I buy the take that a goal of buying Twitter was to stop progressive movements that were organizing there.

These movements were and are changing the world for the better.

The fediverse needs to be built to be their forever home: a place to join together across borders to make the world better for everyone, with equal opportunities for all.

I still, despite everything, after all this time, believe this is the promise of the internet.

This post went absolutely bananas. So, uh, check out my SoundCloud*: https://werd.io

* my SoundCloud is my website. You can subscribe by email or RSS. It's not terrible. Thanks for taking a look!

Ben Werdmuller

Writing at the intersection of technology, journalism, and community.

Ben Werdmuller
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RSS FTW! Wait, does this mean I'm a dinosaur?
@dancingtreefrog RSS is cool again!

@ben @dancingtreefrog

RSS never died.
But BigTech tried to turn RSS into a social feed.

@elgg Google turned it into another tool for tracking what, where, when and how people read things, too.

@dancingtreefrog @elgg
@ben

Cheap idea for the day:

Mastodon as RSS reader, comment on a post you've read and be joined to a thread of your friends who have commented on the same post.