Travis F W1d ago

I'm all up in the #FLOS mindset where if I have a problem I want to engineer a solution.

Problem is I have enough problems (in common with everyone) I have begun too many projects, and I don't even have spoons and life and cash flow allowing for a few.

First on my list right now is … well I'm just going to call it #FediHelper for now.

It would be a bot that would help you do everything you want on the #Fediverse.

Find people, gather community, reference/follow/bootstrap …

Show threadTravis F W1d ago
Sounds like an #LLM chat bot?
A core tenet would be to support LLM-free usage. Chatbots are old; I could do a lot without LLMs. But then I'm not a purist either, and LLMs can enable support for ad-hoc needs that haven't been anticipated and designed yet.
Show threadJohanna, CanCon variety1d ago

@travisfw

This creates a picture in my head of a wordcloud, or a systems-type diagram based on a fairly basic degrees-of-separation traversal from a starter account or a hashtag. Sort of like creating a starter pack, but dynamically, on-the-fly and non-persistent, based on a user request.

I mean, really, what we need here is a non-enshittified, (or disenshittified?) intelligent, semantic search that only returns pointers (functionally, recommendations) to users.

Show threadTravis F W23h ago
@johannab i think a big question on the fediverse, is how to reach the right people, when you have a question, or have something to say, or need community. That dynamic starter-pack concept could address this.
Show threadJohanna, CanCon variety

@travisfw Very much!

I feel like a lot of what people actually *need* of these digital pseudo-spaces is not exactly more content (bigger/busier feeds) or more pseudo-spaces where Yet.Another.Profile has to be created and managed and stored.

We just need to make the connections we know are here somewhere, they're just not visible in the mass crowd that we still end up being when we look outside our own nodes.

It's less a technical/product problem than cultural. As I usually find. 😆

Apr 12 at 10:56pmWeb
Show threadTravis F W20h ago
@johannab yes. When you look at the coporate advertizing /surveillance capitalist model, social media is, to them, just media. Something to attract people with, so you can sell ads. But breaking away from that, it becomes apparent we often are not showing up to *just* consume media. Seeing each others' cats and jokes is great, but it's a way to *connect*. And I'm going to disagree about the technical part: The social media model doesn't facilitate connection that well.
Show threadJohanna, CanCon variety19h ago

@travisfw heh. I don’t think I was clear enough on what I meant by “technical”. The social “media” model is not the fail point because of the literal nuts-and-bolts of how to exchange our info. We can completely recreate all kinds of messaging and connectivity constructs from the protocols on up, there’s no “new” technology like supposed AI supposed “agents” needed.

The difference is in the architecture and the integration, which are dynamic systems of human intent. Not code.