added to my @DXTipsHQ list of top OSS pitches. please keep sharing if you think of any others!
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Mastodon: Decentralized Platform for AI Community Discussion
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I can't make a personal recommendation, but https://
federation.spacebear.ee/software/masto
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1000x Programmers: Infinite Leverage in Idea Space
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See John Carmack, Notch, Satoshi Nakamoto, Vitalik Buterin, George Hotz, etc. for example of 1,000x programmers. It’s idea space and the leverage is infinite.
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Datasette Desktop Tool for Data Exploration and Publishing
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This is one of the things I've been building @datasetteproj to help with – there's a Mac desktop version at https://
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Mastodon Open Source: Server Liability and Community Support
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Mastodon is open source software you can run on your own hardware, so no they don't do anything to take on liability for you The good news is that many of the people who DO run servers have 20+ years of internet community experience and share advice with each other generously
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DMCA Takedown Requests Community Mastodon Server Legal Guide
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Required reading if you're running a community Mastodon server that might be hit by DMCA takedown requests https://
x.com/rahaeli/status
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Mastodon’s Decentralized Model: Economics Without Ads or VC Funding
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That's the fascinating thing about Mastodon though: sure, having everyone join the same couple of suggested servers would improve the onboarding UX no end… but it would make those services prohibitively expensive to operate – and there are no ads and no VCs funding it
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Building AI Together Without Profit Incentives
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And remember, the most radical thing about this is that there's no profit motive to get you on board Saying "if you want us to join you gotta make it smoother" isn't the killer argument it would be if this was a VC funded startup We genuinely get to build this one together
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Decentralized Systems: Avoiding Centralization Risks in AI
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The challenge here is that centralized systems will ALWAYS have a usability advantage. The cost of that is that they can be bought, and ruined We gotta put a bit of extra work in if we want to avoid that happening to us again in the future
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Mastodon API Hackability Versus Twitter’s Restrictive Approach
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I'm finding the hackability of the Mastodon ecosystem _extremely_ beguiling – Twitter's API increasingly felt like I'd get in trouble if I did anything particularly interesting with it