@wowaname@BeedleDave@sun Can you really blame him for leaving the Fedi. Here, he gets cancelled by Pleroma and Akkoma devs, and dogpiled by Poast users. Meanwhile, the Nostr community embraces him with open arms and he got to go to Nostr conventions because of it.
@xianc78@wowaname@BeedleDave I believe he left because he got a nostr grant and it was for more money than he was getting from the Fedi. This isn't a slam on him, we all have to make a living. I think another factor is that he is in much more control of his fate and is making his own way and his own name there.
@sun@wowaname@BeedleDave I honestly don't know the full extent of those conflicts as I was never a dev for any Fedi software nor an instance owner/admin.
But as someone who has experienced both networks, Nostr seems to align more with the vision he had for the fedi.
@sun@wowaname@BeedleDave BlueSky still relies on centralized servers much like how vanilla bitcoin still relies on the centralized "lightening network". It's no more decentralized than a torrent tracker.
@xianc78@wowaname@BeedleDave I actually think a lot of the people on this network should actually be on bluesky, it is a better network for them. Charitably, it has the "better moderation" that they demand. Uncharitably, they aren't built for and don't deserve freedom.
@sun@wowaname@BeedleDave There were a bunch of Twitter users who threaten to jump ship but I bet most of them will abandon their accounts within a month. Most of them just hate Elon Musk, but for the wrong reasons.
But I wouldn't really care if BlueSky somehow manages to make a dent in Twitter's userbase given what Elon Musk plans to do with it (making it an "everything app" which to me sounds like Digital ID). Granted, BlueSky can still do the same, but I don't expect that to happen any time in the near future.
@jeffcliff@BeedleDave@wowaname@xianc78 From the Threads complaints I see coming from Threads, it is not suited to the pinko tenderqueer Mastodon crowd as Bluesky is.
@sun@wowaname@BeedleDave I disagree. It's run by a company and these fedi leftists hate capitalism enough to avoid for-profit services like the plague. Best thing for them is to just have a whitelist of servers to federate.
@wowaname@xianc78@BeedleDave the name server and yes the actual purpose of bluesky is to be twitter 2.0 but with reduced legal liability for content while having effectively the same amount of control
@xianc78@sun@BeedleDave i didn't pick that up from skimming the AT protocol spec; which part relies on central servers? big if true because i wanted to try it myself but i won't if it's just gonna be twitter 2.0
@sun@xianc78@BeedleDave it's called the "name server" in spec? i just wanna see how exactly they use it cus i'm curious how badly they fucked up. reminds me of matrix identity servers if it's at all similar
@xianc78@mrsaturday@wowaname@BeedleDave the last several weeks nostr is undergoing unstoppable spam because it takes a microsecond to make a new decentralized account and rotate and spam from another
@mrsaturday@wowaname@BeedleDave@sun >His vision for Fedi wasn't realistic and he was a divisive figure that set development back with his "my way or the highway" take on things.
I'd argue that his vision for the Fedi could've had a chance if Gab didn't defederate and other alt-tech sites decided to implement federation shortly after.
>I don't think Nostr has much of a future (every similar project has resulted in CP flooding)
Nostr doesn't have a CP problem. Node admins can moderate their own nodes and blacklist users from posting on said nodes. It's not like ZeroNet where everyone risks hosting cheese pizza. Don't listen to false accusations from Poast users.
@xianc78@sun@wowaname@BeedleDave His vision for Fedi wasn't realistic and he was a divisive figure that set development back with his "my way or the highway" take on things. I don't think Nostr has much of a future (every similar project has resulted in CP flooding) but if it's a better fit for him, then good for him.
@wowaname@xianc78@BeedleDave@mrsaturday every one of those things has a cost barrier to creating new accounts but on nostr there is zero, every id is literally just 40 random bytes
@sun@xianc78@BeedleDave@mrsaturday >unstoppable spam many such cases, just another day online. >email >usenet >irc >xmpp >mediawiki and wordpress sites everywhere
@wowaname@xianc78@BeedleDave@sun Nah. Leslie Jones and Hollywood threatening to boycott made Twitter bad, then Tumblr banning porn made it awful. Musk just broke a lot of stuff and then swapped out the furries, armchair antifa, and blue wavers for Qcumbers and other MAGApedes. Both suck and make for a horrible core community.
@mrsaturday@wowaname@BeedleDave@xianc78 the ADL orchestrated an advertiser boycott of Twitter and when Elon complained about it they said that claiming that Jews can wreck your business is anti-Semitism. If you didn't think your campaign could hurt Twitter, you wouldn't have done it though? I realize that attributing non-malice to the ADL is idiot, though.
@mrsaturday@xianc78@BeedleDave@sun X made twitter awful. it was very easy to avoid whatever issues most people talk about when referring to twitter, and i was using it up until musk made it unusable, tweetdeck got nuked, and the website was an active security issue (can't have X without XSS i guess!)
@wowaname@xianc78@BeedleDave@mrsaturday I don't know what you are getting at because in any case it's orders of magnitude easier on Nostr to spam the fuck out of the network, and it's even currently being done and nobody has effectively done anything about it yet.
@wowaname@xianc78@BeedleDave@mrsaturday nostr is currently implementing foaf but people are already realizing that this is a huge breaking compromise on its original promise as "censorship free"
@sun@xianc78@BeedleDave@mrsaturday quite simply i'm getting at the fact that spam can and will happen on *any* publicly-accessible network, regardless how many protections you think are up. the only things that alleviate this are whitelisting, f2f, or invite-only networks.
@xianc78@wowaname@BeedleDave@mrsaturday clearly a ton of people are having a problem because every client is implementing rapid changes to deal with it. I see it on my own ditto server, that connects to mainly the same relats as Damus. Every reply I make gets one or more newly-generated account spam messages.
@sun@wowaname@BeedleDave@mrsaturday Just for the record here is what the Nostr public timeline looks like for me right now. No spam, and I connect to every relay that I can.
@wowaname@xianc78@BeedleDave@mrsaturday keep in mind that a lot of nostr people are borderline retarded bitcoin maxis and don't understand how anything works
@sun@xianc78@BeedleDave@mrsaturday a compromise but not a breaking one. those people are just retarded. it worked back in anoNet's heyday, we had our cake and ate it too. adoption fell off only because it was a routing overlay network for autists and the only people still interested were overengineering it
@xianc78@sun@wowaname@jeffcliff Myanmar, same Myanmar that is dealing with a rebellion by rebels that got their start with 3D-printed guns (the FGC-9 being the primary one)
@xianc78@sun@wowaname Unless something pretty fundamental about the bitcoin protocol has changed, it doesn't rely on lightning. Like yeah, you can do transactions that need lightning, but that by definition is not vanilla bitcoin.
Things have been pretty good. Stopped being a NEET and got a job. Also stopped drinking, went cold turkey and I recently hit my 1-year mark. Sobriety is great, so is having a normal job and a reason to get out of bed. Been pretty content overall, that's the main reason I'm not on as much.
Decided to get back into coding, so I made a leetcode account, been doing dailies and the weekend contests, already hit the Top 10% in contests, now I'm realizing if I had just focused on that when I got out of the service, I'd have been a senior software engineer when the COVID tech boom hit, and might have been a millionaire by now. Bit late to be trying to get into coding now though, doubt most companies would hire a junior in their mid-30s, especially in the current market.
But, when I was brushing up I did automate some workflows at work, and it made me realize that if I found the right *remote* office/admin job, I could automate most of it, and get to where I've got a lot of free time again.
Updating my resume this weekend, already found a couple jobs that would fit the bill, gonna start applying on the weekends, hoping it pans out.
Sort of. bitcoin devs wanted to keep block size small so that anyone could run a node, then build services on top of it to facilitate higher transfer rates. BCC wanted to get those transfer rates *now* by just increasing block size and didn't want to rely on proprietary services for scale.
I saw segwit mentioned, haven't heard that term in a long time.