sōm
hyl.st
sōm
@hyl.st
another weekend warrior trying to change the world

shaping reality, one myth at a time
be free, curious and kind
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sōm @hyl.st · Feb 2
#introduction 🧵 👋 Going pseudonymous on the internet again. Feels important to me to shed identities, like chapters to my life.
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there should be a role in society where my main responsibilities are to read cs & math papers and just kinda think about stuff
November 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Weaver
alpha.weaver.sh
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Very indicative of just how far @:// has to go from an understanding point of view.
Zach is a smart person! They're pretty technical! They still didnt know they were actively posing a question answered by their very post! We already live in this world and you're using the very protocol you describe!
Do you think there's a world, that didn't happen, in which social media was built into an internet protocol?

So, meaning... individuals release comments, blogs, video, music, etc from a single source. And then social media acts as the feed, not the host. Similar to how RSS worked, and email works.
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Thinking of opening up seams.so (not ready yet) to "early access alpha"

It's hypothes.is on the atmosphere. anybody wanna try it out and give me feedback?

I got a simple backend built and am almost ready to launch beta, see what people do with it, what they want from it.
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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I guess the year of the Linux desktop is actually real this time
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is so fucking sick!!!
Endgame in sight

I wanna do basically this, but unfortunately I'm compelled to recreate some of the pieces so... Good luck to me? lol
We can just do things. Thanks to the work of @atproto.com @atprotocol.dev @sri.xyz @juli.ee @leaflet.pub @awarm.space @schlage.town @cozylittle.house and @danabra.mov for the tools and inspiration to actually get this to work. I am merely a vessel for copypasta coding.
Using AT Protocol as a Headless CMS for your websites
wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pub
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Team fuck malls ✊

I get so disoriented and overstimulated there too.
malls are so overstimulating i feel more tired than when i go for an hour long walk in the freezing cold
November 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Ha, this is pretty much how I work and I didn't realise it was a cultural thing, but that's why you see me popping up everywhere:

(From: protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/n... )
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Unfortunately @slices.network isn't quite ready for prime time so I'm gonna have to build my own backend to launch seams. This pushes back the launch date.

Maybe pull a @cosmik.network semble and only index things that come from the app for now, and worry about backfill/live index later...
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Proposal: Using `sib` in the same way as `bro` or `sis`.
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
subconscious on atproto!! this idea keeps coming up too.

I'm getting there, still gotta level up a bit more before I'm ready to develop it.

I think there's a few other attempts on going too
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!

tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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we need more composable atproto features like this to use it on our websites no matter the framework! i'll definitely be *stealing* this for my apps :D
threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!

tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I did it!! I beat silksong!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
its not fair how sweaty this boss makes my hands 😅😅😅
hyl.st sōm @hyl.st · 3d
Getting so close to beating silksong!!! Final boss got my adrenaline pumping! (yes the *actual* final)
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Getting so close to beating silksong!!! Final boss got my adrenaline pumping! (yes the *actual* final)
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Building for communities, not profits! 💪

Pumped about the launch of Bonfire, a new microblogging platform that is fully interoperable and modular so people can pick and choose the features that work best for their community.

bonfirenetworks.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
You may wish to actually check then: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sorry, not convinced this is true. Nutritional value of food has been in free fall lately.

Beauty has been eradicated from public infrastructure.

Water though? Water is a sacred commodity that we have in such abundance people mistake it for being free. Praise water.
even within your own lifetime it is difficult to recall how much better everything you eat, drink, and touch is than it used to be
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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A good government builds and funds great infrastructure to allow private businesses to thrive. This was the entire point of Obama’s “you didn’t build that” speech. The private sector forgets and/or denies this at their peril.
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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sex workers who make their money on the internet often hang out being cool people on the internet to generate traffic on a sfw account.

if you have zero sex workers as mutuals it means you're using the platform you're on like linkedin and checking their resumes in advance
one comment on the Talarico Instagram non scandal: sex workers are allowed to have lives and interests outside of work, too, including politics.

feel like bsky is preaching to the choir in that regard, but
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Paging the mighty @audreyt.org :)

AP Bonfire is a great step, but the goal is the tech vision of A Half Built Garden! The pieces are coming together!
We should figure out government operated on #atprotocol

#SeaMoThoughts
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Being a panpsychist is convenient because you get to completely ignore debates about whether AI is becoming conscious or whatever. I recommend it.
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Everybody starts this reckoning by building a Todo system first. I did, Luis did, @steve-yegge.bsky.social did, @desertthunder.dev did!

Bigger software will as well, and, probably platforms following that
I’m a little skeptical about this for something the complexity of a desktop OS but it is absolutely coming at the app level. My hacking to bend my GTD experience to my will has been amazing—both fun and making every day more productive by enhancing the core of my todo system.
Imagine you just answer some questions from an agent and it just grows an operating system for you based on the things you like want and need
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The nature of software has changed. Not many people have yet updated their priors
Bespoke desktop and mobile environments are the future by the way. AI will make that happen
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM