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by Lws803 4y ago
This project started out as a joke where I needed a motivational bot to help me hit the gym Now that ChatGPT's APIs are released, this is finally looking more realistic. GigaChadGPT uses ChatGPT under the hood with some "clever&q
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Soul: A Blogging Platform with Uncensorable Posts and Direct Writer Support
3 points by Lws803 4y ago|0 comments
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by Lws803 4y ago
Best to remain neutral IMO and focus on building the tools for both sides irregardless of your own personal political stance. I really like the approach taken by instant messaging platforms, particularly Signal's approach of being e2e
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by Lws803 4y ago
That might be a possibility (it's not supported now though, we're still really really early stage) but I'm not opposed to that suggestion. This would work well if your network is pretty established already and folks trust you
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by Lws803 4y ago
It kinda does actually, I'd say this gives you an experience close to having a Facebook with groups but each of these groups are self managed and self hosted in whatever way you want. You still end up having a single account at the end
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by Lws803 4y ago
> Centralizing the decentralized... what's old is new again? haha you're not wrong, but imo this is a critical part to centralize though. I haven't seen an easy to use (wallet not required) and trusted solution yet for dec
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by Lws803 4y ago
Hmm not sure if I'm getting this right, do you mean white labelling Soul's authentication? To allow for rebranding?
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by Lws803 4y ago
We'll need to have better validation in place for sure, that's a good suggestion though. It's tricky to moderate for bots while not limiting a user's freedom of expression. Maybe in the future, we can have some kind of v
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by Lws803 4y ago
That is right :) one credential / account for all instances, we function as third party OAuth provider, it's possible to integrate as long as your platform can integrate allows authenticating through OAuth. We offer a few other fe
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by Lws803 4y ago
It is a challenging position to be in for sure but I want to fight for freedom of speech and democratizing social media. If no one does anything nothing would change. Its takes 100 failures to make a pivotal change may soul could be that tr
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by Lws803 4y ago
That's a really good question, yes it can but we can remain impartial as we have no visibility to content or anything our users do. Platforms can still ban users on their side or through our API but that would not limit our users from
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Democratizing social media, with the freedom of moving around platforms freely(soul-network.com)
50 points by Lws803 4y ago|78 comments
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by Lws803 4y ago
"With Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, I began to question if transferring ownership of a centralized platform to another is really the solution to true freedom of speech. Mastodon was a platform that came to mind where each instance i