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20 Jahre Flickr

Speaking of Stewart Butterfield: Flickr ist gestern 20 Jahre alt geworden.

Feb 10, 2004: Flickr is launched
Founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Flickr was released to the public at the O’Reilly Emerging Tech conference in San Diego as a tool for sharing photos. Originally engineered as part of a multiplayer online game, one aspect of the project took on a life of its own, and Flickr was born. During an era when digital cameras were fairly common, phone cameras were just a grainy novelty, and the blogosphere ruled the internet, Flickr was an instant hit.

2005 folgte schon der Kauf durch Yahoo, gefolgt von Jahren der schwindenden Bedeutung und 2018 dem Kauf durch SmugMug.

Recycling von meinem Kommentar bei Michael, wo ich auch von diesem Jubiläum erfuhr: Flickr war toll und wegweisend damals (ich war sogar Gründer der zwischenzeitlich recht großen Germany-Gruppe und – gerade in meinen E-Mails nachgeguckt – von 2005 bis 2009 hatte ich sogar einen zahlungspflichtigen Pro-Account), mittlerweile verbinde ich damit nur noch die nervigen „Your account is in violation of our free account limits“-Mails (kann mich aus Nostalgie­gründen, aber auch nicht zum löschen des Accounts durchringen).

Screenshot der flickr Free-Account-Limit E-Mail

20 Years of Significant Moments in Flickr’s Development | OpenGraph Preview Image
blog.flickr.net

20 Years of Significant Moments in Flickr’s Development

The celebration of Flickr’s 20th birthday begins today! To celebrate this huge milestone, we’re taking a trip down memory lane to explore all of the technological and structural moments…

Threads startet am 14.12. in der EU

Meta hasn’t made an official announcement yet, instead opting to sneakily update the Threads website with an untitled countdown timer […] with just under six days remaining on the clock. 

Finally. Ich war im Juli sehr angetan von Metas Twitter-Version. Ihr könnt mir unter @eay auf Threads folgen.

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theverge.com

Threads is counting down to an EU launch next week

December 14th to be exact, according to the countdown timer.

Neue Reddit Brand Identity von Pentagram

Pentagram hat eine neue Brand Identity für Reddit entworfen.

Ich bin vor allem gespannt, wie die neuen, visuellen Subreddit-Chatbubbles eingesetzt werden – und ob sie den offiziellen Client – nachdem sie Apollo & Co. gekillt haben – im Zuge dessen endlich aufhübschen.1

  1. Eigentlich auch spannend, welche Parallelen es zu Twitter/X gibt: Man kauft den besten Third-Party Client (bei Twitter war es Tweetie, hier Alien Blue), verhunzt diesen und killt dann den API-Zugang für andere, bessere Clients… [↩]

Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app

From Meta’s engineering blog. At least they continue to talk explicitly about ActivityPub and the Fediverse. However, no mention of the EU launch.

Our goal with Threads is to make social content as interoperable as email. We are working on the ability for Threads to integrate with ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol.

My ultimate hope for Threads is that it becomes the zeitgeist of the internet.

(via Matt)

Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app | OpenGraph Preview Image
engineering.fb.com

Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app

Earlier this year, a small team of engineers at Meta started working on an idea for a new app. It would have all the features people expect from a text-based conversations app, but with one very ke…

Podcast: Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram & Threads, im Interview bei 20VC

Interessantes Interview, das einige überraschende Einblicke in Instagram (z.B. dass der Foto-Feed nur noch der dritt meistgenutzten Ort in Instagram ist, nach den DMs und Stories) und den Start von Threads gibt.

20VC: Instagram CEO, Adam Mosseri on Threads: The Journey from 0-100M Users; What Worked, What Di... | OpenGraph Preview Image
thetwentyminutevc.com

20VC: Instagram CEO, Adam Mosseri on Threads: The Journey from 0-100M Users; What Worked, What Di...

Adam Mosseri is the Head of Instagram, where he is responsible for overseeing the engineering, product, and business teams.

A year of new avenues

It’s so pow­er­fully obvi­ous to me, it might as well be writ­ten in ten-foot let­ters of flame: the plat­forms of the last decade are done. […] Their only con­clu­sion can be abandonment; an over­due MySpace-ification.

Robin Sloan sieht das Ende der großen Social-Media-Plattformen kommen und beschreibt dies als Chance, wieder selbst das Web zu gestalten.

Let 2023 be a year of exper­i­men­ta­tion and invention!

In seinem Lab-Newsletter möchte er das nächste Jahr über die Projekte sammeln, die genau das versuchen.

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robinsloan.com

A year of new avenues

It's 2003 again.

Tumblr will support ActivityPub

Matt Mullenweg, name giver and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress and Tumblr, announced in some Twitter replies (1, 2), that Tumblr will support the ActivityPub protocol as soon as possible. This will add quantities of tumblelogs to the fediverse and therefore make them compatible with Mastodon. Great news for an post-Twitter era!

That’s super interesting, because we’re hoping for some major services to become interoperable for some time now: In 2017 we thought that this would weaken facebook.com’s dominance, but now it’s Twitter we are trying to avoid.

Tumblr will bring several million blogs and users to the fediverse, much more than Mastodon’s own usage. It remains to be seen how Tumblr will extend and promote it’s interoperability in the future, e.g. if it’s possible to follow other, non-Tumblr, but ActivityPub-compatible content from within Tumblr.

Musk’s Donald Trump poll

Twitter has 330 million monthly active users and 166 million daily active users.

Elon Musk had 117 million followers, when he started a poll to ask if Donald Trump’s account should be reinstated. He claimed that 134 million people saw this poll.

But only 15 million users voted in the poll, which they didn’t know was coming. That’s only 4,5% of all Twitter users, only 12,8% of Musks followers and only 11,2% of all people who saw this.

“The people have spoken.”

Status 2022-11-03 19:35

Ich wurde die letzten Tage mehrfach gefragt, wie ich meine eigene Mastodon-Instanz eay.social betreibe. Mache das über den Mastodon-Hosting-Anbieter Masto.host. Klar, das würde auch selbstgehostet(er) gehen, aber dass ich mich nicht auch noch hiermit beschäftigen muss, ist mir die 6$/Monat wert (vor allem wenn man bedenkt, dass Musks Twitter Blue/Checkmark-Subscription demnächst 8$/Monat kosten wird). eay.social powered by Masto.host läuft jedenfalls zuverlässig seit August 2018.