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Really feel this. Along with group chat (irc), GitHub is the best form of social networking I’ve ever experienced. It’s how my co-founder and I first connected some 6-7 years ago. It’s the real LinkedIn for devs, where the posting activity is the work itself, rather than posting about the work. A truly magical place, while it lasted.
Bluetooth works most reliably across all devices (within its limited range), but all these p2p apps are indeed moving towards multi-transport support to diversify and widen the connectivity grid: https://hackmd.io/@grjte/bitchat-wifi-aware
For a fairly advanced example project I can recommend looking at Quickslice, a dev toolkit for making AT protocol applications.
I use Voyager, a client for Lemmy, on a daily basis and it’s my favorite mobile (iPad) app. Voyager is the spiritual successor to the Apollo client for Reddit.
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
The app uses Ionic’s Capacitor, which to my rudimentary understanding is the webview-based upgrade of Cordova. I’ve had far fewer issues with this app than the likes of Bluesky (react native) and Discord (I think also react native but not sure).
The webview approach seems to be the only way for a one-person team to feasible provide a cross-platform app with an app-store presence. Another promising alternative to Capacitor is Tauri Mobile which does essentially the same thing, but mobile doesn’t seem to be a high priority for them.
See this response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480884
Aka: I agree it can’t be dine with technology; it has to be done with regulation, and the EU example already models a lot of it.
The moment you create/share data with a site, what's to prevent them from reselling it?
If I can clearly assert origin and personal ownership of my data, I can forbid further reselling of it.
EU legislation shows that we can actually have the right to demand that a company forgets about us. Asserting such rights become easier the more accurately we define what data is ours.
This is demonstrably not fantasy as the example case is a fully productionized network (Bluesky and the rest of AT-net) that’s having real-world impact to the point where it’s under threat from several authoritarian states.
It doesn’t really rely absolutely on domain names; at the very root there’s just a DID. DNS happens to be the best we’ve got right now as a human-readable username and address in-one goes.
We can work to make DNS /ICANN et.al. more democratically operated and people-owned while at the same time devising wholly alternate paradigms like Handshake and similar: https://blog.webb.page/2025-08-21-dap-the-handshake-successo...
We’re evaluating Keyhive for use in our distributed chat application and my colleague wrote an in-depth explainer on Keyhive’s underlying Key Encapsulation Mechanism BeeKEM, which is a decentralized offshoot of TreeKEM used in MLS: http://meri.garden/a-deep-dive-explainer-on-beekem-protocol/
That one line on its own should be enough put the illegitimacy of this proposal on clear display. Privacy for me (the surveillance state) but not for thee (the populace).
No idea why this is getting downvoted; this is a very important correction since the “tragedy of the commons” meme is based on a flawed premise that needs to be amended.
Only for the people already affluent enough to afford the ever-more expensive subscriptions. Those most in need of a floor-raising don’t have the disposable income to take a bet on AI.
At this point I care far more about an open (and credibly ethically-sourced) data model than open code, open weights or whatever. I wanna use models that can tell me whether or not a resource I’m pointing to is in its training data or not.
Exactly. This is basically the argument of “AI as Normal Technology”.
Exactly. If we really wanted to benchmark the various models on the merits of their individual implementations, we should be comparing them all on the same open dataset.
Highly recommend integrating with the atproto network to hop onto its social graph; that could be a major differentiator for your service. I’d love to log in with my Bluesky account and see who else in my network has opted to share their couchsurfing status.
(I put up a GitHub issue)
I’d be much more at ease with their long term prospects if they begun the process of transitioning to a cooperative or steward-ownership, so that they’re less at risk of CEO-capture.
Are you saying Roto has no ambitions to be suitable as a gamedev scripting language?
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.07096 (original blog title was too long so I used the paper’s title)
Weird is very cheap to host so we’ve already covered hosting costs with our first batch of early adopters: https://blog.muni.town/selling-dreams/
The extended version of Weird that we’re building now however will include community hosting ranging between $10/$100 per month as part of a B2B play as opposed to the B2C model of Weird as-is, so that.
Hey, one of the two cofounders here. Very cool to see Weird on HN, although we had purposefully refrained from posting it ourselves yet since it’s still baking.
Weird is essentially gonna be ported over to being the static, persona-first extension of Roomy: https://blog.muni.town/chatty-community-gardens/
There was an interesting follow-up to this post that adds more context to the incident and problem space: https://lemmy.world/post/27522773
Seems rather premature to call the experiment over when Bluesky/atproto has only been generally available for a year since they opened up registrations to all in February 2024. That’s a very short amount of time to explore the affordances of a brand new platform and ecosystem.
A couple days ago one of the most prominent alt-networks in the ATmosphere, Blacksky, received a $30k dev grant: https://bsky.app/profile/rudyfraser.com/post/3lk6gfblhdk2b
In a week from now the first ever atproto-specific conference of its scale will be taking place: https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf/
We started a contribution towards that end: https://github.com/authifier/authifier/pull/63
Purpose Ventures invests in companies made for steward ownership:
https://purpose-economy.org/en/ventures/
https://purpose-economy.org/en/whats-steward-ownership/
Think companies like Patagonia, Sharetribe and Ecosia.
For a pure Rust answer to “how to make a primarily-safe gc-lang in Rust”, see Piccolo (Lua) with its ‘Stackless VM’:
https://github.com/kyren/piccolo
That’s not to say Piccolo couldn’t theoretically benefit from having its (already isolated) unsafe parts rewritten in Zig, but that’s up to the Zig developer community to chip away at with upstream contributions.
Source code: https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/sensemaking-tools
I guess pkdns is a newer, actively maintained version of the same thing? https://github.com/pubky/pkdns
Self-interested hyperbole aside, I think that’s a laughably low number for what is now effectively an ‘AI Company’. I’m sure >95% of Google employees use Google (well, at least until recent years).
If this stuff really works as well as these companies claim it does, wouldn’t their entire workforce excitedly be using these tools already?