“The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity.
To see past the ordinary and mundane and get to what might otherwise be invisible.”
From Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Check out perplexity.ai … it shows citations for sources which could be even better. Curious how it’d compare for your dev use cases.
New podcast series by journalist Joanne McNeil— Main Accounts: The Story of MySpace. The time before big social is interesting because there was more peer-to-peer experimentation. Like how Napster came about and shifted everything for a while. It’s important to know our history folks. Check out episode 5 on music:
#[2] also has been speaking very clearly on the need for more mature ways of moderating strong content.
As #[0] clearly pointed out in his popular #nostrica talk, content moderation is no joke or trivial matter for real global-scale social networking.
Yet another live example: Google and Apple warning Amazon about lack of moderation on explicit adult Kindle content freely accessible to minors.
I wager Amazon gets a cushy warning, while smaller apps would just get delisted.
Hey #[3] how’d you describe this?
I wouldn’t call it complicated back then unless you’re talking about early beta stage.
If you think catfishing is bad in online daring let me tell you about apartment listings vs viewings in NYC.
At a pan-latin bistro in Brooklyn but all the music is Colombian salsa 🇨🇴😎
Mark Zuckerberg abandons metaverse as shiny new toy appears
Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35502252 )
https://futurism.com/the-byte/mark-zuckerberg-abandons-metaverse
So many who naively jumped on this “VRML 5.0” bandwagon will no doubt be shocked. Those of us who know VRML 1.0 was never that useful an idea continue to use our time on more useful tech.
Who here in the Nostrverse is also looking at AR that leverages decentralized/relay contexts? The informal mode of decentralized seems better suited to more organic use of AR.
So many AR projects from big tech replicate the high modernism of centralized top-down urban planning. They are doomed.
Long tail bread crumb posting for any seeing this now, or later.
#augmentedreality
Continuing with recommending content from #nostrica!
Next up we have marvelous "Learning from Others" session by #[0].
I was absolutely amazed by this one. I guess I just wasn't prepared for the amount of valuable information that Rabble will share. If you're looking for the best possible outcome for #nostr, then I strongly recommend watching this session and learning from Rabble's insights.
Sure, some may tune in just to catch early Twitter history and see pictures of a young #[1] (they are pretty good!). But once you move beyond that, you get to enjoy discussion on numerous frameworks (from those that categorize social media protocols... to more theoretical ones related to commons). And if you're a protocol developer, Rabble's insights will be particularly valuable in helping you avoid dead ends and make informed decisions!
Even the dark moments of the talk were integrated into providing valuable information and lessons to learn (kudos to #[2] for the way she responded to that threat!).
So: in the 207 days before #nostrica 2 - aka #[3] - starts, I recommend you watch this talk multiple times. And then do follow Rabble, #[4] and others building https://www.nos.social & https://www.planetary.social ... so great we have them in #nostr community!
Thanks for the kind words, the team has been working on DWeb tech for years so there is a lot skill to share via our products. We're just getting started with Nostr 🏄🏽
Good to see more sunshine and critique of Elon Musk here in the Nostr-verse from #[0]’s viral post.
For more on the hype vs reality of Elon, see these two podcast episodes from The War on Cars:
Interview w/ Edward Niedermeyer author of “Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors.”
https://thewaroncars.org/2022/06/28/tesla-is-a-fraud-with-ed-niedermeyer/
Patreon preview with larger summary of Elon grifting.
https://thewaroncars.org/2022/12/20/teaser-what-we-knew-about-elon/
Fun fact, Hyperloop was just a shiny con to fool under-informed people to derail California High Speed Rail, to keep things car-dependant.
But it lacks good digital word-of-mouth and regular word-of-mouth semantic uniqueness.
“Did you see that tweet?”
vs.
“Did you see that note?”
The first means something unique w/ a touch of delight.
The second could be anything.
A unique name will likely emerge from the community I wager.
Mkay. File under surreal Big Tech culture: “In every copy of macOS that has shipped since 2018, Apple has included the original Bitcoin whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto, and no-one seems to know why.”
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/04/06/macos-includes-bitcoin-whitepaper/
https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027483391-Community-tools-for-my-patrons
How this is faring vs. Substack’s model will be interesting to see.
I’d love to see the data from Patreon’s integrations w/ Discord & Discourse and how their approach is faring for all of them. Interesting comparable for potential w/ Nostr.
In SSB it becomes normal that your know you’re just getting a very subjective social xp, but with Nostr the potential is much wider. Search ux so often neglected in non-search centered products.
Another reminder of the need for new mobile hardware company that builds for decentralized data sovereignty not intentionally nerfed to bias cloud dependency.
cc #[3] more resonance here.