Something to try. An ephemeral irc like channel but with code formatting etc.

The get an LLM secretary. Have it write up daily minutes with the most relevant quotes.

Have a tool to search and quote from the minutes.

If your LLM Secretary sucks. Get a better one, don't try to reinvent talking.

The entire premise of slack is broken. Gated multi-threaded conversations.

For most online discussions e.g. getting help with a particular technology, you don't want gated. That carries the implicit assumption that the tech in question is central to the user. I'd much rather /join #tech-channel ask and leave then to get onboarded to a slack channel, introduce myself, find the right subchannel, get ignored, and leave.

For internal project communication it is slightly better but also a bit stupid. Imagine working at a company located in a large Victorian Building where rooms open off a long hall. Each room has a name associated with a topic of discussion.

You show up in the morning and head to #Random say hello to everyone and get to chatting about work. "I say, Oswald, shall we head over to #finances I've a brief question about last week's numbers" once there the topics wanders to some other topic and so you agree to adjourn to another room.

The trouble is that everyone is walking past each other in the hall trying to find a room with anyone it in that vaguely matches what they need to talk about. But before asking you had better watch all the recorded footage from the room to make sure you aren't asking a duplicate question.

Persistent discussion dissuades discussion. The number of things that need to be recorded is small. We need a better way.

Going back over the thread, you have made me think a bit more. You raise some points I haven't considered. The biggest being ossification of the social graph. That is a problem I haven't considered. Instead of a social web we kind of end up with social cobwebs.

The Cobweb of Trust? More thought required on how to make maintenance of relationships meaningful.

I understand that. But it is still ok. If everyone had immediate reach, it would require everyone else spend the majority of their time filtering through content.

You can either filter through slow organic growth or through algorithms. The available attention is fixed. Slow organic growth allows more people to have a small influence rather than a small number of people having a large influence.

I'd rather watch content from a local cabinet maker from whom I could buy physical goods than to have Mr Beast algorithm garbage sucking up the oxygen.

It is all what we want to incentivize.

I assume that in your moodiness you are binging Shad M. Brooks content.

https://youtube.com/@shadiversity

Alright. He can be cringe but Shad Up!

We are all on #Nostr for great content.

What we mean by great content is anything reinforces our pre-existing beliefs.

Now we don't particularly care for this note.

Our pre-existing belief is that we are on Nostr to be exposed to a range of challenging ideas. This note doesn't reinforce that.

It is ok if gaing follower is difficult on nostr. I don't have many people knocking on my physical front door demanding driblets of wisdom, if nostr is truer to life then it is truer full stop.

My solution is to never do anything important.

You wanted an option to having a girlfriend...

https://abbey.cistercian.org/vocations/

But seriously. What is it?

Statist Slave here, apparently. It's true though, anarchy isn't peaceful homesteading just because you want it to be anymore than communism isn't just peaceful sharing just because they want it to be.

What do we know now that humans of the deep past didn't? Because any time there more than a few people around, it was chaos and warlords.

Where is the short cut?

Man, all the cool kids are on that site. I am on the libre version. Also you'd wipe the floor with me. I've similar ratings but they are subject to lichess inflation. Not a great exchange rate.

Learning c before any high level language is underrated. If you don't understand how high-level quality of life features like objects, namespaces, generics, polymorphism, garbage collection etc are helping you, then neither do you understand how they are shooting you in the foot.

I say this as one who could stand to learn c.

Merry Christmas. My life is complete.

Which AI do you use?

I am trying! But I can't find time to get albyhub set up!

I'm somewhat open-minded but calling you a pathological vegan is a bridge too far.

Yes, but we get to retain the 12v auxiliary port in what is possibly the world's dumbest accidental standard.

I did notice that those are gone but somehow never gave a thought to the missing ashtrays, possibly because they we replaced by cup holders.