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i feel its usefulness in these moments, and yet not busying myself developing it right here right now. ironically, it’s hard to develop networking app without a network that would support you with all the docs and libs in the world. so lets talk a bit about it in stead.

the big turn that i’ve been announcing much earlier than it ended up being merited, and yet now it’s already in code. mostly. what lies beyond is a bit raw polishing in UI/control department and then bumpy road of adoption amongst the bravest.

people keep telling me that web of trust is not going to work. that network that isn’t monetized, isn’t built on economy is futile project. these are no longer days when i could have been either motivated to prove them wrong, nor de-motivated by the depressive possibility of reality of their words. i am no longer here, nor there.

“we can’t control outcomes of our actions, can’t control anything, really— so why, why waste time on stuff that doesn’t reward you (in whatever way) through its process rather than mere result?”

or, put in other words, if you really want to achieve something, make it fun. can we make 0net-conservancy/riza development fun?

• znapi (in development) wraps around 0net api and along with debug mode allows to develop 0net pages just like you would any normal web project

• built-in debugging options (such as duct-taped ipython console) could make core dev cycle faster, but really luck proper usability for real impact (yet)

• making 0net core python package could help with adoption and shipment

• shipment pipeline for many platforms itself can boost fun of developing, because you’d know people can use new features/see new bugs/fixes right away

yadayada… but the most important thing — no, it’s not perseverance, i’ve learned the hard way — it’s taking care of yourself. when you fail to do that you either fail at the task at hand, or start compensating, and end up failing anyway.

the (never-)promised dream of sizable part of humanity — to overcome bodily limitations — it’s not here yet. don’t waste yourself in a rat race to achieve this holy grail — wasn’t that the message all along?

but i digress.. what’s next for 0net? a lightly stressing test on whether we can rebuild it as common protocol for independent, but inter-connected, disbanded, but able to come together groups of people.

web should neither be a dead forest through which you can go on solo trips, nor should it be an overly-aggressive pack of mail pigeons (you know how the weaker animals are the less protective social instincts (*) they have? it’s a theory, anyways). web is first and foremost “friends that we made along the way” and should be designed with that in mind. it should be possible to solo-trip through peculiar architecture built by others, but it should also accommodate groups of people without pigeons tearing apart all-too-transparent letters to hunt for human weakness.

yeah, making that reality is much harder than it may sound to naïve time-traveler from the 1980s; without controlling our own devices, how can we aspire to control the network made out of these very devices?

indeed, we can’t. can’t expect full reliability of all the nodes, full implementation of all the goals. but what are humans if not extremely robust processes built out of extremely fragile components? ‘nature’ might be hard to reproduce, but then.. not really. famous game of life lives on a binary 2d grid and four (depending on how you count) rules. neural networks are just matrix manipulations spiced with a bit (**) of non-linearity. but lets save the discussion of NNs and the prospects of AI or AI-like behaviour for another post.

what we have now? it’s more fun to code sound- or game- related stuff because of more immediate results; it’s more fun to hang out with real people i know and who are actually there than with rare abstract strangers on 0net. solution? host real people, games and music there. can we get there? lets sea [fin]

(*): i’m not a fan of the word, but hopefully you my readers won’t take it too literally.

(**): for how much “a bit” is enough, see fun video here