*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@social.cleverlibre.org

This article is brilliantly written and illustrated. 🤔

"Is this trend driven by people’s changing cultural habits, or is it that people are following the new laws of social networking? I don’t know — that’s for researchers to find out — but it feels like it’s reviving old cultural wars. After all, the web started out by imitating books and for many years, it was heavily dominated by text, by hypertext. Search engines put huge value on these things, and entire companies — entire monopolies — were built off the back of them. But as the number of image scanners and digital photos and video cameras grows exponentially, this seems to be changing. Search tools are starting to add advanced image recognition algorithms; advertising money is flowing there.

But the Stream, mobile applications, and moving images: They all show a departure from a books-internet toward a television-internet. We seem to have gone from a non-linear mode of communication — nodes and networks and links — toward a linear one, with centralization and hierarchies.

The web was not envisioned as a form of television when it was invented. But, like it or not, it is rapidly resembling TV: linear, passive, programmed and inward-looking."

Must Read. 😉

https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426

"The Web We Have to Save
The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying.

Why is nobody stopping it?"

https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426

Amazing art on the post header. See the FULL SIZE image here, lots of detail: https://miro.medium.com/max/2999/1*DLIqBteIIJchIhaiUfCFdQ.jpeg

I am a big Fan of History, and the WWII period is one of my favourites. Just saw a nice post at the birdsite, by a WW2 Live account.

Searched Fediverse, and indeed we have a bot bridging content here too. 😉

See the feed and if desired, Follow at https://mastodon.muage.org/@RealTimeWWII

or @RealTimeWWII

Love mark, etched in stone. Very pretty view. Ile de Ré.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_de_R%C3%A9

#travel #slowly

Two cats, one bed. Big love here.

OP at https://twitter.com/i/status/1197663987095261189

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Antarctic Station cross sectioned drawing. Great illustration work and interesting engineering for the harshest climates on the planet.

Full size, high res image at https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/189211233880

OP by Cory Doctorow, https://qoto.org/web/statuses/103180871538694673

Solid State Cooling?

A package of frozen Burgers used under laptop while large Compiler job running. 😜

Cool in more than one sense!

OP at https://hackers.town/web/statuses/103178554576704842

Like on a TV remote control, sometimes the Mute button is a big relief. 📢 🚫

Learn more about the Fediverse?

That's the part many of us here inhabit - the Mastodon instances, and many other sites, serving different needs.

"Fediverse
is a portmanteau of two words “federation” and “universe”

It is a common name for federated social networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. Historically, this term has included only microblogging platforms supporting a set of protocols called OStatus. This didn't do justice to a large number of projects that federate, share same values and are reasonably popular. With the appearance and wide adoption of a new standard protocol called ActivityPub it makes no sense to further divide the federated world into “OStatus” and “non-OStatus” projects. This guide unites all interconnected federated networks under one term “Fediverse”. "

https://fediverse.party/

https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

"The Future?

At the moment, several projects in the space are working to adopt new supplementary protocols, with the intent of building better bridges between one another. The proposed development might end up looking like this:"

There's The Federation -- and The Fediverse.

"Many newcomers to the federated web may hear of a casual reference to the fediverse, and may be curious about what that term means. A simple explanation might be that it’s a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”, but it’s actually a little bit more complicated than that. Let’s dive into the nature of this beast, along with some of the history that comes with it.

At present, there are two supernetworks in the federated social communication space, and they run on different protocols. They are known as The Fediverse, and The Federation. While both supernetworks function in similar ways and even have similar aims, they each come from a different history of development, and by extension, a different stack. The overlapping series of networks can be referred to in macro as The Free Network."

From a nice page here! https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334

Ever wonder what is out there in The Federation?

"The Federation refers to a global social network composed of nodes that talk to each other. Each of them is an installation of software which supports one of the federated social web protocols. "

https://the-federation.info/

The Contacts list in Friendica is where you can see all of your contacts. Two types, which are shown in separate places in mastodon, all together here.

* Mutual Friendship : we follow each other.

* You are a Fan of : I follow that user, he/she does not follow me yet.

From the small icons in the Right column (see highlight in green), we can directly send a DM (in mastodon, called PM in Friendica). Or :

- View contact's Network Activity (posts, etc)

- View their Profile pages directly.

- Unfollow them with one click. ("Drop Contact")

And when you start peeping, people take notice. 😉

Soon I got my first Follow Request notification in my Friendica account.