A common refrain is that the web is turning into garbage because of LLMs.
But that's not really true. It's just that the garbage is drowning out everything else, especially in search engines that themselves have decided to go into the garbage generation business.
What can we do? We can promote the #IndieWeb right here. Highlight the good, perhaps obscure websites and blogs you come across, especially the ones that aren't loaded with ads & trackers.
The W3C, founded in 1994 by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, has quit X and declared the fediverse to be their primary social media channel. Follow them at: @w3c
@sovtechfund (funded by the German government) just announced a €1M grant towards the @gnome project, an open source desktop environment.
Imagine a world in which governments don't spend billions of dollars in licensing fees every year to make Microsoft richer, and that money instead goes towards public code that belongs to all of us.
That may seem utterly implausible - but every example like this brings us one step closer to it being inevitable.
This is a really nice touch recently added to Mastodon: when you search for profiles, it now shows you if they've completed link verification for a domain.