"[In 2006] some might have had a blog, but people ordinarily posted only to small, closed online networks. That’s how Facebook still worked, and LinkedIn too, and Orkut, may it rest in peace. Social networks were initially designed around communities of trust. Twitter and then Instagram are to blame for expanding the act of posting to the world."
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Titter in turned, was built on tech created by nostr:npub1eu5yg8uclgwnqgvgxmt59kn674qmws0qsqdl4fdvx480cq7xraaq943nau and co for Indymedia. Our activist news sites were among a handful in the late 90s/ early noughties that pioneered hosting "user-generated content". Or Open Publishing as we called it, riffing on Open Source.
Sometimes I look at the dominant social media landscape and feel ashamed.
But then I remember that the first fediverse apps were in turn inspired by Titter, and the activist software culture Indymedia contributed to, and I feel proud.
