Scripting News: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 On Bluesky : "The web is still there under all this michegas, ready to be magical again any time we want it to." # New thread on Mastodon : OK, i give up for now on getting a team of nerds together to build a bridge from RSS to ActivityPub along the lines of what Automattic has done to bridge WordPress to ActivityPub. We will need that to happen, I would much prefer to get it done in advance, but people don't know me or trust me well enough to believe I might see something that they apparently don't. I'm pretty confident they will, but I would really love to get some help. # The topology of social networks # I wrote this on Bluesky this morning. # Most of what passes for discourse on platforms like Bluesky amounts to spam and abuse. Makes expensive moderation necessary and who's going to pay for that on an open system. It's why this approach can't lead anywhere but to yet another Twitte...