lorean_victor

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by lorean_victor 3y ago
tbf I mentioned the www era decentralisation mostly. but I agree. as mentioned earlier, actually the fact that decentralisation has happened multiple times before, while convenience was kind of against it, is the reason I think it will most
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
yes I think that'd be a great addition. any publisher can, optionally, introduce a hub for their feed, so people get realtime update of their content, and even a social hub, where other authors reacting to their content can use to noti
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
even for me, as a long time software engineer (who has worked devops before cloud and docker times), its not "hard" but it is "non-trivial" and can get "costly", while publishing my static blog is waay waaay ea
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
thats an interesting perspective. I am personally much in favour of reducing unnecessary interdependence in society, specifically to big corps: google can really screw me up just because they provide an email service for me. questions that
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
I wouldn't characterise the history of the internet as having started with "everything decentralised". if I'm not missing something, it was completely the other way around. introduction of general populous to the interne
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
fair. but I'm assuming you need such expensive (and as a result, centralised) services regardless. a small part of content discovery is "who has reacted to my content", take the case of tiktok, in which a strong content disco
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
I am sorry I couldn't aptly understand you. did people migrate from twitter / reddit to discord / slack? That's an interesting phenomena if it has happened that I wasn't aware of, do you have sources I can read up o
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
exactly.
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
I admire this vision, and also appreciate the fact that you quoted "just" to underline a recognition of how much of a fundamental shift this is :D
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
thanks for the pointer!
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
I wouldn't. I also wouldn't think about a decentralised email solution, or a decentralised messaging service. doesn't make sense. as for publishing my own blog though? nah I'd really rather a decentralised system where I
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
its not about "usability", in general, though. do you think reddit is truly usable? as a content consumer I would love to be somewhere where there is engaging content and content discovery. I go to mastodon, my feed is empty and t
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
what do you mean by "content-centric-networking"? perhaps I have some reading to do. the "allure of large companies hoarding all the data" might be a factor independently though. I personally believe a proper content dis
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
thanks for the thoughts. 1. I suspect something like Google, indexing feeds instead of websites, and also mapping what is a reaction to what, perhaps. something that makes a bit suspicious about the potential of this though, is the fact tha
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
how, though? I doubt we had an easier method than opening your phone and just typing a few sentences in a text box, or just "liking" or "reposting" something.
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
it has downsides though. I am constantly jumping between twitter, reddit, spotify (for podcasts) and youtube to see the content and latest updates from the same people. when I want to share something, I should think where should I post it,
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
agreed. it won't be a performance gain at all. but I suspect aggregating / indexing / etc. still is going to be the most resource consuming part of a push-based system if you want your content discovery to not be limited to t
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
the system doesn't need to be completely pull-based though. I don't even think most modern RSS readers are fully pull-based, don't they support WebSub? the main point is to separate publishing and distribution, making publish
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
I see your points (though I don't fully agree). Most of these relate to a "central search and discovery service". this doesn't need to be coupled with the rest of the network functionalities (posting content or interacti
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
no worries, I have worked as a product manager for a few products that "the real world" seems to care about, and I fully understand your sentiment. that's even why I've dedicated the last segment of the post to basically
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
You are right I'm sorry. I wasn't notified that anything discussed on these forums should be exclusively about whatever "the real world" cares about at least one bit (preferably 8 bits or more I guess?). Ah the nerds, wh
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
I think that's an issue of tools at your disposal to create content (including comments) rather than their distribution model (e.g. pull vs push). If your main method of saying stuff is through a blogpost, ofc you'll end up in the
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
yes it is a federated system by design. doesn't mean it is not a limitation though. to give you an example: in case of email, though it is not that difficult to host your own server (and even if you are a small startup you'll most
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
it was quite easy for a small team to crawl and index a good portion of the internet, enough to become the de facto gateway (talking about Google). it was similarly possible for a relatively small team to crawl a good chunk of the available
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
I've got to disagree on this point. I am a firm believer in "democratisation" of anything, including "publishing content that many other people will see". this is what social media mainly have done, in my opinion. t
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
I do recognise the fact that such "aggregators" would be hugely centralised (if not outright monopolised, like the search engine space). however, maybe I'm wrong but I don't see the federated model succeeding without suc
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
thanks for taking the time to read through it regardless. I wrote this as a brain dump, and shared it mostly with the intent of learning more about the topic (which thanks to this thread, I already have), so I feel it is ok if it doesn&#x27
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
you don't need a CDN or even a DNS to host your blog (though most probably you'd use them). you will still be at the mercy of registries to have an IP address other people can find, but I think practically speaking it is not far f
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
looks quite interesting, I wasn't aware of that. it seems like a nice hybrid solution to pull/push problem (relays can push if they choose to, clients just publish and pull). I should say though, that upon first look, I wish it wa
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by lorean_victor 3y ago
the thing is, with no intermediaries involved, more specifically, without any proper "search engines" (or "aggregators") involved, the network will suffer greatly from a content discovery problem regardless (as the fediv

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