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 envisioning a future of a Signal-grade private social network, where you have local llms privately translating, summarizing, and building algos of your feed. It’s not far off, we have the technology today. damn this is cool and cyberpunk af. 
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 wen beta? 
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 LLM translation is still far off but would be great… the quality of translations still are suboptimal with the big clouds, so on device, especially for some languages, will need time to mature

also, I feel like finetuned models designed for content curation and summarization will be the way. the more specific the tool the more accurate it is for a task. 
 One things they are really good at today, even in the 2gb 6b param models, is summarization. I want to put together a demo on notedeck where it downloads the model and uses it to summarize threads when you open a large one. 
 prompt injection is still a big deal sadly… there’s actually dedicated models for summarization out there.

you could fine tune existing summarization models to take additional context input like reply chains via tokens 
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 Yeah, I never thought of having my own personal LLM to be my own “algorithm” - that really rocks! 
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 What would make it "Signal grade"? Some sort of encryption? 
 When I first heard about Nostr ~1.5yrs ago, I heard Guy Swann talk about how you could build a Signal using Nostr. Is that accurate? 
 It’s being actively researched and worked on. There are some promising proposals. You can even apply this tech to arbitrary nostr notes, so you could build a private and secure social network this way. 
 I think that an advanced search module is already a great step to start with. 
 definitely. going to have that soom™️ for damus local search 
 If that comes into the damus android version I am definitively gonna switch over. 
 yes its in android, I put all the hard stuff in nostrdb so I can use it on both platforms 
 Penis af 
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 Let’s go!!! 
 I think LLM are the stupiest thing ever and will destroy more then they help create over the long run 
 we'd appreciate an invite 
 Have you seen the LLM Farm app? I’ve got Phi-3-Mini & Llama-3-8B running locally on my iPhone 
 Listened to your rip with Odell on the trip to BTC++ in Austin today - so good! What a life changing journey Nostr appears to be for you. Stoked you are still fired up. 
 Got a link? 
 Bullish AF 👌🏼 
 Espero muito que as IAs façam isso, que traduzam e organizem localmente os conteúdos, inclusive no Nostr, já que a maioria dos clientes ainda traduzem muito mal e quebram formatações como links e a sintaxe markdown...

nostr:nevent1qqsv3e5832ygv05qqjfnu63a0flengl5qmjfx556vpvde88u5nq5kaqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgq3qxtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsxpqqqqqqzqctj5w 
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 Vexl is free and open source, totally private, end to end encrypted and scales on a real web of trust. It’s built for Bitcoin but it’s essentially a private social network that enables p2p without any 3rd parties. 
 What's the use case of a social network then?