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Darius is great! I love to see that recommended. One of my favorite visions for the future of the internet, Zach Mandeville's modular essay The Future Will be Technical: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.computer/ Here are two I found several days ago, but that I am still finding amusing today. http://coolguy.website/ http://leonbambrick.com/ Please share your personal page links, too. Even if this list becomes long, that's okay. I will look at it.

> 1. ... For distributed systems there are more ways to exploit the APIs and gather data on users. However there is no global state, users only push-pull feeds of friends and friends of friends. (In part for privacy and in part for performance, you don't need to carry all the data for a social network to be useful) > 3. GDPR compliance about deleting data is almost impossible in a distributed system. However that doesn't apply to individuals that aren't providing a public service. > 4. ... Open source software and distributed software tends to be much harder to use. Yes, however there has been some exiting discussion around what UX could become possible in a decentralized context. See https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/ > 5. Any future concern/issue will be much harder to resolve if there are thousands of different instance running decentralized social networks. There are no instances, only peers. (Pubs are sort of easy to connect to peers and there is work being done on peer discovery to outdate most pubs; they could still be used to connect communits around topics, hobbies, etc as a way to reduce the distance between peers) > 6. Using AI to detect abusive content or spot fake news is much harder if you only have a subset of the data. There is no retweeting/sharing, though there is work being done on Out of Order Messaging to propagate a single message along the follow graph and there is work being done on flagging/tagging feeds/ids and…

Something related: https://coolguy.website/the-future-will-be-technical/

IMO scuttlebutt's mood can be summed up by https://coolguy.website/the-future-will-be-technical/

https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/dinner-pa… This may or may not be related, because I'm finding it difficult to parse your comment.

Reminds me of the Scuttlebutt culture docs, which I found recently: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/modern-de…

If you want to check out the deep end, here's some writing which captures some of the _vibe_ of the community building this sociotechnical space https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/index.htm…

> FB has such deep roots into their lives, giving it up would have a huge effect on their lives Then our task is to persuade them that the huge effect would be positive! This reads like an episode of Black Mirror, only scarier because it's not science fiction: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/present-d…

Dovetales with two other writings I've seen posted here (on opposite ends of the spectrum): "The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods" by Douglass Rushkoff [1] and "The Future Will Be Technical" by Zach Mandeville[2]. To me, the overarching thrust is that our hopes lie in a socioeconomic mandate to be individually capable of self-suffiency and contribution to the community, at the same time, because this is part and parcel of the atomic element of citizenship: the informed vote. I will say that I'm not holding out much hope. Beyond the corporate-human cold war that defines much of our lives, the contentiousness of a recent HN post about home-schooling is convincing evidence that many don't want self-sufficiency or community, an informed public or the means to take a stake in public life. They just want... bots. Whether that be their own children or the masses that will serve them in their pods. [1]:https://onezero.medium.com/the-privileged-have-entered-their-escape-po… [2]https://coolguy.website/the-future-will-be-technical/

I have been using patchwork[1] as my main social network client for scuttlebutt. In my current experience, the fact that messages are not removable makes me more careful when writing and has led to much better and more meaningful interactions on the network. Also remember that a message being in the feed doesn't mean it is displayed. Scuttlebutt is quite flexible, there are clients that have support for "chess messages" so their users can play chess, patchwork doesn't support those messages so I don't even see them. There is git-ssb[2] which allows people to host and contribute to code directly inside the feed, not all clients show these messages but they are all there. New messages could be added for flagging a message id as deleted and clients could honor them and not display that message anymore, they would still be on the feed, much like in version control systems we still have access to deleted files (if no one rewrites history). I enjoy how permanent things are there because as a side-effect it causes people to care more about the ecosystem and culture as those are permanent stuff you're putting out there. Check out this essay "the future will be technical"[3] about the culture on scuttlebutt, you'll see it is quite different than other social networks, but I agree with you, your experience may vary and what I consider an advantage, others may see as a reason not to use. [1]: https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/ [2]: https://github.com/noffle/git-ssb-intro [3]:…