shazow
@shazow.eth
A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.
shazow.net
Currently: WhatsABI
For the Bluesky/ATProto-curious, here's a meaty thread of an actual censorship failure mode being mitigated by booting up an entire parallel appview separate from the official one by the Blacksky team.
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❌ Social Network
❌ Social Media
✔️ Social Venue
A social venue is about people. It is a place to make new friends, have abundant opportunities to deepen our friendships, and ultimately spend more time together in-person.
A social venue can be a pub, a poker club, a chat group, a subreddit, or a feed of writing and im...
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there's only two ways to fully decentralize something:
1. no ownership
2. collective ownership
(necessary but not sufficient)
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kinda sounds like someone cares about farcaster being more decentralized
I'm extremely bullish on the Farcaster team and the Farcaster protocol
The fact that I can write this from a completely different place and reach you still blows my mind. And to build Zapper as a FC client required 0 coordination with the merkle team. I barely chatted with Varun and Dan, and even we did, it was as pee
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just to dilute the vibes a bit, i'd like to remind everyone that this is still the funniest cast of 2025:
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thinking about some reddit lore:
remember when the reddit founder/ceo got tilted so hard that he edited peoples' comments saying "fuck /u/spez"?
that was 2016
the apology was pretty good though www.reddit.com/r/announceme...
that whole subreddit...
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the cycle of violence continues 😭💀🤣
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