Molly White is one of the most thoughtful writers and thinkers on the web today. In addition to being a high functioning crypto critic, @molly0xfff is a believer and practitioner in crafting the next era of the web.
Molly believes that human connections are an inextricable part of the web and sees a bright future ahead as those connections move from walled gardens to the open web.
Check out this fantastic conversation with her on the latest episode of #DotSocial on our #PeerTube instance or wherever you get your #podcasts.
https://flipboard.video/w/ovAsDRovkgbihkZa3wMcUA
Entering a New Phase of the Web, with Citation Needed’s Molly White
Molly White is a leading cryptocurrency critic, but get to know her and you’ll see she’s anything but cynical. In fact, this researcher, writer and software engineer cares so deeply about free and open access to high-quality information that she’s been a Wikipedia editor since she was a teenager.Now Molly is the force behind the Citation Needed newsletter and the Web3IsGoingGreat site, and frequently speaks to journalists and makes media appearances. Despite tracking and writing about crypto’s shames, she is actually hopeful about how the internet is evolving in ways that are more open, collaborative, and in the user’s control.
In this interview, Molly shares her thoughts on how the social web is transforming our lives, why everyone should be a blogger, and how the concept of digital ownership is changing before our eyes. She also explains the POSSE model — Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere — which has the potential to revolutionize how we share digital content and think about our online identities.
Highlights of this conversation include:
1:35 Why Molly is optimistic about the future of the web
4:11 What Molly is optimistic about
7:30 Importance of “social” as it relates to the web
11:12 “Everyone is a blogger”
14:45 POSSE — Post on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
18:41 ActivityPub
20:01 Wishlist for a better web
22:57 New framework for identity on the web
25:18 Digital ownership
26:20 Digital sovereignty
29:11 Ghost vs Substack
31:15 Enabling creators to build relationships that transcend platforms
33:55 Business models and public funding
39:20 Wikipedia model
41:48 Exciting projects on the horizon for creators; imperativeness of being user friendly
44:20 A formative time of innovation🔎 You can find everything Molly’s posting via the POSSE implementation on her website at https://www.mollywhite.net/feed. She’s also on Mastodon at @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io.
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Ian Forrester | @cubicgarden
in reply to Mike McCue • • •The points about UX are so right, been thinking about this a lot.
Portability, attribution and ownership are also key
Thank you @mike and the @Flipboard team for producing these #dotsocial podcasts
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Mia Quagliarello
in reply to Ian Forrester | @cubicgarden • • •gz
in reply to Mike McCue • • •william.maggos
in reply to Mike McCue • • •a decentralized Patreon is essential. an open protocol/API that would let us transfer money bank to bank almost as easily as sending an email.
the paywall issue is a real problem but could be overcome if we could connect our media/reading apps to this. set any amount that gets automatically distributed on a percentage basis by time spent.
if enough people do this with enough money, we eventually convince more and more creators to release their work directly and open access.
glyn
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Mike McCue
in reply to glyn • • •Karl R
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Is there some way to stream the audio only on PeerTube? Clicking Download -> Advanced -> "Audio stream" gives an "Access Denied" error.
I had to search for an another podcast source to get audio only.
Sam Sethi :pc2red:
in reply to Mike McCue • • •1/2 - @mike @molly0xfff Another great interview Mike and some very thoughtful points made by Molly especially this clip here about ownership, copyright and licensing of your content.
Clip from Interview: https://truefans.fm/dot-social/664629c386c7151cda5aed08?tab=clips&id=6648a2904447a91add8f6609
The podcasting 2.0 community has already addressed the problems Molly raised about ownership, The new RSS License Tag used both Creative Commons licenses but also a new Podcast License for enabling audio and music licensing.
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/1.0.md#license
podcast-namespace/docs/1.0.md at main · Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace
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