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• @sarahhbickerton … Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton on mastodon

  Really like this ever so much from @molly0xfff  —  It speaks to something I often mention to or remind people of ... namely, there was a time before the commercial capitalistic web, there was a time when we wondered if you could even make money online. …

• @JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon … John Mark Ockerbloom on mastodon

  “The good news is that the web isn't actually *dead* dead, just *mostly* dead....  The very best thing to keep the web partly alive is to maintain some content yourself... The second best thing to do is to show your support for pages you enjoy by being nice and making a slight ef…

• @aaronsdevera Aaron DeVera on x

  lovely piece by ⁦@molly0xFFF⁩: We can have a different web https://www.citationneeded.news/ ...

• @molly0xfff Molly White on x

  Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was. https://www.citationneeded.news/ ...

• @ethanz Ethan Zuckerman on x

  @molly0xFFF This is such a great essay, Molly. Spending a lot of my time and energy thinking about this as well - how do we maintain the parts of the web and social media that are about humans talking to each other, instead of machines talking to machines.

• @katylcowan Katy Cowan on x

  “Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.” By Molly White 🙏 https://www.citationneeded.news/ ...

• @darius Michael Darius on x

  Read this fantastic sobering by Molly. So well said.

• @philebloomfield Phil Bloomfield on x

  “As Tom Eastman once put it, the web has rotted into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four”