It's even worse than it appears..
Tuesday July 8, 2025; 8:34 AM EDT
This is what the web feels like#
  • Yesterday I wondered if the open web is a lost cause.#
  • A few minutes later, I saw my name in a tweet on Bluesky from Aram Zucker-Scharff.#
  • In it was a message that can be summarized as follows -- don't give up yet Dave. #
  • AZS has a linkblog which he calls an amplifeed. Same thing. #
  • And here's the best part. #
  • Even though we were working separately -- our feeds are 100% compatible.#
  • When I saw it I subscribed to it in FeedLand and added it to my blogroll.#
  • It will work in my timeline software (still working on it).#
  • This gave me goosebumps.#
  • I remember what this felt like.#
  • Working on something and someone else working on the same thing and because we're on the mother freaking web our stuff works the same way.#
  • That my friends is what the web feels like. Goosebumps. Power. Interop. This is what most people who use the net these days have never experienced. #
  • I used to write about this on my blog every day. I would say things that annoyed some of my readers like this: zoooooom and coooooool. There he goes again. Hey it's been a while. #
  • I celebrated this with a suggestion to AZS.#
    • If you also add a channel-level <image> element it'll work with my timeline app. I'm doing it the same way WordPress does it.#
  • He did it in a minute.#
  • So the web isn't a lost cause after all. 😄#
  • This the web. It's what the Dead called Truckin. #
  • Let's do more of this. #
  • I'm trying to think but nothing happens!#
  • PS: AZS sent me a link to another linkblog, which I have subscribed to and added to my blogroll.#

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