is there a default knot I can use on @tangled.org? the interface for creating a new repo only allows for using ones I've registered myself.

"Like with open source, open social is a compounding effort. Every mildly successful open social app lifts all open social apps. Every piece of shared infrastructure can benefit somebody else. At some point, open is bound to win."

just joined the User Cooperative which has free membership. They are building a browser that distributes revenue to coop members. www.usercooperative.com www.usercooperative.com/surge-browser

.org is a nice tld! tho .coop has got to be one of my favs

very true. getting over the hump of paying for quality products is a great place to be. I'm honestly happy every time I make a search on kagi, it feels healthy in addition to being very high quality

Some serious cooking with @bmann.ca & @ronent.bsky.social about Semble. Never thought I’d hear Boris say “my brain is mush” from too much #atproto talk. Excited to share out our roadmap for all of this.

As a language learner, I try to think about languages within a "fluency pyramid". The idea here would be to start with my least fluent language, then progressively translate into more fluent languages until the meaning of the text is understood. A good browser extension helps a lot!

@kagi.com has a translate webapp + extension which is HUGE for language learners like myself. I can easily translate selected text or entire pages (yes, even my bsky feed) into any chosen target language. translate.kagi.com/extension

Imagine a highly curated feed with no likes and no ads that optimally shows you content in a way that strengthens your attention, memory, and understanding of the world. This is what a well-crafted spaced repetition flashcard deck is.

there's an important virtue here called "epistemic humility". why is it so hard to find ppl with it?

Imagine a world without planned obsolescence? Feels like sci-fi in these times

"Either we increase our capacity for learning at scale, or we may be forced to abandon the projects and ideals of an open society—with disastrous consequences ... We have little choice but to learn new ways to make sense of the world together, in a new kind of public sphere."

So much SENSEMAKING

Hyperobjects cannot be reduced. BUT Collective sensemaking can be increased.

Do folks here want their bsky bookmarks to stay private or would you like to make them public on protocol?

Yesterday I was reading a bit about attribution-based revenue sharing in @projectliberty.io's newsletter. Then today I see a feature update by @kagi.com for "proportional source attribution" for Kagi to "share profits with publishers participating in [their] AI answers".

Been thinking about this problem facing atproto app devs quite a bit. My working approach (which I'd like to clarify and write about) is to treat lexicons as an infrastructure layer concern. augment.leaflet.pub/3lxxnzrh6pc2...

(info) commons-oriented builders right here! Steward the commons, you will have less regrets at EOL 👽

We're hoping that semble.so will help drive #atproto adoption in academic communities beyond bsky, and prove useful even for those still on X. Eventually, we'll want @cosmik.network PDS hosting so no bsky account needed for sign up.

👇👇🎉🥳🎊

We are extraordinarily grateful for this opportunity and excited to build on #atproto. We think you’re all going to love Semble and find that it complements bsky and enhances the ATmosphere in meaningful ways. Sign up to the waitlist to stay up-to-date!

1/ 📢 @cosmik.network has been awarded $1M in grant funding by Open Philanthropy and @asterainstitute.bsky.social These generous grants will support our development of Semble - a social "micro-knowledge" network for researchers on Bluesky/ATProto. Think Are.na + Goodreads for research!

There is so much to learn from the discipline imposed by earnestly attempting to ship and maintain value to customers. Luckily we have lots of wisdom to refer to over the last decades, well before LLM vibe-coding. Currently reading uncle Bob's "clean architecture" www.oreilly.com/library/view...

Working on some basic social features after laying the foundation for an event-driven architecture. The system modularity afforded by decoupled rich domain events is blissful! (Basic) notifications will be a breeze. DDD and clean (layered) architecture will level up your game no doubt.

Incentives matter. If you can spare $5-25 / month, try out Kagi which can replace google search and chatGPT. It's worth it and good for the future of the internet. kagi.com

easily save URLs to your PDS with a browser extension! name and UI are placeholders, lmk if you'd like to test / early access. UI vibe coding with a well-tested API client works wonders!

if you haven't bought your ticket yet, now is the time!

Just cancelled my chatGPT subscription and signed up for Kagi premium which is a search engine + LLM assistant interface. Now to move off more of Googles services...

just went through so many email newsletters and notifications I don't ever pay attention to or read and unsubscribed from all. Highly recommended mental cleanse. So important to preserve our precious attentional resources! There's a limited number of coherent thoughts we will have in a lifetime.

I recently went to an AI safety event with a specific focus on policy for a post-AGI world. The speaker fears we are less than two years away from catastrophic AGI.

We're building an atproto-based tool for curating quality arguments. Curation > Feeds is one of many steps to fixing broken attention economy incentives.

Imagine if I could easily annotate open.substack.com/pub/garymarc... As “helpful” and “opposes” the AI 2027 spec. fiction. Imagine if other ppl left similar annotations on other articles. Then imagine if I could rank and sort these links. Collective intelligence via structured contextualization.

Encoding requires elimination Decoding requires interpretation Hard to let go but easy to make up?

if process > output use your brain if output > process use an LLM

I should be building, but I had the itch to write and I couldn't resist! weswalla.substack.com/p/the-featur...

Forced ads while fuelling up. Gas station enshittification is real. Though I must point out the irony of complaining about enshittification while using a service (bsky) I (along with many others) assume should be free even though its costs human labour, hardware and computation.

Wait... only est. 18% of scholars from X/Twitter moved to Bluesky? That's much lower than I expected (2023-2025 window).

For all the web annotators, curators and bookmarkers out there, stay tuned. We’ll have something for you to play around with soon 🔖 👀 #atproto

“me@t” - word to describe the experience of meeting someone you know from online in person for the first time

Community search engines are another way of saying collective intelligence.

If you see this, you have to write a poem.

📄RESEARCH: Is one way to ease political tension as simple as watching a respectful conversation? Researchers found that watching a 50-minute documentary decreased polarization among viewers. This is pretty scalable! bridgeentertainmentlabs.org/wp-content/u...

Collective intelligence is only as strong as our collective attention.

come join the adventure

For the record, both are fine IMO. It’s Anglo-centric anyway, as are many protocols!

A great #AThiring opportunity to work on decentralized tech, with the Radicle team

💯 bsky.app/profile/cosm...

Nice to see a mention of @cosmik.network in this!

Character.ai is trying to claim that chat bot outputs are protected free speech… open.substack.com/pub/centerfo...

My attempt at explaining some of the interesting aspects of #atproto in the most conceptually accessible way possible. weswalla.substack.com/p/shapeshift...