Six years ago I took on stay-at-home dad duties with the condition that I would be able to work on a distributed re-imagining of the internet. I learned rust, sat in coffee shops, agonized over cryptography algorithms, wrote code, .... and had two more kids. Now the code gets dusted off only when some new technology again fails to address the critical problems of communication. But now there is Nostr and perhaps, just maybe, I don't have to be the one to write the next thing. Instead I'll give it a try by posting some of my musings from the past decade or so of thinking about the attendant problems. Here is my first effort.

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The Impossible Problem of Social Media - Daniel Wigton

The problem of maintaining signal-to-noise for large delivery-by-default networks is intractable since the effort required scales non-linearly with...