I'm not a kid but I am embarrassed to be on Discord because the UI is just so good. But Tumblr? Really?

Can you get one of your kids on here or Nos or whatever to defend their opinions?

Ok, so it took me 3 hours to watch this thing and I am only 1.5 hours through this interview.

Were any of the other comments on this thread the result of intelligence? I am questioning that now.

Regardless, George is on it. You can't really argue with him. Is this inspirational?

What I loved was how many times Lex Fridman rubbed his face while he was thinking.

Have you considered taking a day and writing your own Nostr app? Asking for a friend.

I do believe that Jesus would have/could be fascinated by self-authenticating messaging protocols. But you really got me at homeschoolers who can't say things right, because that is my lived life.

I mean come on, there is tons of evidence that the holocaust happened.

They really gave him a hard time at the end.

My advice for RFK Jr. is to pivot into the idea that The CovID isn't/wasn't real at all, that would be way more controversial than his current shtick.

If he played it all as if he's joking and/or a comedian it'd go over better too.

Watching right now!

Well if you pass plain text through a markdown renderer it will probably still be plain text unless it contains markdown.

But I also support in-brain markdown rendering as a feature. Can we get a NIP for that?

I implemented editable posts on ssb, it's possible.

I posted a new message type 'edit', edit: 'posthash', content: 'new content' and then I collected all of the message edits, order by timestamp (ssb-query did this for me), and render a message that shows the differences between the edits. I only rendered a diff at the time, but I wanted an arrow where you can quickly pass over the edit timeline.

I'm pretty sure the code is on `git-ssb` somewhere.

*tolerant -- can we get an edit button? I jest.

I think you're both right, but I tend to lean towards the FoaF (friend of a friend) moderation algorithm. FoaF makes newcomers work to get reach, because they need to know someone, and it's something that Scuttlebot did right so we all know how it works.

You can include a dial for less toleratant people that can be turned down to 'just friends', and people who want to explore more can dial it up to 3 or 4 hops if they want a global feed.

It DID: not make it?

That's a good point, I hadn't thought of it quite that way.

As a web app developer I usually look at it from the perspective that making my app available at a URL makes it very easy for other's to access.

A lot of people (including me) are afraid of installing untrusted software on their bare metal machines from strangers, and browsers overcome that by being, well, a pod.

But I see why people like to develop for iOS or Android and I use some of the Android stuff. I feel left out of the iOS stuff because I'm not an Apple guy anymore. The web pod stuff is available to everyone.

Looks more like Tom's than Five Fingers tho.

I agree. Learning how to use public/private key cryptography is an invaluable skill that I believe everyone will someday learn.

A step beyond that is learning how to write the functions yourself to sign and/or encrypt data using an algorithm.

I think it'd be good to have classes at every level of education where people are taught how to do these things.

Learning how to hold into your private key shouldn't be a big secret.

Nostr frustratingly leaves this up to uncertainty. It'd be great to have a clear replication strategy for those of us who've come from places where one existed.

I read all of it. It's a DHT you put signed message upon that you then contact later to see if you are authorized to use someone else's system.

It's either very Web3, or Blaine is trolling. I can't figure out which one right now, because I don't know the guy well enough to decide.

I kind of imagined post-scuttlebutt was Dominic Tarr's fascinating Youtube channel where he rescues a boat from the woods and tries to keep it from sinking: https://www.youtube.com/@dominictarrsailing

But perhaps it'd be a great music genre as well.

Oh, I went an applied to FUTO's fellowship just for the heck of it. Who knows, maybe they'll email back!

This was an awesome interview, thanks for doing it guys!

I ended up researching FUTO's Polycentric (https://polycentric.io/) after watching, which is really cool project and weirdly similar to my own distributed protocol project called Bogbook (https://bogbook.com/) in a lot of ways. I guess these social media protocols are both post-Scuttlebot, so that'd explain some of the similarities.

I found this interview between Louis Rossmann and Harpo Roeder that I'm watching right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld87FNygymw

This kind of reads like a bot account.

But anyway, last I heard Elon's dog was running Twitter if we are to be factually accurate in our gossip here.