social Web are discouraged by the lack of funding in the ecosystem, slow pace of feature development (e.g. private accounts), and “low” adoption relative to incumbents like Meta. In my keynote I emphasized multi-generational struggle & movement building. People who faced…
