Frontend DogmaEndgame for the Open Web, by @anildash:
Job Bautista#Cloudflare is once again gatekeeping legitimate browsers like #PaleMoon, #Basilisk, and other #Goanna applications. Apparently refusing to implement something like WebDriver or Selenium which makes the browser a robot, doesn't matter at all to a supposed "anti-bot" challenge.
I don't think CF has ever fixed their #Turnstile breaking in #SeaMonkey either... It must be embarrassing that Google's reCAPTCHA does a better job than Cloudflare at this point in determining whether a browser is legitimate. Yes that Google which is notorious for user-agent sniffing. In the worst case scenario Google just manages to be annoying instead of not letting the user in at all.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045&start=660#p271777
#OpenWeb #browser #browsers
I don't think CF has ever fixed their #Turnstile breaking in #SeaMonkey either... It must be embarrassing that Google's reCAPTCHA does a better job than Cloudflare at this point in determining whether a browser is legitimate. Yes that Google which is notorious for user-agent sniffing. In the worst case scenario Google just manages to be annoying instead of not letting the user in at all.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045&start=660#p271777
#OpenWeb #browser #browsers
hamish campbellIt’s not about features. It’s about culture.
#ActivityPub comes out of the #openweb tradition.
#Bluesky comes out of a split lineage - #openweb roots, shaped by #dotcons incentives, with an #encryptionist upbringing.
#Oxford example:
Oxford boaters want to be sovereign—to keep the free-flowing life of the river, not bound by the old rules of the landlords.
#Fediverse example:
The Fediverse is native to the #openweb path. We judge by the #4opens, and we walk with power.
grantpotter"The large platforms did not become powerful only because they were aggressive, well funded, or unethical. They also became powerful because we chose them, repeatedly, even after their bargain had become obvious." #openweb #web https://ouvre-boite.com/the-open-web-isnt-dying-were-killing-it/
John ColagioiaEndgame for the Open Web https://anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/ @anildash
Whether or not they succeed is going to be decided by decisions that we all make as a community in the coming months. Even though there have always been threats to openness on the web, the stakes have never been higher than they are this time.
#OMN (Open Media Network)How thing can change
Hope this helps compost some of the mess building up. It's something we all need to do and have responsibility for. Groups don’t usually fail because of external pressure, they fail because they turn inward and burn energy on themselves. If you want a calm, #KISS path that actually holds diversity without collapsing, we need a few simple lived - traditions and mythos - not heavy governance, not ideology battles, just grounded #KISS practice: Keep the core action very small and clear – […]
jbzAnother post from a paid shill saying AI is the only thing that can save the #openweb and #opensource
witchescauldronTalking about the #geekproblem in #openweb funding https://hamishcampbell.com/talking-about-the-geekproblem-in-openweb-funding/ None of this is new, I like meany people been banging this drum since the #indymedia days and writing about it for decades.
Ismail KovvuruAI systems are increasingly trained on user-generated data — including posts, profiles, and interactions across platforms like LinkedIn.
Many users are opted in by default, raising serious questions about privacy, consent, and data ownership in the age of AI.
Understand how your data is used and what you can do.
#AI #Privacy #DataProtection #tech #data #security #MachineLearning #OpenWeb
