Notices by Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social), page 2

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 07:44:49 JST Greg Slepak

I don't think I can recommend #BlueSky to people, as I do not fully understand its censorship.
Here's a thread that has replies, but they are invisible to anyone trying to read it.
It seems only self-hosted #Fediverse servers can act a real Twitter alternative.
Happy to be proven wrong!
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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 04:41:10 JST Greg Slepak
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@BeAware Yeah, maybe the protocol could get upgraded where servers periodically send to relays a batch of "most liked posts" along with their like counts. That would reduce traffic while keeping it possible for small servers to generate such feeds.

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 04:33:15 JST Greg Slepak

I hate to say it, but stability concerns aside, one thing that's keeping users off of the #fediverse is the lack of a algorithmic feed.

#BlueSky is trying to implement this, but their implementation sucks. It doesn't work (see attached).

Most fediverse instances already have the concept of multiple timelines (following, global/federated, etc.). It wouldn't be that difficult to add additional ones that are algorithmically ranked based on engagement.
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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 10:03:53 JST Greg Slepak

I think #SilentPayments are a very meaningful and important privacy improvement for #Bitcoin, and it would be great to see greater adoption in wallets.

https://silentpayments.xyz/

h/t @sethforprivacy @lightcoin
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  A simple site detailing Silent Payments, their value, their usage, and their current wallet support.
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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 08:05:07 JST Greg Slepak
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@ntnsndr You say "At least the Fed has to care about inflation & unemployment" as if that were true. I see little evidence for that. I see a lot of evidence to the contrary: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

The difference between the fed and cryptocurrency is that with cryptocurrency you at least know what the economics are. With the fed, there is no transparency, just a centralized cartel that creates inflation through money printing. Why worship this cartel? It's not like they care about you.

Money printing should not be something only one evil corrupt group on earth gets to do. Anyone should be able to do it. Let there be competition among the money printers.

The banking system as it exists should be replaced with a better system, because it's currently serving no one except this evil cartel, and it plans on morphing into something even worse with its CBDC nonsense.
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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 08:05:06 JST Greg Slepak
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BTW @feld do you have any idea why I'm not getting notifications for @ntnsndr?

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 08:05:05 JST Greg Slepak
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@feld @ntnsndr are you saying #pleroma won't notify anyone when a mastodon user replies to them? 😲

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 23:40:29 JST Greg Slepak
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@ntnsndr 5. I shouldn't have really said "banking system - the good parts" in my previous post, as it's misleading and suggests that decentralized exchange is something the banking system has, which is untrue. There is no decentralized exchange in the banking system, so those parts of defi are a brand new way to do something that was previously done in a very crappy way. So, yes, that part is a "reinvention", but it a very much needed one, and not representative of "the banking system", because exchange in the banking system is, well, completely different. How is it different? Let me list the ways:

- KYC required
- Monday through Friday required
- 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM in a specific timezone required
- Very strict / difficult rules for getting listed in the first place
- Secret societies with special privileges who get to trade before anyone else

This renders it close to unusable. It should really disappear. This isn't how exchange of assets should be done. It's horrible.

This isn't to say that some of defi is not without its warts - most specifically there are scams in defi just as there are scams in "the banking system", but getting rid of scams is unfortunately seemingly not possible without destroying several other desirable properties of decentralized exchange.

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 23:40:29 JST Greg Slepak
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@ntnsndr So... there are a few things:

1. I'm not getting notifications of your replies for some reason (so if I reply late, that's why).

2. DeFi and Custodial exchanges are two completely opposite things, so you cannot list them to make your point. It just doesn't make sense if you say that.

3. Custodial exchanges might as well be classified as "banking system".

4. That leaves "DeFi". DeFi is not a reinvention of what I mean by "banking system", although you're right, it does reinvent some traditional finance concepts on the blockchain. Let's say that hopefully defi will be "banking system - the good parts", e.g. the ability to trade assets in a decentralized way - e.g. decentralized exchanges, a very good/necessary thing and very much needed and very much not what I mean by "banking system".

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 23:40:28 JST Greg Slepak
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@ntnsndr And all of that is specific to #defi. When I said "banking system", I was referring to something else:

- The way money is created in the traditional financial system
- The way money is held in the traditional financial system
- The way money is sent from one entity to a different entity in the traditional financial system

The way all of this is done can be replaced with something else that is more modern, more private, more faster, more direct, and has far less red tape to deal with.

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 23:40:27 JST Greg Slepak
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@ntnsndr None of these words will mean anything to anyone unless that person has actually tried to create an app that sends money anywhere.

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 12:04:59 JST Greg Slepak
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@ntnsndr I don't know these crypto people you're referring to.

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 07:50:35 JST Greg Slepak

Actually, we really don't need a banking system.

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 05:31:12 JST Greg Slepak
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@BeAware No blocklists 🤷♂️

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 05:26:40 JST Greg Slepak
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@BeAware Thanks! I tried searching the "id", "pubkey", and npub here [1] @mostr.pub on #Pleroma and nothing came up in the search results.

So... can't seem to follow myself :-\

[1] https://njump.me/npub1l024zsdxytpz3q97ngj068xkt42v7jklvl80yfm5f4vukfrf97gsgtjf7n

/cc @alex @feld
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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:58:49 JST Greg Slepak
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@BeAware Follow the mostr account from fedi? No. Or other way around? (I don't have access to it... it's automated...)

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:41:13 JST Greg Slepak
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@6be38f8c63df7dbf84db7ec4a6e6fbbd8d19dca3b980efad18585c46f04b26f9 @alex Issue opened to track this: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr/-/issues/73
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  Here's my profile there: https://primal.net/p/npub1l024zsdxytpz3q97ngj068xkt42v7jklvl80yfm5f4vukfrf97gsgtjf7n This is what should be there: https://crib.social/users/taoeffect Note:
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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:41:13 JST Greg Slepak
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Seems like the @6be38f8c63df7dbf84db7ec4a6e6fbbd8d19dca3b980efad18585c46f04b26f9 #nostr bridge to #fediverse isn't working properly?

Here's my profile there: https://primal.net/p/npub1l024zsdxytpz3q97ngj068xkt42v7jklvl80yfm5f4vukfrf97gsgtjf7n

Note:

- Outdated profile picture
- Most of my posts are missing

@alex do you know what's up?
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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:41:11 JST Greg Slepak
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@feld @alex @6be38f8c63df7dbf84db7ec4a6e6fbbd8d19dca3b980efad18585c46f04b26f9 Very surprising if true considering Alex's advanced knowledge and work with #Pleroma.

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Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 04:11:17 JST Greg Slepak

PSA: Advanced autocomplete cannot be your friend, and anyone who says otherwise is selling you a pack of lies, with a spoonful of surveillance.

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