charlieok.com
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I think Windows has had a big direnv-shaped gap for a while. A few projects have aimed at it but they're not nearly at the same level. I just found mise while looking for such a tool.
So, it could be at least partly because you're solving a real pain point on Windows!
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If an effort by currently powerful bad actors succeeds in corrupting Wikipedia, this would show up in the record of edits on articles. These edit records would themselves become a fascinating historical artifact for future generations.
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Each day is “what the left/right are saying” segments (exactly what one would want from a political news summary) followed by “my take” where the site founder makes a good faith effort to sort it out.
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"But a single leader is needed to execute quickly in a crisis and cut through gridlock", you may be thinking.
And that would have been a compelling objection, a decade ago.
After all the news in more recent times, I'm pretty sure the benefits of such a change outweigh the risks.
Decentralize!
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National elections for the most powerful cabinet positions (e.g. SecDef, Attorney General, SecState, Treasury), select the rest some other way (e.g. have congressional committees pick them).
We could dispense with the drama & concentration of power that comes with having a single person at the top.
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I could imagine that if they did publish the 'discover' algorithm, it'd be endlessly gamed.
But, having a plethora of feeds makes it a non-issue I think. I've already made/found lots of feeds that I prefer over 'discover', and hopefully most other users have as well.
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Yeah, there are a lot of interesting gaps in decentralized social that one could aim for.
Think cryptographically sound implementations of any/every popular feature on big social media platforms. (direct messages, large groups, media streaming, etc)
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heh just saw Ira's link to his "Follow Topics" request right after posting this
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This suggests public vs private use cases
Public: "ah, here are Jake's different feeds. I'll include his engineering thoughts in my devops list, and his UX posts in my UX list" etc
Private: "I don't want this linked to my other identities, so keep it totally separate"
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Makes me wonder what might be done to prove something has or hasn’t been backdated…
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Learning to recognize and discount this stuff is increasingly a basic skill for getting around in the world, like learning which rules and social norms are more important or relevant.
It used to apply mostly when surfing the talk radio dial. Now it's almost any online space.
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I'm assuming there's no mechanism that tracks times that handles changed, and uses that to help resolve links pointing to posts pre-handle-change, but maybe there is?
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This has the interesting side effect that a handle would move from one account to another.
If you are linking via url to an account or post, you could choose to use the DID rather than the handle to make your link more resilient to changes in the handle.
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I think of the quote from Theodore Roosevelt that "It is not the critic who counts". The credibility to be taken seriously as a critic is earned, in large part, by jumping into the arena!
www.trcp.org/2011/01/18/i...
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Energy spent on arguing that a social network that's designed for decentralization isn't decentralized enough would be better spent on actually building and operating one's own piece of it.
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This is such a common playbook now — it’s what Facebook did when they started — that it’d be surprising if they *didn’t* do it.
Here in 2024 we have some new words for it…
I like to hope that people will be more aware by now that this is the expected playbook.
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I think that was related to having good hardware. Monitors were so limited in terms of pixels and colors. It made a big difference to have a good video card and a big monitor and lots of resolution.
Once you got that hardware, the software seemed plain, like it wasn't taking proper advantage of it.
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he's been known for connecting decentralized social servers, particularly in ways that circumvent intentional blocks ("adversarial interoperability"), for a while...
fediversereport.com/last-week-in...
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When mastodon took off after Elon bought twitter, I thought that was a lightning in a bottle moment that would be really hard to replicate -- that that was our big chance to get on decentralized social.
Really cool to see how your team further improved on the model.
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The really surprising thing about this kind of social app when it first arrived, to me at least, was that there would be big audiences for people's private thoughts. Thousands or even millions of people would in fact click to subscribe to them!
We knew there'd be bad stuff and we subscribed anyway.
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Reminds me of facebook's app platform release in 2007, letting 3rd party apps use their social graph.
Some early apps with viral engagement loops spread like wildfire and got millions of users until the space saturated.
Incentives are hopefully better with the feed control users have on atproto...
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This makes me wonder if we might see alternative clients that don’t hide stuff from the blockee.
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hmm yappy takes some very strong laissez faire positions on moderation in this thread, then blocks me for, I guess, not agreeing that the moderators are overzealous?
So I guess yappy wants minimal moderation and also has a hair trigger on blocking 😲
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it's literally the bedrock principle of the architecture of the network we're communicating over right now
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There's always the option of hosting stuff yourself if you don't like another party's decisions about what they will or won't host ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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That also makes sense to me
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There is definitely a layer that they'll remove outright. My understanding was that this is for things they can't host for legal reasons. e.g. CSAM. That makes sense.
Once out of legally-problematic territory, the "stackable moderation" using labels was, I assumed, the way it's done.
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I thought they do remove as little as possible and handle the rest with labels, but their client is locked into using the Bluesky moderation service’s labels.
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here's a use of "self-coup" from a couple years ago by @gtconway.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com in reference to Trump
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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when you see an account that does good US commentary, throw it into a 'US' list
when you see an account that does good global commentary, throw it into a 'global' list
etc
view a list in main client for a chronological feed, immediately
3rd party apps like Graze build 'trending' feeds from lists