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2031 sats \ 10 replies \ @adlai 26 Jul

I quit collaborating on reasonably good terms rather than turn things acrimonious by politicsing over technical decisions, especially after Greg Maxwell said that Bitcoin has dealbreakingly bad UX already, and my planned ideas for JM would only make it worse.


thank you for the highlight, and ... did you have any question for me?

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@adlai would you do an AMA? I will zap it big. I am not familiar with your work.

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115 sats \ 8 replies \ @adlai 26 Jul
@adlai would you do an AMA? I will zap it big.

thanks for the interest; how do you suggest I pick a time? people don't seem to vote much on my SN polls, although it could be from getting muted by folks who prefer vibes and slop over bitter prose.

I am not familiar with your work.

there's not much of it; I honestly don't like driving the world from a computer keyboard.

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how do you suggest I pick a time?

I often miss AMAs because the author only stays around for an hour to answer questions. Just wait until you have the biggest time window availability, you don't have to sit at the keyboard the whole time.

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217 sats \ 6 replies \ @adlai 26 Jul

I think part of the appeal is the pseudo-synchronous nature of it; even if someone doesn't have their own questions, they can show up and vote on pending questions while waiting for the next answer to appear.

I think Reddit sometimes opens an AMA thread some fixed time [e.g. 24 hours] before the answers begin. I doubt that's necessary in this case, although it could at least help to post a tl;dr of why anyone would even care to read mine, maybe as the description text for the poll about a convenient timing.

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If you let me know with a little lead time, I'll be happy to advertise it a bit (or to help out with gathering questions in whatever way you like).

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112 sats \ 4 replies \ @adlai 28 Jul

I'm leaning towards either this weekend, or sometime next week; and have no strong idea regarding timezones.

One thing I'm wondering about is whether I should even aim to have it be synchronous like the classic AMA concept, or rather do a preliminary poll for timezone interest, and then post earlier, and come back after a few hours to answer questions.

For example, if most site users are going to be posting and reading during afternoon-evening EST, then I could post the final AMA thread at noon EST [which is around sunset, local time], go to sleep, and return to answer questions after waking up.


the delay of a few days is because my Alby Hub isn't restarting nicely after not having any logins for a few months, and I need to figure out how to restore it after possibly having trusted the wrong password manager

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Having a little time to promote/lead up to it is helpful!

In support of the asynchronous idea, you could do something like I've done with AMA announcements: making an announcement post several days in advance. You could ask for questions in that post and then add whatever questions you gathered ahead of time to the actual AMA thread when it's time to start.

How does 2 August (Sunday) at 1600 UTC (1200 EDT) sound?

(I'm happy to make a graphic for you to use for the announcement post, like I do with all the others, just tell me profile pic you'd like me to use and how I should describe you)