Peter Thiel Was Wrong: @benthompson points out that crypto has turned out more centralized, and AI more decentralized, than anyone expected. The Internet is ultimately a "free corpus", compared to the rigidity of the blockchain. https://
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DECENTRALIZED AI
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Crypto Centralized, AI Decentralized: Thiel’s Prediction Reversed
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Weird Bots Flourish on Decentralized Mastodon Platform
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Mastodon is an even better substrate for weird bots, because you don't need to ask for forgiveness or permission to get them up and running May a million weird bots flourish!
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Mastodon Adoption Growing as Users Consider Decentralized Platform
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Okay, if y'all are still Mastodon-ing by next Friday, I'll join ya @joinmastodon
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Building Private Search Engine for Federated Mastodon Content
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There are cultural reasons that building global search against all Mastodon is unlikely to happen, but I've been playing with ingesting all of the federated content on my local instance into my own private search engine and that looks like it should work really well
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Mastodon Architecture: Decentralized Server Communication and Data Sharing
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The UI is nothing like Google Reader, but the way it works under the hood is – your Mastodon server is constantly communicating with other hosts to get the latest updates, and sharing the workload of fetching that data for all of the other users on the same server
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Federated Networks as Leaky Abstractions: Design Challenges
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I think it really suffers from being a leaky abstraction – it's pretending to be a single thing like Twitter, but the boundaries between servers mean it actually works in all sorts of surprising things ways
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Decentralized AI Systems: Cost Considerations and Trade-offs
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A decentralized system will always be more expensive than a centralized one – that's why stuff always seems to naturally centralize over time So I'm ready for it to cost a bit more – my Q is if it will cost an /unreasonable/ amount more At least it's not crypto proof of work!
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Efficient ActivityPub implementations with Python asyncio and Rust
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Yeah I genuinely do worry about that I'm looking forward to more efficient ActivityPub implementations – stuff like Python asyncio on top of SQLite could use a lot less resources than Sidekiq non-async workers and PostgreSQL – or move the noisy bits directly to Go or Rust
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Open Source AI Platform Benefits Over Corporate Control
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Downside: rough around the edges. Bumpy learning curve. Upside: absolutely no chance of being bought and ruined by a narcissistic billionaire Until a week ago I thought the downsides outweighed the upsides – I have now been convinced otherwise!
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Running Your Own Server for Complete Control
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That's one of the reasons I'm running my own server! Then at least if a rando gets bored and shuts it down that rando will be me