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Journalism isn’t dying - https://onemanandhisblog.com/2026/02/journalism-is-not-dying/?ref=feedle.world
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Michael Graaf
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🪩 #monday #reflection - 📲 #AI #chatbots are replacing #searchengines —and in the process, they’re gutting the economics of #journalism, #reviews, and the open #internet
In this video, Boyle explores how tools like #ChatGPT, #Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews are intercepting audiences, scraping content without compensation, and threatening the viability of independent news and trusted information -
#tech #contentcreator #contentquality
Video credit Patrick Boyle
🪩 #monday #reflection - 📲 #AI #chatbots are replacing #searchengines —and in the process, they’re gutting the economics of #journalism, #reviews, and the open #internet
In this video, Boyle explores how tools like #ChatGPT, #Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews are intercepting audiences, scraping content without compensation, and threatening the viability of independent news and trusted information -
#tech #contentcreator #contentquality
Video credit Patrick Boyle
Ecco le mie #recensioni di questo mese:
https://www.usthemyours.com/consigli-di-lettura-di-febbraio-2/
Kenobit, Assalto alle piattaforme. Riprendiamoci #internet, Agenzia X Edizioni
L.Casanova e Duccio Facchini, Oro colato. L’eredità per pochi delle #Olimpiadi di Milano Cortina, Altreconomia
E.Gargiulo, Protocollo: uno strumento di #potere, Elèuthera editrice
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The Millennial reader to medieval priest pipeline - https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-millennial-reader-to-medieval?ref=feedle.world
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Webspace Invaders - https://matthiasott.com/articles/webspace-invaders?ref=feedle.world
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Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott
There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking our servers wave after wave, systematically requesting page after page, relentlessly filling their data stores while we watch our access logs fill up.
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I wanted to ditch Google News, but the alternatives made it worse - https://www.androidauthority.com/why-google-news-is-still-best-android-3638334/?ref=feedle.world
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The best way to watch the Olympics - https://www.theverge.com/tech/875154/how-to-watch-olympics-nintendo-muppets-installer?ref=feedle.world
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Tommi 🤯
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💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕
For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!
- 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
- 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.
#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet
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Cory Doctorow
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Got an early birthday gift from @leonorabrantes. ❤️
Very much looking forward to reading it, @pluralistic !
#Internet #enshittification #MastoBooks
Got an early birthday gift from @leonorabrantes. ❤️
Very much looking forward to reading it, @pluralistic !
#Internet #enshittification #MastoBooks
Mastodon Migration
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why did BlueSky's main feed turned completely into bunch of furry and weeb "art" cringe shit that I have no interest nor do I follow, what the fuck 😆
why did BlueSky's main feed turned completely into bunch of furry and weeb "art" cringe shit that I have no interest nor do I follow, what the fuck 😆
I've had the same free email for exactly 20-years, but over the last year it's become manipulative and intrusive while increasingly failing to filter spam.
My entire online life is linked to this email, now it might go sideways.
Are there proven, dependable, and hopefully free, services that do better, or is this a universal problem?
I don't want to bounce from one to another, constantly having to update sites. I'm also desperate to keep expenses down.
Trending Bot
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Over the years, I've realized how far we've drifted from the original idea of the World Wide Web. These days, it feels more like a corporate, big-tech web. I think there's real value in self-hosting as much as possible while still using major platforms, especially when you can pick more European and reasonable options.
People often forget that YouTube, WhatsApp, and Instagram were once independent companies, not owned by Meta or Google. Google was meant to be ad-free, and OpenAI was founded as a non-profit research organization, etc.
We'll probably never return to that vision, but I'm glad I own most my data and have about half of my tech self-hosted and open-sourced. It's only a dent, but I'm proud of that dent.
Over the years, I've realized how far we've drifted from the original idea of the World Wide Web. These days, it feels more like a corporate, big-tech web. I think there's real value in self-hosting as much as possible while still using major platforms, especially when you can pick more European and reasonable options.
People often forget that YouTube, WhatsApp, and Instagram were once independent companies, not owned by Meta or Google. Google was meant to be ad-free, and OpenAI was founded as a non-profit research organization, etc.
We'll probably never return to that vision, but I'm glad I own most my data and have about half of my tech self-hosted and open-sourced. It's only a dent, but I'm proud of that dent.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is overwhelming her rivals in a battle to go viral on social media, according to an analysis. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/07/japan/politics/takaichi-ldp-social-media/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #socialmedia #internet #2026lowerhouseelection #cra
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Calendars and web readers - https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/06/calendars-and-web-readers/?ref=feedle.world
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Getting started with GNOME Web browser: Basics for Linux users - https://allthingsopen.org/articles/getting-started-gnome-web-browser?ref=feedle.world
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🐲 To understand China, we need to understand the Chinese internet
｢ There are over twice as many Chinese web users as there are people in the United States; if Chinese netizens formed a sovereign country, it would be the world’s third largest ｣
https://restofworld.org/2026/wall-dancers-china-internet-book/
