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It lets you store long-form blogpost type writing to your bluesky account.

He hated that bluesky came down on the side of "well actually we WILL ban a user that puts the n-word in their username."

Composable Trust, Part 2: Separating Trust from Governance ”Who belongs” and “What belonging means” are different questions. What happens if one steward stops answering both?

In Part 2:

To enable credible exit, ATproto deconstructed the “Platform” into independent layers with bounded authority.

Yet in online communities, a single steward necessarily becomes a single point of failure.

How can we deconstruct the *community* Atmospherically? What happens if we do?

same.

The question is how to make the tech flexible enough to make the various social solutions people might want ro use possible.

And like. I dunno a ton of law but doing this kind of thing without consent seems... super illegal? Like. None of the arguments for the legality of LLM training apply here.

...but keeping them from being anchored to a space and making credible exit viable should the authorities turn against the community is important with more complex commuity structures.

I actually think it's kind of okay for lists/feeds/labellers to be centralizing forces because community is inherently centralizing.

Which I think is a compelling proposal as the atmosphere encompasses more apps.

really good stuff in here

I don't think so. The WIRED piece may have been a smear job but the facts are pretty damning, in that I think agreeing to do PR for fucking DoNotPay, the AI lawyer company, is sketchy as all hell. So either he's a liar or his sketch detection is incredibly screwy.

OwO.

Fuck that's a really good idea.

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And he didn't even agree to the TOS.

I reread the watch books recently and the shift from Night Watch to Thud was stark. The entire book is drenched in incredible atmosphere.

(I mean that's not to detract from Night Watch, which is an easy top 5 discworld book for most fans, but it's doing something very different)

I say this as the proud owner of ---.leaflet.pub.

And the regex to validate them isn't too painful (although you do technically have to sneak a length check in there to avoid a lookahead assert and sometimes people forget the special rules about the first and last characters of a segment)

You just said it couldn't do anything new and then said it's entirely novelty?

If you're trying to say that it has zero useful real world applications... I'm sorry, but you are just objectively factually incorrect. For good or ill, people are getting real work out of these things.

The stories I've heard about early twitter don't paint him in a particularly flattering light either.

(Like, a revisionist framing on Jack's part to be clear)

IIRC he left as a direct response to bluesky doing, like, real moderation rather than just the bare minimum. Or at least that's what I remember him saying at the time. So this seems like a bit of a revisionist framing? I dunno.

I am evaluating usefulness, not novelty.

I mean Kalanick was a real piece of work across the board so I'm pretty sure any robin-hoodery was entirely accidental.

They can negatively impact people prone to psychosis and that's a concern worth taking seriously, but no, AI does not "rot your brain." The study you are probably referencing was questionable in its methodology and never even made the claim that AI rots your brain to begin with.

"You can thoughtlessly generate code without even looking at it" does not imply that everyone who uses AI does/will do that! I don't think "all AI use is a slippery slope to vibecoding" makes sense!

No this is 100% correct. Like, even when you explain that not all AI assistance in programming implies "vibe coding" as originally defined and you can be more thoughtful about it, people will just be like. "no."

The fact that atproto devs broadly seem to think the average user's problems are worth solving is a big part of why I'm here and not on the fediverse!

The thing that makes me optimistic is that the dev community feels pretty aligned on making credible exit more accessible to the average user and agrees it's a problem worth addressing.

Well yes. But if normal nontechnical users get screwed we all suffer. Ask not for whom the bell tolls etc etc.