I'm considering just outright blocking Google from my blogs. Just remove me from your index. I consider Google to be Enemy #1 of the #OpenWeb.
Google itself is already doing this half the time anyway! Over recent months, the number of pages Google crawled but not indexed for unspecified reasons has dramatically increased. And in a few cases, they deindexed pages which are specifically controversial (aka my complaint re: Gulf of Mexico becoming Gulf of America in Google Maps). Coincidence? 
#OMN It looks like a tech project… but it isn’t just that. Our work is fundamentally about technological standards – tools that shape the future. But these aren’t neutral. The standards themselves lean toward the kind of society we want to build. #4opens #openweb
Yes, these standards won’t come from technology alone. They emerge from the social use of tech — from community, practice, and shared need.
The code is nothing without people. The protocol withers without participation. So we’re not just “building tech.”
We’re growing community – and that community gives the tech meaning, reach, and power. It’s a symbiotic process. One cannot succeed without the other.
If you treat it only as a technical project, you’ll fail. If you treat it only as a social process, you’ll stall. We must hold both. This balance is where new paths open — where change becomes possible.
This is why we say a technological project, can only come out of a community project. Let’s build it together. #openweb #OMN
We need to understand that your viral lefty memes are actually part of the problem?
If you are still posting on the #dotcons then “Comedy” & “sarcasm” might feel like resistance, but they feed the #dotcons exactly what they want: engagement, data, clicks. Mocking the system isn’t leaving it.
The solution? #StepAway, and take your community with you to the #openweb
"A Pew Research Center report published this spring analyzed data from 900 U.S. adults who agreed to share their online browsing activity. About six-in-ten respondents (58%) conducted at least one Google search in March 2025 that produced an AI-generated summary. Additional analysis found that Google users were less likely to click on result links when visiting search pages with an AI summary compared with those without one. For searches that resulted in an AI-generated summary, users very rarely clicked on the sources cited.
Here’s more of what we learned about Google AI summaries and how users interact with them.
Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. Users who encountered an AI summary clicked on a traditional search result link in 8% of all visits. Those who did not encounter an AI summary clicked on a search result nearly twice as often (15% of visits).
A bar chart showing that Google users are less likely to click on a link when they encounter search pages with AI summaries.
Google users who encountered an AI summary also rarely clicked on a link in the summary itself. This occurred in just 1% of all visits to pages with such a summary.
Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after visiting a search page with an AI summary than on pages without a summary. This happened on 26% of pages with an AI summary, compared with 16% of pages with only traditional search results."
»Die nächste Studie zeigt, wie Googles "AI Overviews" das WWW trockenlegen:
[…] Abhängigkeit von Google als Werbepartner. Das offene Web verliert seine Funktion als frei verlinktes Informationsnetzwerk und wird durch ein zentralisierte KI-Interface unter Kontrolle von Google ersetzt. […]«
Wann kommen "weltoffene" Menschen von Google ab um sich seriös zu informieren? Die sogenannten SEO eher nicht und untergeben sich seit eh und je.
https://the-decoder.de/die-naechste-studie-zeigt-wie-googles-ai-overviews-das-www-trockenlegen/
I think that the #openweb and #privacy are orthogonal. If #InformationWantsToBeFree then why are you using #cryptography?
They are both good things, but you can't be doing them both at the same time.
Super interested to see this from @verge
Can't wait to be able to replicate this kind of functionality here on the #SocialWeb
#Technology #News #OpenWeb #Fediverse #SocialMedia
https://www.theverge.com/press-room/710921/verge-site-features-launch-newsletters
"No one should expect the web of the future to look just as it does today. AI-powered search will rightly shake up some services: business directories, for instance, face disintermediation as answer-bots field queries such as “emergency plumber” or “houses for sale”. But the evaporation of incentives to create content presents a fundamental problem. If human traffic is drying up, the web will need a new currency.
Online innovators are trying out alternatives. Some propose a pay-as-you-crawl system, in which AI bots are charged for reading sites’ content. Others are working on systems that analyse chatbots’ answers to determine where their information came from, so that sources can be compensated. Tech firms resist such ideas: giants don’t want their crawling of the internet to be metered, and startups fear they will be made to pay for training data that pioneers like OpenAI were allowed to grab for nothing. Optimists cite the music industry, where piracy gave way to profitability when streaming platforms invented new ways to charge consumers and compensate artists.
Bringing a new business model to the web is daunting; it may take a shove from regulators to get started. Yet everyone has an interest in making content-creation pay. Publishers may be the ones complaining now, but if the content tap dries up, AI companies will suffer, too. Some are more vulnerable than others. Whereas Meta can draw on data posted to its social networks and Google owns YouTube, the world’s biggest video vault, OpenAI relies entirely on others for its content."
Petit rappel que Facebook et Instagram, ça n'est pas Internet !
C'est sites ne sont accessibles qu'à leurs utilisateurs. Certes ils sont nombreux mais si vous ne faites votre communication que là bas, une bonne partie de la population n'y a pas accès.
Professionnels, institutions, organisateurs d'événements, faites vos communications sur des sites accessibles et pas sur des plate-formes fermées (et fascisantes en plus)
The open web is under attack:
#bot #llm #cyberattack #openweb #foss
https://thenewstack.io/how-the-free-software-foundation-battles-the-llm-bots/
Stop throwing regurgitated theory at me: We’re drowning in academic mess
The “common sense” of mainstreaming #deatcult worship is one thing. But a different side, i’m getting bored – and honestly frustrated – with people constantly throwing academic articles and dense theory into conversations about practical grassroots change. If academic knowledge worked in the real world, we wouldn’t be stuck in a permanent state of crisis. We wouldn’t be burning out. We wouldn’t be watching every radical initiative slowly get co-opted, neutralised, then […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/stop-throwing-regurgitated-theory-at-me-were-drowning-in-academic-mess/
The roadblocks to change: #Stupidindividualism and the #Deathcult that breeds it
If you’ve ever tried to build something radical, collective, and actually useful, you’ve run into these forces. They’re not just annoying. They’re dangerous, structural, and they always show up. This post is about naming those, calling them what they are, and understanding how they’re entangled in the wider problem:
A culture that valorizes individualism, feeds on careerism, and bows to the false “common sense” of the neoliberal #deathcult.
The #NGO agenda: Careerism in activist […]
»Apple is ruining the open web«
Their reputation among their fans has never been true and, in my opinion, is already partly a dull belief.
Why most radical tech is pointless, and why #indymediaback isn’t
Almost everything built in today’s alt-radical tech scene is, bluntly, pointless. Despite good intentions, most of it ends up feeding the endless cycle of #fashernista churn, flashy new platforms, bleeding-edge protocols, or encrypted communication tools nobody uses, built by isolated teams disconnected from real-world needs or history. This is the #geekproblem: a culture where novelty is fetishized, and social usefulness is an afterthought, if it appears at all.
Examples:
Secure […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/why-most-radical-tech-is-pointless-and-why-indymediaback-isnt/
ActivityPub plugin for WordPress hits 7.0.0 — with full support for following other fediverse accounts from your blog. WordPress just got a lot more social! 
7.0.0 – I will follow you!
Tackling The AI Bots That Threaten To Overwhelm The Open Web
"TL;DR: Apple’s rules and technical restrictions are blocking other browser vendors from successfully offering their own engines to users in the EU. At the recent Digital Markets Act (DMA) workshop, Apple claimed it didn’t know why no browser vendor has ported their engine to iOS over the past 15 months. But the reality is Apple knows exactly what the barriers are, and has chosen not to remove them.
Safari is the highest margin product Apple has ever made, accounts for 14-16% of Apple’s annual operating profit and brings in $20 billion per year in search engine revenue from Google. For each 1% browser market share that Apple loses for Safari, Apple is set to lose $200 million in revenue per year.
Ensuring other browsers are not able to compete fairly is critical to Apple’s best and easiest revenue stream, and allows Apple to retain full control over the maximum capabilities of web apps, limiting their performance and utility to prevent them from meaningfully competing with native apps distributed through their app store. Consumers and developers (native or web) then suffer due to a lack of competition.
This browser engine ban is unique to Apple and no other gatekeeper imposes such a restriction. Until Apple lifts these barriers they are not in effective compliance with the DMA."
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/
Before I continue, let me say that I am for the #OpenWeb. The World Wide Web is a gift. It's a miracle that it exists, truly.
But I'm am vehemently, staunchly, against the unification of our social graphs under a single power. Is that a controversial take in the open web religion? Is it blasphemy? I don't know.
Anyway,
It's everything about us because everything about us is logged, analyzed, and distributed for cash all across the World Wide Web. Our lives are so deeply embedded into devices that there isn't much the Internet doesn't know about us.
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