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Gavin Owens

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Gavin Owens@gavinowens.net · last mo.

I've been prototyping a new playing deck in Tonk for @getdweb.net . Here's the browser and edit tab. I make a lot of changes through my agent (it's useful for pulling information), but obviously I need to go in and tweak the copy or correct it in places.

feynon@ankeshbharti.com · last mo.

A small ask from the local-first community. I’m speaking at @localfirstconf.com in Berlin about @tiles.run, but this year the conference isn't able to cover speaker travel. I'm trying to raise $700 through Github Sponsors to cover my flight. Any amount helps. github.com/sponsors/til...

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Gavin Owens@gavinowens.net · 2mo ago

There is a twisted irony for companies right now. In Satya's latest article "A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable," he warned about a future where "a few models eat everything they see." That phrase captures the bet companies are making right now whether they realise it or not.

Gavin Owens@gavinowens.net · 2mo ago

The industrial revolution organized companies around the production line. The computer revolution organized them around the database. What will be the organizing principle of the AI revolution?

Gavin Owens@gavinowens.net · 2mo ago

Your next phone will be something closer to a companion than a tool. It will know your rhythms and hold your memories. But before it can talk to your neighbor's companion, it needs a shared platform, matching accounts, and a server that is still running. That is bad and here's why ->

Gavin Owens@gavinowens.net · 3mo ago

You've tried to solve the data fragmentation by adding yet another database. It's like creating another group chat to replace the five group chats you already have. Now you have six group chats.

Gavin Owens@gavinowens.net · 3mo ago

What if we could create a web like thing that was gated to your social network like friends of friends 🤔 We still need to protect open access, public space, but as a way to incubate and socialize early work without incurring heavy cost I think it’s interesting.

patak@patak.cat · 3mo ago

Heartbreaking. And a wake-up call. It is no longer about being difficult to find a way to sustain yourself through your work online. It is no longer sustainable to keep a website up now. Axel has done so much for the web and all of us. Buy one of his books if you can. We've learned so much from him.

Gavin Owens@gavinowens.net · 3mo ago

For ten years I've been chasing the same problem: how can groups of people coordinate without routing everything through a central authority. It's a common failure mode and a wicked problem. At @tonk.xyz, we're working on the most credible answer I've seen; one that is local-first all the way down.

Gavin Owens@gavinowens.net · 9mo ago

There is plenty of historical precedent available to those who care. Not only does it help us to chart a way forward, but it helps us to avoid the naïveté of the last 30+ years (eg. technological determinism).

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh · 10mo ago

The PDS paradigm won't move your data from the cloud to your personal computer. Most people will still rely on an institutional cloud service, but instead of data-banking with a maligned corporation most people’s data can be entrusted to the equivalent of member-owned credit unions for data storage.

As the economy was transformed by industrialization and then by consumer banking, powerful new players such as Standard Oil, J.P. Morgan, and a handful of others threatened the freedom of citizens. In order to provide a counterweight to these new powers, citizens joined together to form trade unions and cooperative banking institutions, which were federally chartered to represent their members’ interests. These citizen organizations helped balance the economic and social power between large and small players and between employers and worker. The same collective organization is required to move from an individualized asset-based understanding of data control to a collective system based on rights and accountability, with legal standards upheld by a new class of representatives who act as fiduciaries for their members. In the U.S. almost 100 million people are members of credit unions, not-for-profit institutions owned by their members, and already chartered to securely manage their members’ digital data and to represent them in a wide variety of financial transactions, including insurance, investments, and benefits. The question then is, could we apply the same push for citizen power to the area of data rights in the ever-growing digital economy?
Gavin Owens@gavinowens.net · last yr.

If you are interested in how local first might mature, definitely check out the episode. Had a blast with @grjte.sh @arro.bsky.social and @nicomnbl.bsky.social on this one.

ZK Hack@zkhack.dev · last yr.

The ZK Podcast released an episode on local-first software this week! @arro.bsky.social and @nicomnbl.bsky.social chat w @grjte.sh & @goblinoats.com about the foundations of local-first architecture, CRDTs and how ZK can be incorporated into these models. zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/367/