I'm keeping a close eye on https://
github.com/andrewgodwin/t
akahe
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DECENTRALIZED AI
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Takahe: Open Source Decentralized Social Protocol Project
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Lightweight Mastodon-compatible blogging software for static hosting
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I'm really hoping we can get some much more lightweight Mastodon-compatible blogging software working – there are WordPress plugins and suchlike, but something more compatible with static hosting and a bit of serverless function magic would be fantastic
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Running Independent AI Instances On Your Own Domain
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I like that if I lose trust in them or they vanish for some reason I can fire up a new instance on my own domain name and keep on running
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Mastodon’s Safety-First Design Built by Underrepresented Communities
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Mastodon was built by sensible, thoughtful people, many from underrepresented communities who had very clear needs around safety and moderation – they've put a lot of careful work into that, and the community there continues to invest in it I'm optimistic!
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Creator Moves to Decentralized Platform After 16 Years on Twitter
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I invested 16 years in producing content for Twitter, I'm extremely uninterested in putting that kind of work into a platform that I don't own in the future Hence https://
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Content Creators Trust Platform Decentralization Risk
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In this particular case I think the group that matters most isn't the majority of end-users, it's the much smaller group of people who produce the majority of the content – and who really will think hard about what platform they trust most not to rug-pull them in the future
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Decentralized Social Networks: The Feature That Matters Most
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I ignored Mastodon for 6 years because I knew that decentralized social networks could never be as low friction and easy to use as something like Twitter … but they also can't be bought by a billionaire narcissist, and it turns out that might be the feature that matters most!
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Fediverse as Twitter Alternative: Decentralized Future Trust
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I'm honestly having trouble imagining a viable future Twitter alternative that isn't part of the fediverse (Mastodon is currently just the most visible implementation) Are we really all going to trust some new centralized startup, after how badly we got burned on Twitter?
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Crypto Centralized, AI Decentralized: Thiel’s Prediction Reversed
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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://
stratechery.com/2022/narrative
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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!