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by gonehome 4y ago
It might have been worth them formally filing the murder-for-hire charges just to save us from having to read his supporters repeatedly say they weren't real.
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by gonehome 4y ago
People have been bringing email up a lot, but it’s really a good example of why federated systems end up centralizing and fail to accomplish their goals. Almost nobody runs their own email server, the few that do struggle with not getting b
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by gonehome 4y ago
You can’t run your own node and majority of users are on one system - that’s failure to me.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496458 Email is an example of a federated system failure.
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by gonehome 4y ago
The Twitter status quo was one of stagnation (took them ten years to ship edit to a handful of people) - they're a good example of how you can basically do everything wrong, but if you have product market fit it's hard to fail. He
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by gonehome 4y ago
Most users won't run their own server, they'll be on large centralized ones with all of the same problems that entails.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496458 Email is an example of a federated system failure.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Presumably your comment is directed at me, but I think we probably have overlapping wants and disagree on how to get those results. I think you're wrong about Musk, but that aside - I want us to escape the ad-driven model we're tr
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah - it wouldn't surprise me if Elon eventually puts Jack back in as CEO.
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by gonehome 4y ago
He had only a tiny amount of company ownership, didn't have total voting power, the board (which barely even used Twitter) made it impossible for him to make the changes he'd want to make and just generally seemed obstructionist&#
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by gonehome 4y ago
I don't disagree, but the design of urbit is such that there's a path to it being good - that's not true of any other system built on the current stack (imo) because they don't fix the underlying incentive failures that
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by gonehome 4y ago
Correct - email is a failure as a federated system, people are centralized on a handful of providers and you can't even run your own server these days without getting blacklisted. The promise of the decentralized web of the 90s is a fa
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by gonehome 4y ago
Mastodon and federated systems like it will not succeed beyond a tiny niche, will not replace twitter, and don't even solve most of the problems they try to solve. They don't fix the upstream issues that lead to centralization. In
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by gonehome 4y ago
For signal - phone numbers as IDs allow them to retain no other info on their servers. They don’t have your phone book (though if someone gets your device and forced you to unlock it that’s different, but then they’d have your contacts anyw
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by gonehome 4y ago
I think you’re thinking of iMessage. WhatsApp backups are encrypted: https://faq.whatsapp.com/1192377921246090/?locale=en_US&refs... I don’t know if there’s proof, but I have a friend that works on the team that I
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by gonehome 4y ago
WhatsApp is encrypted end to end for what it’s worth. They just retain chat metadata that signal does not.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Email isn’t really an exception - it’s largely another federated system failure with most users on one centralized system (gmail). You can’t even run an email server yourself without getting blacklisted these days. I doubt Twitter is going
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by gonehome 4y ago
We need a personal cloud computer. https://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progr... It’s a big project to fix the underlying issues to get us there, but it’s not impossible. It does require more tha
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by gonehome 4y ago
At the very least it's nice to see a power user in control of the platform. The status quo was so bad - I'm really curious what's going to happen. I'm optimistic.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I generally agree - without solving the underlying issues you end up back centralized on a handful of providers again (except with a shittier experience) sort of like email. I work on Urbit now[0], but I also think it (or something a lot li
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by gonehome 4y ago
I've tried multiple times and they're just bad imo.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I was really hoping for no ads! Huge bummer on that front.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I'd guess it'd be really great for seeing examples and learning.
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by gonehome 4y ago
It’s a little like the newcomb’s paradox. IMO the “rational” action is the one where given the circumstances you win. At least I’d one box in that problem every time given the way it works. In this example, it’s picking up the $100. The eff
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by gonehome 4y ago
It's an old joke: An economist is walking down the street when he steps on a $100 bill lying on the ground. He spots it, but decides to keep walking and doesn't pick it up. “After all,” he thinks to himself, “if that had really be
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah this is true, friends that are professors say they now have to have a basic class early in the semester that explains folders, files, and other basics to students.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Have you heard of urbit?
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by gonehome 4y ago
Somewhat disputing definitions - he’s talking about the low stakes idle hedonistic “happiness” from commonly thought of as pleasurable things (brunch, camping, food/drinks with friends, etc.) vs. the type of more difficult stuff that w
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by gonehome 4y ago
Medium sucked - it’s the opposite of Substack. Substack lets writers retain their own brand and their own access to their audience. They empower their writers with the platform. Medium requires writers to give up that independence to suppor
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah, there’s a history of bombs that they watch internally. Will Ferrell talked about this in some interview he was in some skit playing an obscure character and it completely bombed, but he still drew it out for the total time.

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