Laurens Hof

Everything will happen all at once

(somewhat exaggerating on the -but-ai-part ofcourse, like a ton of ai wrappers are obvious toast, as well as a lot of the speculative side on ai)

The artificial intelligence company recently surpassed $19 billion in run-rate revenue, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025 and roughly $14 billion a few weeks ago, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the information is not public. The growth in run rate was driven by strong adoption of Anthropic’s AI models and products including its coding tool, Claude Code, the people said.

with anthropic doing such massive rev growth, while there are a roughly gazillion ways the upcoming energy crisis flows into private credit crisis, we might end up with the funniest possible outcome: an everything-but-ai market crash

i think the actual explanation here is that people are doing AI discourse because thats easy to understand, and you can just use it to signal social positioning that everyone is already aware of anyway. Doing AI bad or AI good discourse is comforting because its easy, with easy to understand […]

that on day 5 of war everyone is back discoursing about AI is an interesting datapoint that people are much more worried about the impact of AI than about an energy crisis

A table laying out the impact assessment by component

Fairphone put out a document that takes a holistic look at the environmental impact of electronics. Everything detailed by component, material, process, etc. Really interesting for those looking to dig deeper […]

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this uhhh, should probably also impact everyone's hyperfocus on microblogging as The Important Thing to onboard people onto open protocols

just so strange to see the concept of microblogging itself become less useful as a way to keep up to date with current events, as that used to be by far the best way to get up to date with events as it happened

this is the first crisis in like a decade where it feels like microblogging itself […]

and the al jazeera live blog, that one's good too

i am being reduced to substacks as the best way to keep up to date, for fucks sake

bluesky is surprisingly bad for it actually, during other News Events it still worked pretty well

mastodon doesnt even make the pretense to be useful for it, which is probably good

its insane how quickly and badly the info environment is degraded regarding the Current Situation in the middle east

@stefan @ozzy man, that this entire space operates for 50% on a proprietary protocol leads to just such funny outcomes

@stefan @liaizon there isnt any. its bascially the same question of why phanpy doesnt have a button to view a post in ivory.

difference is that phanpy does have a button to view the post on the home instance. but there is no home instance on atproto in that same sense. like it would mean […]

@julian like there is this implicit assumption that every server should be able to read every message type, or at least be able to parse it to determine whether they want to or not

this separations of concerns is much clearer with lexicons: part of your app design is making an explicit choice […]

@julian

it really matters which part of the system exactly is open ended. atproto's lexicon system is open ended in the sense that everyone can publish any lexicon they want, but each individual lexicon is constraint (by design)

json-ld also technically has this open-ended nature (you can put […]

@stefan @liaizon easiest way is to just replace witchsky with bsky in the url, the data structure is all exactly the same so this trick tends to work mostly

@liaizon im waiting for the truly cursed day when someone decides to stuff a lexicon into activitypubs @context field

@liaizon the quote post of the original question also give some good insight

https://witchsky.app/profile/did:plc:rmct3veqrvijr6xwugpucbqw/post/3mfqfc36r3k22/quotes

like yeah part of it are the cultural issues, but there are some pretty clear dev-ux points as well why people build on atproto […]

"For Europeans, it's still difficult to comprehend"

https://ig.ft.com/ukraine-kill-zone/?emailId=96e8e455-1831-4d01-b928-c0a81bc50d59&segmentId=9b32601b-2a45-d285-7b17-588dabaf81a5

I will be interviewed on BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast program tomorrow (Friday) at 745am with Oliver Hides and Megan Davies - to talk about Tŵt Cymru, the Social Web, and how it's different than the big tech platforms.

I will now work on condensing all of that into a five minute interview 😃 […]

@ricci @thisismissem

yeah, i think the other version of that question is one that is kind of impossible to answer, whether it is possible to get these network components done in a manner thats widely accessible while the network is the size of Meta. Like we can argue all we want whether atproto […]

What we’re finding is that for decentralisation to really make an impact, it needs to happen on multiple axes at the same time. There is the decentralisation in the way it is usually understood by communities on ActivityPub and Matrix: from a single centralised server to many decentralised servers run by independent groups. This gives communities autonomy over their own spaces, but each server still replicates the same software and feature set. There is the decentralisation in the way it is done on atproto: from a single software stack to separating identity, data storage and apps. This means your identity and data aren’t locked to any one application, and different apps can offer different experiences on top of the same underlying infrastructure.

@ricci @thisismissem like, this is a crucial part of decentralisation to me, and what i got at here. There are multiple axis of decentralisation, and the separating software into components is one of them

@ricci @thisismissem constellation runs on a raspberry pi? relays run on VPSes that are in the 10s of dollars per month range?

like the finding of atproto is that if you make network functions composable, you can get services on O(network users) scale that run on consumer hardware and are at […]

@ricci @thisismissem what exactly do you want out of a network shape? its pretty clear that you dont like the shape of atproto, but what is it you actually do want? im pretty lost at this point

@ricci @thisismissem https://constellation.microcosm.blue/

yes there is

@ricci @thisismissem this is what wafrn does conceptually, it uses the atproto but simply doesnt index the entire atmosphere

@ricci @thisismissem like fundamental to tthis entire debate is the question on whether a service (server/appview/floorp) should either have a full network view or if partial network view is acceptable

@ricci @thisismissem same way that a mastodon server deals with it: simply not indexing the entire amount of network traffic

nothing stopping you from subscribing to jetstream and only filter content thats coming from people who are on the combined follow list of accounts on "your server" […]

@tom the biggest pushback that holos got in the first round was from a single well known idiot that hugely set the tone and was reminiscent of old patterns