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Adding comments to your static blog with Mastodon

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Adding comments to your static blog with Mastodon (carlschwan.eu)

One of the biggest disadvantages of static site generators is that they are static and can’t include comments.There are multiples solutions to solve this problem. You could add a third party blog engine like Disqus, but this has the drawback of including a third-party tool with a bad privacy record in your website. Another solution would be to host an open-source alternative but this comes at the cost of a higher maintenance burden.

Having to host a database was something we wanted to avoid with a static site generator.In my opinion, a better solution is to leverage the Mastodon and Fediverse platform. Mastodon is a decentralized social network and it allows people to communicate with each other without being on the same server. It is inspired by Twitter,…

NTIA calls for Changes to Boost Competition in Mobile App Markets | National Telecommunications and Information Administration

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NTIA calls for Changes to Boost Competition in Mobile App Markets | National Telecommunications and Information Administration (ntia.doc.gov)

WASHINGTON – The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said in a new report Wednesday that the current mobile app store model is harmful to consumers and developers, and recommended policy changes to fix it.

Mobile apps have become an essential tool for participation in much of daily life. Two companies – Apple and Google – act as gatekeepers over the apps that people and businesses rely on, NTIA found in its “Competition in the Mobile Application Ecosystem” report.The companies’ policies have the potential to harm consumers by inflating prices…

What Are Mastodon and Post Like? Examining Twitter Alternatives

Alternatives to BirdChan
Blocked Nazis and Boring Billionaires: What It’s Really Like on Mastodon and Post by Gwen Snyder (Jezebel)

An antifascist researcher gets the vibe of each Twitter alternative, just in time for Elon Musk to make another terrible decision.

Nazis, manosphere weirdos, dirtbag “left” trolls, ambiguous terms of service, cakes that look like people…For all its utility, Twitter has never not been a hell site. Under Elon Musk, though, things are getting undeniably worse. Seemingly every day, a new Nazi gets his account back, even as Musk issues orders to suspend accounts working to…

Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

TikTok Enshittification, a cartoon drawing of TikTok as the witch and potential users as Hansel and Gretel
Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) by Cory DoctorowCory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)

https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/21Jan2023.jpg?w=840&ssl=1 https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/21Jan2023.jpg?w=840&ssl=1 Today’s links Tiktok’s enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate…

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the…

Twitter leak of email addresses totals at least 200 million – The Washington Post

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Hackers leak email addresses tied to 235 million Twitter accounts by Joseph Menn (The Washington Post)

Researchers say the information was assembled by unknown actors who exploited a previously disclosed flaw in Twitter’s system for verifying account ownership.

Records of 235 million Twitter accounts and the email addresses used to register them have been posted to an online hacking forum, setting the stage for anonymous handles to be linked to real-world identities. Source: Twitter leak of email addresses totals at least 200 million – The Washington Post

The role of copyright in online creative communities: law, norms, and policy

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https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/53937 (smartech.gatech.edu)

Many sources of rules govern our interactions with technology and our behavior online—law, ethical guidelines, community norms, website policies—and they do not always agree. This is particularly true in the context of content production because copyright law represents a collection of complex policies that often do not always account for the ways that people use…

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