There was once a dream of a decentralised web.

As recently as a decade ago we had a still very active blogosphere, connected via blogrolls and RSS. Specialised web forums were still mainstream and messenger apps could largely interoperate.

Centralised social media slowly ate that dream. It had plenty of positives, but it pulled more and more people away from the open web and into corporate walled gardens.

Some people kept the dream of decentralisation alive. And now you are here.

@tomw I read this and weep a bit at how some of the bigger writers have gone to #substack.

The lack of support for #rss within paid #substack blogs is shifty at best. If you’re going to charge money for writing on your platform, creating an authenticated feed with full content should be table stakes.

@raineer Yeah Substack is annoying. I can see why writers go for it (easier to get paid than eg a Patreon) but it's effectively an extension of newspaper-style paywalls to even smaller/'indie' writers