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New content moderation system for Nostr(habla.news)
4 points by olah_1 3y ago|3 comments
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by olah_1 3y ago
ActivityPub servers own your account. This is a non-starter for me unless someone holds server admins accountable to laws or some kind of liability
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by olah_1 3y ago
Has this been implemented in stuff yet?
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by olah_1 3y ago
I would rather just use a public key. No need for an entity (no matter how benevolent) to manage my identity for me. In terms of the vibe that something gives off, stuff is usually "cooler" when it seems like you didn't care
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by olah_1 3y ago
Yeah, because Mastodon is the most happening place online lol. I can't believe people on hacker news talk like this. Embarrassing how far this community has declined. Can't even discuss protocols without these stupid comments.
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by olah_1 3y ago
Perhaps better is decentralized twitter (Nostr). Your account doesn't live on a server and you send events to multiple servers if you want to. If one server goes down, it hardly impacts you.
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by olah_1 3y ago
I know I’m not going to get results from smaller pages when I search google. It makes me think I might as well make a list of 20 popular websites and just search all of those and collate the results
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by olah_1 3y ago
This is what I always wanted to see. Municipalities running federated servers. Solves the problem of "which server do I pick" and also gives user guarantees that are tangibly bound to real entities. I think a whole nation is too b
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by olah_1 3y ago
> cassettes have a kind of built-in "soft" DRM feature, in that reproduction is possible but goes hand-in-hand with a loss in quality Not just reproduction. Even just listening to them a bunch goes hand-in-hand with a loss in q
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by olah_1 3y ago
> I don't think there is any sign of this being true outside a small techy bubble. This is another advantage for Bluesky. Because as of now, a user of BlueSky would have no clue that it is "decentralized" at all. In compar
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by olah_1 3y ago
Their use of ActivityPub is just a way to quickly bootstrap social media functionality using time tested libraries. Just like they did with XMPP.
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by olah_1 3y ago
Have you considered that skin color is more than just skin color? That a people, a culture, is more than the amount of melanin they have? The idea that everyone is a blank slate wrapped in different colors of skin seems quite reductive, if
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by olah_1 3y ago
Where does culture come from?
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by olah_1 3y ago
The most frustrating thing about decline like this is that we aren’t even allowed to ask the questions that would set us on a path to figuring it out. The Overton Window[0] is set in such a way to perfectly ensure that the decline continues
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by olah_1 3y ago
I bet Nostr[1] integration in scripts will unlock tons of value for this. A totally open messaging and posting protocol that is maximally simple. [1]: https://github.com/nbd-wtf/nostr-tools
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by olah_1 3y ago
You used to be able to do something very similar with Perl, right? A bunch of independent scripts that were basically web endpoints? I forget the name of those little scripts... edit: CGI ?
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by olah_1 3y ago
I follow 400 people on Twitter and only see the same 10 accounts non-stop. Nobody else. Where is everyone else I follow? Honestly, I think they're mostly shadowbanned or de-ranked. Who knows why.
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by olah_1 3y ago
> text is barely readable. I understand what you're saying, and I agree, but it's like saying a party is boring because there are no books. The whole "meta" concept is that you're socializing in VR and it feels a
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by olah_1 3y ago
You basically have to zoom in on the camera app to get a 50mm equivalent photo. This isn't as bad as it seems though. The 2x quality is quite good on the baseline photos these days. However, on the "pro" iphone models, they d
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by olah_1 3y ago
> and the clearly computer-generated matrix-y shrines Good observation. Compare with Ocarina's temples which felt genuinely scary.
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by olah_1 3y ago
> I am absolutely sure they are doing this either via a contractor, ally, or inside cyber command or DIA etc Or they use AI. Would be very easy actually.
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by olah_1 3y ago
Is there such a thing as private posts? or “friends only” posts or something? Or is it all public?
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by olah_1 3y ago
> Globally unique usernames just aren't relevant. And if some users think they are relevant, let it be an optional additional name for premium users.
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by olah_1 3y ago
> All it needs to do is to get rid of the invite system Exactly. The hype will be dead by the time people can actually join. If we look at the example of Clubhouse, the invite system just pissed a lot of people off. So by the time they f
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by olah_1 3y ago
> Any differences to Mastodon? https://atproto.com/guides/faq#why-not-use-activitypub
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by olah_1 3y ago
One thing about Nostr is that there is no authentication to retrieve data. So the data can be spread far and wide, without permission. This can obviously be both good or bad depending on what your use case is! I think that BlueSky has aut
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by olah_1 4y ago
This store is great. But I also want to point out that there are more specialty bookstores too. I got a couple Rudolf Steiner books from a store dedicated to those and they sent me a handwritten card and such. Really nice experience when yo
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by olah_1 4y ago
Isn’t the idea of a modular computer defeated if only one company has a monopoly on the modules that you can buy?
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by olah_1 4y ago
I really see how Nim was influenced by Oberon now. Will Oberon+ actually compete with Nim in some ways?
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by olah_1 4y ago
Old style numerals are my favorite actually. There aren't that many descenders in lowercase English, but in a script like Shavian where there are many, the old style figures feel really "at home".

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