Scripting News: Friday, September 19, 2025
Friday, September 19, 2025 The challenge we face in the social web is enticing people off the silos with fun toys to play with that from the start don't rely on a bigco to run it. The back-end is a server you could run for $20 a month on Digital Ocean for example. But the logical network isn't tied to the physical server. We use URLs or DNS to find other nodes. They can be hosted anywhere. The reason to run lots of servers is to demonstrate that it's only as centralized as the web itself, from day 1. You can browse other people's subscription lists as you can in twitter-like networks. But it's made of feeds. The really simple ones. # I'm going to call it social web not open social web . You don't need the "open" part. The web is open. It's like saying "wet water." # There should be a ChatGPT "personality" for the chatbot. I'd like to start with a black lab. When I say "good work" that r...