Maybe I'll actually get round to implementing my ideas 🤷
I guess there's no harm in making it work even if nobody uses it.
I know the peertube one is sorta broken at the minute because the WASM POW script doesn't accept difficulty as a variable. Maybe I should check up and see if anyone has fixed it.
A lot of crypto projects are ready for implementation right now, but they all have their own unique problems and one rather large shared problem.
I made a peertube plugin a while back that will tip XNO to any creators you watched based on watch time.
The user journey for everyone was as simple as could possibly be imagined. Viewers added a few quid to a browser wallet and forget about it. Creators added an XNO address to the video description and the plugin would automatically pay like 10p a minute or something. Nobody even needed an account to make it work and there was no issues with federation as long as you were watching from the instance with your wallet.
I've even been writing my own fedi-first blog engine and been thinking about adding paywalls. It'd be super easy to do technically and the UX would be as good or better than any existing services.
You'd just set a cookie when people look at a post and generate a new wallet on the server. If a reader wants to view a paywalled post, they click a link or scan a QR code to send payment, the payment clears in two seconds and refreshes the page. Server checks the cookie and that the new wallet has the fee in, sees the article is paid for and serves it.
The thing is that this project is targeting a niche within a niche within a niche within a niche.
The deepest niche is why XNO? It has JS wallets, is feeless, actually decentralised, clears within two seconds and the project leader seems to be ideologically driven to create a functional currency above all else. The problems are that it's not anonymous, it's premined, and that it's deflationary.
Already this is a hard niche to get out of. I can already see that people will be arguing to use alternatives like monero because it's more secure, but it also has fees, is difficult to exchange for real currency and will probably get you on a no fly list. Or SOL because the fees are really low and a lot of people already use it. But I'm wanting to do instant transactions with no fees so sending pennies is feasible, so this makes me a statist spy wants to push my shitcoin because I'm a massive bag holder.
The next niche is that we have a small user base here that's incredibly sceptical about crypto. The whole crypto sphere is incredibly toxic. It's mostly environmentally destructive and the vast majority of what it holds up is fraud, organised crime and gambling.
The majority of pro-crypto people here are cypherpunks who put their ideological commitment to monero or bitcoin above usability. The majority of anti-crypto -and overall majority- of people here are jaded by crypto nonsense and won't give a new project a hearing.
The next niche is marketing. We don't do that here. It's uncouth and immoral. A spam campaign would be annoying and get the spammers banned and is just generally bad in everyway. Alternatively if any of the influencers on here decided to sell out to help us reach a critical mass where crypto payments aren't entirely stagnant, we wouldn't have the money to pay them. Crypto kind of has to be unprofitable to move on from being another form of gambling.
The last niche is onboarding. The market we want for microtransactions really isn't the market that centralised exchanges want. A decentralised payments network really should be competing with netflix and substack. We want high churn, low volume for people to be able to feasibly make an income. That's going to be ruined by the fact that people wanting to pay a tenner a month are going to lose most of that money before they even get it into a wallet, and the people recieving that money might just lose 20% of it at any given moment due to market movements.
So after narrowing it all down this leaves us with maybe a dozen people on here left to support it but they aren't even going to cross paths enough to make any transactions.
It's a pretty common belief in elite circles. For example the Trilateral commission describes itself as an organisation focused on "our roots as a group of countries sharing common values and a commitment to the rule of law, open economies and societies, and democratic principles" yet it was specifically set up to stem "excess democracy" in Europe and the US.
They don't see it as hypocritical. Democracy for them and democracy for you are two different things.
It's not that specific. It fits a lot of Social Darwinists that were born into money. Most just have the good sense to keep their voices down in public.
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To deal with moderation conflicts you could basically just unlink the thread.
Also we could also just add flags to activitypub messages on creating posts to tell the boosting server whether or not merging is permitted.
If you've worked hard on something and want everyone to see it, set it to True and people can boost it to different communities.
If it's something personal or an in-joke that you only want to be advertised to the community it's posted in set it to False and the option won't be available when cross posting in the UI.
I don't think it's possible to have a Lemmy UI without JS because it serves up JSON not rendered pages. You could sign up on a kbin/mbin instance though to get a static frontend.
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I bought a convertible car that was completely ditched once. The canvas roof was in such a state that it consisted mostly of black bags and duct tape.
I ring a friend and ask him what he's doing and if he wants to go for a drive in said car.
He said he's too busy 'cause he has a bunch of jobs to apply to and wants to spend the day handing out his CV. I say that's a perfect excuse to drive the new car round.
Get to his house and show him the car and we decide we should drive round with the top down because it's sunny. The top is made of duct tape and bin liners though, so we grab a kitchen knife each and set to work on getting it off.
First place he wants to go is a job for a theatre tech. We drive over to the next town and I pull up and he runs in with just his CV and leaves all his possessions (coat, phone, wallet, etc) in the car.
Unbeknownst to me, the guy he handed his CV to gave him a tour and a bit of an interview on the spot so I'd be stuck there for an hour in the same parking space.
Also unbeknownst to me, the theatre was at a high school so I'm now suddenly surrounded by kids leaving at the end of the school day.
It's awkward enough that I'm a guy in my late 20s parked outside a school in a convertible, but it took me a few minutes to realise that all the staring I was recieving from the kids was because the back seat was covered in black bags and duct tape held down with the two biggest knives I could find in my kitchen.
The police even came and I was hoping they would stop so I could explain but they just kept driving past me at walking speed.
Cold water falls to the bottom of a kettle and boils on the bottom. Microwaves can miss the bottom, possibly?
It's integrating as best it can. It has an embeddable player and LDAP logins. It's kind of a failure on the part of other platform Devs to use it.
Lol.
Seven years ago I spent hours trying to explain to my MP that this would happen if they weakened encryption and put in back doors.
He seemingly couldn't get his head round the fact that you have to assume foreign adversaries have access to everything in transit and they're not going to be worried about longer prison sentences designed to make up for weaker security.
I should send him an email asking if he understands the argument now it's coming from an American in a suit and not just one of the plebs.
I've used TH72 a bit. I'd describe it more as shock proof than flexible. It'll certainly make your miniatures robust, but it's nowhere near as soft as something like TPU.
Check the whole path of the filament, or maybe rotate the part before printing. Sometimes a combination of factors can cause just enough friction to under-extrude in just parts of a print. I sometimes get it when the filament roll rubs on the holder. This looks like it could be that it's doing a fast bit while twisting the Bowden tube.