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The #WordPress community explores #Matrix as an #opensource Chat to replace #Slack
https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2023/01/25/a-meta-subproject-for-evaluating-matrix/
@defaultvlan FYI with 0.9.0 Logseq will be able to "mount" an external folder.
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Un-Encoded SVG Backgrounds in CSS (Also, Writing CSS in CSS lolz) https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/26/un-encoded-svg-backgrounds-in-css-also-writing-css-in-css-lolz/
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@mathowie public forums > non-public chats
How did the internet even think otherwise? So many years of great discussions lost.
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Discourse just released a major update and I'm 100% dead serious when I say it's phenomenal and feels like using a good 2004-era PHPbb forum, but updated for today's social interactions.
Honestly, I wish every company, newsletter, website, etc, would stop using Slack and Discord for fans and instead adopt Discourse, having organized topics and threads is so much better than an endless chat stream that scrolls off into nowhere instantly.
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Many people care so much about their knowledge management tools, as if the world will end if they lose their notes.
For the past 15 years, I have lost and rebuilt my entire archive several times. It’s not the end of the world. If you are healthy, motivated to do it, and have reliable Internet, you can do anything.
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The idea that depression stems primarily from a lack of serotonin has lost much of its support. Scientists are rethinking the causes — and definition — of the illness. Joanna Thompson reports: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cause-of-depression-is-probably-not-what-you-think-20230126/
Matrix is a protocol, protocols can't have financing issues; if you are talking about the company that leads the implementation efforts like Element, Synapse etc (spec defining seems self-sustained now) well... ActivityPub doesn't even have one.
That said AP has issues that comes inherently from its design. Yes Matrix is way more advanced to address those issues but complexity can just be wrapped in libraries as we do for everything else.
There is only a communication problem: most people think that Matrix is an instant messaging protocol only.
Once more applications are implemented, people will understand the difference in quality of service that Matrix can offer and that AP never can.
Nice, but are you talking about authentication maybe? And the paid service you mentioned how isn't a third party? Or was it a product and not a service?
Indeed, but assuming you want more functionalities than Markdown can offer, at least #Logseq takes the most respectful approach to user sovereignty.
It's not the same thing:
• With Obsidian you are taking the risk the company stops the development at all.
• With #Logseq that the company does the same but also the community gives up on improving it at all, that is way less likely.
Plus you can still trying to improve the tool by yourself if you have some programming skills. Or you can pay someone to do the development for you, like a bug fix or a new feature you need. With proprietary closed-source software like Obsidian this is totally impossible.
Using #FOSS tools is equally important for #portability and #DigitalSovereignty as using standard formats like #Markdown.
FYI #Logseq has a plugin that aim to port features from Roam Smartblocks:
But then you have to avoid any syntax that is not common Markdown, otherwise you are tied to a tool specific functionality.
With a #FOSS tool like Logseq at least you know that you will be always able to edit your files with its specific syntax and it will be developed as far as there is someone interested in doing so. With Obsidian the company has control over the source code.
1. Free and Open Source software.
2. being an outliner let you structure your notes atomically as you type them; you can tag multiple blocks at once using indentation; you can focus the view on a block and its children.
3. with page and block properties you can build a relational database.
4. you can just focus on taking notes without caring too much where to put them since you can retrieve them back with queries.
5. Support for HTML and Hiccup.
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In roughly the past half-decade, Microsoft went from nowhere to overwhelming dominance of text editors with VSCode, ownership of majority of code hosting (and open source dev) with GitHub, ownership of the dependency stack used by most devs with npm, control over the most popular single language with TypeScript, and is trying to position copilot and ChatGPT as inevitable parts of the future dev process. Nothing negative for the ecosystem will come of this, as the last half century teaches us.
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Probably an unpopular #knowledgegraphs opinion right now, but I still think RDF1.0 is the only spec that really drives interoperability forward.
RDF1.1 with Named graphs, RDF* and property graph-like systems, and the likes are interesting technology for managing triples within a machine, but not for sharing triples across organizations.
@matrix is the real web3, #ActivityPub has too many issues and there is not much development on extending it currently.
I bet Mastodon will also replace ActivityPub with Matrix in a few years.
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