"A channel is not a folder. A channel is not a playlist with a cover image. A channel is a point of view that programs itself over time. It has a sensibility — a set of instincts about what belongs and what doesn't. It makes decisions. It has taste. And taste, here, is not a luxury or an […]

"But the full picture is more interesting than "angry forks fail." Some do fail. Some succeed spectacularly. And the difference between the two has almost nothing to do with how justified the anger was. I went through every notable open source fork I could find. Here's the scorecard ..." […]

"But yet, despite video now being native to the web, people still habitually treat YouTube as the only way to publish video content on the web. Despite native support for video streaming and all the server software available, people habitually treat Twitch as the only way to stream. Despite web […]

"Federated merge requests and issues, and the ForgeFed Grant access control they depend on, let our developers contribute to a peer administration's repository from their home instance, with each operator keeping control of whom it trusts. That is the precondition for reusing public code across […]

"Public administrations cannot consolidate onto one forge: each runs its own instance under its own legal basis, with accounts issued by a national identity provider that vouches only for its own staff. Issuing a local account to a foreign civil servant mints an identity we can neither govern […]

"A good question would be: 'then why not just using one selfhosted platform only?'. But hosting my own forge publicly comes with big drawbacks ... [including that] ... A 'known' public forge is usually easier to contribute." […]

Source Available software licensing goes back at least as far as BorgSoft's Shared Source Initiative a quarter of a century ago. Which muddied the waters (presumably on purpose) by publishing a bunch of vanity licenses, some Free Code and some proprietary Source Available, as if these were […]

In response to the comment about algorithmic playlists replacing human curation though, I think that trend passed its peak even before the Great Flood of Slop. Which is reminding people of the value of human intention in the acts of both creating and collecting. So by all means, walk away from […]

"Apply for funding before November 3rd 2026 Do you have a valuable idea in the area of digital commons and networked technology, that will contribute towards achieving a more open information society and serves as a building block for an open internet stack? Could you use financial and […]