shazow

@shazow.eth

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Hanging out in Phoenix AZ this week.

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wish there was a /r/SubredditDrama/ for farcaster

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https://x.com/optimizoor/status/1862575263126888617

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Should we do one with animal pfps? Who's in?

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I made a starter pack, who wants in? https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth/pack/People-Who-Sent-ukqgtr

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This is a great example, an information science professor who I am sure is very smart and experienced in web2 suggests that an open data protocol simply makes some data... non-public. Imagine building your whole career in a world where everything is a SaaS silo. Totally understandable, but still wild.

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"Starter Packs" on Farcaster are good.

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RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards [Dec 2023] - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9518/ Good read from the perspective of the web2 world as they tackle defining "decentralization".

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Latest musing on Bluesky "decentralization": A key flaw is that censorship resistance is not part of their definition/threat model for decentralization at the social network layer. This has two consequences: 1. Points of censorship create opportunities for the network to split into separate pieces with different privileges (thus non-uniform infrastructure required to support different privileges). 2. It's much more expensive to compete with Bluesky's AppView ($millions/month), because this is the point of censorship. If there was no point of censorship, then more infrastructure could be a homogenous collective good that can be shared rather than substituted. Also relevant thought experiment: https://bsky.app/profile/shazow.net/post/3lbrtli7be224

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Fun fact: 25+ years ago, my handle was "shadow" but it was always taken (or a reserved keyword). I liked the handle and identified with it, but I wanted something that was totally unique so I swapped the d with a z. If you're in the know, "shazow" is pronounced like "shadow" but with a z (rather than shaZOW).

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Finding unreal AI mistakes is the new Where's Waldo.

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WhatsABI v0.17 is out, now powered by @wevm's ox! 🐐 And we added a @blockscout loader to our collection. 🤝 https://github.com/shazow/whatsabi/releases

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2 weeks later: Having some names written down and stewing on them for a bit has been great. I've been thinking of positive experiences with these people, and occasionally I'll write one down and shoot it off as a gratitude email. World will be a better place if more people do this, join me.

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Interesting constraint of "decentralized but offchain" like Bluesky: Everything is signed by secret keys, so either it has to be individually owned or delegated to a trusted intermediary, there is no programmable middle ground. Whereas onchain, anything that is ownable can also be owned by a collective (or an arbitrary program). This is very powerful, for example: Posts and block lists and labellers must be owned by an individual, but... wouldn't it be better to have accounts posting owned by teams, or block lists owned by collectives with governance, or labellers owned by verifiable programs, etc? Can't do that without onchain.

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TIL 61.2% of people living in Canada don't have fluoridated tap water! https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/community-water-fluoridation-across-canada.html

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The nice thing about Bluesky's Starter Packs is all I had to do is hustle to get on a few good starter packs and now I can just sit back and collect followers while doing nothing. Or maybe that's not a nice thing... 🤔

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Can we build an L1 token contract whose balances are controlled by an L2? Imagine a token wrapper on L1, where we can deposit whatever token (e.g. USDC) then work with the deposited balances on L2 as much as we want with super cheap fees, then eventually withdraw back on L1 via ZK proof against the latest state root? (It's kind of like a based appchain, but could piggyback of any existing L2?)

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My father-in-law is a builder. It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent space because he is lost in wonder. We were in a reverse chronological feed together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… "We can’t, we don’t know how to do it."

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Neat alternative to "simply don't allow quote posting", allow detaching your quoted post. https://bsky.app/profile/tomaashby.bsky.social/post/3laqzojpag225

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"Starter Packs" on Bluesky are good. At minimum, it's something for people to do, an opportunity for engagement. "I'm making a starter pack about X, please reply if this is you!" More generously, it is a really useful onboarding tool. I went through a few starter packs, and continue to find more good ones.

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