It's also an attempt to fully-silo their data, because they know they can't compete if anyone can just vibe code an alternative and pull all the user data. Strava and Garmin connect fall into this category.

The funniest thing about “who is funding you” question is that believe it or not, we are also all trying to find an answer to that question so we can get paid.

GM. It’s not that atproto is illegible to devs or even civilians but inscrutable via the systems of power that have taken over the internet. The sin of social media wasn’t technical but aligning with the desires of established power and ours is the long hard work of breaking that alignment.

Me too, @z-space.ca espresso machine

I think it was one of those situations where everyone just pretends they don't notice what's happening.

This wasn't the case where I grew up. Woodworking teacher regularly drunk after lunch. Alcoholic principal. Though I suppose the 90s were a different time 😅.

This looks amazing. And, again, reconfirms the thing I keep telling people: the Atmosphere isn't about rebuilding Twitter. It's about rebuilding a better web overall.

This sounds like a winning startup idea to me.

This is what makes so much LLM "research" now such a joke. The big labs have no idea what training data is going into their models. So they run these tests, but can't tell you if the answers to the tests are in the training set.

Guess I'll see what shows up and rejoice either way ;)

Seriously? I just ordered one on Friday 😅