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by olah_1 6y ago
> I can't figure out how they prevent you from getting multiple accounts I'm not sure about that, to be honest. One thing to keep in mind though is the importance of validating identities in person. I think you get higher trust
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by olah_1 6y ago
Yeah it's not a particularly groundbreaking concept. It has existed for as long as people have kept personal address books. Another implementation is in Secure-Scuttlebutt. But those "petnames" are actually gossiped around by
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by olah_1 6y ago
It’s clear to me that human-meaningful is the one to drop. Status messenger has a nice naming solution. They give everyone a three-random-word name when they join (an Ethereum pub key is under that of course). Then (1) your friends can assi
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by olah_1 6y ago
I don’t know a single person that ever asked for speeds faster than 4G on their phone. The jump from 3G to 4G solved all complaints I heard. Improved coverage? Yes I’ve heard that a lot. It seems like 5G is being pushed for other reasons. C
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>They don’t want to hold their coins or be their own bank. If the UX is better around this, I think they would. It's only in the last 15 years that people really stopped carrying large amounts of cash around. And from what I underst
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Fluffy Chat, Element, Syphon, etc. You actually have to go out of your way to customize the server part
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A lot of matrix clients are designing it how you mention. As an example, the app would be called Snikket and when a user makes an account, they’re on the Snikket matrix server by default. They don’t even know they’re using matrix protocol.
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by olah_1 6y ago
> That these people think it is more viable to co-opt an existing product using organizing pressure for their ends than to build one someone actually wants and share it is indicative of their strategy and attitude Ironic, considering tha
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by olah_1 6y ago
> instead of forking and building solutions What would you fork? The signal server code that hasn’t been updated in almost a year[1]? If that is truly the same code that we use with signal today, would your fork work with this same netwo
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Personally I love Session. I agree with their logic. As we have seen, if they have your device, it’s over even if you use ratcheting etc. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/08/can-t.
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by olah_1 6y ago
> what do you think bitcoin is used for? Storing value. Smart ass answer, I know. But it's true. As a private currency, Bitcoin is like a screen door. So I don't know why you'd use it for illegal activities.
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by olah_1 6y ago
Interestingly enough, with Ethereum, countries could create their own national currencies as Ethereum tokens. And easily exchange with other Ethereum tokens as well.
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by olah_1 6y ago
They’re already discussing what to do when “fascists” (read: Christian rednecks) start posting signal group links. > One employee pointed out that fascists are often quite public about their activities, as the recent insurrection in broa
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by olah_1 6y ago
Session protocol is currently running on session now[1]. It’s actually the reason that they were able to allow up to 100 people in closed groups now. [1]: https://getsession.org/session-release-roundup-10/
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by olah_1 6y ago
My only annoyance with the crypto currency is that it doesn’t have a good UX yet. They have stated before though that Session will always remain free for everyone. I think compensating node operators in some capacity makes sense but if it’s
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by olah_1 6y ago
The point about simplicity is important and often overlooked. > Complex software that can’t be developed by a different group of people creates dependence, step one of user domestication. That alone is enough to open the door to problema
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by olah_1 6y ago
SSB has a pretty clever name resolution system[1]. The only problem I see with it is that it is a bit too leaky. You may learn someone’s nickname from a friend, but you also may not if your friend doesn’t tell you. SSB makes the gossiping o
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by olah_1 6y ago
F-Droid bans apps for “hate speech” too[1]. Any mastodon app that refused to blacklist Gab got banned from F-Droid or something like that. It is the perfect example of why I don’t even bother with federated projects. It’s just “wouldn’t it
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by olah_1 6y ago
What a mess that would be. A user has to keep in their mind which servers they can and can’t talk to while also remembering which servers their friends are on to begin with.
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by olah_1 6y ago
Twitter simply becoming a large ActivityPub server sounds nice in theory. But in practice it would be no different than it is today, because they would just blacklist servers and make everyone submit, right? A more attractive approach would
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by olah_1 6y ago
Signal adding stickers also made a massive difference. Fun factor is underrated. But the snappiness of Telegram UI is truly next level.
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I know, I’m just saying that this is the common meme statement about Russia.
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by olah_1 6y ago
It's really upsetting how Wire was managed honestly. The bones were great (even built with Rust), but it really seemed like it just stalled out and then switched to being a Corporate app instead of a Consumer app in a last ditch effort
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by olah_1 6y ago
Let's pretend that Telegram servers and all your data is stored in Russia, regularly data-mined by the KGB, whatever. The fact is that many Americans would prefer to have their data mined by the KGB than by the FBI.
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by olah_1 6y ago
“Passwordless technology” is just giving users their own keys. How to provide a good onboarding and UX around that process is another story. It requires educating the user to a different mindset. I advise looking into Argent[1] (Loopring is
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by olah_1 6y ago
I just want to point out that Minds[1] has a pretty clever content moderation policy that involves an appeal process with randomly selected users of the platform making blind judgements. I haven’t been part of the process myself, nor have I
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by olah_1 6y ago
You’re probably right. But we’re also at the point where software is so tightly controlled by the hardware manufacturers that the devices simply don’t do what you expect them to do. If I can flip a switch to disable wifi instead of tap thre
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by olah_1 6y ago
I’ve had critiques about the fediverse for a long time. I’ve also had critiques about urbit for a long time. It seems to me that Zot improves pleroma/mastodon to solve their problems (server extinction, account migration). It also seem
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Maybe that’s new in iOS14. I remember last year seeing a Shortcut for turning off wifi completely. But even then I thought it turned itself back on randomly.
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by olah_1 6y ago
It will still try to connect to wifi points that you happen to pass by, though.

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