NOSTR first. DYSTIL.com is now in public beta and made with real engineers.
WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
The World is bereft of journalistic integrity while curiosity is being intentionally programmed out of us.
SOLUTION
These are solvable problems through long-tail curiosity of the people.
Long-tail curiosity is what will lead to the revolution of Journalism.
Curiosity destroys accreditation when solution oriented.
WHY DYSTIL
It's personal.
I was called a conspiracy theorist, low moral character, treasonous and a tin foil hat guy by the family and friends closest to me just for being curious.
My answer was sending multiple links over text messages. This does not work.
It felt like the worse plot line in a movie where courage and speaking up gets the crazy label.
And when my mom had a heart attack, the doctor's single and most important advice was simply "salt makes blood pressure go up," and she walked out of the hospital with prescriptions for 6 meds, including multiple statins.
Luckily on a follow up visit, I had a cholesterol project in Dystil with the statin study to reference. Three doctors stood down and had no idea what the source was for statin research on efficacy. They were challenged one time with credible resources and agreed to take her meds down to one single blood thinner.
Fuckn dorks.
The media is beyond compromised.
There is no justice anywhere.
There is no journalistic integrity anymore, and no business model that rewards curiosity. Only derision.
I spoke up against DEI, COVID, money printing, Epstein, corruption, Jan 6, and just about anything else you can think of.
Most of the world seems fundamentally incurious and afraid of thinking.
People don't read, ask questions, are terrified to change their minds, and would rather find an instagram tribe that corroborates their moral high-ground defense and call you names rather than ask a simple question or have a face-to-face conversation.
Critical thinking is fucked.
Wisdom is fucked.
Retention of knowledge is fucked.
Communication is fucked.
Sovereignty is fucked.
Charlie Kirk was killed for words.
Surveillance and divisiveness are at an all-time high, and the powers that be laugh while we devolve into apes for their profit.
Most of them are clearly aligning with the Sam Altmans and Palantirs of the world.
And on top of all this, nobody's laughing anymore. We take ourselves more seriously than the problems. Needing to be right so bad instead of being curious distances us even further.
We should be spending more time with family, kids, touching grass and bangin. There's no sense of peace when you are having to fight all battles on all fronts out of necessity.
And for about 5 years, I'd been non stop thinking about a product that answered, "what do I do with all of my bookmarks?
WHAT IS DYSTIL
Dystil treats your bookmarks and your curiosity like a company.
A bookmark can be a social post, a website, a newsletter, an email, a podcast, a video, or an idea. We view these bookmarks like gold as the most unique digital signature of curiosity.
Dystil augments these bookmarks with additional research, resources, customizable agents, and tools to go deeper into curiosity.
The end state of a bookmark in Dystil is something we call a Dystillation: a public-facing, well-resourced thought on a subject or just a topic that your interested in knowing more about.
This a dystillation from @TFTC bookmark. My thoughts are a response and in support of something I feel strongly about fighting for:
No need to send individual links anymore or get into debates in group chats on signal. Just let people see the state of your thinking on something that is important to you from your Dystil page.
WHY DOES IT WORK?
Retention of information doesn't happen unless you start with what you actually find interesting.
Reintroducing your curiosity to you consistently is what is missing from the bookmark problem.
Collaboration with humans towards a solution is what is missing from the bookmark problem.
Social feeds that compete with where your bookmark are housed is what is missing from the bookmark problem.
We fixed that.
Reading, writing and thinking are all interchangeable words that mean the same thing.
Until you can present something simply, you don't understand it yourself.
Dystil makes these presentations seamless because it starts with what you're already uniquely curious about.
You can follow the best curators of topics that you care about but don't feel like doing the ongoing necessary digging on things like quantum threats to Bitcoin.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
When you bookmark something, it becomes searchable, "chattable," and easily sorted into a collection if you want. We call those collections, "projects". Invite anyone to a project and your immediately adding an important context for retention of information: Other humans.
Connect a source like Nostr or Twitter (you should still creep on twitter for bookmarks and debates in our view) to ingest all of your bookmarks at once, or add them manually. The next step is to generate a spark, which enhances the bookmark into a presentation-ready state. Think of a spark as a button that opens the rabbit hole and lets you go deeper.
WHAT'S THE CATCH? HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? AND DO YOU TAKE BITCOIN?
It is not open source. We'd like to consistently move that way every chance we get while still being profitable.
We've gotten our costs down to the cost of compute, and we'd like to take single sats above that cost each time one of our functions is used. The main function you'll use and pay for now is when AI-assisted research is used. You can select your own models or use the defaults.
We're trying to price to value while making sure your curiosity library is always free, always yours and your wisdom can be passed on before the book burning starts.
You can top up your account with fiat or Lightning. And if you never top up, you can still use Dystil as a searchable library of your curiosity organized far better than it ever would be sitting in a bookmarks folder on a social platform you don't own.
WHAT TYPE FEEDBACK IS MOST HELPFUL TO US?
1. The follower, profile and sharing functions of social are items that help with network effects but we have not figured out the perfect logic tree that enables the network effect defensibility. Why this matters the most is because when your curiosity is a flex like an instagram following is, we can give recognition and clout for how you think.
2. Testimonials on specific use cases that you love.
3. What sucks, what's broken, how to simplify and what doesn't make sense.
4. There are placeholders for concepts we think are important to get to the source of truth but are not yet fully developed like "accuracy rating". We don't yet know the best way to handle confidence of how to verify truth. Ideas on how to think about this would be great.
Kindly DM me here if you have some feedback. THANK YOU!
WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
The World is bereft of journalistic integrity while curiosity is being intentionally programmed out of us.
SOLUTION
These are solvable problems through long-tail curiosity of the people.
Long-tail curiosity is what will lead to the revolution of Journalism.
Curiosity destroys accreditation when solution oriented.
WHY DYSTIL
It's personal.
I was called a conspiracy theorist, low moral character, treasonous and a tin foil hat guy by the family and friends closest to me just for being curious.
My answer was sending multiple links over text messages. This does not work.
It felt like the worse plot line in a movie where courage and speaking up gets the crazy label.
And when my mom had a heart attack, the doctor's single and most important advice was simply "salt makes blood pressure go up," and she walked out of the hospital with prescriptions for 6 meds, including multiple statins.
Luckily on a follow up visit, I had a cholesterol project in Dystil with the statin study to reference. Three doctors stood down and had no idea what the source was for statin research on efficacy. They were challenged one time with credible resources and agreed to take her meds down to one single blood thinner.
Fuckn dorks.
The media is beyond compromised.
There is no justice anywhere.
There is no journalistic integrity anymore, and no business model that rewards curiosity. Only derision.
I spoke up against DEI, COVID, money printing, Epstein, corruption, Jan 6, and just about anything else you can think of.
Most of the world seems fundamentally incurious and afraid of thinking.
People don't read, ask questions, are terrified to change their minds, and would rather find an instagram tribe that corroborates their moral high-ground defense and call you names rather than ask a simple question or have a face-to-face conversation.
Critical thinking is fucked.
Wisdom is fucked.
Retention of knowledge is fucked.
Communication is fucked.
Sovereignty is fucked.
Charlie Kirk was killed for words.
Surveillance and divisiveness are at an all-time high, and the powers that be laugh while we devolve into apes for their profit.
Most of them are clearly aligning with the Sam Altmans and Palantirs of the world.
And on top of all this, nobody's laughing anymore. We take ourselves more seriously than the problems. Needing to be right so bad instead of being curious distances us even further.
We should be spending more time with family, kids, touching grass and bangin. There's no sense of peace when you are having to fight all battles on all fronts out of necessity.
And for about 5 years, I'd been non stop thinking about a product that answered, "what do I do with all of my bookmarks?
WHAT IS DYSTIL
Dystil treats your bookmarks and your curiosity like a company.
A bookmark can be a social post, a website, a newsletter, an email, a podcast, a video, or an idea. We view these bookmarks like gold as the most unique digital signature of curiosity.
Dystil augments these bookmarks with additional research, resources, customizable agents, and tools to go deeper into curiosity.
The end state of a bookmark in Dystil is something we call a Dystillation: a public-facing, well-resourced thought on a subject or just a topic that your interested in knowing more about.
This a dystillation from @TFTC bookmark. My thoughts are a response and in support of something I feel strongly about fighting for:
No need to send individual links anymore or get into debates in group chats on signal. Just let people see the state of your thinking on something that is important to you from your Dystil page.
WHY DOES IT WORK?
Retention of information doesn't happen unless you start with what you actually find interesting.
Reintroducing your curiosity to you consistently is what is missing from the bookmark problem.
Collaboration with humans towards a solution is what is missing from the bookmark problem.
Social feeds that compete with where your bookmark are housed is what is missing from the bookmark problem.
We fixed that.
Reading, writing and thinking are all interchangeable words that mean the same thing.
Until you can present something simply, you don't understand it yourself.
Dystil makes these presentations seamless because it starts with what you're already uniquely curious about.
You can follow the best curators of topics that you care about but don't feel like doing the ongoing necessary digging on things like quantum threats to Bitcoin.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
When you bookmark something, it becomes searchable, "chattable," and easily sorted into a collection if you want. We call those collections, "projects". Invite anyone to a project and your immediately adding an important context for retention of information: Other humans.
Connect a source like Nostr or Twitter (you should still creep on twitter for bookmarks and debates in our view) to ingest all of your bookmarks at once, or add them manually. The next step is to generate a spark, which enhances the bookmark into a presentation-ready state. Think of a spark as a button that opens the rabbit hole and lets you go deeper.
WHAT'S THE CATCH? HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? AND DO YOU TAKE BITCOIN?
It is not open source. We'd like to consistently move that way every chance we get while still being profitable.
We've gotten our costs down to the cost of compute, and we'd like to take single sats above that cost each time one of our functions is used. The main function you'll use and pay for now is when AI-assisted research is used. You can select your own models or use the defaults.
We're trying to price to value while making sure your curiosity library is always free, always yours and your wisdom can be passed on before the book burning starts.
You can top up your account with fiat or Lightning. And if you never top up, you can still use Dystil as a searchable library of your curiosity organized far better than it ever would be sitting in a bookmarks folder on a social platform you don't own.
WHAT TYPE FEEDBACK IS MOST HELPFUL TO US?
1. The follower, profile and sharing functions of social are items that help with network effects but we have not figured out the perfect logic tree that enables the network effect defensibility. Why this matters the most is because when your curiosity is a flex like an instagram following is, we can give recognition and clout for how you think.
2. Testimonials on specific use cases that you love.
3. What sucks, what's broken, how to simplify and what doesn't make sense.
4. There are placeholders for concepts we think are important to get to the source of truth but are not yet fully developed like "accuracy rating". We don't yet know the best way to handle confidence of how to verify truth. Ideas on how to think about this would be great.
Kindly DM me here if you have some feedback. THANK YOU!
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