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ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

De-google-ify Internet - Main Page

The web giants centralize our digital lives in exchange for their services The Free Software community offers alternative ethical services The Framasoft network intends to prove itby hosting them

Introducing Chatto

I'm building an Open Source group chat application that's simple to self-host, familiar to use, and easy to customize.

Alternatives to

Framasoft is at full capacity, but we are not leaving you: we are part of the collective CHATONS and other members of the network will be delighted to welcome you.

Chatto — Self-hostable team chat

Chatto is a fast, fully-featured chat app for teams and communities who care about owning their data.

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.

Dock — Team chat that doesn't suck

Team chat without the bloat. Unlimited search, even on free. No AI tax. No feature overload. Built for startups who ship.

Cloudflare's Matthew Prince has a plan to get Google and the AI oliigarchs to pay for your content even though many are used to getting it for free. He might have enough leverage to make them.

AI chatbots are blowing up the 30-year economic relationship publishers have had with search engines. Many think this will kill the web if not addressed. Google needs to change first. It's resisting. Cloudflare's Matthew Prince is going to try and make them.

OpenMeet - Your Community, Your Privacy, Your Power

The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.

OpenMeet - Your Community, Your Privacy, Your Power

The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.

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In 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, wrote in a paper that “advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.” Two years later, Google began building a multi-billion-dollar business running ads alongside search.

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We believe open source is at the heart of innovation and community empowerment. The goose Discord is home to the goose OSS community. | 6280 members

AT friends #4 & #5: @gabboman.at.app.wafrn.net and @djara.dev of Wafrn - Jake Simonds's Blog

informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world

How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith

🎙️ Graphite's CEO on why ChatGPT is driving more qualified leads than Google, how to optimize for Reddit without spamming, and why early-stage startups can win at AEO when they couldn't at SEO

Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization

The social media ecosystem appears to be in flux. Twitter’s rebranding to X has come to symbolize a broader reorganization of online publics – political reshuffling, user attrition, and uncertainty over the role of legacy platforms. Simultaneously, the shift from text-based, networked feeds toward algorithmically curated, short-form video has accelerated, with TikTok setting the pace for the wider ecosystem [18, 14, 16]. At the same time, everyday communication increasingly migrates from large, open networks to semi-private spaces such as group chats and messaging apps. Commentators describe a digital public sphere in transition: smaller, more fragmented, less dominated by traditional social networking sites, and rise of more broadcast-oriented forms of media – with some even suggesting that we are seeing the beginning of the end of the social media era.