🧠 Devlog: Why Etherith Is Moving to Discord
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❓Why bring Etherith to Discord?
Let’s be honest: the full-stack dream can become a full-stack delay. You start with a big idea — memory systems, AI reflection, structured recall — and then get buried in the logistics:
Frontend. Backend. Database.
Should we use containers? Host on a VPS? Move to AWS and set up IAM, S3, auth, and every acronym that eats a week?
Six months go by. You’ve got something working. But no one’s using it yet.
That’s when I realized: we don’t need a perfect platform — we need a present one.
We need to show the community that Etherith works. Not as a pitch deck. As a place.
So I built a working memory engine in Streamlit. You could upload stories, tag them, talk to your past like it was a chatbot. It was beautiful.
But it still wasn’t ready. Not for real people. Not for now.
Then I looked at Discord.
The same way Midjourney did.
The same way people hacked image prompts before GUIs were built.
And I thought: maybe that’s the vibe. Maybe that’s the launch layer.
A place to generate. To remember. To reflect — together.
That’s what Etherith on Discord is.
♻️ What stays the same?
Etherith has always been about intentional memory — especially for communities that aren’t often given tools to remember on their own terms.
Even in Discord, that core doesn’t change. Every memory submission still follows the Rule of Three:
What happened?
Why does it matter?
Who should remember?
It’s not about storing data. It’s about surfacing significance.
And if someone makes a memory public — say a Black woman archiving a family photo — that moment is streamed to the community in real time. In the open. On purpose.
Yes, Discord is messy. But it’s also alive. And sometimes the best way to build a memory system is to sit inside the noise — and listen.
💬 What happens inside the server?
We’re not trying to gamify memory.
We’re trying to slow it down. To center it. To witness it.
Inside the Discord, you’ll find:
🔁 Real-time memory drops
✍️ Reflection prompts
🧠 AI-assisted conversation about grief, legacy, and preservation
💬 Community threads connecting stories across people and time
Some early users have told me: “I didn’t think I had anything worth saving.” Then they wrote. Then they remembered.
Memory is contagious like that.
🧭 Why memory work matters now
If you’ve ever been part of a marginalized community, you already know the story:
Your history isn’t just forgotten. It’s erased.
Your books get pulled off shelves.
Your elders’ stories never make it into the archive.
Your moments disappear with the platforms that ignore you.
But what if memory didn’t rely on permission?
What if it was peer-to-peer, encrypted, AI-assisted, and publicly preserved in the moment it mattered?
That’s what Etherith is for.
Not nostalgia. Resistance.
🫂 Why you should join
Look — I’m a technologist. I love modular agents and FastAPI endpoints.
But Etherith is bigger than my architecture.
You should join this because you want your story to be seen.
Because you want your art, your joy, your grief, your weird little poem to be held somewhere real before it disappears into the scroll.
Because the world doesn’t always remember you.
But you can.
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This is fascinating.
I don’t really understand exactly what you’re doing here, but I am really interested to find out.
So is this a bit similar to how we are having LLM memories, where they remember information from past conversations (RAG)?
I think they were some dating AI bots that tried to do this more intentionally. They would have a section called memories, and that would be a list of the memories they had formed that could be edited.
In SillyTavern, this is done using a law book, but it is a bit troublesome to edit and I think the conversational chat interface you have here using Discord looks a lot more usable.
I really like how it prompt you for more information.
I specialise more in using a Zettelkasten for bottom-up thinking, but this looks like a way to interact with your note that potentially Zettel notes per memory. The only difference is that rather than just saving a memory, we want to see how this idea could be transformed into a permanent note and connected to other notes.