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xkcd 927 but instead of another standard, another vibe-coded discord clone. I say this as someone building a discord clone ( https://flotilla.social )

These people are an opportunity for the rest of us to be better people, to show compassion and mercy. They are not worthless to the rest of society. Giving them LLM companions says…

The thing is, individual moderation isn't sufficient to combat collective capture. This is Ivan Illich's idea of "radical monopoly", where a technology (like cars or the internet) …

Yes, but design nudges use in one direction or another. Or, as McLuhan said, "the medium is the message."

I don't know the answer. But a robotic voice is probably not a bad idea — just having a reminder that the thing you're talking to is not actually anything like you. If you want to …

Right, I think the challenge is that LLMs are essentially language-based, which is itself a very convenient interface. Covering the maximally humanistic default interface with some…

This is actually not a bad option

This is the opposite direction AI should be going. Human relationships are the most valuable thing we have, and so, naturally, technology seeks to intermediate and now replace them…

Time to coin a new term, I think: "openwashing". Europe is adopting open source and open protocols, not to promote individual sovereignty, but explicitly to protect European sovere…

I have been telling people lately that I feel like I'm losing my mind. And I'm not even someone who has leaned into AI coding that much either; I've just tried to learn the tools s…

Do github, gitea, and gitlab not?

Sounds like a misconfigured repository. Try for example https://gitworkshop.dev/danconwaydev.com/relay.ngit.dev/ngit...

It's all open source, hosted on nostr itself. See the creator's profile for all related repos: https://gitworkshop.dev/danconwaydev.com

I don't know how new Tangled is, but there is a fairly mature github alternative being built on Nostr: https://gitworkshop.dev/ The basic idea is that you can put your repository o…

Yeah, any time you need either an index or a caching layer you have to re-centralize one way or another. But decoupling those "services" from the data storage itself helps, and cre…

That's what decentralization looks like. You might also try: nostr.com nostr.how nostr.net nostrich.love nostrhub.io usenostr.org And of course https://github.com/nostr-protocol/no…

Getting clients to do the right thing is like herding cats, but there has been some progress. Early 2023 Mike Dilger came up with the "gossip model" (renamed "outbox model" for obv…

probably not

1000x redundancy makes it vanishingly unlikely. Although I know we're due for a pole shift so all bets are off I suppose.

nostr never goes down

Is it open source? This is a cool idea, but I'm pretty sure it's probably just a thin wrapper around claude. I also couldn't install it on my headless dev box because it relies on …

Why is no one talking about using zero knowledge proofs for solving this? Instead of every platform verifying all its users itself (and storing PII on its own servers), a small num…

If you're looking for an alternative, I'm building flotilla.social, a self-hostable chat app built on nostr, which uses cryptographic identities to prevent identity capture.

FOSS, optionally self-hosted alternative built on nostr: https://flotilla.social/

In contrast with Roomy, Discord does provide for non-public community spaces. https://itsfoss.com/roomy-discord-alternative/