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But it's way worse than that.

I see people develop parasocial relationships with their AIs, get heavily addicted to it, and create communities where people reinforce highly unhealthy behavior.

How did we get here and what does it do to us?"

We are all trying to grapple with what is perhaps the most dramatic change the software world has ever undergone.

In this post, Armin grapples with it right out there in public.

I appreciate him for doing that.

He's been a thought leader for many years, and it's comforting to know that even folks like him are struggling to see this new world clearly.

A social file system.

Dan Abramov starts this excellent article by praising the portability and effectiveness of the files paradigm.

Quote, apps and formats are many to many.

File formats let different apps work together without knowing about each other.

End quote.

Then Dan goes on to describe how the files paradigm could apply to social apps like Instagram, Reddit, Tumblr, GitHub, and TikTok.

But this is no hypothetical.

It's literally how the at protocol works, which Dan calls a social file system.

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I've previously written about the at protocol in OpenSocial looking at its model from a web-centric perspective, but I think that looking at it from the file system perspective is just as intriguing, so I invite you to take a tour of how it works.

A personal file system starts with a file.

What does a social file system start with?

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