Online ads must be skippable within 5 seconds under new regulations
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Mirlo: The Bandcamp Alternative Building Federative & Decentralized Tools for Music Distribution
Built from the belief that the music industry no longer serves artists or listeners, Mirlo is pushing for a radical, federated, and decentralized reimagining of how music is shared online.
Future Knowledge: Enshittification
The internet wasn’t ruined by accident—it was ruined on purpose. In this episode, Cory Doctorow joins us to break down enshittification, his term for the slow, deliberate process that transformed…
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Take Amazon: to fix Amazon, we need policy solutions. We need to ban predatory pricing – selling goods below cost to keep competitors out of the market (and then jacking…
Webweaving and blogging can change your life
Making my own website and blog, as well as participating in the indie web helped me to cultivate a more meaningful relationship with the web, by carving my own space…
Homecoming: the small web and release from the unitary public self
In 1776, a Quaker living in Philadelphia recovered from a severe illness with a peculiar conviction: they had died and been reborn as the Public Universal Friend. The Public Universal…
The craft of building websites evolves when it follows web browsers, instead of fighting against them
The reason social media platforms have taken over people's content is because there is a perception that setting up a website is inherently difficult. While there is certainly some work…
Building a slow web
The internet I came to love was quieter. Smaller – which is not to say small. It was still vast, but it was a vast collection of small sites instead…
How payment networks control the definition of acceptable sex in videogames
We speak to adult industry researchers and Stripe alumni about Steam and Itch.io's NSFW content cull
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
Age Verification Systems Lead to Less Privacy Mandatory age verification tools are surveillance systems that threaten everyone’s rights to speech and privacy. To keep children out of a website or…