Shared Knowledge Base

And now a very different kind of media.

Roam Research’s creator went on Metamuse and took a shot at all the clones saying no one had come close to scratching collaborative thought (paraphrased). To be fair, this is a lot harder to reach with local-first architecture. But how does one share a collection of ideas easily?

First and most obvious would be a book or a website, but interaction here is limited. Published content is sealed off in a way that this would hopefully break down. Git repos work surprisingly well, but might be too technical (Obsidian and Logseq’s funding, publishing and sync, may “affect” incentives to make this work better). Other approaches include https://reading.supply, although quite small (and a SaaS platform) it has the most fleshed out public “networked thought” network I’m aware of. Noosphere seems interesting. Mostly in specification phase? But haven’t had time to dive deeper. There might also be something brewing among Bluesky’s API Touchers, too early to say.