iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

damn I am excited to read this

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that place is new york city, in case anyone was wondering

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central park blossoming blue skies

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resisting the urge to share my morning routine

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the fragmentation of bluesky, substack notes, farcaster, twitter, mastodon etc is the first mainstream indication of community and culture eclipsing technological capabilities as the primary driver of adoption. soon features won’t really matter at all because diff front-ends will serve everyone

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the sexual tension between AI doomerism and AI gold rush

in retrospect it’s going to seem crazy we didn’t start social as a protocol

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totally have also been thinking it would be cool to have group chats where the *group* can decide to send things to the feed

comparing substack notes and bluesky is a reminder that community itself is everything, communities will build their own software as dev costs go to zero (on top of atprotocol(?) and vibes will ultimately prevail

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the scene doesn’t like this post lol

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you do not want to be *in* the scene. it’s better to be scene-adjacent. exist at the edge of a few scenes, and perhaps even, find a friend group that dabbles in all of the ones you like but isn’t attached to any of them. indeed, the friend group is of a much higher aspiration than any scene

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fuck ya, this is inevitable

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that sounds great! the bluesky dreamposting festival brooklyn circa 2023

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rob hardy @ungated.life · 10/04/2023

realizing the only social graph I care about are my actual friends lol I feel so liberated omg

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if there was ever a time for each of us to be the change we wanna see on social media, it's right now 🌱✨

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/04/2023

y’all have great power over the future of the vibes here now

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totally and what’s interesting about this is that it will matter *a lot* for people who spent all their time growing low-affinity audiences instead of making friends

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personally love that there’s no drafts. makes me think less hard

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when spending a lot of time up in blue skies it’s important to remember to touch grass

🅱️en @benratkey.com · 10/04/2023

i think a major part of why I feel so much freer here is that the entire startup/VC part of my graph isn’t on here yet. i’ll probably always be a entrepreneur in some way, but damn, I am so over that culture

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it’s gonna be wild having the early development of bluesky etiquette and communication norms being disproportionately influenced by tpot culture

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rob hardy @ungated.life · 10/04/2023

yeah i hope the homies take this place seriously and put down roots here. would be sad if everyone just went back to the sinking and burning ship that is twitter lol

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I have a feeling this one’s for realz

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it is what it is is the truest expression that I’m aware of it is what it is

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was already considering leaving twitter and reallocating my energy to private, cozy spaces, mostly IRL and group chats. maybe i’ll use this opportunity to go bluesky-only and see how that feels. if nothing else, I think we’ll experience a multi-month new energy honeymoon phase here

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for the last year and a half i’ve taken my practice quite *seriously* and in the process I think cut myself off from a lot of joy and compassion. both seem to be emerging again, and it feels very very good. and i remain grateful for the year of seriousness. it’s what I needed

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/04/2023

makes a lot of sense to first siphon the graph via lookalike app and then build new interfaces that expand our sense of what’s possible on top of that graph. trying to do both at the same time is too difficult and has repeatedly failed

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i spent 6 mo of 2021 negotiating for bluesky to be built in an org independent from twitter, and boy was that the right decision

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ali @alitaylor.bsky.social · 10/04/2023

Let’s set a world record together and get the most liked post on Bluesky.

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your soul yearns to express and to become itself. blue skies open above, sun shines on your heart, and the crisp air whispers in your ear, “you can be yourself here”

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the people who use twitter most meaningfully seem to evolve online friendships into IRL. could be interesting to build a bluesky client that focuses on this — city maps, events, dating, etc.

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we should meet monthly and plot on how to overthrow twitter. could be fun, even if LARP

is there a bluesky townhall?

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damn, now feels like the perf time to start a spicy alt

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Michael Ashcroft @michaelashcroft.com · 09/04/2023

if this momentum keeps up, i’d bet we have another meaningful client within 6mo and ppl start to ‘get it’

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Oh my god everyone is coming over here this is great

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generative AI must be paired with a subtractive creative process. "chip away everything that's not david." feels like an art of expanding and contracting in cycles, progressively approximating the essence of what we’re trying to create or express

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team, how do we make this place one where people hangout around the fire and make friends and prevent it becoming an outcome-orientated, exploitative, marketing-driven cesspool

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noticing that I am way more likely to look through follows because everyone follows so few people right now. kind of fascinating to watch the graph be rebuilt from scratch without all the twitter baggage

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