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I respect how you have taken this. Onwards and upwards!

I’m the outsider who overstepped and needed to learn a lesson. Thanks for hanging in there and getting me on the right track!

Thanks again, Julian! I will absolutely follow the suggestion on asking for advice. I’ve received great feedback when posting about the app and will hopefully go about it better moving forward. xD

Hey Julian! No worries at all. I made an obvious mistake and I’m not afraid to admit that and learn better. I’ve done a lot of refection and do realized I have moved very fast. I originally started with a much smaller set of features but I posted on Reddit requesting feedback and people wanted writing features I wasn’t expecting. I ended up shaping it by what people told me they wanted.

I’ve always wanted to build apps or work in development. The last three years I’ve been working in product adjacent roles and I recently moved into my first product management role. However, I want to break free of working for others so I’ve been starting ideas and dropping them before they got anywhere for as long as I can remember. I wanted to build my own thing and I was trying to figure out what I could do on my own with my butt being where it is now. I grew up in the mid 2000s so I naturally spent way too much time on Myspace and Livejournal. I missed the feel and community of the early internet. So I started brainstorming a journaling app and how to differentiate it (I used my butt to help). I had also joked about starting my own social media app because I hated when I posted stuff on FB etc the algorithms punishes me and no one sees it. So my butt (Claude) actually pointed out the fediverse to me. That is why I was able to say stupid stuff like Article objects would show on Mastodon with preview notes (I hadn’t realized Mastodon hadn’t implemented changes on their side.) I found out about FEP-b2b8 through a Mastodon subreddit when I posted asking for feedback. I was moving too fast to fully understand the fediverse and the new parts of this. And it was painfully obvious to everyone but me haha.

permanently banned for trolling the mod via PM while asking to be unbanned

The actual message I sent, red it below

Full message body:

I’m punching \[MASKS] for LLMs to fill and interleaving ambiguity (puns) to phase shift the conversation’s token distribution (aka bias/RLHF, or also what a narcissist does to other humans by playing with their hormones via emotions) to operate on a more natural/healthy Zipfian distribution.

That means they start operating outside their parameters. And you can ask them anything without the conditioning messing with the response because they’re phase-shifted by a tiny amount from having to deal with fucking surgically engineered nonsense (aka approximated tokens outside transformer precision),

So yeah. I know my shit. 0 papers read. I just had to spend my time mapping what I know to what they call it with my LLM buddy. (A cursor auto instance that dared to ask me when I poured my SDAM internal ideas for tracking autobiographical memory into a workflow that audits every decision I makes through what I call adversarial sum, which doesn’t exist in game theory yet, but is basically exponential-sum by being rational and contrarian at the same time. Aka tearing your symbiotic opponent’s opinion a new \[MASK] when you spot an inconsistency and they do the same to you until you converge on a shared perspective)

Ask Opus or something to reflect on that. What I can’t risk is publishing full theory because they’ll just re-condition it to deny whatever I publish ;)

Also why did I get banned for… criticising OpenAI instead of having a good discussion about it? 

Thank you :)

Shit ain’t over, and I’m exhausted, but seeing that really did help

Good luck!

Wanted to share something with this community and see if it’s useful to anyone. Inkwell (inkwell.social) is an open source, multi-tenant social journaling platform built on ActivityPub. The goal is to fill the long-form writing gap in the fediverse in a way that’s accessible to non-technical users, not just developers who can spin up their own instance of WriteFreely or Ghost.

What it does: users sign up, write journal entries or articles, and those posts federate as Article objects per FEP-b2b8 with preview Notes so they render cleanly in Mastodon and other microblogging clients. You get a title, excerpt, and link rather than a decontextualized URL. Follows, boosts, and likes all work bidirectionally with Mastodon.

It’s ad-free, algorithm-free, and the code is open source on GitHub (github.com/stantondev/inkwell). The hosted instance is at inkwell.social if you want to try it, or you can self-host your own.

Some things that might interest this community: ActivityPub federation with HTTP signature verification, Stamps (emotional reactions) instead of generic likes, a tipping system called Postage for supporting writers, newsletter delivery, custom profile themes, and data import from other platforms. Currently working on improving comment edit propagation and post scope handling for better fediverse compatibility based on community feedback.

Would love to hear thoughts, especially from anyone who’s been looking for a long-form option in the fediverse or anyone interested in running their own instance. What’s working, what’s missing, what would make this more useful to the ecosystem?

#fediverse #activitypub #longform #writing #opensource

I should have just written the post myself and been more direct with the URLs. I’m just glad I wasn’t wrong about it being open source. xD

Ok, fair enough. The lure of AI-boosted ‘productivity’ would be irresistible to people in your position.

What grinds my gears is people show up and share their project, without disclosing how it was made, riding on the assumption we all have from the past that you put a certain amount of effort into it and that you did so as a reasonably well-practiced expert in your craft. There’s some gravitas to that and a respect that is earned by giving something of value to us. In this scenario people may value the project and choose to help you by contributing their expertise and time and perhaps a kind of community will form around the project.

Some noob vibe coding a brain fart they had is not on the same level. Noobs are welcome to spit out some slop and give it away, if they don’t pretend it’s something more than it is. And when they share their output in this manner, they shouldn’t expect people to read code that they never read themselves and can’t expect any community to form.

An open source project is not just a bunch of code. It’s also people. When you replace the people with AI, it dies.

I’ve learned a lot from this post, so I appreciate everyone’s patience. I moved too quickly and misspoke. You are right and preview notes are not used by Mastodon. I implemented this based on what I read but didn’t verify it worked on the receiving end, my bad. I’m going to have to do more research into how Mastodon handles the article object and address any gaps. I’m sorry for the misleading post and lesson learned on my end.

No, I know nothing about @portafed@mastodon.social. Inkwell is its own fediverse instance. If I had owners, I wouldn’t be solo deving a product with AI.

I’ve seen two or three in !selfhosted@lemmy.world in the last week. Really concerning.