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hirihit640

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  • Why are all services centralised?

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  • That can get clunky though. If I make a post, I want to see all comments on the post. I don't want to have to hunt down all copies of the post and read the comments on each copy.

    You're talking about a fundamentally different user experience. Not just a change in underlying architecture.

    Though there are ways to be more decentralized without manually replicating data. Like Nostr.

  • Why are all services centralised?

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  • Manual replication has it's own host of issues. You can read about the CAP theorem for more details. A decentralized system has good "partition tolerance" (so even if the government tries to crack down on one or two servers, the rest have copies of all the content), but bad consistency (people might have outdated copies of content). For example, if every user copies the content they want to share, what happens when the original post gets updated? Now the updates need to propagate. What happens if somebody comments on an outdated post, before the update reaches it? Should the comment get deleted?

    This is a harder problem than most people realize.

  • Why are all services centralised?

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  • everyone could have their own soft that, for example, is their "user". A user having "facebook"/twitter/dropbox/sharing capabilities. Still no one seems to even pursue those kind of ideas. Even in theory.

    What do you think of Nostr?

  • Why are all services centralised?

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    1. What happens if one of your posts gets popular? Suddenly everybody else is trying to view your post and your phone is overloaded with requests

  • Doubt

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  • how do you know you aren't remembering a different day? Like, you remember seeing yourself turn off the stove, but then you wonder if that was yesterday or today.

  • Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube

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  • The scale is different. There are tons of videos on social media right now that are thinly veiled instructions on how to destroy flock cameras. Something like that would NOT fly in china.

  • Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube

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  • No they don't. If I don't want to see what Reddit wants me to see, I just switch to Lemmy instead. Reddit cannot ban Lemmy. But if the state had censorship powers, they could ban Lemmy.

  • I stopped caring about programming terms

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  • terms are created for communication, not just understanding...

  • Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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  • it's a scheme cooked up by the webcams (they're lonely)

  • Does Linux have a configurable HTTP/S scheme handler?

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  • Would a VTOL design like this actually work?

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  • isn't that what helicopters do?

    edit: nevermind I see what you mean, 3 of the 4 rotors wouldn't be doing anything

  • Lore Dump [Litterbox Comics]

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  • Extra

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  • You might enjoy the movie Deadpool, though that one might have TOO many wall breaks

  • bots- is there a solution

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  • through terminals that have no automation interfaces...but there are no tools that bots could use

    If people still have access to general computation (for example a computer at home), somebody could just run a bot at home, ask beforehand what the bot wants to post, then go to the terminals.

    One the other hand if we assume it's feasible to ban all general computation, then you can achieve all three "anonymous", "available to everybody", and "free of bots". Just use the postal mail system.

    any system that issues an access token to an individual cannot be anonymous if revocation is to be meaningful.

    If a government (or any other authority) keeps track of whether they issue someone an ID, then they must also have the ability to connect IDs to individuals.

    Simple idea off the top of my head, building off GNU Taler. Citizens are allowed to get one Taler wallet from a central authority. The wallet is pre-loaded with $1 of a special currency. That currency can only be used to buy a social media account from the government for $1. Since GNU Taler transactions keep the buyer private, the government doesn't know who bought which account. The government can still ban accounts, without knowing who is behind them.

    And sure somebody could give their account to somebody else. But the system still satisfies the "anonymous" and "available to everybody" requirements.

    Edit: formatting

  • Age Verification Laws and Free Software: A Legal Expert Tells Us What's Actually at Stake

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  • Why would you need to stop a movement that wants to limit free speech? Just make a countermovement, and make sure their movement doesn't win enough votes to pass. No censorship or regulation necessary

  • bots- is there a solution

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  • Your original "pick two" comment implies that you can pick "anonymous" + "free of bots", or "available to everybody" + "free of bots". I can't think of any system that would satisfy those.

    Which is what we already have today.

    What we have today is only "available to everybody". The token/ID system adds anonymity

  • bots- is there a solution

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  • The government would keep track of whether or not they issued you an ID, so that you can't acquire multiple. You'll probably be responsible for not losing it, or maybe there's ways to revoke lost ones without compromising the privacy of it.

    As for humans passing their token to a bot, that's not really solvable by any system. There is always a possibility that a human is just talking to a bot and then typing out the post themselves. But the human is still the one with the authority, and chooses to delegate to the bot.

  • Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes

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  • that's the great thing about privacy - its none of ya business

  • Terribly performing memecoin

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  • no need for any further explanations

    see that's the difference. With monero you can get the entire explanation from the FOSS code