iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 09/04/2025

enjoying #iiw as usual. mostly good questions/reactions about what we're building at world. most disappointing, however, is those who flat out refuse to engage with us to overcome their misconceptions

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 23/11/2024

I listen to audiobooks and read physical books. It’s a completely different process of absorbing information. There have been a number of studies that confirm you retain more through physical books than audio. I find this to be true as well, it’s much easier for me to become distracted with audio.

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 23/11/2024

changing my last name to “Chovie” so my nieces and nephews refer to my wife as “Aunt Chovie”

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 23/11/2024

“Decentralization is the result of a system that diffuses power throughout its structure, so that no node holds particular power at the center.” Brilliant!

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 20/11/2024

I may not be able to put off learning rust any longer

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 20/11/2024

I attended a meetup in Seattle and got to spend time with @bnewbold.net and @pfrazee.com from the Bluesky engineering team. I walked away with an understanding of the role DIDs and PDSs play in the grand scheme of things, and why the most exciting work sits higher up the stack. I almost unretired.

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 05/10/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #35,509!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #35,509, Gabe Cohen ‪@decentralgabe.xyz‬, joined on Apr 24, 2023"

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 10/05/2024

Decided to stop being a lazy fatass and it’s paying off!

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 10/05/2024

after another day of terrible allergies and no motivation I’ve relinquished control to the depths of my couch once again

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 10/05/2024

Choose your own bubble vs bubbles bad

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 10/02/2024

Complete the sentence. Decentralization helped me ____

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 09/02/2024

The truly decentralized PLC alternative

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 05/07/2023

Lord give me the intelligence of those who light off fireworks in broad daylight

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 01/07/2023

What would anti social media look like? More engagement = less discoverable?

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 06/06/2023

the “3 stars and up” button has to be the least clicked in history

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 29/05/2023

what’s bluesky’s funding model and how is it sustained?

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 28/05/2023

content moderation is an unbounded complex problem. no one will ever agree on the same rules & decisions. better to allow everyone to curate their own rules & be their own arbiter. that’s decentralization

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 28/05/2023

What’s a pirate’s favorite type of code? QRRRRRRRR

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 28/05/2023

tired of ironing. ironing board

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Peter McCormack @mccormack.bsky.social · 21/05/2023

Running Bluesky

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 18/05/2023

airbag jeans gave me the body I’ve always wanted

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 18/05/2023

Listening to a guided meditation on 2x speed

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 17/05/2023

thinking about creating a did:web tool. would be cool if you could host your own did:web and self sign messages here

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 17/05/2023

I’m at peets and ordered an americano. I stand and wait for it to be ready, the barista asks me what I’m waiting for and I tell him. He turns around and seconds later he looks at his coworker and says “any normal people orders in these?”

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 10/05/2023

Unpopular opinion: key security for crypto + identity should be hard. You’re dealing with the most sensitive information you have. If it’s easy, you’re making trade offs and not taking it seriously enough

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 09/05/2023

curious about this often talked about but rarely defined "decentralization" concept? look no further... decentralgabe.xyz/a-journey-into-de…

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 07/05/2023

friendly reminder we live in a system of surveillance capitalism. look how creepily accurate this is--https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/30/opinion/privacy-targeted-advertising.html

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 07/05/2023

I’d like to see banning become a lot harder. Something like 3 strikes with a fixed time bound between each strike. Stop people from creating their own echo chambers

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 06/05/2023

dipping my toes into web dev with the help of agentGPT

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 05/05/2023

reusable pizza boxes to save the planet

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 03/05/2023

friendly reminder nobody knows what the hell they’re doing

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OR13 @or13.io · 02/05/2023

Anyone have an implementation of dilithium that is not based on cloudflare or the JavaScript wasm one on npm?

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 30/04/2023

Enjoying midjouryning my dog living in a dogs world with art of himself on the walls

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 28/04/2023

would love to be able to bring my own DID to bluesky. or have some visibility into DID usage. are my messages signed? Will I be able to send encrypted messages using keys in my DID?

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 27/04/2023

traveling makes me miss my water at home. Austin water tastes like grass

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 27/04/2023

all roads lead to decentralization

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Mason @handle.invalid · 26/04/2023

> "twitter refugee" > tweets aren't moderated enough > flees to app built on a decentralized protocol

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 26/04/2023

decentralization = curation, which has a risk of “choose your own echo chamber” I want an opt-in for random exposure to different viewpoints

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 24/04/2023

after twitter, orbis, farcaster, mastodon, and quite a few others I’m excited to have a DID-based social app!

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