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Todd @toddgreener.com · 4d

Lastly, all of this would be built on open standards and FLOSS. No proprietary protocols, no walled gardens.

I understand that this is not a "practical" solution, but the shape of practical is engineered to maintain the status quo.

If interested find me at @[email protected]

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Todd @toddgreener.com · 4d

2. the software. serve the user's need for social interaction with a self-hosted CMS and social network system. Data stays on the user's device, and can interact with other nodes directly via https (no weird network voodoo). authentication via oauth, validation using public keys and content signing

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Todd @toddgreener.com · 4d

1. a UPnP device that can install service applications via sandboxed containers (docker, flatpack, etc) and automatically have it set up things like DNS, TLS and other configuration issues via a user friendly step by step wizard.

What this does is make self-hosting frictionless

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Todd @toddgreener.com · 4d

I want to see realized the ability for people to host their own data, services, and social connections as easily as owning a game console. two main components to this:

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Todd @toddgreener.com · 4d

@hankgreen.bsky.social Just watched your latest video. I've also been thinking about how to create user agency while enabling social interactions online. To me, the problem is the structure of centralization and the profit motive of the platforms. I have a solution to address both simultaneously.

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Todd @toddgreener.com · Sep 14

I mean, nobody will make me an ambassador and I'm just livid. LIVID I SAY!

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Todd @toddgreener.com · Sep 14

I've been thinking that it's young adult women all this time, if we have to pick a most influential demographic

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Todd @toddgreener.com · Sep 14

based

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · Sep 14

Me, too!

Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · Sep 14

All I want from A.I., literally all I want, is for it to discern whale language. That's it.

Don't need it to book my flight, or give me stock picks, or take over my job.

Just apply self-supervised machine learning to 100,000 hours of whale song and FIGURE OUT WHAT THEM WATER PALS ARE SAYING.

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Todd @toddgreener.com · Sep 14

Do you like magical girls? Urban fantasy? Office drama? Pigeons?

If you answered yes to any of those, you must read this (or else!)

www.wattpad.com/story/401427...

#fiction #novel #webnovel #satire #magicalgirls #fantasy #idontknowwhatyoupeopleexpectimjustakid

Alienation Exception: Magic Unbound - Todd - Wattpad

Elise is just trying to survive her first week at a soul-crushing game studio, but life has other plans. Enter Pudgeon: a talking pigeon with a flair for chaos...

www.wattpad.com

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Todd @toddgreener.com · Feb 10

@gliese1337.bsky.social I think you're the only person who might care even a little bit in my acquaintance, haha

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Todd @toddgreener.com · Feb 10

toddgreener.com/2025/02/10/a...

#decentralized #decentralization #websub #opensource #fediverse #atproto #bluesky

ATProto is Overhyped Bunk

ATProto claims to provide a decentralized way of publishing content, but it fails to solve a problem that wasn’t already solved by openly governed standards. It also does it in a less efficie…

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Todd @toddgreener.com · Jan 31

saw your game via a reddit ad. so they're doing some work, haha (wishlisted)

I made a tiny prototype of something similar years ago (yours is much further along), and I'm curious how you're handling pathfinding.

Looks super cool! Best of luck!

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Todd @toddgreener.com · Jan 13

That being said, the ideal would be for every INDIVIDUAL to have their own node that only publishes to exactly the subs they want and ONLY receives the data they ask for.  
We need to untrain algorithm dependency. They make us objects. Discoverability should be driven by natural demand.

Todd @toddgreener.com · Jan 13

Man I get so annoyed listening to techbros talk about #bluesky. They promise everything that #activitypub / #mastodon actually does but without mentioning that ATproto makes something like the #fediverse cost prohibitive.

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Todd @toddgreener.com · Dec 21

His murder mitts are dreaming of hugs and snugs (this guy is a huge simp) #cats #caturday

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · Dec 18

Dwarf Fortress just received a new update featuring 🎉Container Graphics🎉

Make sorting a breeze with unique sprites for containers and their contents therein!

A series of boxes and barrel sprites from Dwarf Fortress displaying the objects inside them. Things inside include: armor, weapons, scrolls, furs, gems, and food.

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Todd @toddgreener.com · Dec 1

She’s so rude. She won’t stop shouting at me!

#cats

A very naughty calico cat sitting on a blanket which is on top of a pile of laundry is shouting at me

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Todd @toddgreener.com · Nov 30

idk, I see a crow and I think "fren"

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