For Netribution's 25th year, the website magazine returned with five issues over the year, published to the Fediverse via the WordPress Activity Pub plugin. It culminated with an exclusive interview with the little known English WordPress co-founder Mike Little from Stockport - which went viral on the Fediverse with over 1000 shares, and 100s of 1000s of views.
Issue 5: Becoming Little
“Going from 100 people to a million people is not a big deal. The big point for me really was not when it was becoming huge, it was when it was becoming little.” — Linus Torvalds, Linux founder
Featuring exclusive interviews with Mike Little, WordPress co-founder; Cath Le Couteur, ShootingPeople co-founder. Plus Suchandrika Chakrabarti, Carnal Cinema returns.
Issue 4: Re-intermediation (aka what's the big idea?)
At the peak of late-90s web hype, disinter-mediation was The Thing. But instead we swapped human curators for a profit-seeking algorithm. And as Shooting People closes after 27 years, remembering co-founder Jess Search & the pre-Web2.0 web.
Issue 3: Three act structures
Netribution’s 25 years fit into three 8-year acts. Since Web 2.0 people have been pondering about Web3.
So time to introduce Open Social Media Protocols and two filmmakers already using them… Elena Rossini and Dilman Della.
Issue 2: Community spaces
Community space builders: Jimmy’s Hall‘s Jimmy Gralton and The Brutalist‘s László Tóth. Features editor Stephen Applebaum remembered in some his most notable interviews.
Issue 1: Home
with Eric Dubois, Elio España, Tom Fogg. Northern Editor Leslie Lowes remembered by Kenneth Barker, Ben Blaine, Cath Le Couteur, Arin Crumley, Liz Hobbs, Chris Jones, Tom Swanston and the Lowes Family.
