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Cake day: March 9th, 2024

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  • It’s intended to be much more local and decentralized than the fediverse, under the assumption that over time large fedi instances will exhibit the same issues as large centralized social networks (profit seeking, manipulation, etc)

    • Instead of many people connecting to the same server, people only connect to people’s devices that they know
    • It uses the resources of users “daily driver” devices for hosting
    • It leverages “real life” personal connections and trust to deny access to large centralized entities






  • I’m already benefiting from it on a daily basis, and I’m neither of those people.

    Capitalists will always capitalize, but that doesn’t necessarily negate usefulness. On the contrary, by some estimates llama3 cost nearly $1B to develop, yet it’s free on huggingface for anyone to download and use.