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The personal website and blog of Daniel Long Sockwell, a lawyer-turned-programmer with an interest in web development, open source, and making things as simple as possible.

While platforms like Facebook have empowered users around the world to publish and browse the web and convene with friends online without any technical knowledge, they've also amassed unprecedented gatekeeping powers when it comes to the news and information sources people come across online. (I…

Opinion: Facebook and Google's growing power has spurred calls to decentralize the web.

Setting out upon a desperate personal journey to rediscover enchantment with computers.

Mastodon is figuring out how to address Gab joining its platform

I quit Twitter to join a kinder, nicer, decentralized open source version of Twitter.

Mastodon is an experiment in whether individually moderated communities can make a social network like Twitter more civil.

Social networks can make you feel connected to a global society. But those social networks are controlled by a corporate entity. The profit motivations of the corporation are not directly aligned with the experience of the users. Mastodon is an open source, decentralized social network. Eugen Rochko started building Mastodon in response to his dissatisfaction

Online interactions are often understood through the corporate social media (CSM) model where social interactions are determined through layers of abstraction and centralization that eliminate users from decision-making processes. This study demonstrates how alternative social media (ASM)—namely Mastodon—restructure the relationship between the technical structure of social media and the social interactions that follow, offering a particular type of sociality distinct from CSM. Drawing from a variety of qualitative data, this analysis finds that 1) the decentralized structure of Mastodon enables community autonomy, 2) Mastodon’s open-source protocol allows the internal and technical development of the site to become a social enterprise in and of itself, and 3) Mastodon’s horizontal structure shifts the site’s scaling focus from sheer number of users to quality engagement and niche communities. To this end, Mastodon helps us rethink ‘the social’ in social media in terms of topology, abstraction, and scale.

Self-described Software Historian (and lapsed auto journalist,) writing in public via GitHub and ｈｅｒｅ ｔｏ ｈｅｌｐ. If I've screwed up, tell me! (Please) - extratone

Use this simple Kanban template to keep the engineering team on the same page and moving through work fluidly. 1. Break down the roadmap by adding tasks as cards to the Backlog list. 2. Move ...

Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control.

An online magazine covering technology, culture, music, and media for the new curious. Now integrated with https://bilge.world.