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We shouldn’t expect bodies and companies that benefit from centralization to give us crumbs. Remember IPv6 global multicast? ISPs killed that on sight.
We need to get encrypted mesh networking (Yggdrasil, CJDNS, FIPS etc) out there before it’s too late.
Should’ve used Monero or something lmao
Looks like a sneaker with wheels.
The comparison doesn’t even make sense. Reddit is a centralized platform, not a protocol. I won’t say it’s impossible to censor something like nostr but good luck with that.
I’m using nix for managing npm dependencies in a project and it seems like I accidentally got some protection from these attacks because of the nix sandbox. Looks like I got more than I begged for.
Oh I see plenty of people complaining but only a few are willing to try another platform like nostr or mastodon or whatever else.
“I don’t want a solution, I want to be mad”
If AI writes your code, why use frameworks?
If people spent 5 minutes googling decentralized alternatives to stuff they would realize they don’t need to build anything, just pick something and use.
No, email is federated, what he described is clearly p2p.
Have a look at Keet, it’s a p2p IM app, works on mobile and desktop, behind NAT and all. To be honest it’s not even the only app in this game.
It just seems like nobody cares about these things until the frog already boiled.
Siri fell behind because the bean counters at Cupertino didn’t want to spend on it, this is well documented and has nothing to do with privacy.
It should be possible, they issue CPF numbers even for tourists if you want.
Video interview with the Salmon in question https://youtu.be/dDj7DuHVV9E
Unrelated note but, cheap/midrange phones are a scam, you almost always get better value purchasing a second hand premium one.
Guess it’s a bit of both.
Whenever I said “this is a website, not an app” I would get confused looks from designers.
UX people fight some of the BS, but “looking pretty” usually wins over “being useful”.
That’s because designers stopped caring about following each platform’s guidelines because they want to spread “brand recognition” or some shit like that.
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That doesn’t answer the point I’m making. If the instance your account was made on explodes, YOU lose your social graph, wether some of your posts survive cached elsewhere is not relevant, your account is gone, and so are your connections.
You have no way to prove an account made after the original instance went down belongs to someone, that’s the issue with federated systems.
As for content moderation, in nostr relay operators such as nostr.build handle legal takedowns on a daily basis, SSB is a little trickier since it’s mostly p2p but pubs are still able to control what flows through them to some degree.
This is half true. If mastodon.social goes down every single one of the accounts made on that instance go down as well. In truly decentralized protocols you own your identity and can take it elsewhere, for instance, in Nostr and SSB, a relay/pub going down is no big deal since you can connect to other servers and maintain communications.
Nostr has the highest count of AI boosters per square meter I’ve ever seen, yet nobody seems to be DDoS’ing that.
The reason: Skill issue.
“Gradually, then suddenly.”
Analog emojis FTW
Sounds like you’re describing Umbrel.
Have a look at Odysee, it is a decentralized alternative to YouTube, not just a frontend, and some YouTube channels are mirrored there already.
It used to be the case that placeholder files were very obvious but now OneDrive and iCloud (possibly others) work more like an attached network storage with some local cache, and that was a good move for most programs because back then a file being evicted from storage looked like a file deletion.
You don’t see ZFS/BTRFS block based snapshot replication choking on git or any sort of dataset. Use the right job for the tool or something.
More like 9%
Self-hosting a registry is objectively “less bad” than relying entirely on docker hub but, unless all your Dockerfiles start with `FROM scratch` you’ll still need access to Docker Hub to pull the base images and their updates, and that’s true regardless of how many people are running their own registries. If instead of relying on a centralized registry, which just so happens to also depend on a centralized CDN, you could instead pull images using something like IPFS or even torrent, not only ISP IP banlists wouldn’t be an issue but you would also eliminate a whole bunch of failure modes from the system.
Maybe it’s time to reflect upon the reliance on centralized services? Not long ago docker hub started rate limiting access and we all turned to blanket solutions like the GitLab registry cache. I wonder if the IPFS distributed docker registry thing still exists/works.