Reposting a post by Tantek Çelik

2017-02-04

Reposted:

Indie Microblogging Kickstarter Micro.blog Hits Goal & Stretch Goal For Safe Replies! #indieweb

— Tantek Çelik 2017-02-03

Tantek Çelik comments on the successful crowdfunding of micro.blog:

This is a huge step forward for the creation of an alternative to Twitter, in numerous ways, some obvious, many more subtle.

Reading through the project’s goals and philosophy, this truly looks like a promising contender to provide what earlier attempts to replace Twitter have been lacking. Tantek highlights:

Micro.blog is being built from the start to interoperate with heterogenous systems (i.e. not just with other micro.blog instances, a big distinction from many previous open source decentralized web efforts which focused primarily or exclusively on interoperating only with themselves).

I'm Sebastian, Sociologist and Interaction Designer. This journal is mostly about bringing together social science and design for inclusive, privacy-focused, and sustainable "human-first" digital strategies. I also tend to a "digital garden" with carefully curated resources.

My occasionally sent email newsletter has all of the above, and there is of course also an RSS feed or my Mastodon/Fediverse profile.

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