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://
fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon – which may not be quite as slick and usable as Twitter, but it's close enough!
DECENTRALIZED AI
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Creator Moves to Decentralized Platform After 16 Years on Twitter
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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!
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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