The Alms Race
2023
Retrospectives on 2023 are dropping into RSS readers and inboxes across the Internet. Here’s mine.
The Alms Race: A Brief History of Web2
The Alms Race: The escalating development of product features providing direct financial plumbing (and community) tools to users occurring across the legacy Web2 ecosystem.
New App in the Alms Race | 2210
The Alms Race is the financial expansion of Web2 social platforms. Allowing users to earn directly from other users. Web 2.5 if you will.
RSS Revival
Google are apparently reviving RSS. This seems like part of the wider turning of the tide towards choose your own internet.
Substacklash
I don’t really have any thoughts on the Substack backlash beyond urging people to ignore their impulse to disparage tall poppies and instead remember the long tail of people on the platform that are surviving because of others generosity.
