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https://piefed.social/u/inkwell posted on Mar 10, 2026 00:43
In reply to: https://activitypub.space/post/1491

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.

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https://piefed.social/u/strypey posted on Mar 13, 2026 10:23
In reply to: https://activitypub.space/post/1491

@julian@activitypub.space > are you involved with @portafed@mastodon.social as well?

This was in the context of suggesting that because Inkwell was developed with what appears to be a centaur(1) approach, and you think the Portafed ReadMe reads a bit like Trained MOLE scat, the two might be linked. This is drawing a rather long bow ; )

I think you may be tilting at windmills about Portafed. The author confirmed, in response to your post, that they used a Trained MOLE to help with some surface documentation. This could also be an example of a centaur approach.

Maybe English is not their first language? Perhaps they have a form of neurodivergence that makes them excellent at writing cryptographic hieroglyphics, but poor at writing natural language to explain their work to other humans? It pays to ask probing questions, for sure, but not to leap to conclusions.

(1) I’m referencing @pluralistic@mamot.fr’s writing, on when automation is used to support a human (centaur), and when a human is reduced to a meat-based support system for the automation (reverse-centaur, or “human in the loop”). IMHO his best piece on this is Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs.

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