I can’t post or reply by creating a web page, and identity is not email or dns, but specific to whatever mastadon instance I register with.

I already have a domain, blog, and email. Posts, replies, likes, etc. But mastadon doesn’t work with the web, or my existing web identity - instead it’s entirely based on federated ActivityPub servers plus various extensions.

We didn’t need a separate protocol/app and closed servers to do what are actually just blog posts and replies.

He posts on Twitter instead of his own blog. Saving the web is pretty simple: post to your own blog and stop using closed silos like Facebook and Twitter. Support IndieWeb tech instead of calling for government regulation.

Also, why is Facebook considered the web? Unless you’re a member the content isn’t accessible. Facebook exposes practically no HTML on the web at all.

No, Facebook is a website. They aren’t involved in genocide. They aren’t why Trump is president.

Burying competitors is a good thing. That’s the whole point. That’s literally the objective of every business in the entire economy.

GDPR tyrants: get a life and stop using Facebook. Seriously.

The web actually works great without JS, and doesn’t require gigs of memory to browse.

Every month there’s some new JS API being proposed or developed for browsers, with no care for its impact on the web. The JS APIs are still growing and only getting more complicated too! service workers is a perfect example of the problem. Offline browsing worked great 20 fucking years ago, but now multithreaded Turing complete programming languages have to be used to view a website offline. It’s absolutely absurd.

However it's often the case that "on-call" means ship broken software and fix bugs after hours.

Observing coworkers spend weeks setting up serverless stacks, for not needing a server they sure spent a lot of time configuring their tools...

But obviously the next thing is codeless, which is WYSIWYG all over again. Kind of like how serverless was the cloud all over again.

the web is public, despite SV’s best attempts to subvert and exploit that. If you don’t want someone accessing information don’t publish it as a website that anyone can access.

No you don’t. You don’t have to pay your parents debts. Not sure what “debt” you are referring to?

The indie web approach to blogging (h-feed, webmentions, etc.) seems so much better than ActivityPub because it’s static content, web friendly, control of user identity, etc.

This isn’t an article about decentralized social media, it’s a list of apps where publishers are paid in crypto currency.

For example, someone who pays their living expenses by collecting rent from property they own is financially free. A software engineer who has to go to work 9-5 or starve is not financially free, even if they are responsibly spending and free of debt.

It’s the scientific discovery of the century!