gordon.bsky.social
Everything around me was someone’s lifework.
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Ethiopia all in on electric. Let’s gooooo. bsky.app/profile/just...
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what if decentralization… but simple,,,
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very cool
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Thanks! I'll reach out.
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bet that functions and plain old data are lindy (but who knows with LLMs writing most of the code going forward)
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save us page transitions page transitions save us
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Yeah that’s what I mean. The threat of antitrust is no longer imminent. Also the threat of Mastodon taking mainstream market share is no longer imminent.
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“The pressures that drive evolution therefore represent a genuine double bind. And there is truly no escape: ‘It always happens.’ No species can escape natural selection, including our own.”
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The extra stuff can obscure the critical ideas that make relay architecture so good (user-controlled keys, dumb trustless servers), so I think Nostr makes the better case study, but I expect they’ll both evolve rhyming solutions for the “stuff on top” given time.
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Bluesky shares a similar arch but has additional domain-specific concepts. In prod you end up wanting to layer more concepts on top (key rotation, discovery, etc). Nostr leaves these as an exercise for the community while ATProto brings more opinions.
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I think it’s useful to see Nostr as a model organism for the relay architecture. It’s the simplest thing that could possibly work.
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never got pricing figured out
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power laws rule everything around me
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Another angle to this: I think LLMs help low-knowledge coders become high-knowledge coders more quickly, because there are fewer difficulty cliffs in the learning journey
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👀
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paging @kasey.bsky.social
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Key rotation verification is the killer feature. With did:web, you can’t prove a key was valid in the past. With did:webvh’s did.jsonl log, every verification method change is signed and chained. Critical for compliance, long-term signatures, and forensics.
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inheritance and exceptions are both pretty strange when you step back and look at them with beginner’s mind
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A bit obscure, but miles better than the options we had available when building Subconscious (show seed mnemonic on signup... beg user to save it). User-controlled key flows are getting smoother. Easy to see how they could become simpler than passwords.
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Great signup flow. Passkeys really change the game.
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paul secretly a semweb advocate: confirmed
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and thus base58btc was born
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It's cool how you can just version the context along with the code. bsky.app/profile/forr...