Notices by prom™️ (promovicz@chaos.social), page 2

@futurebird Imagine living in a society where everyone is unarmed - except for Nazis who illegally hoard guns, grenades and body bags. This is normal in Europe - and the violence is so far outside moderate people's experience that they do not necessarily grasp its seriousness.

@lzg Serious question - can we sell this as "functional tranquility"? Like - can we or should we make simplicity an ideal? This has been bugging me from an anarchist dialectic perspective.

@antiaall3s Nitter used the API - it's gone.

@feld @emc2 It is - but that's about culture. I can understand that very well - those crypto-hyperlibertarians don't seem to have social graces. They usually act like aggressive capitalists.

@feld @emc2 A fully distributed approach has different issues too, but I have seen it work several times.

Non-profits are difficult in many countries. They can't be run base-democratic in the US. They can be in Europe, but social issues tend to pop up at certain sizes.

@feld @emc2 Yes, but CEPH is not intended to be run in public - which basically means that you have internal adversaries.

@feld @emc2 True. I don't think that either are a truly good fit. Architectures based on distributed hash tables could work to some degree, but some access latency would usually remain. I would also prefer something with crypto - because ActivityPub is already very insecure and brittle.

@feld @emc2 S3 front-ends for IPFS also exist.

@emc2 @feld Yes - CEPH is intended for clusters.

@feld @emc2 CEPH could work, but I don't think that its file system is meant to be run public. IPFS might be another option, although I'm not sure about its future ATM.