Sarah Perez on Tech Crunch writes:
X’s user base is still 65% larger than Meta’s Threads and 10 times larger than its next-biggest rival, Bluesky.
It’s sad Mastodon is still the niche. Maybe some day…
Re: What Modern Bloggers Could Learn From The Early Bloggers
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Andy Hawthorne writes on his blog: Don’t sand off your weird edges to fit some internet shape; celebrate them. Somewhere out there is a reader who says, “Aha! Someone else who collects spoons and names their houseplants after distant relatives.” This is the essence of blogging. This diversity. Sometimes surprising. Unpredictable associations, insights, comparisons, or observations. A touch of madness in everyday life that can entertain, surprise, and show how different we are, and yet in this diversity we love to provide ourselves with pleasant experiences and spend time together.
The creation of Threads based on open source may make it even harder for independent platforms like Mastodon to educate less knowledgeable Internet users that it’s an open source platform more appropriate than Threads (a closed digital garden). They may say: hey, after all, Threads is open source too. A clever move by Meta. Likewise with AI. After all, Llama AI is also open source (but we know it’s part of big tech company). Always one step ahead of the community’s ability to pull others out from under the power of big tech.
Internet and... Outernet
Thursday, July 10, 2025
I’ve read article by Tomasz Dunia on his blog. This is article from 2023 but still actual. Tomasz writes about Internet and… Outernet. What is Outernet? (…) the name Internet as an internal network dominated by corporations. Outernet, on the other hand, is like the outskirts of that internal network, a no man’s land. Outernet is a place where no algorithms track us, where we can create our own space and connect with people who, like us, care about their privacy.
Micro.blog Question Challenge
Sunday, June 29, 2025
I decided to join ‘Micro.blog Question Challenge’ by Robert Birming. This is an initiative borrowed from Ava’s Bearblog. I think it’s great way to learn something about bloggers. Especially when they are starting writing. As it is in my case. So you can find my answers on the eight questions below: Why did you make the blog in the first place? Why did you choose Micro.blog? Have you blogged on other platforms before?
On Mastodon’s blog Andy Piper writes:
This week is UN Open Source Week, and we’re happy to share that today, Mastodon was added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance’s DPG Registry. A goal of the DPGA is to promote digital public goods in order to create a more equitable world. Being recognised as a DPG increases the visibility, support for, and prominence of open projects that have the potential to tackle global challenges. To become a digital public good, all projects are required to meet the DPG Standard to ensure that they truly encapsulate open-source principles and what it means to be a digital public good.
I used to think that Bluesky could promote these types of standards more effectively. However, for some time now, I have seen that Mastodon does it better. Even though it is much smaller and less recognizable. It chose a different path than Bluesky. This is very good news.
Fedi.Tips on Mastodon writes:
The Fediverse is protected from takeover as long as we are spread out on many servers. If one server dominates, takeovers become easier. Mastodon.social is currently 25.5% of the active Fediverse. This proportion is way too large and seems to be increasing. Larger servers also tend to have worse moderation and are harder to defederate, threatening safety.
It’s really important and makes that moderation is much better. This approach works well in many situations, not only in Fediverse.
In the Reeder app, you can directly follow RSS feeds from micro.blog. I love this reader. I’ve been testing it for a few weeks now and it has replaced my podcast app, YouTube (subscriptions tab) and, of course, my RSS reader. It is a paid app, but well worth the price. It’s worth a try.
I don’t know what is better: reading or writing blogs.
You know it but you don’t it
Thursday, June 19, 2025
In AI era many people say that we don’t need to learn languages, don’t need to read books, don’t need to do many things and activities which were our daily life. Everything of this we have on the Internet thanks for AI. Yes and no. I’ve read on The New Yorker article What’s Happening to Reading?: Large language models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, are, among other things, reading machines.
I created page which contains every pages from my blog. And named it - for fun - ‘Look here’. I love changing and experimenting on this site sometimes even more than writing. Is it the last change in this area? I don’t think so. And this is beautiful in blogging and be owner of personal site or blog on the Internet.
I like the idea to create blog only by RSS. Simple landing page and URL address to RSS feed. I found post about ‘RSS Club’ on Dave’s Rupert blog and felt intrigued.
My Junited 2025
Sunday, June 15, 2025
I really love discover new blogs and read interesting posts. After I started blogging again in 2024, I was shocked how many people writing and develop theirs personal sites. It was impressed for me. Later, by chance, I came across on blogroll.org - agregator of blogs which is carrying and redesigned by Manuel Moreale. I look there regularly and discover new blog which are added to my RSS reader. Therefore, it didn’t surprise me that I liked the idea named ‘Junited’.
If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.
Leslie Lamport
I’m trying to find the best way for posting on micro.blog and my social media accounts in Fediverse (Mastodon and Bluesky). I connected blog with these accounts and I’ll be watching how it works. I don’t know yet whether I will stay with this setup or disconnect the Bluesky. I don’t use this service recently. Maybe connecting a blog to it will revive my profile.
Artificial but Assistive
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Adam Tonworth wrote on his onemanandhisblog: AI = Assistive Intelligence I’ll keep banging this drum until people grasp it fully: AI is assistive intelligence, not truly artificial intelligence. It has no inherent reasoning capability. It just makes guesses based on patterns derived from vast qualities of data. If you don’t understand that, if you mistake a guessing engine for an answer engine, you’ll going to end up as a case study like the ones above.
Hey, Apple! I'm waiting for this change
Thursday, May 29, 2025
I see on The Verge: Apple is going to change how it names its next set of major operating systems, Bloomberg reports. Instead of just notching up the version number, Apple will instead mark them by year. However, the numbers will apparently align with the year after the one the update is actually released in, similar to cars. That means that the next big iOS update will be iOS 26 instead of iOS 19.
LLMs everywhere? It's unnecessary
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Adam Tinworth writes on onemanandhisblog.com: LLMs are NOT answer machines. They’re guessing machines. And any guess has the potential to be wrong. That’s true. Developers of AI tools are trying to push it everywhere they can push it. For profit, of course. But Internet users don’t need artificial intelligence literally everywhere. There are tools that function well enough without it. A perfect example of how AI has messed up search is some search engine results in last months (screenshots are circulating on the web).
I’m discovering the blogosphere once again. After reading few weeks ago this article by Manu, I started using blogroll.org which was redesigned by him. This is amazing how many interesting blogs are on the web and how big emptiness had my RSS reader without so many great blogs into it.
Suzanne Bearne on BBC in article “The people refusing to use AI”:
While it’s difficult to quantify the electricity used by AI, a report by Goldman Sachs estimated that a ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times as much electricity as a Google search query.