Re-reading Anil Dash’s endgame for the open web blog post and giving it some more thought. The two biggest areas that need our attention: keeping podcasting open and curating the web to highlight human-created content. There are other challenges too, but that’s where I’d start.

@manton Thanks for all you do, sincerely.

@ablerism Thank you.

@manton thanks for the summary. we can keep podcasting open if we build on its openness. and for that we need help from the people who make players.

also agree about human-created content. on a new repo i started there’s a caveat on the home page not to post machine-generated stuff. the first posts on the rss.chat repo were people dumping long specs written by claude. i don’t read those manifestos from my claude, not going to read his.

@manton btw in case anil dash reads this, i haven’t always been a fan, and i know vice versa, but we all have to work together, if you want to achieve those goals.

@manton same with cory doctorow. he’s been such an eloquent advocate for RSS. we’re ready to give him more, but there’s nothing going on there as far as i know.

@manton manton i don’t see it that way. audio is a valid medium. don’t get snowed by the video world usurping the term, that doesn’t mean as much as the power we could be delivering that we won’t. at some point it will happen, subscribing to subscription lists, then we enter another dimension. these were meant to be LEADING technologies, and have been left to languish. any movement would stimulate new use. it’s like they said in the 90s, the mac is dead, but it was as alive as it’s ever been. podcasting doesn’t give a shit what google does. imho.