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Gosh that’s a good question…remember the days when we had all those awesome P2P music apps? Thinking of things like @lucasgonze’s playlist app WebJay. https://hcommons.social/@aejolene/113924447231968981
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Must admit, this is pretty amazing when you consider Ruby on Rails is 20 years old. Web technology can still compete with anything. And I well remember that DHH video...
"Doesn't it feel like magic running a monolithic server-side application not just on your machine but within the browser sandbox? For me (even though I'm the "sorcerer"), it still looks like a fantasy. But there is no magic involved, only the progress of technology."
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So one of my current projects is creating a Mastodon bot, for automated internet history content. I've set up a separate account on Mastodon.social, but I am having trouble getting my new app to add scopes — to specify read/write access. Every time I check the "write:statuses" box (see first screenshot) and save, nothing is updated (see second and third screenshots). Is this because it's a brand new account? Do I need to be approved to run a bot on .social maybe??
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Latest AI search report from Brightedge indicates that Google is expanding and getting better at AI Overviews. Perplexity gets pinged for having recency problems, which isn't good news for them. Unclear how all this impacts indies, but worth monitoring — esp as Google integrates AI more and more into search over 2025. https://videos.brightedge.com/assets/documents/ChatGPT_Search_Perplexity_Google_AIO_Comparisons_Overview_by_Industry_Jan_2025_BrightEdge_v3.pdf #seo
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The admins of the Lana Del Rey subreddit also didn't approve my post there, but I am ok with that — they probably don't want to read articles by geeky bloggers. Fair enough, and I respect the decision of the human moderators not to allow my post. What I really hate these days is how platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn do everything in their algorithmic power (which is a LOT of power) to downrank or just straight out delete posts with links to independent websites.
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Lord knows we wouldn't want people to "visit, or stay on, a website" these days 🙄 This is what corporate social media is now: they just want to keep you locked up inside their walls. I shouldn't expect anything from Facebook nowadays, I suppose, but it's yet another way indie creators on the web are being squeezed out of digital culture.
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I’ve seen a meme go round to NOT share Substack posts here. But what about this meme: DO share indie blogs and newsletters! Let’s get a bit of proactive support for indies going here, rather than negative reactive stuff all the time.
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My solidarity with the Lana Del Rey community just got even better — the Lana subreddit has banned all X/Twitter links. My kind of people...
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One of my all-time favorite artists is Lana Del Rey, and in this week's Cybercultural I chronicle her breakthrough year of 2011 — and how YouTube and social media were pivotal to her rise. 2011 was when Lana achieved "internet fame", which eventually led to a far greater level of fame. https://cybercultural.com/p/lana-del-rey-youtube-2011/ #InternetHistory #LanaDelRey
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Netlify CEO @biilmann has come up with the term AX: "agent experience", meaning "the holistic experience AI agents will have as the user of a product or platform." Regardless of what you think about building for agents, this bit of his post stood out to me: "...today, more than 1,000 sites are being created on Netlify directly from ChatGPT every single day". (!!!) https://biilmann.blog/articles/introducing-ax/
Matt's own blog was built on bolt.new, an AI website builder from Stackblitz. Times they are a changin...
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This should help the geopolitical situation worldwide. "Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek's services, registration may be busy. Please wait and try again."
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❤️ “Usually, the tidal wave of users that pass through our machines remain as blinking lights on servers, and the Archive is simply a website that many people use. In this period of darkness and loss of access, everyone was reminded of the many other parts the archive plays in life, and that, at least, is a precious knowledge.” https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/25/staring-into-the-void/
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“future computing platforms” — he literally can’t even say the word “metaverse” anymore! This man stands for nothing, he just gets behind whatever tech trend and/or political party makes Number Go Up.
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The power of the web, great point by @biilmann: “Tobi from Shopify made a great point at a recent event. Roughly paraphrasing, he said: “If the browser were released today as a new app, it would never get accepted into any of the app stores. It’s simply too powerful.”” https://biilmann.blog/articles/i-built-a-blog/
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"Part of Día’s inherent optimism lies in the way Minus made it: That is, from scratch, with her own hands on every granular detail of songwriting and production, down to the very design of her synthesizers. It isn’t just perfectionism; it’s determination, in a world of corporate homogeny, to express something human." https://www.hearingthings.co/the-nomadic-confessions-of-ela-minus/
(incredible album, I just listened to it for the first time!)
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Wow, a media company doing well! Seems like traffic growth is the reason (and a Google partnership was mentioned). This bit also stood out: “Since September 2023, when Google unveiled its Helpful Content Update, Reddit has risen dramatically in search engine visibility. By organically seeding links to its reporting in popular Reddit forums, such as r/politics, Newsweek has seen a traffic windfall.” https://mstdn.social/@Mediagazer/113883459561607470
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4/ If anything, Operator — and AI agents in general — reinforces that writers like me need to double-down even more on our own personal experiences (with tech or tech culture, in my case) and one's personality (which has always been paramount with bloggers).
So yes, AI agents are here and will be a big trend this year and going forward. But I don't think they're an existential threat to the human web...just yet.
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3/ Another e.g.: going out on the web and doing some preliminary research for an article or book I’m writing.
Does Operator make it less likely that people will “consume” my content on the web? Maybe, for articles that I write where a potential reader just wants some action points about a product or trend. But that was already happening with the likes of Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews.
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2/ social networking, for one, but also reading an article for pleasure (or, more likely these days, consuming a short-looping video). So I think the ‘human web’ will be fine, for now.
Ok, so how does it potentially impact my career as a tech journalist and writer? Well, I think Operator (and similar web-browsing AI agents) could be useful for me in some ways. e.g. browsing my Mastodon feed and highlighting what it thinks are the most useful tech posts by people I follow.
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