Aaron Sittig

@aaron

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With NameDrop, bullish on phone numbers as the GUID for social apps for the next 5 years. The address book based graph is about to improve much faster.

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🤮🔥"Even long edit histories barely compare to the memory savings Zed obtains from not being built with Electron." https://zed.dev/blog/crdts

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I downgraded to the iPhone 13 mini from the 14 Pro and I miss exactly nothing. Am I the only one?

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Could you train a model to ask you questions about what you’ve written? It would guide you in providing context to readers unfamiliar with your subject. Could you train a model to strip context from what you’ve written? Readers that know the subject: “Elide context please.”

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Good insight from Lee Byron that the like can only be given once per post. So there’s friction in giving feedback beyond that single like. Do you have to go all the way to a comment? https://leebyron.com/snack-driven-development/

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It’s wild how neatly the big inflations spikes break like a fever. Good for anyone hurt by inflation, but I was hoping that like a fever this bout of inflation would clear out disease.

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If you could have a social feed filtered by sentiment analysis, would you? I mean, we don’t blink at extreme food diets. Would you cut out negativity from your information diet?

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It’s a bit of a subtweet (subcast?), but also working out for myself why it feels misaligned.

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They’re not decentralized and limit what they allow so they can’t abuse parties that rely on them. But unless you’re just gifting bitcoin or doing a crypto swap, there’s usually a parallel off chain transaction between parties that requires trust. Similar kind of trust happens when I send someone information.

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Not auto-deleting messages also makes positioning against legacy social clearer. They keep your messages indefinitely and one bad breach away from leaking. We keep messages too, but in a distributed way so there’s no central store to breach. It should be easier to not fear enduring messages in a distributed system.

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It’s like the DRM problem. Unless the data is only touch by signed centrally trusted software all the way until the hdmi cable, you can’t keep the video safe. But the problem is worse with messages since using a client that backs up all messages while pretending to delete is trivial to build.

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To me, decentralization means two parties work out how to trust each other directly, sans intermediary. Unless read access to self-destructing data is controlled and limited by a trusted 3rd party, access can’t be revoked. Choosing that 3rd party usually means centralization.

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Auto-deleting messages and decentralization are an incorrect fit. Don’t enforce memory policy centrally. The edges know their context best.

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Everyone seems old and accomplished. Hopefully the team will also work with younger more flexible thinkers.

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✋ bought them all. Each feels like progress but still waiting for the magic moment.

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Every time visit a link in the purple app and it opens directly in Safari, I’m pleasantly surprised. No user hostile embedded browser.

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If you’re in SF and want to buy local, check out McRoskey

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Another incentive for large players to decentralize something centralized is to commoditize their complements. Google wanted a competitive phone market to lower margins on the devices users search with. Android preempted an Apple monopoly, drove decentralization outside search.

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Feels like the motivators that help decentralization emerge from centralized systems are still not understood. Legal viability is clearly one of the motivators. Any others we can identify? https://twitter.com/backus/status/1067126613681336321

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