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@prushforth Yeah, lately I've been trying to use "vanilla" web dev and it's been pretty decent overall.

We're going to be doing that for this set of tutorials for making @agregore apps in the coming months so hopefully it can show more devs that you don't need fancy frameworks or build tools (or servers) to be productive.

https://github.com/ipfs/devgrants/pull/245

So true!

@yosh Jeeze, really not pulling any punches in here:

> The brutal truth is that the status quo reflects the economics of the developer market: expensive developers mean cutting off poorer customers. The observed reality is that modern web development sacrifices the experience of poorer people, and the model we've laid out here explains why that is: X > Y, where X is "cost of developer time" and Y is "cost of customers lost".

Anything that you depend on that's in the cloud or a SaaS can be taken away from you for any reason at any time based on what somebody that only cares about profiting off of you feels like at any given moment.

Language models like ChatGPT and Replika are a perfect target for something like that. Watch out before becoming dependent on them. Folks into this stuff should be pushing even harder for offline-capable models if they want any sort of reliability in their future.

I take literally any opportunity I can get to infodump about mesh networks. 😂

One useful thing about working across multiple projects at once is all the potential for cross-pollination.

The p2p search indexing relates to the community web archival realates to the mesh network content loading optimization relates to local-first web apps and relates to cooperative governance models.

It's like planting seeds in a bunch of places and slowly weaving the trees together into a larger structure.

@msub2 Very useful insight ty. Totally forgot that private trackers were a thing.

@sleepycat I got my buzzword bingo in seconds. Gonna dig into the source code to see what the ginmick is 😍

@jalcine If you're exploring distros for pinephone, you might be interested in @capyloon which is based on Firefox OS and has some p2p features built in.

Super pumped to be chatting with the person behind https://unit.land/ to talk about how we can use #IPFS in @agregore to make it easy to visually assemble applications with zero extra code.

Saving and loading entire Unit graphs is super easy with IPFS+Fetch and you can even have a zero-server collaborative live coding environment just by plugging libp2p pubsub into the Units graph editor function.

Taking a small step back, and I really think I'd love to work on #Agregore full time. I like the other projects I'm working on right now, but they just don't spark joy in the same way.

@hng Like, illegal streaming sites pay people to scour for content and add it to the site? Where do those people then source it? Do they do the rips on behalf of the site from DVDs and websites?

Where the heck do streaming sites (of the not corpo variety) even source their content? Like, it feels like they're getting data more reliably than torrents these days.