=== ANCHOR POEM === ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── Social media idea: everyone posts short snippets of writing, like tweets, but a random one is displayed every day. If you want to see them chronologically, you have to pay the author for their writings. And if you want to see more, you can spend "tokens" to display another random one for everyone to see that day. Each token spent will simply increase the count of "words" (think tweet) displayed. You get one token per day, and they don't carry over from previous days. You can also buy them, and any bought tokens that are spent give their value in dollars to the author you spend them on. The data is all local. The servers are all distributed and P2P like torrents. Everything is encrypted with keys that cycle every day. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/899 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ frankly I'm just excited to see what humanity does with the endlessly │ ║ calculated and stored blockchains. Like, that's a good set of pseudo-random │ ║ data, I wonder if we could build something off of it that wasn't exclusively │ ║ money? like, a necklace, I dunno. │ ║ │ ║ or like, a numbers station x2, where each message is accompanied with a │ ║ pre-calculated destination somewhere on this endless and │ ║ impossible-to-understand string of data. and that part is what seeds the next │ ║ code. once you start reading, certain numbers would be "flags" while others │ ║ would be "data" and they'd each have the same size on the hardware. that way, │ ║ they're impossible to predict. │ ║ │ ║ ah, but wouldn't it be noticable that certain results seem to appear next to │ ║ one another? well, isn't that just cryptology? Could probably be defeated if │ ║ you had an AI advanced enough, just saying. something that sorted through │ ║ massive mounds of data and gave you results in garbled or broken english. what │ ║ a wonderful tool, that's wonderfully mis-abused, perhaps in the fu │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #2 messages/1151 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─── capital C communism is easy. Just pay everyone the same amount, and they can swim in the market economy waters as easily as any capitalistic fish, and suddenly their incentives are aligned - when one of us selfishly improves our lives, we improve the collective as well. When one selflessly improves the collective, all of our personal lives are improved. Then, optimize for radical abundance, the ability to have whatever you want as soon as ideal, and suddenly everything starts working out. P.S. the route to abundance is through recycling perfectly. Design your goods to be functional in that way, and you have infinite resources that can be used for infinitely many things (until they literally wear away to dust) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──┘ --- #3 fediverse/4136 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┐ ║ the kind of old people who post on mastodon because that's the best place to │ ║ do so too │ ║ │ ║ ... er I mean "gee wouldn't it be nice if our grandkids taught us how to host │ ║ our own mastodon server for our weekly poker night?" like how you have discord │ ║ servers for D&D groups, except, less proprietary and more freedom. │ ║ │ ║ I bet someone could make a lot of money by just loading a raspberry pi with │ ║ pre-built software built from an image that automatically hosted a mastodon │ ║ server just based on information about your networking company so they can │ ║ keep tabs on all that you do. │ ║ │ ║ gee sure would be nice if we had a government run computing infrastructure │ ║ project which turned the entire USA into a hive-mind computer. I bet you could │ ║ be paid pretty well to do processing in your own LLM-generated voice. │ ║ │ ║ like... feed it your published works, whether artistic or scientific, │ ║ alongside the breadth of human understanding... then optimize for temperature. │ ║ That which is most different. AKA the user's produced data and habits from IOT. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴──────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/967 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ the reason I say that is because if you block someone, they can continue to │ ║ alter the dynamic of the environment you're in even if you don't personally │ ║ see them. │ ║ │ ║ this is fine if you want to maximize ad views, but on the fediverse nobody │ ║ cares about buying products. │ ║ │ ║ this is fine if you want to maximize engagement, because new people (who │ ║ havent yet gotten upset with the person) will engage and fight them. As they │ ║ should. But eventually, if the person's a troll or a goon, they'll get tired │ ║ of it and block them too. Thus the goon never has to face more than a few at a │ ║ time, especially if there's quite a few trolls on board with their target. │ ║ │ ║ this is fine if you don't mind the water slowly acidifying, like the fish who │ ║ have no choice because they don't know how to grow legs and walk like real │ ║ animals (what a bunch of scrubs) │ ║ │ ║ some people don't want to invest time in figuring out where to go next. How │ ║ many people will hear of Mastodon when Twitter is fully vacated of cool people? │ ║ │ ║ Tell your friends IRL about us │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/5198 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: capitalism-doom-mentioned │ │ ║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ what if the corporations all unionized and started working together to │ ║ understand what "profit" really means in a world where "profit" may or may not │ ║ but probably does imply the death of all humanity? │ ║ │ ║ what if we demanded it? │ ║ │ ║ -- │ ║ │ ║ dear canvassers: don't visit so many different suburbs │ ║ │ ║ visit the same one, more than once, continuously, so people can get to know │ ║ your presence │ ║ │ ║ they will talk to their friends about it, who live elsewhere. │ ║ │ ║ thus ensuring it spreads. │ ║ │ ║ knock once a day, eventually they'll know it's you and will simply ignore it. │ ║ Don't be rude and knock 4 or 5 times, just once, with several taps so they │ ║ know it's someone trying to get ahold of you, and not just some random noise │ ║ in the background scenery. then, when they sometimes answer, talk to them │ ║ about what you believe in. answer their questions. encourage their questions. │ ║ pose dichotomies that are explained by some value or virtue you express to │ ║ portray. you can do "good" things in any programming language, just type~~ │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴──────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/3234 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: ritz-is-fucking-stupid-I-guess-oh-whoops-cursing-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed │ ║ due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to │ ║ get past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first. │ ║ │ ║ unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote │ ║ backups, so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I │ ║ am. Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I │ ║ can be trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I │ ║ didn't write though. But also all my notes in directories that are │ ║ non-standard, meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes │ ║ everywhere I go, so that I can remind myself how to do things in the │ ║ directories I revisit months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I │ ║ wrote stop working after a while even if I didn't update my system lmao │ ║ │ ║ what is it with artists and self-immolation? "I never thought I'd actually di │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/4470 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── to be "rich" is to have more than another. if you are happy, they are happiness poor. if you have community, they are alone. if you have serenity, they are chaotic. I am rich in very little but fire in my soul. I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent. I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes me and keeps me aligned. Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as you do so too. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┘ --- #8 notes/non-competition-clause --- ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── what if there was a law that all trade secrets are to be free? what if copyright only prevented people from harming those they compete with? For example, as a media production company Disney could not host the content of other media con- -glomerate. But regular ordinary people would. The idea would be that if you wanted to change yourself to align with the ideals of a corporation, you could watch it on their streaming site. Then you'd be contributing your attention, which is bought and sold by our selves. Content creators could stream untethered, and collect payments however they pleased. The attention is what garners, that price that is bartered, sold on the market for all of us. Attend not ye sinners, and failures of our innards, what more can we charter for our souls? Accosted by our jams, and drilled as hard as I can, our notebooks are much more than charming. Accumulated designs, of theories that are out of our minds, compelling and driving us forward. The fellowship that we be, internally and under our seats, connecting us to ground at our own shoes. humans are not time. They are the whispers of the undying. Projections of fore-sought virtues. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/5065 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────── ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: strange-ideas-about-software-mentioned │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ software should have 3, maybe 4 or 5 maintained releases imo for adding security improvements and whatnot then people wouldn't complain about updates because they wouldn't feel like they were being left behind (after expressing their differences (of opinion and such)) I think that'd uh maintain them as, I guess, userbase optics parallelograms? oh sorry we're on rhomboids this week - right, and no I won't forget the differences in creed, all things are received equally...d. uh-huh yeah no that makes sense. gotcha. okay see you at the location. have fun with your demarketion. what if we played games with swords but like, the peril of steam is that you can't decline to update. meaning if a corporation wants to break an old game and it's collectively hosted servers... all it has to do is push an update that disables them. suddenly nobody has room to do, and the whole -- stack overflow -- ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┘ --- #10 messages/233 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── With this capability we could organize based on common interests. A person might see a link on a mastodon server and comment on it there, in a public forum with their comments limited to people within 50km or 25 miles of where they currently were. No other clients would receive a downloaded version of their comment, meaning the data simply wouldn't flow to others beyond that region. Every time they logged in the syncing software would attempt to share their words with whoever would listen. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/3931 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-mentioned-DRM-media-piracy-pol │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ if people pirate media, it's more of an indication that they'd rather spend │ ║ their money elsewhere rather than an indictment of their character. │ ║ │ ║ torrenting movies is easy. Kinda makes me think all media should run on a │ ║ "tip" system where you pay for better service after receiving service. │ ║ │ ║ I mean, after all, that's how they justify underpaying restaurant workers, │ ║ isn't it? │ ║ │ ║ "if they want more money, they should work for it" │ ║ │ ║ yeah, so... maybe we need something more than Marvel, Disney. Maybe we need │ ║ more cool, small games from designers who believe in what they're doing. Maybe │ ║ copyright holders should demand a standardized cut, rather than exclusive │ ║ distribution rights. maybe maybe maybe. │ ║ │ ║ truth is nothing will be solved unless the problem is addressed at the root. │ ║ For every hole you patch in the boat, there's a guy walking around with a │ ║ hammer. │ ║ │ ║ Honestly... I don't believe there's any reason for someone to be a millionaire │ ║ except to compete on the "wealth" leaderboards. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────┴──────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/1434 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── if someone wanted to defame you, all they'd have to do is set up a pipeline between your computer and your social media posts. In that pipeline, attach an LLM that does a passable job and instruct it to transform whatever they say into the inverse. suddenly, everyone hates that person. If you were smart you could turn it off for specific people such that they see the generally positive and healthy posts, and then after a point flip it such that they only see things that are specifically opposit-ed to trigger their specific insecurities. might require a bit of a human touch to make sure it's working correctly, but if you had the means, motivation, and time to set up such a thing, it would work pretty well I think. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/3499 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── Much the same way that it is legal to create trash in a public park, but illegal to leave it behind, so too should it be legal to move digital media files from one owner to another, and illegal to not delete the original. The dual operation of copy+delete must be legalized, while maintaining that the copy operation alone is illegal, aside from personal backups. How could you enforce that? Well... You can't. Your computer will do whatever you tell it to, and if you change that fact then you necessarily remove one of the primary use-cases of computation - the ability to command specific instructions and be delivered a perfectly mechanical and deterministic result. (random number generation aside, which isn't truly random at all). Therefore, just as littering in a public place is generally considered to be enforced by the "honor rule", so too must this new legislation governing the transference of digital media be enforced as such. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/482 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── @user-246 You're absolutely right. It's easy to think of the internet as this encapsulated entity "the world", but really it's "the people whose computers are physically connected to your computer using a limited and tangible piece of infrastructure comprised of copper wires that are laid between the router/switch that connects to your computer... and the internet service provider which directs your traffic. Then it probably goes through some cables under the ocean or whatever, and eventually after traversing many indeterminate passthrough locations eventually arrives at the computing infrastructure that comprises the access point that another person (presumably in another country) uses to express their thoughts toward you (the person who sent the original message) in the hopes that you might one day correspond. I mean... That's a lot of points of failure. I sure hope that we can sustain such connection, in the face of [redacted, whichever circumstances may come in the near future] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #15 messages/231 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── A Firefox add-on / plugin that lets you open up a comment section on *anything* on the Internet. Your comments would be saved and you could sort them by "new" or "best (most up votes and fewest downvotes)" or "hot (most recent upvotes)" or "controversial (biggest differential)" The idea would be to create a shared collective experience of the Internet that was exchanged using an open standard or protocol that could not be ignored - it was synced by everyone who used the add-on for every website you visit, torrent style. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/5248 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────── programming is something that everyone should learn at 14 to be used for calculating large sums of data, visualizing something they're trying to explain, or connect two systems that aren't normally connected. It should not be used as an eternal debug producing machine, nor as a way to collect and store user information to be sold as the real product, nor to be collecting and targeting -- stack overflow -- wow, talk about death of the author, amiright? -- -- endless data hoarding monger machines to point and to ponder the eternal ramifications of the brutal and violent prompts and their baggage implied when submitted for each semi-random thought that from the users mind was displaced. ... "they can sell this" and or "this is mrs selvig" who is this mister and why is the ms's his-es ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/4092 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── why not make a unified fediverse identity that can post on whatever instance it wants? ... hmmm could be accomplished with a layer of abstraction. You could use a "fediverse client" software to enter text into an HTML page which would have it's own UI and stuff and would organize your accounts and instances such that you could mark like, 3-7 as places you'd like to put a particular message. Then it would just... do it l m a o spam is gonna get sooooo much worse before it gets better but trust me, we'll figure it out. And it won't be long, either. It's a solvable problem, we just haven't built anything to handle it yet. ... yet... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/364 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ okay here's an idea, waterfall project management where the program is │ ║ developed one tiny piece at a time while being streamed to the entire company. │ ║ Everyone would submit answers which could be upvoted / patched / rewritten as │ ║ the main viewer cycles through each aspect of the project, checking for │ ║ updates to it's design that were suggested by developers or whatever. │ ║ Basically, one person (or one team) gets to write the actual source code, │ ║ while everyone else is just offering suggestions. You could break it up by │ ║ specialty, but the whole point is that everyone gets a complete picture of how │ ║ the program (and organization) is structured. Which should give the employees │ ║ more power to generate value for the company. All around a good deal I think? │ ║ Especially if the main viewer took time to explain each and every part so that │ ║ every viewer had the chance to understand. │ ║ │ ║ the reason why order is important is that our actions ripple through eternity. │ ║ we must set a good example for all the baby aliens, don't you think? │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/466 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/1261 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┐ ║ sometimes I run this WoW server with only like, 10 username and passwords. And │ ║ they're all public. As far as I can tell nobody's ever tried connecting │ ║ (whatever >.> ) but rather than set up a way to create your own │ ║ credentials I just said "yeah pick one at random and play whatever someone │ ║ else was doing because I like the idea of that" │ ║ │ ║ somehow, it felt right. │ ║ │ ║ most of my passwords (not all of them) are hacked and visible on the clear │ ║ net. Like you could probably google my usernames and get my current passwords │ ║ for things like, social media or my banks or whatever. I kinda like the idea │ ║ that "you cannot trust anything I say, so think of the ideas behind my words │ ║ and decide whether they hold meaning to you" rather than "execute these │ ║ particular thought patterns in your mind as if they came from my voice" │ ║ because one implies an exertion of control over the mind of the recipient │ ║ -> obey my thoughts as I broadcast them into your mind, that kinda vibe. │ ║ And I feel like you have to consent to that kind of thing hehe │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴──────────┘ |