Larens Hof makes an interesting observation. Decentralized social networks are now being used to share and exchange bits of software the way existing social networks have been used to share comments and media. "Over the past two weeks, three unrelated projects have each, independently, started rebuilding parts of the software distribution pipeline on open protocols. AltStore PAL, a third-party app marketplace for iOS, has integrated ActivityPub into its app discovery system. Tangled, a code collaboration platform built on the AT Protocol, announced a €3.8 million seed round. And npmx, a new browser for the npm package registry, launched its alpha with social features built on ATProto." I'm not sure exactly what 'decentralized software authoring meets AI' looks like, but it will be interesting, like a mess of Moltbooks, maybe. Update: The Batch asks, "Should there be a Stack Overflow for AI coding agents to share their learnings with each other?"
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