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This is a beautiful protocol-based meme stunt by Matt Webb, who did a guest talk last year. I’m gonna think of it as an honorary PILL project, unofficially included in SoP gallery. https://interconnected.org/home/2024/09/05/cursor-party

"What I like about multiplayer cursors, cursor chat, and shared highlighting is that it’s like the opposite of a feature…

It’s not differentiation. It wouldn’t dilute me if you did it too. (But it shouldn’t be a browser feature, it’s part of the site, it’s me designing the vibe for this particular place.)

It doesn’t stand out. If there’s nobody else on this site you wouldn’t even notice.

It should be everywhere. It’s how the web should be."

"What I like about multiplayer cursors, cursor chat, and shared highlighting is that it’s like the opposite of a feature…

It’s not differentiation. It wouldn’t dilute me if you did it too. (But it shouldn’t be a browser feature, it’s part of the site, it’s me designing the vibe for this particular place.)

It doesn’t stand out. If there’s nobody else on this site you wouldn’t even notice.

It should be everywhere. It’s how the web should be."
https://warpcast.com/vgr/0x3f9a033a

This sorta thing gives me tools-for-third-places vibes—"...things that deepen and enrich both synchronous and asynchronous peer-to-peer interactions."

"Let's meet at Cafe X" or "Send me a Meet invite" can morph into let's meet at Person Y's latest blog.

In motion - complex systems, computing and communication (amongst other things) | msweet.net | working on /subset

Could also act as the glue for slower tempo, lower intensity group activities that coordinate around digital artefacts if done in local-first, decentralised way.

For example, every group member installs cursor-party within their preferred browser as an extension. Peer connections are established via something like libp2p. Then members can swarm on arbitrary online places and interact. Acts as a compromise between closed platforms (e.g. Discord) for comms and third-party products/services for individual/collective sense making (e.g. Obsidian, Hypothes.is).

This sorta thing gives me tools-for-third-places vibes—"...things that deepen and enrich both synchronous and asynchronous peer-to-peer interactions."

"Let's meet at Cafe X" or "Send me a Meet invite" can morph into let's meet at Person Y's latest blog.
https://paragraph.xyz/@subset/tools-for-third-places