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Blygger: AI-Native, Decentralized, Mutable publishing

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Blygger: AI-Native, Decentralized, Mutable publishing
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Venkatesh Rao introduces Blygger, a decentralized, AI-native publishing protocol he built to resolve the tradeoff between 'synchronic' (Twitter-like, fire-and-forget) and 'diachronic' (wiki/GitHub-like, versioned) publishing time. He demonstrates core primitives—fragments, threads, pins, transclusion, stubbing, forking, and block-level AI generation via 'TK' markers—showing a working RSS-backward-compatible prototype at blygger.org that lets writers mix live posting with Git-like version control without choosing between the two.

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