Post AP09g3POmznNjKeXWS by natecull@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AP09g0MS7UekHKFe0u by natecull@mastodon.social
       2022-10-26T01:32:16Z
       
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       Roam looks somewhat interesting, except that it's a proprietary commercial product, so I'm no longer interested. Goodbye, and enjoy being the problem rather than the solution.But this general sort of thing is the sort of thing I want to see in the open source space.https://roambrain.com/building-the-global-knowledge-graph/
       
 (DIR) Post #AP09g0qaJSl7mmLhyq by alexl@mstdn.io
       2022-10-27T18:53:42Z
       
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       @natecull #Logseq started as a FOSS Roam clone but it's already much better. It works with local Markdown or OrgMode files and has e2e encrypted sync for supporters. It also has an upcoming whiteboards feature powered by the FOSS library #tldraw.
       
 (DIR) Post #AP09g1tSQGeR1yhW64 by natecull@mastodon.social
       2022-10-26T01:35:21Z
       
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       what IS it with every kind of "mind map" tool, that they instantly become insanely jealous tiny commercial fiefdoms? It's bizarre. It's like this whole genre is only written by motivational sales speakers, and for motivational sales speakers, so they're super IP-focused?Alternatively: why, when Wikis worked so well in the formative years of the Open movement, did we not get development of any other kind of open knowledge-sharing tool than Wikis? The whole idea of "knowledge sharing".. didn't.
       
 (DIR) Post #AP09g3POmznNjKeXWS by natecull@mastodon.social
       2022-10-26T01:39:39Z
       
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       eg shouldn't even a primitive collective-knowledge-amplification-tool, no matter how ineffective, have led to a positive feedback loop helping create ever more user-aligned knowledge amplification tools?Why did we get stuck?Our mental model (circa 2000) of what knowledge amplification and collective action was... worked for some things! We got Linux, Wikipedia and Github. But not well and not for everything, and it just isn't evolving, in fact it's becoming less and less user-aligned.
       
 (DIR) Post #AP09g4zatuLIdsaxZw by natecull@mastodon.social
       2022-10-26T01:42:04Z
       
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       One problem perhaps is that knowledge amplification also means noise amplification, distraction amplification, addiction amplification, disinformation amplification, and abuse amplification.
       
 (DIR) Post #AP09g6QZZ5W75qE1Gi by natecull@mastodon.social
       2022-10-26T01:43:05Z
       
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       And our response to disinformation and abuse has been centralization, censorship and surveillance, which is exactly what the 1990s internet thought it was fighting against.