#Mammoth updated. The good thing is they went open source. The bad thing is they tried to make me auto-follow their account (I did get visual prompts in their new features screen but I wasn't able to unfollow on that screen), and they got a Threads-ish icon. Their #SmartLists feature appears concerning: it sends your handle to their official instance moth.social, which is using a Mastodon fork serving the "Smart Lists" feature. One can reasonably see how this undermines #decentralization ...
This week we’ve all hands on deck, filling holes, bashing in nails and replacing rotten timbers in the previous testnet so we can launch the thing of beauty that is the ReduceConnectionsNet, which thus far seems to be sailing along pretty nicely. So what were those things? Well, we’d gone from requiring three verified spends...
This week we’ve all hands on deck, filling holes, bashing in nails and replacing rotten timbers in the previous testnet so we can launch the thing of beauty that is the ReduceConnectionsNet, which thus far seems to be sailing along pretty nicely.
What's complicated about #centralization vs #decentralization is that neither is the optimum. Not only is it a shades of gray thing, but any non-trivial system is likely going to have both more and less de/centralized parts.
The US transportation system that @mmasnick is talking about is a great example. Almost completely centralized traffic rules and road funding. Federated construction. But enabling decentralized, localized innovation in use and economic benefits.
"We need to seize the means of computation, and that means ejecting all of these interlopers, and relocating it back into the personal domain we control." Danny O'Brien, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
@amadeus the problem here is only one. If a musician wants to earn from music then there must be some business model behind to get paid. If not - then even p2p sharing is super-fine for listeners attention. Anyway, #decentralization is the key. Not only from the point of code. Many small independent businesses living together like selling music on own website, platform, etc. All imho 😎
This week we’ve been further considering the economic on and off ramps to the Network—particularly in the early stages after genesis.
We’ve also been looking at the underlying cause of excessive open connections. Having stopped FloodSub the current testnet is better than the last in that regard, but heaptracking still reveals far more connections than we need.
Listening to the first episode of @mike ‘s new podcast “Dot Social” on decentralized social networking with guest @mmasnick. They start off with discussion of his 2019 paper “Protocols, Not Platforms” and how, all of a sudden, the stagnant big social platforms are now being bypassed with rapid innovation by developers all over the fediverse.
@mike and @mmasnick move on in their podcast to discuss an (upcoming?) paper by @danny where he discusses the ultimate (“terminal”) values of what we are all trying to do here in the #fediverse. Apparently his take is that #decentralization is not all that important, control over one’s own thoughts and ideas is.
Hot on the heals of NoClientGossip, we’ve a tweaked version of the code which aims to improve the network discovery setup. As mentioned in the update, it looks like some nodes did not know enough of the network, leading to assumptions of responsibility over more and more data, and so filling up and failing to store new data....
The most important news this week is the winding down of the Bittrex exchange. Anyone who has MAID on #Bittrex needs to take it off the exchange sooner rather than later.
Other news is that the latest testnet seems to have solved some problems and unearthed others in a one-step-forward-one-step-back kinda style.
The most important news to communicate this week, for those that haven’t heard, is the winding down of the Bittrex exchange. After 4th December only withdrawals from Bittrex will be possible. Anyone who has MAID on Bittrex needs to take it off the exchange sooner rather than later and store their tokens in an Omni-compatible...
I just noticed I missed this pretty massive tidbit of information from @joinpeertube regarding the roadmap for #PeerTube
"…Official PeerTube mobile application (end of 2024)"
:amaze:
This has been a long-requested development from the PeerTube community, and something I hear from our #tilvids community all the time. What an exciting development from an amazing organization! 🙌
Adblockers and alternative frontend will only get you so far in this. It's literally just a matter of time until step it to yet another level. Want some real change? Stop giving them power. #Boycott these fuckers.
"Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox" -> https://archive.is/yAdak (link to avoid direct #reddit)
Bring down closed data silos like #YouTube. Empower #foss federated platforms like #peertube.
Really proud of Signal, of this piece, and so happy to help lead an organization willing to be honest about what others hide: the incredible cost of developing consumer tech, and why it’s so hard (but rewarding!) to build tech that doesn’t rely on monetizing surveillance.
Safe Network Update 07 December, 2023 (safenetforum.org)
This week we’ve all hands on deck, filling holes, bashing in nails and replacing rotten timbers in the previous testnet so we can launch the thing of beauty that is the ReduceConnectionsNet, which thus far seems to be sailing along pretty nicely. So what were those things? Well, we’d gone from requiring three verified spends...
A question about secure chats (sopuli.xyz)
Two questions....
Safe Network #Testnet NoClientGossipDiscovery [24/11/23 ] (safenetforum.org)
Hot on the heals of NoClientGossip, we’ve a tweaked version of the code which aims to improve the network discovery setup. As mentioned in the update, it looks like some nodes did not know enough of the network, leading to assumptions of responsibility over more and more data, and so filling up and failing to store new data....
Safe Network Update 23 November, 2023 (safenetforum.org)
The most important news to communicate this week, for those that haven’t heard, is the winding down of the Bittrex exchange. After 4th December only withdrawals from Bittrex will be possible. Anyone who has MAID on Bittrex needs to take it off the exchange sooner rather than later and store their tokens in an Omni-compatible...