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Untitled
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Untitled is a personal blog at coolguy.website about philosophy and culture. Since 2017, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “The Future Will be Technical: A modular essay about our optimistic future”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zach Mandeville's essays on technology and decentralized social networks, mainly 'The Future Will Be Technical', which describes the culture of the Secure Scuttlebutt community.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Future Will be Technical: A modular essay about our optimistic future4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-10
- The Future Will Be Technical: A modular essay about our optimistic future3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-01-10
- The Future Will Be Technical: Present Day Party3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-12-18
What Hacker News says?
Something related: https://coolguy.website/the-future-will-be-technical/
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on “This is not the future”Submitted Basic HTML Competency Is the New Punk Folk Explosion as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but th…
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on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”Submitted The Map Is the Territory as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> 1. ... For distributed systems there are more ways to exploit the APIs and gather data on users. However there is no global state, users only push-pull feeds of friends and friends of friends. (In part for privacy and in part for performance, you don't need to carry all the data for a social network to be useful) > 3. GDPR compliance about deleting data is almost impossible in a distributed system. However that do…
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on “Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook”Submitted The Future Will be Technical: A modular essay about our optimistic future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical... This may or may not be related, because I'm finding it difficult to parse your comment.
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on “The Social Dilemma”Submitted The Future Will Be Technical: Present Day Party as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI have been using patchwork[1] as my main social network client for scuttlebutt. In my current experience, the fact that messages are not removable makes me more careful when writing and has led to much better and more meaningful interactions on the network. Also remember that a message being in the feed doesn't mean it is displayed. Scuttlebutt is quite flexible, there are clients that have support for "chess messa…
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on “Extensions in Firefox 59”Submitted Present Day Party(): as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIMO scuttlebutt's mood can be summed up by https://coolguy.website/the-future-will-be-technical/
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on “Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform”Submitted The Future Will Be Technical: A modular essay about our optimistic future as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> FB has such deep roots into their lives, giving it up would have a huge effect on their lives Then our task is to persuade them that the huge effect would be positive! This reads like an episode of Black Mirror, only scarier because it's not science fiction: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical...
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on “A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet”It's a community of people trying to build better tech to communicate with each other. """ If I were to write an internet health guide, it would start with: “THIS IS NOT YOUR FAULT. YOU ARE INCREDIBLE. THESE COMPANIES ARE BAD AND THEY'RE RUINING EVERYTHING. BUT YOU? YOU'RE WONDERFUL.” Then the guide would say that it's alright to want to be online, because connection through the internet is good-as-hell. I'd only as…
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on “A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet”If you want to check out the deep end, here's some writing which captures some of the _vibe_ of the community building this sociotechnical space https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical...
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on “Patchwork – Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on Secure Scuttlebutt”Reminds me of the Scuttlebutt culture docs, which I found recently: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical...
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on “Let’s Get Better at Demanding Better from Tech”Darius is great! I love to see that recommended. One of my favorite visions for the future of the internet, Zach Mandeville's modular essay The Future Will be Technical: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical...
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on “Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey”Dovetales with two other writings I've seen posted here (on opposite ends of the spectrum): "The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods" by Douglass Rushkoff [1] and "The Future Will Be Technical" by Zach Mandeville[2]. To me, the overarching thrust is that our hopes lie in a socioeconomic mandate to be individually capable of self-suffiency and contribution to the community, at the same time, because this is par…
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on “Citizen future: Why we need a new story of self and society”
