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our main differentiating factor is that we allow for higher amounts of multi-modal communication through an extensible channel system; we have a built-in wiki already, you can add additional "channel types" by writing extensions.

> I don't even know what it does

We build real-time extensible messaging platforms. I apologize that I haven't described it too much in this post; mostly meant it for my twitter audience who already have heard of it before, but I do understand that I've done a very bad job at describing what it does. I will make a post on it later.

> Regardless of the sex, identity, or orientation of the poster, it's crass, sexist, juvenile, and unprofessional.

We're not a project that take ourselves too seriously yet. The internet started off weird, and I think some weirdness is probably necessary. With that being said, we're currently using AI art in our publications because we don't have that much funds right now (we'll probably hire a designer at some point)

> Frankly as someone who lived for a long time in a place where there is a serious homelessness and drug overdose problem, I wasn't too impressed with the use of homeless people as a repellant either.

I used it as an opposition to "the public square of the internet" analogy used by X (formerly known as Twitter). The city I previously lived in had a decent amount of homelessness and drug problems (although probably not to the point of some US cities). If you have a better analogy, please let me know so I can make a better analogy!

I understand much of the concerns for what you're saying here, and I do understand that there are obviously some people who might be turned off by the branding. That is okay; we don't need to reach out to everyone yet, we do not want to take on a branding that offends no one, but appears soulless (like Alegria art).

I do understand the issue for gender equality as well, and as we have a diverse group of individuals who are involved at various parts of the project (they are mostly weebs as well and have no issues with the branding), and I'll make sure that our future branding will have cute anime boys as well ^^

In the future, I'll provide an enterprise version with the anime branding disabled and replaceable by your custom branding. in the meanwhile, if you have suggestions on what parts might be sexualized and might be offensive, please let me know!

a button to join a "demo space" has been requested often - this is the highest priority now, and I'm working on it; sorry if you've been having a hard time joining!

We don't take ourselves too seriously, and we probably won't for a while. I'm still the sole developer on the project (outside of few code contributions here and there). We are fully self-funded at the moment, and we have no plans to raise - if we're grifting, then we're doing a very bad job at it :)

It's okay that you don't take this project seriously - no one took the early internet seriously either, and not everything has to be like that.

Yep :)

Spent some time reading through matrix specification; my opinion is that it's overkill in some ways and under-delivers in some parts of its specs for my usecase, enough to justify writing a whole new protocol from scratch

With that being said, we're working on implementing a matrix compatibility layer!

I've originally started developing Mikoto as a Discord extension, but pivoted when I realized that it was against their TOS + there's only much you can do if you only have a partial control over the stack.

We're open source, at https://github.com/mikotoIO/mikoto. We also will have a very comprehensive extension API, powered through iframes + wasm "containers". We also focus our features on superusers, and will eventually seek monetization through selling integration and enterprise hosting.

sorry there's a lot of placeholder; it's still in active development with myself as only "main" dev.

https://alpha.mikoto.io/invite/WtvbKS7mrLSd

there's also this:

also sorry for your link; it should be https://alpha.mikoto.io/invite/FILVbhQ8QlS- - that's a bug on our end, I'll fix it right now ^^

No, and there are many ways we diverge:

- Mikoto builds on real-time, push-based messaging. We felt that for a social plaform that defines the next generation, having it update real-time is necessary.

- Mikoto builds on the assumption that your Space is private by default, and only what you decide to make public is shown to the unauthorized internet.

- We aim to maintain a logical separation of operators (handles technical side of server hosting, and physical nodes) and owners (runs Spaces).

Spaces are similar to Discord "Servers" or Slack "Workspaces" (but more extensible through the Space owner by extensions); you can be part of multiple spaces at once. There is minimal algorithm on the main feed, apart from the ones you add through extensions.

Dev here. We're aware of this, and "creating a separate space" is probably necessary - our featuresets are designed to give anyone the power to run their own Space. All in all, I think the bigger influence is who's already on the platform, which I will go into more depth in the next part of this blog. We want to build an extensible system for building your own space.

I'm a programmer with 3 years of experience.

Location: Australia

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Yes, given visa sponsorship

Technologies: Machine learning with Python (Tensorflow/Pytorch) TypeScript (NodeJS/React), Rust, C#, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/femboy

email: the cactus blue at gmail dot com

It exists, and it's called the DNT header. It was deprecated because ironically, it was used for user fingerprinting.

You can use IPFS without any blockchain, Filecoin just incentivizes users to host the files

I mean, file formats like VRM are a thing, which allows sharing avatars across many games.

In Adelaide, experiencing the outage as well.