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In 20/20 hindsight, I should have paid more attention to the drop in traffic to my blog (both views and comments posted) since January 2024, and noted Google's de-emphasizing blogs in favour of extruded text product, and realized: if you suppress public speech via small private media (blogs) you're implicitly boosting the reach of centrally controlled platforms.

This is censorship with American characteristics.

The fix, as they say, is in.

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SaareMartha
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So the question then becomes: How do bloggers counter this piece of shittification? Could Mastodon offer a way to post blogs from within a dedicated server?
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Charlie Stross
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@SaareMartha Wordpress has Fediverse integration. (However, Wordpress means (a) deciding where you stand wrt. the current Wordpress/WPEngine slapfest and (b) being able to tolerate PHP. (Spoiler: I can cope with (a) but not (b).)

techcrunch.com/2024/10/29/word…


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Tom Ritchford
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@SaareMartha I've programmed in... fsck, I have no idea, certainly 30 programming languages.

I've found something to like about all of them - except PHP. I hate absolutely everything about that language, I don't even know where to start.

devrant.com/rants/715979/i-can…

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@SaareMartha @Charlie Stross friendica has a feature where it can follow and rss feed and post for you whatever comes from that feed, it's what I use to post the contents of my blog on the Fediverse.

Of course it requires a friendica account, which is not as easy to get as a mastodon one, but I also believe it's only one option among hopefully many.

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Sébastien Alexandre Andrivet
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Google has been fairly overt about their favouring the moneyed voices.

But I think that many of us were "okay, but perhaps *our* site will somehow make it through without too much damage ?".

If only because the actions that can be actually taken are fairly limited. We ain't gonna turn our sites into successful smartphone apps.

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Sharan Volin
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hmm. Yeah, so much for "don't be evil". I guess when there's an antitrust suit involved they go all in on the evil. :(
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Charlie Stross
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@Sharan "Don't be evil" was always a canary clause and Google dropped it in October 2015 in favour of "Do the Right Thing" …
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Sharan Volin
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Yeah, I guess that gives them the leeway to decide what "the right thing" actually is. :( And for whom.
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wpieper
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my mind keeps going back to gamergate and how the larger public didn’t pay attention. obviously it wasn’t the first online flex of these creatures, but it stands out to me.

i despair for my country, i am furious at my neighbors, and i am afraid for my nieces

these liars, grifters, cheats, and fascists will not stop, they must be stopped. and my fellow americans decided they wanted more

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Starblood
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Last night I couldn't log into Twitter / X, blocked by an arkrose challenge that was unsolvable,. I though it was an attack on Twitter going down, but , it's just me and it's still in place. ... hmmm ....
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Gaucho
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I've privately noticed a couple of years ago that it's become increasingly hard to find blogs. I basically never see them unless they're linked from other social profiles - like your mastodon.
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Jim Liedeka
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I follow your blog through RSS. I don't know if that shows up in your stats

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