Scripting News: Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Wednesday, November 20, 2024
On Bluesky, inbound RSS is becoming a thing.#
It's noteworthy that we haven't seen many outages as Bluesky scales. On Twitter they had fail whales for years. #
What matters with social networks is what you can get done there, not so much the features of the network. Bluesky has the same features today it had a month ago. The difference is we had an election in the US, I guess that was the catalyst. The presence of Elon Musk so close to Trump says there is a need for a Musk-free place. I've kept my account on Twitter. I started there in 2006, and I love the web more than I feel it would do any good to erase my presence there. It's pretty much against my religion to deliberately erase bits of the web. And whatever you think of Twitter, it is most definitely part of the web.#
Basically, if you have to lock your users in, your product must suck.#

Linkblog items for the day.

Why doesn't President Biden use the FBI to vet Trump's cabinet nominees? politicalwire.com
Whoever ends up owning Chrome, we could use a new browser war. fastcompany.com
The Repubs have Twitter. The Dems need their own. That's impossible, any time soon, but at least let's get started. I did a podcast yesterday about how to bootstrap it. The answer -- let's restart kamalahq asap. scripting.com
Josseli Barnica Died in Texas After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care. propublica.org
2023: Twitter now requires users to sign in to view tweets. (I did not know this.) reuters.com
It's noteworthy that we haven't seen many outages as Bluesky scales. On Twitter they had fail whales for years scripting.com
Timothy Snyder on the Handmaid's Tale. substack.com
2009: RSS has no Fail Whale. (This was an important point, still is.) scripting.com
Texas offers border ranch to Trump for mass deportation plan. texastribune.org
2021: "it should be possible to hook your writing tool directly to both WordPress and Substack." scripting.com
Trump, Musk solidify bond with Texas trip for Starship rocket launch. apnews.com
The 17 Best Ski Resorts Near NYC. purewow.com
Calling your blog a substack seems like a minor thing. What's really offensive is that Substack makes you use their cheesy editor. Instead they could support inbound RSS and trust their users, and thus be powerful. kottke.org
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