I just wish I knew how to make this scalable (like, how do you do this on the internet?) or work even when you don’t know the example person that well. If you have ideas, let me know!
Immediate thoughts (not actionable) VR socialisation and vibe-recognising AIs (models trained to predict conversation duration and recurring meetings) (But VR wont be good enough for socialisation until like 2027). VR because easier to persistently record, though apple has made great efforts to set precedents that will make it difficult, especially if you want to use eye tracking data, they’ve also developed trusted compute stuff that might make it possible to use the data in privacy-preserving ways.
Better thoughts: Just a twitterlike that has semi-private contexts. Twitter is already like this for a lot of people, it’s good for finding the people you enjoy talking to. The problem with twitter is that a lot of people, especially the healthiest ones, hold back their best material, or don’t post at all, because they don’t want whatever crap they say when they’re just hanging out to be public and on the record forever. Simply add semi-private contexts. I will do this at some point. Iceshrimp probably will too. Mastodon might even do it. X might do it. Spritely definitely will but they might be in the oven for a bit. Bluesky might never, though, because radical openness is a bit baked into the protocol currently, which is based, but not ideal for all applications.
Immediate thoughts (not actionable) VR socialisation and vibe-recognising AIs (models trained to predict conversation duration and recurring meetings) (But VR wont be good enough for socialisation until like 2027). VR because easier to persistently record, though apple has made great efforts to set precedents that will make it difficult, especially if you want to use eye tracking data, they’ve also developed trusted compute stuff that might make it possible to use the data in privacy-preserving ways.
Better thoughts: Just a twitterlike that has semi-private contexts. Twitter is already like this for a lot of people, it’s good for finding the people you enjoy talking to. The problem with twitter is that a lot of people, especially the healthiest ones, hold back their best material, or don’t post at all, because they don’t want whatever crap they say when they’re just hanging out to be public and on the record forever. Simply add semi-private contexts. I will do this at some point. Iceshrimp probably will too. Mastodon might even do it. X might do it. Spritely definitely will but they might be in the oven for a bit. Bluesky might never, though, because radical openness is a bit baked into the protocol currently, which is based, but not ideal for all applications.