Digital Crossroads is a mishmash of the coolest updates, deep dives, and quirky insights from across the digital realm. We cover topics like RSS, the Fediverse, and the latest and greatest in the world of social media. Crossroads is for anyone who's ever been curious about the behind-the-scenes of the Internet, the future of online privacy, or just loves a good tech tale.
So, I wrote this, or at least, something like this, then sat on it for months, and now its out of date. Its GROTESQUELY out of date. The new/current system is way better thanks to this thing I had AI build. Its also a process that has sort of, evolved over time. It was a digest that posted daily on ...
Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" -- a social platform where anyone can use prompts to instantly createĀ mini apps and share them with friends.
Weāre living in the world beyond the website. This was the central enduring statement made by Eric Stine in his role as chief executive officer at Sitecore. As a digital experience platform for marketers and software application developers with AI-centric content services and tools, Stineās point co...
Social Stress Indicator is invaluable for digital governance, crisis response, mental health monitoring, and platform design to track and respond to social stress.
A hazy feeling has caught on me lately. It's almost as if a season has changed, within myself. Only coincidentally in parallel with Autumn replacing Summer, it left me troubled and a bit on edge. Can't be exactly sure, but it feels like it goes beyond a recent loss in the family, or the fl...
It's been almost two years since I published and first wrote about feedi, my personal feed reader. During that time I continued to use it as my primary source of information, I slowly dropped Mastodon, and never felt the need to go back to Twitter. I experimented with a few new features but, most im...
Iām always surprised at just how often Iām asked about how I read RSS. For years, this was a very stable setup, but has recently changed. Iāve used Feedbin for ages. It is widely supported by RSS clients, and has the ability to receive emails newsletters and put them inline with articles coming in v...
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more thanā¦ The post A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different appeared first on Absolutely Maybe.
Most peopleās primary computing devices are their phonesāāāand even for people whose primary devices are desktop computers, their phones are much-used satellite devices. And on both iOS and Android alike, people live their mobile digital lives through native apps, not websites.
Just about every online publisher has experienced a decline in the number of people reading articles and information published on their websites. Search engines presently do such a good job of breaking down the main points of news reports, blog posts, and the like, that seekers of information are se...
Itās impossible to ignore how much social media and independent journalism have become part of the global news landscape. According to Pew, one in five Americans say they regularly get their news from an influencer; that number jumps to more than a third of Americans under thirty. A new Muck Rack re...
I love the web, and this thing is bad for the web. Atlas substitutes its own AI-generated content for the web, but it looks like itās showing you the web The user experience makes you guess what commands to type instead of clicking on links Youāre the agent for the browser, itās not bein...
Capacities introduces Kanban view, Kagi News uses AI to help you keeping up with the world, make rules, break rules, and more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
OpenAI's new deepfake machine, Sora, has proven that artificial intelligence is alarmingly good at faking reality. The AI-generated video platform, powered by OpenAI's new Sora 2 model, has churned out detailed (and often offensive or harmful) videos of famous people like Martin Luther King Jr., Mic...
Pablo wrote a good post on the hurdles to joining the indieweb and getting your voice heard, offering a not uncommon solution: ā¦we must make software tools that make self-hosting and website ownership easy and beginner friendly. To be clear: here, āindiewebā means a website you host, rather than p...
In 1977, NASA launched two spaceships carrying two golden records into the void of interstellar space. The Voyager Golden Records contained instructions for playing its contents, finding Earth in the cosmos (oh my ā¦), as well as images, a variety of natural sounds, musical selections from different ...
I had a very pleasant experience last week while I was reading through the RSS feeds Iām subscribed to. I came across two blog posts that were responding to blog posts of my own. Robin Sloan wrote a post clarifying his position after I linked to him in my post about the slipperiness of the term āAI...
In looking for examples of people calling the Web dead, I learned that, apparently, you can say the Web is dying for 30 years and get away with it.
They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997. Wired: March 1, 1997: āYou can kiss your web browser goodbyeā āĀ Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf, The Big Story. Inspired by [ā¦] The post Re...