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by kevinak 8mo ago
Bitcoin via the Lightning Network is near cost-free and instant. And it's not a hack, it's just a network of payment channels.
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by kevinak 8mo ago
Because centralization matters. It is what stops a hostile agent from ruining things. There is no real win in being "semi-decentralized".
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by kevinak 8mo ago
The whole premise of a free social media protocol is that it is resistant to hostile takeovers. All issues stem from this. 1. I absolutely feel very strongly about decentralization. If there is a part of the stack that isn't it opens u
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by kevinak 8mo ago
In theory, yes. In practice, not really, since the vast majority of users won't care to do it.
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by kevinak 8mo ago
I am, I just don’t have the same values in terms of what I want from my decentralized social media.
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by kevinak 8mo ago
VCs have put in $120 million, so someone thinks that it's worth something.
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by kevinak 8mo ago
Moving the PLC to an independent org doesn't make it decentralized.
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by kevinak 8mo ago
How would they fix it?
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by kevinak 8mo ago
This is still centralized.
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by kevinak 8mo ago
Right, but they couldn't take their social graph with them. They essentially had to start from scratch.
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by kevinak 8mo ago
I do advocate for using other networks (specifically Nostr) that are not designed like this, but the network effect is big and most of my friends are on Blue Sky because they have been lured into a false sense of “it’s decentralised, I can
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by kevinak 8mo ago
There seems to be an issue with the caching mechanism that I built. In the meantime the article is also on Nostr if anyone wants to read it: https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzql5ujf9w2f2ujkj9f552a... Thanks for th
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by kevinak 8mo ago
Nostr doesn’t have these issues
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by kevinak 8mo ago
I’ll keep that in mind, thanks!
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by kevinak 8mo ago
It is not, but I have used Claude to edit it.
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by kevinak 8mo ago
Most people were happy with Twitter as well
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by kevinak 8mo ago
How so? I should add a time stamp to the blog.
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by kevinak 8mo ago
I know very well what it is, it doesn’t change anything in the grand scheme of things. I wish it did!
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by kevinak 8mo ago
Nostr - it has none of the problems mentioned in the article.
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Be wary of Bluesky(kevinak.se)
366 points by kevinak 8mo ago|262 comments
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by kevinak 9mo ago
https://nostr.com/ ?
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by kevinak 9mo ago
Funnily enough you can use Bitcoin at most merchants that use a Square PoS device, which is like 25% of merchants in the US. It just takes time for folks to change their behaviors. And why would they, if they're getting X% cashback on
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Donut Lab – first all-solid-state battery. Production Ready Today(donutlab.com)
10 points by kevinak 9mo ago|2 comments
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by kevinak 10mo ago
It very much came from the Bitcoin world and was sold as a way to run your own node. Great experience if you’re into that but it’s nothing that is forced on you, they’re just “apps” like everything else you can install on it.
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by kevinak 10mo ago
I run an umbrel on an off the shelf mini pc and it’s been great! Very polished and nice experience!
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by kevinak 11mo ago
I mean it depends on the query and what you're doing of course, but it's not impossible to reach writes/s in the 80k range.
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by kevinak 11mo ago
Yes, that's why I would expect it to smoke Postgres here, in process is orders of magnitude faster. Do you really need concurrency here when you can do 10-100k+ inserts per second?
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by kevinak 11mo ago
Is FastAPI just bad with SQLite? I would have expected SQLite to smoke Postgres in terms of ops/s.
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by kevinak 11mo ago
Like GP I haven't experienced many WebView based apps that are great so I had to give this a spin and I have to say it's actually pretty good! I would not have identified this as a WebView app if I didn't already know about i
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Oxlint JavaScript Plugin Support(voidzero.dev)
3 points by kevinak 1y ago|0 comments

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