Turn your iphone into your very own shellphone at danaisdabest.github.io/shellphoneemulator
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber emphasized the importance of critical thinking and developing a generalist skillset for the AI era.
Bluesky's CEO warns you shouldn't 'fully outsource your thinking' to AI
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber emphasized the importance of critical thinking and developing a generalist skillset for the AI era.
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If you read this tutorial (atproto.com/guides/appli...) you'll see the whole model for building apps like this
Quick start guide to building applications on AT Protocol - AT Protocol
In this guide, we're going to build a simple multi-user app that publishes your current "status" as an emoji.
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What we’ve launched today is the first step for how we’re going to evolve verification. The initial set of trusted verifiers includes news orgs who’ve agreed to take on the task of verification for their journalists. In the future, this set will expand, as well as how apps can choose to use them.
The big mistake that the CEOs of both Reddit & Twitter have made is failing to realize that their sites are supported by lots of unpaid labor (creators, moderators, etc) and it’s not enough to focus on experience of users who’re mainly readers of these sites. The 1-9-90 ratio is real.
Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO
A lot of Reddit will go dark soon in protest of API changes
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An advertising based business model is incompatible with an API strategy that enables 3rd party clients. Most social apps figured this out a decade ago which is why Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, etc don’t have such APIs. It’s a legacy from pre-2010 tech culture.
Reddit defends its usage-based API pricing, arguing the company “needs to be fairly paid to contin...
Priya Anand / Bloomberg: Reddit defends its usage-based API pricing, arguing the company “needs to be fairly paid to continue supporting high-usage third-party apps”
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I’ve described Reddit as figuring out how to thread the needle by being a centralized service yet content moderation policies are federated out to volunteers. The flip side is these volunteers also control the most popular destinations in the app A healthy form of checks & balances in my opinion.
Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
Moderators say third-party apps are essential for their work.
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