Dave Winer
@scripting.com
I've been building around WordPress to create a social network based on RSS. I want to get out of being controlled by billionaire-owned sites. I have a feeling we may need a good backup given where we are now.
http://scripting.com/2025/08/28/140604.html
http://scripting.com/2025/08/28/140604.html
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ChatGPT aggregates people the same way polls aggregate voters. Ignore individuality, unable to hear new ideas, allowing journalists to write the same horse race stories every year. It would be better if they found a way to report originality, they can set an example for AIs.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
ChatGPT aggregates people the same way polls aggregate voters. Ignore individuality, unable to hear new ideas, allowing journalists to write the same horse race stories every year. It would be better if they found a way to report originality, they can set an example for AIs.
The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up.
The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up
ChatGPT has dramatically altered how people retrieve information, muscling aside Google search as the first stop on the hunt for answers.
theconversation.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up.
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Good. It affects him, so he took a stand. What else, that hurts others, but not him, will he continue to endorse with his vote.
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Good. It affects him, so he took a stand. What else, that hurts others, but not him, will he continue to endorse with his vote.
This will be a comment someday. links.daveverse.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This will be a comment someday. links.daveverse.org
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It's up to the writer to decide if an item has a title. If it doesn't have a title, it would be incorrect for a feed reader to invent a title for the item.
reallysimple/demos/titlelessFeedsHowto at main · scripting/reallysimple
A Node package that reads RSS, Atom and RDF feeds and calls back with a simple, consistent JavaScript object. - scripting/reallysimple
github.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's up to the writer to decide if an item has a title. If it doesn't have a title, it would be incorrect for a feed reader to invent a title for the item.
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It's up to the writer to decide if an item has a title. If it doesn't have a title, it would be incorrect for a feed reader to invent a title for the item.
reallysimple/demos/titlelessFeedsHowto at main · scripting/reallysimple
A Node package that reads RSS, Atom and RDF feeds and calls back with a simple, consistent JavaScript object. - scripting/reallysimple
github.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's up to the writer to decide if an item has a title. If it doesn't have a title, it would be incorrect for a feed reader to invent a title for the item.
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It's up to the writer to decide if an item has a title. If it doesn't have a title, it would be incorrect for a feed reader to invent a title for the item.
reallysimple/demos/titlelessFeedsHowto at main · scripting/reallysimple
A Node package that reads RSS, Atom and RDF feeds and calls back with a simple, consistent JavaScript object. - scripting/reallysimple
github.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It's up to the writer to decide if an item has a title. If it doesn't have a title, it would be incorrect for a feed reader to invent a title for the item.
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Kia slashes EV prices with a new $10,000 discount.
Kia slashes EV prices with a new $10,000 discount across the board
Kia is knocking $10,000 off every EV in its lineup, rolling out one of its biggest discount offers yet. Kia...
electrek.co
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Kia slashes EV prices with a new $10,000 discount.
Kia slashes EV prices with a new $10,000 discount.
Kia slashes EV prices with a new $10,000 discount across the board
Kia is knocking $10,000 off every EV in its lineup, rolling out one of its biggest discount offers yet. Kia...
electrek.co
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Kia slashes EV prices with a new $10,000 discount.
"Reverse migration" is a very tricky bit of authoritarianism.
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Reverse migration" is a very tricky bit of authoritarianism.
ChatGPT aggregates people the same way polls aggregate voters. Ignore individuality, unable to hear new ideas, allowing journalists to write the same horse race stories every year. It would be better if they found a way to report originality, they can set an example for AIs.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
ChatGPT aggregates people the same way polls aggregate voters. Ignore individuality, unable to hear new ideas, allowing journalists to write the same horse race stories every year. It would be better if they found a way to report originality, they can set an example for AIs.
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Connecting apples and oranges on the web.
Connecting apples and oranges on the web
This is a really good blog post, in response to a post I wrote here that said among other things that a WordPress instance is easier to set up on your own server than Mastodon. At the start of the …
daveverse.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Connecting apples and oranges on the web.
"Pluribus" is a fascinating Rorschach test.
"Pluribus" is a fascinating Rorschach test
Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show lets us project meaning onto a story about happiness at the end of the world.
www.salon.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"Pluribus" is a fascinating Rorschach test.
Connecting apples and oranges on the web.
Connecting apples and oranges on the web
This is a really good blog post, in response to a post I wrote here that said among other things that a WordPress instance is easier to set up on your own server than Mastodon. At the start of the …
daveverse.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Connecting apples and oranges on the web.
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We can see what they’re doing, the Republicans are the real terrorists. thehill.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
We can see what they’re doing, the Republicans are the real terrorists. thehill.com
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This WIRED piece in 2009 captures the idea I'm working on. Imagine if Twitter had supported rssCloud in 2009. That would have made Twitter "of the web" instead of being a silo. The world would be different, not saying better. But further ahead. www.wired.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This WIRED piece in 2009 captures the idea I'm working on. Imagine if Twitter had supported rssCloud in 2009. That would have made Twitter "of the web" instead of being a silo. The world would be different, not saying better. But further ahead. www.wired.com
This WIRED piece in 2009 captures the idea I'm working on. Imagine if Twitter had supported rssCloud in 2009. That would have made Twitter "of the web" instead of being a silo. The world would be different, not ... www.wired.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This WIRED piece in 2009 captures the idea I'm working on. Imagine if Twitter had supported rssCloud in 2009. That would have made Twitter "of the web" instead of being a silo. The world would be different, not ... www.wired.com
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I was researching a blog post and saw that Wikipedia says rssCloud was superseded by WebSub. I knew this wasn't true because we use rssCloud in all our work. It's been supported by WordPress since 2009. So I asked ChatGPT for its opinion, and I learned a lot.
ChatGPT: Was rssCloud superseded by WebSub? · Issue #341 · scripting/Scripting-News
Short answer: No — WebSub did not supersede rssCloud. Different technical philosophy rssCloud assumes a decentralized RSS network where each feed URL is the identity, and publishing = updating the ...
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I was researching a blog post and saw that Wikipedia says rssCloud was superseded by WebSub. I knew this wasn't true because we use rssCloud in all our work. It's been supported by WordPress since 2009. So I asked ChatGPT for its opinion, and I learned a lot.
I was researching a blog post and saw that Wikipedia says rssCloud was superseded by WebSub. I knew this wasn't true because we use rssCloud in all our work. It's been supported by WordPress since 2009. So I asked ChatGPT for its ...
ChatGPT: Was rssCloud superseded by WebSub? · Issue #341 · scripting/Scripting-News
Short answer: No — WebSub did not supersede rssCloud. Different technical philosophy rssCloud assumes a decentralized RSS network where each feed URL is the identity, and publishing = updating the ...
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I was researching a blog post and saw that Wikipedia says rssCloud was superseded by WebSub. I knew this wasn't true because we use rssCloud in all our work. It's been supported by WordPress since 2009. So I asked ChatGPT for its ...
The Real Meaning of MAHA Is ‘You’re On Your Own.’. www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The Real Meaning of MAHA Is ‘You’re On Your Own.’. www.nytimes.com
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Dave Winer is right: Mastodon is harder to host than WordPress.
Dave Winer is right: Mastodon is harder to host than WordPress
Even though it's apples and oranges in more than a few ways, Dave Winer is right when he says it's easier to host WordPress than Mastodon. Dave's a little more all in on WP than I am…
passthejoe.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Dave Winer is right: Mastodon is harder to host than WordPress.
Dave Winer is right: Mastodon is harder to host than WordPress.
Dave Winer is right: Mastodon is harder to host than WordPress
Even though it's apples and oranges in more than a few ways, Dave Winer is right when he says it's easier to host WordPress than Mastodon. Dave's a little more all in on WP than I am…
passthejoe.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Dave Winer is right: Mastodon is harder to host than WordPress.