Scripting News: Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 I did a podcast interview with Matthias Pfefferle last week. I wanted to introduce my ideas to the Fediverse world. I haven't listened to it yet, but I remember it being a good discussion on basically all the things I am working on and with these days. It's all a continuation of what we were doing when we were so rudely interrupted by the silos, Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky and to a lesser extent Mastodon. I want to reform social media, go back to the beginning and let's ask the question -- what kind of social media does the web want? Start with the basics, and build a stack that performs like Twitter or Bluesky, but never veer from the standards of the web. Every component must be replaceable. Writers must have all the writing power of the web. Evan Prodromou will be glad to hear that I am a huge fan of the role ActivityPub is playing in bringing the power of textcasting to Mastodon. Matthias, my partner in this podcast ep...