Peter Bihr on the death of the search and social web:

“That means two major driving forces of the contemporary internet are… basically useless now? Or at least unenjoyable? They feel dead, or maybe undead. At the very least, these areas need to be reinvented.”

Google has given up on subtlety in reminding us that Universal Analytics is less than two months away from its demise…

A notification warns that data processing for a property will stop on July 1, 2023, and prompts the user to migrate to Google Analytics 4 by using the Setup Assistant.

May the Fourth be with you.

These are real buildings, but they look like architects’ CAD renderings photoshopped in, don’t they?

A busy city street is lined with a mix of historic and modern tall buildings under a clear blue sky, with vehicles and pedestrians visible along the road.

Up on the Downs as the rain hits.

Two people are standing near a wooden bench on a grassy hill overlooking a river and a wide expanse of countryside under a cloudy sky.

Good piece on what Mastodon needs to embrace to have a significant role in the post-Twitter world.

[via @baldur]

micro.blog is ending Twitter cross-posting in July. Here’s @manton from the announcement post:

“It’s all another reminder that centralized platforms with closed APIs can’t last. While it’s easy to blame Elon Musk, the writing has been on the wall for a decade.”

This is a useful round-up of Bluesky, Mastodon et al: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options

This is the way.

I needed this.

The pond at Woods Mill, Henfield, Sussex