Meanwhile, in California, pollution is coming from somewhere else entirely ... http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/08/pollution-from-illegal-pot-farms-is-way-worse-than-we...
@_MatthewDillon And, of course, you won't be surprised to learn that we got a lot of utterly misdirected flak for that.
Of course, and I wasn't suggesting for a minute that not being able to grok something is any reason to give up on it.
It was more my way of excusing myself from having so much difficulty understanding what was happening in the black box without opening it up to investigate fully.
In the meantime, my Mom uses FB (but not Twitter) and doesn't see much from me there because I don't cross-post much. And we're both OK with that.
We are still a long way from home
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Struggling to understand how different bits of the #IndieWeb work in WordPress, I received some very sound advice from lots of people, including this little exhortation from @chrisaldrich:
I'll admit I had to read it about 3 times before I grokked it myself, but it also was a great general and practical intro to the inherent value of microformats.
If that were what it took to grok Facebook or Twitter, would anyone beyond a small, self-selecting cadre of geeks be using them?
I thought not.
Not sure whether you mean incoming webmentions or outgoing webmentions that aren't working, but for outgoing, there's no class="u-in-reply-to" on your post about Colin Walker's post.
Humanizing the Web -- unto each human, their own web
Well, yes. And increasingly, as I read pieces like this one, I find myself thinking that although it isn't hard to take the necessary steps to reclaim the social interactions we want, it needs to be done. That makes it a positive step, which gives it extra weight. I've already set up Instagram so I see what I want as I want it. And some of Twitter. FB I really don't care about that much.
"Paying to podcast is so passé"
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On what planet does live? Their report on Anchor's bid to lure podcasters from SoundCloud says n0thing about whether audio hosted there will be sharable via, say, Huffduffer, which to me was the biggest single problem with SoundCloud as a podcast host.
I would also argue that a promise by Anchor "to cut podcasters in when it starts to earn money" isn't much to go on.
But what do I know?