A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse: Money to help find and fix those sometimes-critical bugs.

Automattic’s “nuclear war” over WordPress access sparks potential class action

Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog: ‘…since there are already countless places where you can’t be yourself, there is no need to build another one of those.’

making a website is hard: cathode ray dude bemoans the lack of a modern Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver equivalent.

Don’t call it a Substack: Anil implores us not to refer to our writing using some other dubious entity’s brand name - ‘Imagine the author of a book telling people to “read my Amazon”’.

What I want from Mozilla: To fulfil their stated mission by ‘fostering an ecosystem of open, accessible software that promotes user independence, privacy, and safety’.

A woman, blogging: this is a political act: Blogging can be empowering, especially for people who otherwise might not have a voice - but it’s not without risk.

Intentional web: A name for the parts of the web you proactively choose to interact with.

You should be using an RSS reader: RSS is great (& Cory Doctorow uses Newsblur for it).

Pure Blogger: ‘Pure blogging’ is ‘blogging because you have something to say’.

Ribbonfarm is Retiring: The how and why of Venkatesh Rao - creator of the term ‘cozyweb’ I think - ceasing his 17 year old blog.

You Can’t Own The Social Web: Would the ‘Social Web Foundation’ better be thought of as an Activitypub trade group?

The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted: There’s plenty of good stuff out there even if - or perhaps especially if - you’re in a position to boycott the big social media sites.

Moving to Pika: In which a post about changing blog hosts turns out to be full of commentary on coping with the exhausting conditions of modern existence.