Internet

via Assaf 🌴 (@assaf@mas.to): “A collection of personal websites and an RSS reader can produce a surprisingly good Internet. It will probably be a smaller one. That’s fine.”

A thoughtful case for owning your own corner of the web: a website is a place you control, while a social media account is space inside someone else’s place — including the audience, which was never really yours. Refreshingly, it avoids simple nostalgia and acknowledges that the old web had real problems too.

via Xamanismo Coletivo (@eliasulrich@hachyderm.io): “One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.

Marginalia is an independent search engine with its own crawler and index that deliberately surfaces non-commercial, off-the-beaten-path corners of the web. No AI, no tracking, no cookies, and the whole thing is open source under AGPL. A refreshing antidote to the SEO-optimized sameness of mainstream search results.

via Terry Godier (@tg@indieweb.social): 📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet

The New York Times looks at how outdoor magazines like Backpacker and Outside have shed their print editions, and what’s lost when a genre built on long-form storytelling and large-format photography moves entirely online. A reminder that the economics of digital publishing reshape not just distribution but the kind of work that gets made.

via Molly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io): When people say you should “own your own data,” or that the future of the web is “ownership,” what does that mean?

Molly White untangles the many contradictory things people mean when they say “digital ownership” — buying media you can’t keep, controlling your own data, owning your audience — and argues we’d be better served by naming the specific rights we actually want. A clarifying read that cuts through both platform lock-in apologetics and crypto “ownership era” hype.

Dan Moren drops Feedly and moves his RSS subscriptions into Reeder’s own iCloud-synced feed list, cutting out the sync service entirely. The bigger point: RSS and OPML remain one of the few places where moving your data between apps and services takes about a minute — a portability standard the rest of the web could learn from.

The President of Signal Foundation speaks on various threats to messaging privacy around the world:

via Privacy International: It is easy to feel helpless in face of the many companies that profile us online. Esp when how they actually do this is complex & confusing!

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via Babe Truth: In space, no one can hear you scream. In cyberspace, no one can shut you up.