I just read the whitepaper. I didn’t understand everything, but it sounds pretty good. I’d try it out, but sadly looks like they don’t have any desktop clients :/

Seems like a really bad idea to build a desktop using a toolkit that doesn’t support selection, accessibility tools, non-Latin text, etc.

as someone who deeply hates phones, i completely agree with this post

What a terrible article.

Whenever I read the claim that copyleft ideology is hypocritical because it imposes a restriction on acceptable use of the software, I pretty much just stop paying attention. The ideology of copyleft is very clear and consistent: making non-free derivatives isn’t a valid freedom because it takes freedom away from others. No, just because you don’t like something doesn’t make it hypocritical. Compare copyleft to defensive force: everyone agrees that it’s wrong to punch someone, but everyone also agrees that you can punch back against someone who punches first.

hi

Keep the word. That word is important: http://humaniterations.net/2017/06/14/your-freedom-is-my-freedom-the-premise-of-anarchism/

The two use cases suggested:

Alice holds a digital wallet that securely manages her identity, data, and authorizations for external apps and connections. Alice uses her wallet to sign in to a new decentralized social media app. Because Alice has connected to the app with her decentralized identity, she does not need to create a profile, and all the connections, relationships, and posts she creates through the app are stored with her, in her decentralized web node. Now Alice can switch apps whenever she wants, taking her social persona with her.

• Creating a profile takes what, 2 minutes? And you do it only once per app.
• Connections and relationships: Okay so you want to copy your list of followers? That’s nothing remotely new. Pleroma literally has that (also for blocks and mutes).
• If you want automatic discovery of existing followers, fine, but note that already exists on some platforms via email addresses or phone numbers. All you’d need to extend it to secure, decentralized identifiers is for those platforms to have a metadata field for users to put such an identifier. Hardly revolutionary.

Bob is a music lover and hates having his personal data locked to a single vendor. It forces him to regurgitate his playlists and songs over and over again across different music apps. Thankfully there’s a way out of this maze of vendor-locked silos: Bob can keep this data in his decentralized web node. This way Bob is able to grant any music app access to his settings and preferences, enabling him to take his personalized music experience wherever he chooses.

So you want to import playlists between music apps? That could only work if each song has a globally unique identifier for the playlists which is known to all the platforms. That isn’t the case, and changing that would require every musician to change their workflow.

True, but I think the intention of the post is to call attention to what is likely another scandal like copilot (it launders open source code, violating the license)

Increasing prices isn’t a one-way street to making more money. The amount of money you make is the price times the number you sell, and you sell less if the price is higher.

That isn’t how inflation works. Inflation is when the value of currency decreases, meaning prices as measured in currency increase to stay equal in value.

the reality is a lot of the audience this person is likely trying to reach already has discord installed

People interested in a complete outsider OS are using discord?

My guess is the people interested in this type of project are the ones using IRC and email for everything.

Micro!

I used to use Mirage (fancy interface, multi-account, i liked it except for lack of support for edits and reactions) until one day it had some weird error connecting to my homeserver and no matter what I tried I could never get it to connect again, even while other clients could. Even tried reinstalling Mirage and removing and readding my account but I could never get it to connect again so I was forced to switch back to Element.

As an element user for about a year: the biggest thing element needs is to make E2E actually work consistently. Every day I see random “can’t decrypt this message for some reason” errors, and it makes me embarrassed whenever I convince someone to try using Matrix instead of proprietary platforms and then I have to tell them I can’t read their messages and the first three things we tried to fix it didn’t work. This is the biggest reason why I want to abandon Matrix for good as soon as possible, and am working on creating another federated chat protocol.

Yeah, also through Tor would work I imagine

They would actually force you into homelessness. That person is a monster.

Golly, I would have so many responses to that as a justification…

• Do kids really still get allowances these days? I never did, and I don’t think anyone I know from the same generation ever did.
• It goes against the whole fundamental capitalist idea that equality of outcome doesn’t matter. If I suggested that poor people should be given higher wages because they have less money already, they’d call me a crazy commie but somehow in this one context, having money from another source means you should be paid less?
• It doesn’t even work on its own terms. If kids should be paid less because they get allowances then adults should be paid less because they obviously have way more money than kids! Even if you subtract their expenses

damn they actually straight up pay you less for being younger.

Hi. I’m a new Lemmy user who used to spend a lot of time on Reddit, before I became so interested in decentralization. I’m actually thrilled to hear that the people running this instance are leftist and anarchist types. It makes me feel better about my decision to use the biggest instance.

About the slur filter, I was very annoyed to find out about it, for two main reasons: I think that as a matter of technical architecture, any sort of content filtering should always be kept out of the source code, even if it’s active on a certain instance; and that there are contexts where it’s acceptable to use those words, such as when quoting from someone else, or in a discussion about the concept of offensive language itself.