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Now, nowadays’s visitor is Chris Messina, the inventor of the hashtag, in addition to an early creator on OAuth, which is an open same old authorization protocol, and ActivityStreams, which is the predecessor to ActivityPub, which we speak about so much in this display.
Chris, welcome to the display.
Chris Messina: Hi there, thank you, guy. I’m satisfied to be again right here.
Document Pop: Guy, I’m tremendous excited to have you ever on for lots of causes. And afterward, we’re going to be speaking about WordPress plugins and open internet codecs and hashtags and such things as that. Let’s kick this off. I’ve a bit little bit of a trivialities for you. Twitter introduced in March of 2006 and a couple of months later, you wrote a tweet asking if any person used to be running on a Twitter to WordPress bridge, and that in fact is the first actual point out of WordPress on Twitter, a large spherical of applause for you on the time.
Chris Messina: Thanks
Document Pop: And I assume that’s some way I’d love to kick this off. What’s your historical past with WordPress?
Chris Messina: Wow. I admire you beginning there in some way, as a result of my historical past with WordPress does move long ago, , I used to be an early consumer of WordPress, however one of the most issues that I believe is extra significant to me used to be that after I first arrived in San Francisco, within the Bay Space, long ago in 2004, one of the vital first those that I met incorporated Matt Mullenweg.
And so Matt used to be one of the most first those that I met. I knew what he used to be running on. I imagine he would possibly’ve been running at CNET on the time. And he and I and a number of other different early internet people would get in combination and simply communicate concerning the long run, speak about construction the open internet platform, speak about construction social programs.
And it used to be via the ones connections that we arranged one thing known as Bar Camp, which in fact, when you’ve been to a WordCamp, you have got been to one of the most descendants of that. And so Bar Camp first got here out in 2005 as an tournament that used to be arranged and placed on via the contributors, via the individuals who confirmed up, and it form of spawned a world motion that roughly gave upward thrust to in-person interactions with individuals who you another way would possibly’ve best recognized during the web.
I assume my early enjoy and publicity to WordPress used to be that it used to be this superb and slightly available platform for, in fact, publishing no matter you sought after to on the web with none gatekeepers or with no need to get permission from any person.
And naturally it used to be extensible via plugins and it used to be additionally open supply. So it had quite a few those parts that made for, I assume, a generative form of instrument that allowed beginners to extend it into, , what it in the end has change into nowadays.
Document Pop: Again then, 2004 to 2007 particularly, it felt just like the internet used to be very unsiloed or turning into unsiloed. It felt adore it roughly went from being one position. You went to spreading out to a complete bunch of websites that you want to seek advice from, after which new social networks have been shooting up and the entirety felt truly roughly dispensed.
And WordPress used to be a part of that. Twitter clearly used to be a part of that Internet 2.0. After which it felt like the ones silos roughly gave the impression once more. And it felt like impulsively, we have been being funneled again into the similar roughly 4 platforms, and it appears like that’s converting once more. Are we going again to love a decentralized internet? Is WordPress perhaps going to be a part of that internet? Or is it perhaps going to be a complete other approach the internet works?
Chris Messina: You realize, there’s such a lot historical past that I may proportion, however I don’t wish to bore you or the listeners. I believe the best way that I’d take a look at it’s there used to be without a doubt a length of exploration, experimentation, check out new issues. There used to be an assumption that construction instrument which may be social and that had the presence of other folks and now not best that, however other folks with faces used to be this type of loopy innovation from a behavioral and societal standpoint, , previous to, 2006 and 7, the web used to be nonetheless one thing that used to be roughly awkward and difficult to make use of. Folks have been afraid. I used to be afraid to position my actual title in the market. I imply, it took me years. I imply, I began out on the web as Manufacturing facility Joe, and that used to be my WordPress weblog as a result of I sought after to have a separation between my web id and my actual global id.
And over the years, there have been moments the place that web id changed into extra widely known than my actual title and my actual self. And that I believe used to be the instant the place it began to be transparent that the web and the internet used to be going to be one thing that used to be going to change into not unusual, versus one thing that used to be rather esoteric or, , just for nerds.
And so I believe on account of the popularization of those equipment and applied sciences, a wish to make these items simpler to make use of and particularly more uncomplicated for other folks to seek out their pals and hook up with their pals. After which there used to be a complete layer of privateness and privateness expectancies that used to be more difficult to beef up in a decentralized type, as a result of whilst decentralization is extremely necessary for freedom and for exploration and experimentation and for pluralities of , concepts of ways instrument can paintings and behave, you additionally want interoperability in order that other folks on two other platforms can in fact attach and concentrate on, , simply being there and commenting on each and every different’s stuff or seeing each and every different’s stuff.
So, that’s one of the most actual demanding situations of decentralized innovation. And I assume what I’d say is that we’ve roughly long past via a length the place there used to be a host of web department stores that have been created, which used to be, , Fb and Instagram, and platforms like that, the place, sure, there used to be social content material, however then it changed into industrial in nature and a large number of patterns for a way other folks engage or wish to engage or are in a position to have interaction on those platforms changed into widely known, such that now, we will take all the ones product patterns after which put them into open supply, decentralized merchandise, and we will standardize them.
So there’s roughly this respiring procedure or guy, what’s the phrase, it’s pendulation, the place you progress from one finish to the opposite, you move from decentralization and experimentation into centralization, the place you determine the patterns that paintings. And then you definately roughly get into this ossification the place the entirety will get roughly dull and the similar, and then you definately transfer again within the different route in opposition to decentralization. And I imagine that we’re within the length of decentralization presently, as a result of we’re getting roughly uninterested in, , the gatekeepers that experience made up our minds what’s allowable, what is fine, what are the proper concepts to suppose. And I believe other folks need extra plurality and variety.
Document Pop: I discussed previous that you just have been an early creator on OAuth and ActivityStreams, and I think like either one of the ones tie into what you’re speaking about. Within the early days of decentralization, those decentralized services and products wanted tactics so to authenticate and provides permission to get entry to and communicate to one another whilst nonetheless protecting some stage of privateness.
And I do know that the OAuth continues to be round and thriving. OAuth 2.0, I believe, is the massive model now. And also you take a look at in WordPress plugins, you’ll see so much, all over, for connecting your Fb in your WordPress or WordPress, your Fb or no matter. Proper. It’s nonetheless round and with a bit of luck, it’ll come again or is it already right here and simply other folks don’t know that they’re already residing in this type of decentralized global already?
Chris Messina: Yeah. I assume I’d say there’s form of like other measurements of decentralization. You realize, there’s clearly the totally centralized and closed to interoperability platforms. Apple has a tendency to be, , extra centralized the place the entirety roughly has to paintings neatly inside their ecosystem, the entire approach from the {hardware} into the instrument and services and products layer. Then you definitely move to the internet, and there’s a large number of interconnectedness between other platforms, to the level that it’s decentralized. That needs to be evaluated in keeping with the kind of interoperability and the level to which persons are on their very own little hosts, let’s say, or their very own servers, and that the ones issues engage or attach with out, I imply, with some extent of coordination.
So, Mastodon as a community is a superb instance of decentralization the place you’ll have many various cases or services and products or servers that attach to each other with out understanding that the others existed previously. All you need to know is that there’s a website title and you utilize DNS and you’ll to find the opposite servers and you’ll point out people who find themselves on different servers.
That’s decentralization, to reply to your query, despite the fact that, I believe it’s price going again to the starting place of OAuth, which used to be firstly known as OpenAuth, nevertheless it grew to become out, I believe Yahoo used to be the usage of that title, so we couldn’t use that. So we needed to shorten it. And what, the place a majority of these issues got here from, used to be as Matt used to be running at the early variations of WordPress, I labored at the release of Mozilla Firefox, and that used to be in 2004. And I roughly got here to this conclusion, and I’m certain many folks have been eager about it, which is that the browser must change into social. The browser must perceive who your pals are, as a result of on the time we have been the usage of a large number of social apps.
There have been apps like one thing known as Upcoming, which perhaps nowadays is very similar to Luma or Eventbrite. We have been the usage of Flickr, in fact, which is the predecessor to Instagram. We had quite a few those apps that saved asking us who our pals have been each and every time we’d join and create a brand new account. And it used to be like, neatly, the browser is where that we have been the usage of to get entry to all of those other services and products. And so let’s put all of it into the browser because the consumer’s agent. And in order that led us to understand that we had to have quite a few new applied sciences to allow that to occur. And a kind of applied sciences used to be OpenID. And in order that could be your id. Necessarily, you wanted some strategy to establish an individual. And the idea used to be, let’s construct that as a URL. And which may be your WordPress weblog. And so I began a undertaking known as the DiSo undertaking, D I S O, to really create quite a few WordPress plugins that will put in force codecs that will mean you can decentralize a social community at the again of WordPress.
Now, this used to be prior to BuddyPress and the ones varieties of merchandise existed, however we have been most commonly taken with learn how to construct protocols to make this imaginable. And alongside the best way, we discovered that simply sharing your password on each and every other website online that you just sought after to hook up with, initially, it used to be insecure. And secondly, it simply created this perhaps false sense of protection and we had to resolve for that.
And that’s the place OAuth got here from. OAuth used to be some way so that you can mainly generate a type of on-the-fly password which may be used for a unmarried software or website online, and that will additionally rotate itself over the years. And in order that’s mainly how that got here in combination. And to start with, it used to be only for a host of small startups and founders, after which in the end we have been in a position to get other folks like Google and others to undertake it.
Document Pop: That’s a great spot for us to take a brief industrial spoil. After we come again, we’ll select up our dialog with Chris Messina. Keep tuned for extra.
Welcome again to Press This, the WordPress group podcast. I’m your host Document Pop. These days I’m chatting with Chris Messina, the inventor of the hashtag. We haven’t even talked concerning the hashtag but, and I comprehend it’s a brief display, proper? We now have such a lot to speak about and there’s such a lot of thrilling issues to speak about presently, as federation is catching on, on the internet, with a bit of luck, and because the internet is perhaps swinging again, as you are saying, within the pendulum again in opposition to decentralization. And also you discussed DiSo prior to our spoil, that’s the dispensed social networking app that you just have been running on, and I sought after to mention that Matthias Pfefferle, the author of the ActivityPlub plugin for WordPress, he heard you have been coming at the display and he sought after me to, I assume, thanks to your paintings on DiSo. He says that the DiSo undertaking used to be an enormous inspiration for him and motivated him to paintings at the IndieWeb slash Fediverse plugins on WordPress, which I take advantage of and love.
So, shout-out to that. It used to be additionally, I do know an enormous enlargement for the IndieWeb group. Is there anything else you need to mention about concerning the state of DiSo now?
Chris Messina: You realize, a large number of the issues that I began or, or helped to get off the bottom, as a result of undoubtedly those have been collaborative efforts have been, have been the seeds or, or form of like, , germs of concepts and ideas that I thought in. And labored on lengthy sufficient to roughly until the soil for this stuff to take root.
However then it seems I’m now not a very good farmer. I roughly like transfer directly to the following factor, perhaps a bit extra like Johnny Appleseed, I assume. And I simply hope that these items develop into no matter they’re going to change into. In such a lot as, , after I noticed that Automattic used to be going to be adopting ActivityPub and that Matthias had in fact labored in this, , one, there used to be only a sense of like, , delight, , form of like my kids have grown up and so they’ve become one thing actual.
But additionally like the truth that they have been raised via, , a village and a group of other folks once I’d lengthy moved on. So I believe it’s at the one hand, necessary for me to roughly hang the torch of the starting place of the place these items got here from and to mirror at the explanation why we would have liked to do these items and what should be blamed for us to create them in the best way that we did.
However then additionally to embody open supply so to permit these items to form of lay fallow is simply too unfavorable, however necessarily to form of take root, after which when the time used to be proper to form of spring forth from the bottom and to become one thing superb and to blossom into what they might change into. And so, , I’m simply so stoked to peer that, , Matthias used to be in a position to do that and to do it in some way the place he’s going to convey it to all of the WordPress ecosystem.
Like this is precisely what we would have liked to do, but if we have been doing it, it used to be too quickly. Folks didn’t perceive why this sort of decentralization used to be essential or necessary. And now we now have a large number of examples that I believe lead other folks to know why one, , I don’t like the theory of like proudly owning your target market, however having a harder connection and dating to other folks over the years via instrument that you’ve got keep an eye on over is necessary, and that those underlying protocols and applied sciences that we got here up with have been all about enfranchising other folks to have the ones relationships in a long run, significant approach.
Document Pop: Switching gears a bit bit, we’re speaking about proudly owning your target market and perhaps how audiences to find you and they would to find you prefer you may have a publication that you just care for and also you ship hyperlinks out to websites, or you could use social media and ship hyperlinks out to websites, that appears to be riding much less and not more site visitors at the moment.
However the #1 strategy to find a new website or, , to surf the internet, nonetheless, is Google. That’s obviously now not going to modify anytime quickly, however a brand new…
Chris Messina: It will alternate, however move forward.
Document Pop: Yeah, a brand new learn about via German researchers states that Google seek effects are getting worse. It’s now not our creativeness.
The year-long learn about confirmed that extremely optimized, low high quality, mainly unsolicited mail articles are dominating seek effects. And in a similar way, websites like 404media discovered that Google information used to be boosting AI-generated variations of 404media’s articles. In different phrases, other folks have been the usage of AI to replicate, paste, and relatively alternate phrases after which simply flood.
And Google Information used to be selling the ones as an alternative of the unique supply articles. One last item that’s going down on best of all of this, as a result of there’s all the time been this battle between spammers and Google, however the very last thing that’s going down is Google and Bing are actually including AI-generated articles while you do seek effects.
They’re roughly like, I don’t know, eliminating that promise that they needed to assist attach websites. And as an alternative, it kind of feels like they’re beginning to roughly stay them there. So, ok. That’s my long-winded speech about how I think. Chris, I wish to listen how you are feeling about how small web sites can proceed to be found out within the subsequent coming years.
Chris Messina: Smartly, I can proportion a sense, and the sensation that I’ve within the present second, I believe is one in every of, to some extent, bewilderment, but additionally pleasure and exuberance, a bit little bit of trepidation and likewise optimism. And I don’t suppose optimism is a sense, however I’ll move with it. The query that you just ask presupposes that the best way that the internet is and has been must be the best way that the internet persists and can proceed to be. And this hands race that you just discussed presumes that this struggle over consideration and get entry to to audiences is one way or the other the aim of the web and the internet, and I hate to let you know, nevertheless it’s now not. It’s truly about growing connections between other other folks with other views and studies or merchandise and assets.
And we’ve been spending the closing 15 to twenty years, in large part growing a large number of textual content founded content material. You realize, one, as a result of virtual garage the potency of that type. We’re bobbing up to some degree — we use the singularity, I believe, to explain the place, , people and computer systems roughly, , change into one or form of the place there’s an overlap the place computer systems overtake human mind.
And I believe. It’s necessary to acknowledge that, I assume I’d say just like the natural world, or just like the microbiome of those small web sites can and can persist, however the best way wherein they pursue good fortune most likely goes to wish to alternate and be other than it’s been up to now. And I’ll simply say like, If you happen to take a look at, there’s a brand new seek engine known as Perplexity, which aspires to be a solution engine, and Google, for a long time, I imply, I labored at Google for 3 and a part years, additionally sought after to be a solution engine. They sought after to, , index the entire global’s data to make it helpful and to be had and available. And in a similar fashion, that doesn’t imply that obtaining you to a few different website online during the web is the best strategy to make that data helpful or available.
So the place we’re going at some point will likely be that you’re going to have quite a few other brokers and bots and services and products that you just conversationally engage with, , similar to you textual content a chum a photograph, you’re like, what is that this? A pc goes so to take a look at the issues that you just ship it and reply with a slightly detailed set of data with out you having to visit secondary or tertiary assets, until you need to.
From a capitalist standpoint, we’ve made it very, very environment friendly to create low-quality data energy. And we’re pumping out all types of junk meals during the social media networks as a result of they’re very affordable, necessarily, to unfold data via. And it’s beginning to motive a type of like data weight problems, the place we wish to struggle again with higher high quality data and higher high quality relationships. Now, what does that imply for small manufacturers of, let’s say, artisanal content material? Smartly, in some way it manner it’s a golden alternative for you.
Particularly you probably have a dating together with your target market and particularly when you’re creating that dating over the years. You realize, it’s humorous, a few years in the past, I believe again in 2016, I coined this time period “conversational trade” to give an explanation for how we’re getting into into a global the place the tactics wherein we now have conversations with computer systems actually is a dialog that creates a bi-directional channel the place we will roughly get to shared working out via going from side to side to reach at some better sense of readability or wisdom concerning the different user or the opposite entity and that trade at some point. It will be much less about going to, , Amazon and putting in place some generic word or product title after which seeing a listing of a majority of these other merchandise which are mainly commercials, looking to bid to your consideration, to get them to, to get you to shop for them. However as an alternative, you roughly speak about what your want is and thru that you want to reason why with a pc and it will form of level you to quite a few answers that could be higher for you.
Similarly, I believe other folks which are writing higher content material have experience that with a bit of luck they may be able to then be offering via higher-value transactions or I don’t wish to say lessons, however like the place going deeper goes to be a spot the place people are in a position to offer much more price than simply form of like growing hundreds of pages on a website online for audiences which are totally unknown.
So perhaps this isn’t a perfect resolution for , your target market, however I’ve an overly onerous time imagining that simply growing content material farms goes to be a long-term sustainable industry relative to making top quality differentiated content material that you simply can’t get any place else.
Document Pop: I believe that’s some other just right spot for us to take a brief spoil. And after we come again, we’re going to wrap up our dialog with Chris Messina. I’ve yet another little bit of hashtag slash WordPress trivialities for you. So keep tuned after the fast spoil.
Welcome again to Press This. We’re wrapping up our dialog with Chris Messina, and I’ve already discussed Chris, your hashtag credentials because the inventor of the hashtag. And also you have been the primary user to say WordPress on Twitter. I’ve yet another a laugh little bit of trivialities for you presently. Do you know that when you move into WordPress, only a vanilla model of WordPress presently, and in a submit or web page, when you sort a pound signal after which textual content, it is going to mechanically create a link, functionally a hashtag, that searches your website for different hashtags.
So if I typed on my weblog submit, “Hi there, nowadays I’ve. #ChrisMessina at the display nowadays. What questions do you have got?” And when you put up that and click on on that, it’s now a clickable hyperlink. Do you know that that exists?
Chris Messina: I used to be now not conscious about that. So thanks for letting me know.
Document Pop: I imply, it’s roughly all over now. And this in fact does convey me a bit bit again to this concept of discoverability and connectivity. We’ve mentioned ActivityStreams, which you labored on and it used to be the predecessor to ActivityPub. I’m questioning if perhaps the best way that this works, internet hyperlinks get a, I don’t know why, they get a nasty recognition, however other folks all the time say internet hyperlinks after which they giggle.
And I’m questioning if we’re going again to this period the place perhaps the usage of this capability, proper, this hashtag capability or any form of tags, perhaps my website, my WordPress website may federate with different websites, proper? Perhaps I’m simply sounding like I’m looking to sound sensible or one thing right here, however like, perhaps I may make a choice to federate with different websites.
And while you click on on a tag on my website about cooking or about Christmas or about no matter, it might in fact display you mainly a internet hyperlink seek end result. Do you suppose that is one thing that’s helpful and that would possibly assist stay websites hooked up? Or is that this the fallacious route to be pondering presently?
Chris Messina: No, I believe that’s a perfect concept. And let me give an explanation for why the aim of the hashtag after I proposed it the entire long ago in 2007, once more, , Twitter got here out in 2006. The iPhone got here out in January of 2007. And having long past to South via Southwest in March of 2007, , the place some other folks had iPhones, however most of the people didn’t, we have been the usage of Twitter as an actual time community for locating out what used to be occurring and the place to visit to find folks and to catch up with them.
And there used to be a backlash from individuals who weren’t at South via Southwest, mainly pronouncing, we’re getting a majority of these unsolicited mail textual content messages—as a result of Twitter used to be a textual content message provider again then—despatched to our telephones in any respect hours of evening whilst you guys are out getting wasted in Austin, , how will we filter your whole silly tweets?
There have been quite a few other answers that can have labored. One in every of them that I used to be looking to suggest used to be neatly, I wasn’t proposing this, however there used to be a proposal that perhaps Twitter must have teams, , roughly like information teams. And so that you’d create a bunch after which you want to make a choice who’s within the crew and who’s now not within the crew.
And , it will paintings roughly like Flickr teams and as a textual content messaging-based provider, I used to be like, that’s now not going to paintings. Like, I must be at a bar inebriated and , understand how to make use of regardless of the crew capability is right here. And so it simply passed off to me that lets use IRC taste prefix, like hashtag prefix, after which phrase. And that would create what I name the tag channel. And in order that’s roughly the place the unique concept got here from. It used to be undoubtedly impressed via IRC, nevertheless it used to be constructed for cell social networking. And so the primary actual use case used to be in fact for the Bar Camp group, which I discussed prior to, and that used to be for us to seek out each and every different.
And in order that used to be an early, small, relative dispensed or decentralized ecosystem of occasions that have been going down in all places the arena, , with perhaps hundreds of other folks, , now not masses of hundreds or tens of millions of other folks. So that you can your level, I do suppose that there’s a possibility at some point the place there are a selection of ActivityPub compliant servers, some WordPress, some Mastodon, perhaps even Threads, which are emitting actions and in the ones actions, you’ll use hashtags as some way of coordinating process between those decentralized actors. I’ve been having this argument in large part with Meta about Threads’ loss of use of hashtags.
If truth be told, they withstand them, even if they use the hashtag image to create those tags and so they name them matter tags. I name them Franken tags. It’s wonderful. So simply in the best way that you’ll create a tag in a submit, like you’ll in WordPress, you’ll create a tag on Threads. Then again, Threads will take away the pound image prefix, and so it’s very onerous for downstream. I’m going to turn you ways to try this in only a 2nd, however first, let me display you learn how to upload a tag.
So in terms of Bar Camp, just like the prefix of the pound image is in fact necessary. It’s a signifier to everybody else who’s in your federated community to make use of the similar image to speak about the similar form of tournament. The purpose is you’ll get a hold of no matter arbitrary tags you need to make use of. After which, when you use hashtags, that in fact creates extra freedom and extra talent to decentralize and also have coherent conversations.
In order that’s why what you’re pronouncing is strictly the purpose of hashtags and why I’ve been combating for them for many of my occupation, as a result of other folks misunderstand. The coordinating price of the tags, like the entire proceedings about hashtags are rather legitimate from a purely aesthetic standpoint. Folks say they’re too unsightly or like other folks use too a lot of them. They abuse them or they use inappropriate ones. The ones issues are all true, however that has to do with the conduct, now not the era. So after we take into accounts this implemented to, I desire the social internet over Fediverse. However when you communicate concerning the Fediverse, hashtags are an intrinsically helpful strategy to permit other folks to run to the sides of the web and to building up their very own little outposts and but keep hooked up via those form of provider pigeon messages that move pollinate throughout all of the community.
And I believe hashtags is a strategy to stitch all the ones issues up. Similar to while you discussed any individual, , you have got an id for an individual that lives at a website, a hashtag in fact is a world identifier that works throughout all of the social internet.
Document Pop: That’s neatly put. And I in fact even discovered as I used to be describing that to you, I used to be nonetheless pondering beautiful oldschool, beautiful myopic. If I wrote submit on my WordPress weblog and I incorporated a hashtag on there, other folks couldn’t click on on it and perhaps see folks in my federated global, however perhaps additionally they’d have a tab that presentations folks they observe that discussed that very same factor, and that would come with different WordPress blogs as neatly.
In order that, wow, that truly blows your thoughts. It’s now not simply me connecting to my pals, but additionally my fans.
Chris Messina: Glance, I imply, the entire concept is that it’s a strategy to slice via quite a few other contexts and to convey in combination a dialog the place you select. It’s now not precisely moderation, however the place you select what’s inbounds and what’s out of bounds, proper? So if I wish to see Document Pop’s pals and what they’re speaking about, this hashtag that I’ve by no means noticed prior to, and all of sudden it explodes this dialog about one thing that I’m in fact fascinated with. That’s tremendous treasured. That’s an excellent discovery software that nobody needed to create.
You don’t must sign in or take a look at in with some authority and they may be able to’t close you down, proper? And if other folks get started spamming the tag, that’s now not a large deal since you don’t observe them. proper?
So there’s a self therapeutic facet of the Fediverse that I believe we’ve misplaced and that’s price combating for. And prefer, clearly I’m biased, however I believe hashtags are very and must be used so to re-enfranchise other folks once they wish to hook up with networks which are off of the mainstream form of, , mall-based social networks.
Document Pop: And on that notice, Chris, what’s the best possible position for other folks to observe you on-line presently?
Chris Messina: So you’ll all the time get to my website online. Chris Messina dot me. I’m within the procedure redoing it, however , we’ll see. After which I’m additionally in fact on Threads. So, you’ll to find me, at threads.internet/@Chris. I’ve left X slash Twitter, so the ones are the 2 puts the place I’m maximum lively at the moment.
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