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Greg Fodor
Personal blog · gfodor.medium.comaiweb
Greg Fodor's personal blog at gfodor.medium.com covers ai and web. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Webspaces: Rebooting the 3D Web”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Greg Fodor's Medium posts about building Mozilla Hubs, his work on spatial collaboration, and the Jel game ('the un-zoom'). Comments mostly link the posts as background.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Webspaces: Rebooting the 3D Web3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-12-27
- To de-risk AI, the government must accelerate knowledge production2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-23
- The Rise of Avatarism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-30
- /the-secret-mozilla-hubs-master-plan-2c1364033bec2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-01
What Hacker News says?
Metaverse will be bullshit up until avatarism arrives, then it will be boring and normal. But people like this will still be very confused and upset about what is happening. (Maybe I will too.) The first mainstream passthrough AR device that can stitch out and replace humans will be an eye opener for many people. This will happen next year. Most likely at least Meta and Apple’s will do this. And probably a few other…
Comment linking /the-rise-of-avatarism-b7ecfa7c42bc
on “The metaverse is bullshit”Submitted Webspaces: Rebooting the 3D Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI have been working on Hubs from the beginning (September 2017), and want to share a few observations/hypotheses behind the project. Natural conversations require space: - Space affords directed non-verbal communication. Unlike video calls (where gestures are broadcasted), space enables an implicit understanding of where people are directing their gestures and attention. - Space allows participants to navigate betwe…
Comment linking /the-secret-mozilla-hubs-master-plan-2c1364033bec
on “Mozilla Hubs”Submitted The Rise of Avatarism as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"The Path To Mozilla Hubs": https://gfodor.medium.com/the-path-to-mozilla-hubs-2697e6354...
Comment linking /the-path-to-mozilla-hubs-2697e635490d
on “Mozilla Hubs”Submitted Webspaces: Rebooting the 3D Web (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe experiences that come to be understood as "the metaverse" will (probably) be web based, in the end, imo. I wrote about this thinking that inspired Mozilla Hubs for anyone interested: https://gfodor.medium.com/the-secret-mozilla-hubs-master-pla...
Comment linking /the-secret-mozilla-hubs-master-plan-2c1364033bec
on “So you want to compete with Roblox”Submitted To de-risk AI, the government must accelerate knowledge production as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://gfodor.medium.com/introducing-jel-the-un-zoom-320d3d... Might be a better place to start reading about it.
Comment linking /introducing-jel-the-un-zoom-320d3dcfd8f6
on “Show HN: Jel, the Video Game for Collaboration”Submitted To de-risk AI, the government must accelerate knowledge production as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's my proposal: https://gfodor.medium.com/to-de-risk-ai-the-government-must-... tl;dr: significant near term AI risk is real and comes from the capacity for imagined ideas, good and evil, to be autonomously executed on by agentic AI, not emergent superintelligent aliens. To de-risk this, we need to align AI quickly, which requires producing new knowledge. To accelerate the production of this knowledge, the gover…
Comment linking /to-de-risk-ai-the-government-must-accelerate-knowledge-production-49c4f3c26aa0
on “Statement on AI Risk”Submitted Webspaces: Rebooting the 3D Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI built a thing called webspaces for 3D html worlds based on these principles. https://gfodor.medium.com/rebooting-the-web-in-3d-with-websp...
Comment linking /rebooting-the-web-in-3d-with-webspaces-9e58847e042c
on “Local-First Web Development”