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by npunt 3y ago
Yeah custom TLs have a lot of promise and might be the most interesting feature among all the clones. It's a big ask to (new) users to curate our experience and having turnkey options could really make it easy to get the specific type
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No this feature by itself isn't something to attract people to a brand new social network, I hope I didn't represent it that way. My perspective on the problem is that the way twitter's medium is designed doesn't produce
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I'm of the opinion there aren't a lot of good alternative ideas circulating. There's been some work in a design pattern libraries but it's hard to design new features from the outside, and I don't think until very r
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At least for me, I've spent the last ~3 years designing new feature ideas for twitter and twitter-like products as a hobby and been involved in various communities working on these issues. Ways to improve quality of comments, reduce co
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Too early to tell about momentum tbh. Getting networks to collectively move takes time. From a protocol level I think Bluesky probably has opportunity for better UX than Mastodon, which is incredibly clunky when taking actions cross-server.
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Twitter clones thus far have all been cover bands with a different (speaker) stack. Focus seems to be entirely on the backend protocol side - important for decentralization but fixing only part of the problem. I haven't seen much in th
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That's like 7 patents, not sure it's particularly impressive from a tech patent portfolio perspective unless a few of them are real bangers, and/or Figma is known to be litigious which I don't think they are?
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This is not self-evident. Biology is extremely complex and we have a lot left to learn before we can make definitive statements about safety. This idea of 'you can be sure we'd hear about it' places too much of the burden on
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Well there'd be a transition phase and an honoring of existing contracts to some extent but the way to do it would be to slow roll the release of customer ISA updates or stop providing ISA updates altogether, e.g. anything past ARMv9.4
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Well antitrust is basically what stopped the deal from happening [1]. If they had gone through with the deal and done this strategy I imagine it would have been a slow 5-10 year shift, not an immediate action. > The main concern among re
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Nvidia could have shifted the model by firing the customers and bringing things in-house. That'd involve phasing out ARM licensees and buying up leading node fab capacity to manufacture their own stuff. If they pulled that off, that Nv
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Can we take a moment to respect the poetry of their respective names: Solal is shining light on Shadi's practices. Sun and Shade. :chefs kiss:
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Interesting! Within almost every truth there lurks a valid but ultimately very minor counter-point. Sorta a tangent here, but it's annoying that this is the very thing that causes people biased to not believe to latch onto as evidence
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always great hearing your perspective on the notion text engine jake, thanks for taking the time to explain everything!
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I quite like this as an exercise in thinking a bit differently about writing. Something missing though is examples - I'd love to see a few raw and final pieces to see how to use it in practice, as well as expanding on the specific reco
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What you describe is price, not value. Things may be priced high but have little value, such as in cases of asset speculation. Things can be priced low but have great value, such as the value of human relationships, knowledge, etc. I think
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Not to be too cheeky here but paying with what? Cryptocurrencies are mostly hot potatoes everyone is throwing back and forth and occasionally dropping to catastrophic effect, and don't seem to be tied to actual value add. Meanwhile mil
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Crypto requires explanation, AI merely demonstration. The only demonstration crypto has is 'look, more money today' and that only works sometimes. AI's demonstration is followed by explanation of how it will kill us all, or w
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Agree. Instances are well-suited to smaller communities of people, but the idea of a broader town square with people that are sufficiently different from us I think requires rethinking the medium a bit. What we have doesn't cut it, and
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Yeah the behavior of instance blocking is an inevitability for these systems. This creates the conditions for those nearer to or already at the extremes to self-select out of the mainstream by choosing to join already radicalized networks.
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I might frame it slightly differently: while we have built a federated medium for sending and viewing messages, we have not yet figured out the right conventions for how to run it so it becomes a thriving community. Those conventions are
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While I agree that ideological reasons will exist in any medium, I think you're proposing an equivalence between the solutions that is made up. Only people with 100% ideological bent will take the actions you suggest; the rest are like
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13" Macbook Pro had M2 not M2 Pro
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Where I think we agree is that cars mostly suck for cities, and cars that get self-driving tech tacked onto them doesn't solve most of the fundamental issues with cars as we know them today. I think the question here is what is a pract
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The main point of the Tyranny of Structurelessness is not to approach governance of groups of people with naiveté because power exists whether or not it is acknowledged. The argument I am making is that there is benefit to having social uni
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You are just scratching the surface on something very big here. Media filtering is going to define the AI era and shape our every experience.
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there are a lot of ways things could go
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Sort of, but the communities you're describing have a lot more likelihood of being stuck in the place they are. Stuck means less likelihood of people finding the right place for them, because they have less to choose from. Better autom
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Sorry can you be more specific? Humans have lived on and off in community structures throughout history, we evolved as social creatures in these structures. We're proximally further away from these structures in the present time, which
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Think smaller. Trains are enormous, costly, and extremely inflexible to changes in demand. Have you ever seen a train car small enough to only carry a single person? The existence of 4000lb cars and 200000lb trains is because we lacked the

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