Kevin Bae: Happy New Year
gonna try something a little different see how it goes this
year Welcome to 2022 It seems like we're moving into the
future but yet we're going back are staying with the past and
I'm talking about what's going on with Twitter getur parlor all
the all the URLs all the all the silos you know I mean look at
this it started off with started off with Dr. Malone getting
pushed off of Twitter and then getting on the Joe Rogan show
and you know going through all his stuff about about the
vaccines about COVID about government response you know,
and then Marjorie Taylor green over the weekend getting
permanently banned from Twitter I guess it for people of that
political persuasion. It's now become a seems like a badge of
honor to get banned from Twitter. So then you can make a
big stink and move to another Twitter clone so what they did
was they all moved to get her I don't know why. What happened to
parlor? I mean, I remember the whole stink about parlor after
the election. So here's parlor. By the way. I'm this is also on
YouTube. And I'm gonna see if I put up on my Facebook page as
well on the did I get I think it's on Kevin Bay a my Kevin Bay
Facebook page, but I don't remember either way. It'll be up
there. parlor calm and getter.com They're both
basically Twitter clones. And you have all these. Suppose it
free speech advocates and a lot of them are free speech
advocates. But these are mostly conservative people. Like, you
know, Candace Owens, and what the heck is her name? I should
know it already. Let's see. Let me see what I got here. Gina
Carano. You got Matt Walsh. I don't even know how to pronounce
this guy's name Jack. Paul sobic. Paul sobic. I don't know.
Tim Poole, Dave Rubin. Iver come in Mary Katharine ham. Joe
Rogan's there. So I mean, a lot of conservative, more
conservative ways. I wouldn't even call Joe Rogan a
conservative necessarily. But people who not right now are
associated with being conservative. You know, they're,
they've opened up accounts over on Twitter. You know, if they're
not kicked off of Twitter, you can guarantee I can guarantee
that they're just going to continue to be on Twitter. But
why? Why would you want to move from one siloed platform to
another silo platform? You know, all you have is are the same
constraints and a different and a different venue. Now, you
know, maybe they won't get kicked off for saying more
conservative things, but and I'm sure they will, you know,
they'll be more open to having some liberal voices, but the
liberal voices aren't going to go there. So what we have is
this bifurcation, this split a free speech, go over here and
listen to this is almost what it looks like what happened with
cable news, go over here if you want to hear the conservative
side, the conservative voices and go over here if you want to
hear the progressive side now. I can even call them liberals
because they're not liberals. They're progressive. And you go
here and you get this view, you go over there, you get that
view. And somewhere you're supposed to find the truth. But
my problem is why go to another platform? You know, and I say
this ironically, as I as I post on YouTube, and I post on
Facebook and I also So use Twitter, I, you know, I signed
up for Twitter account, just wait to see what the heck is
going on over there, I doubt that I will use it just like
parlor when
we already have all the technologies that all this stuff
run that the technology is that all of these things run in the
web, the internet, that's the platform, that's where you need
to go. And what we should do what everybody should do, is
learn about. And it's not hard anymore, it's very easy, you
don't have to get very technical at all, to start your own
website to get your own domain name. And while yes, you can
always be deeply deep platformed, even if you are not
on any of these services, so like, I have my own website, I
host my my podcast files, I self host them you know, I have to
pay, you know, what are the connections between me and what
you're hearing? You know, first, the direct line in a linear
fashion first from, from my voice to the computer from the
computer across the internet. So I have to first go through my
own ISP, which is spectrum cable. So that's the first
connection that can be cut in and D platform me. And while
Yeah, I could go to you know, I could use my Verizon wireless
connection, but they can also do that for me and keep me off. You
know, and yes, I can move around, I can go to public Wi Fi
spots, and I can do all this kind of stuff. But anyway, that
the first point of failure is your ISP, your connection to the
Internet. The next one is wherever you you are hosting
your file. So I have my you know, my personal website, Kevin
bay.com. And that is hosted on DreamHost. So I pay, you know,
an annual fee for a virtual server. And I installed
WordPress there where I host my own blog plus some other blog
properties. It's also where I host the mp3 files for this
podcast. And they have Terms of Service. You know, I haven't
read through them recently. You know, but I'm sure it covers
legal content. But it's more broad based because you know,
websites, generally, are policed by the people who operate the
websites. So that's the next point of failure is the service
where I host my website. But that's it, there's no other
overlords. That's it. Those are the only choke points between me
and whoever's listening. Where if you're on Twitter Yeah, you
can open up another account, and you can jump through all the
hoops and, and while it's a concentrated place for eyeballs,
you know, you are subject to the political whims of whoever runs
the company, it's their company, it's their platform, they could
do with it what they want. And that's not to say it's not the
same thing with DreamHost. But as far as I can tell, across the
history of the internet and websites, hosting companies
hosting websites, generally are content agnostic. They don't
care. You know, as long as you're not hosting illegal
content, like child porn, or, you know, some crazy, crazy
stuff, advocating, you know, the overthrow of the government. I'm
sure even advocating the overthrow of the government
might even be okay. But let's just say, you know, you're not
making terroristic threats and all that kind of stuff. You're
keeping it just opinion base, like what I'm doing here. Or
providing information from whatever it is, that's your
expertise
and what people can do, okay, and it's how you how you get
ahold of podcasts is using, you know, WordPress, and all modern
websites, and I haven't checked out Wix or anything like that,
you know, one of the other, more popular places where people make
websites or SquareSpace. Generally, an RSS feed is
published. And it's done automatically, especially if
it's a blog, and an RSS feed. Okay, it's simply a file that
any modern browser or you know, any, there's there are things
called RSS readers, or podcast apps. Podcast apps are
essentially feed readers that you know, read the media
specific enough. information and can playback the audio and in
most cases video as well.
So there's no gatekeeper between the content producer and the
content, consumer. You don't have to go through, you don't
have to worry about getting shadow banned on Twitter, you
won't have to worry about getting shadow banned on getter
or parlor or half having to worry about, you know, something
controversial that you said, and now they're going to take down
your account, you are your account, the internet is the
platform, all you got to do is access it. So imagine now if you
if, you know, there used to be a lot of feed readers, Google got
rid of there's no Google Reader. That would have been the best
platform or app, let's say, because the web and the internet
are the platforms. But the the app and our simple RSS feed
reader could replace Twitter, Facebook, you know, any of the
social media, apps and platforms, the only thing I
really can't replace is something like YouTube because
of video, video content takes up a lot of space, and takes up a
lot of bandwidth. So that requires significant equipment.
But, you know, using RSS, and RSS is an old technology. Let's
see here, initial release, RSS point nine, Netscape March
15 1999 22 years ago, RSS 2.0, released March 32,009 12 years
ago. And if you don't know what RSS is just go to Wikipedia,
they got a you know, a decent rundown of it. It stands for you
know, Real Simple Syndication, or they they have here Really
Simple Syndication. And it's just this it's a text file. It's
called XML extensible markup language. And it's auto
generated by you know, like WordPress and other website,
software. And the reader just takes a look at this XML file.
You know, you don't you don't have to know how to you can
learn how to put together it's not that hard to put it
together. It's, it's, it's not hard to put together but it's a
pain in the ass to do it manually. You know, but it's
just text and it's not that difficult to read once you know
how to how to read it.
But it's, it's old and it's it's what? It's what connects people
with podcasting and podcasting 2.0. And what they're doing at
podcast index.org. They have extended RSS, okay, that they've
added things to RSS to an older technology that allows for
transcripts, you know, so basically closed captioning in
your in your podcast, app, closed captioning in your
podcast app. And for chapters, so you can divide up your
podcast in the chapter so people can jump around to the
particular content that they want. And images links. So it's
way more dynamic than it used to be just for podcasts. It's sort
of like watching the live blog stream across your podcast app.
There also trying to implement cross app, commenting, which
would bring more Twitter like function, because you could have
a conversation thread for particular podcast. And, you
know, I would dare to say you could do that also, for blog
posts, so using a reader and you can have cross app commenting in
a reader app. So that way, that would make it way more like
Twitter and now there are open source Twitter clones as well
like Mastodon and podcast index. That org has their own Mastodon
instance. And it works just like Twitter. And I think for right
now, the cross app commenting uses some open source, Twitter
like clones for the commenting But you know, imagine that it's
the web using the web and your own personal website and RSS
feeds. I, you know, I wish I was better at explaining this stuff.
But in my mind, I can see it, I can see, you know, there would
be no gatekeepers between you and the content you want to
consume and the comments you want to make
you know, and, and with also what they're what they're
putting together to on podcasting 2.0 is value for
value model, which is streaming, Bitcoin micro payments. Now, you
can, you can stream micro payments, or you can not stream
micro payments, you can do one, you can do anything you want.
But, you know, you can also donate or pay, you know, a, what
they call a boost, which is, you know, say you you like something
in particular, so you can send a boost of 100 Satoshis. Or what's
called a boost to gram, where it's a paid a boost, but with a
message inside. So you can, you can do that and communicate
directly and you can, it's more guaranteed that the person you
want to reach will read your message, if you're sending them
a little bit of a payment or a tip, as Adam curry hates. Along
with the message, it's more likely to be read even if it's
negative.
You know, but I can see if we can if we can, if somebody I
wish I could write code and write apps. But I can, I can see
it where the value value for value gets implemented within a
blog. Cross app commenting can get implemented within a blog
within the RSS feed, using the RSS feed to facilitate all of
this stuff. And then the internet is your Twitter. The
internet is your go getter. You're a parlor, you're not
limited to that information silo. And then somebody like Dr.
Malone doesn't have to worry about getting deep platformed
from Twitter, and moving on to another platform. He just keeps
his website open and anybody who doesn't want to consume his
content just doesn't have to go there. You don't have to see it.
There's nobody there to silence you.
Anyway to me to get to get to the future of communications and
the Internet and the internet, and especially freedom of speech
across the United States as well as the world. We need to learn
more and get back to RSS. And that's all I got