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by olah_1 5y ago
> Most P2P systems are completely different because nodes can use any relay and relaying is separate from identity. A planet has just one Star that sponsors them in Urbit, but as a planet, you can choose to leave your Star and move to a
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by olah_1 5y ago
>5. The urbit network is hierachically federated, and hence resistant to censorship. This is not true. Urbit is essentially a proof-of-stake network where the Galaxies and Stars have the authority to ban anyone off the network that they
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by olah_1 5y ago
> masquerading as a privacy solution Urbit has almost zero privacy features and it never claimed to have any. > The original founder is a neoreactionary authoriarian, and the system is designed with his ideal vision of the future in m
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by olah_1 5y ago
Firestr looks great! It looks like a cross between Nostr and Gun. Regarding the architecture, where does the data live? On the clients? How are you achieving a multi-writer functionality? Meaning, how can two people edit the same chat data
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by olah_1 5y ago
> when it's quite literally modelled after his feudalist beliefs Okay, but aren't most P2P networks modelled like this? You have client-servers, relays, and super-relays. The only difference is the amount of buy-in required t
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by olah_1 5y ago
Certainly there are many, many bots. BUT, I have personally noticed a resurgence in snapchat popularity. It did indeed die, but it came back after (I think) people have gotten burnt out on the super public nature of Instagram. Snapchat is m
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by olah_1 5y ago
I agree about WASM. I am sort of worried that Deno may be too late tbh. Why would I bother with an interpreted language at all when I can code in any language I want and run it anywhere with WASM?
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by olah_1 5y ago
This is awesome, but I’d like to see it built on top of something like https://Manyver.se (SSB) where the content lives on user devices!
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by olah_1 5y ago
Non-techy “annoying” people can and have learned to code HTML. It just takes proper motivation. When the only game in town was Myspace, many people learned just so they could have an awesome page. Knowing HTML / CSS gave you more stree
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by olah_1 5y ago
So everyone makes custom websites, but 90% of them are hosted on the same service because nobody likes managing a VPS. This isn’t any better than current social media imo.
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by olah_1 5y ago
The old Windows Movie Maker was the best. So straightforward. No nonsense trying to “help” you. Just give me a basic timeline system please!
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by olah_1 5y ago
Have you heard the phrase “time is money”? I would say that Youtube is pay to play as well. You’re just paying with your attention to their advertisers. I don’t think this logic is misplaced. HN has the same business model as all “free” tec
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by olah_1 5y ago
HN sells me as their audience to advertisers right? Would you say that Youtube is “free” as well? Many people would simply prefer a more transparent / straight forward business model and I don’t think they are wrong for having that pre
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by olah_1 5y ago
You can’t get around the fact that HN is pay to play too though. that is my point. You aren’t paying a fraction of a cent to post comments, but you’re paying in other ways. You just prefer the business model of HN, but i find the fraction o
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by olah_1 5y ago
I misread your first comment. I thought you meant that the project was dead haha.
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by olah_1 5y ago
> Not everything has to be commercial. HN comments aren't free to host though. There is compute involved. How are they paying for that compute? If it is out of boredom and good will, that's cool. But I very much am keeping that
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by olah_1 5y ago
They desperately need to rebrand if they hope to succeed. The knight helmet logo and the name are not appealing in the slightest to any normal person. The whole brand image just screams "edgelord".
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by olah_1 5y ago
Same. Because it allows for transparent business models.
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by olah_1 5y ago
Who creates/curates the information? They gotta eat...
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by olah_1 5y ago
> The hyper/dat protocol fatigue is also in a heavily unstable state. What makes you say that? Hypercore just launched a major upgrade that includes multi-writer support. > Which kind of confirms the previous commenter's arg
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by olah_1 5y ago
Anecdotally, I had never heard of this app, but it is relevant to the area i work in (product comms, business operations). Was it difficult to advertise specifically to this audience?
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by olah_1 5y ago
Yep, I know. But honestly I find all the jekyll themes pretty ugly
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by olah_1 5y ago
Is the “key” for an account a one-time purchase of $5?
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by olah_1 5y ago
That attribute could also let you easily group your users into different languages. If you wanted to add more discovery features or something and let people search by language. Not sure what your goal is around that. Maybe opt out of discov
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by olah_1 5y ago
> then build and push to the publishing server via a GitHub action I have looked into this before, but it honestly just seemed very esoteric and complex. I'm surprised that Github doesn't provide pre-made "recipes" f
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by olah_1 5y ago
I was wondering about the typography too. Specifically for multi-language support, the chances are high that you’d want something better than the one default font they provide. Not to mention that you may want to edit the language meta code
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by olah_1 5y ago
I don’t enjoy the process of having to build the site and push the built site to a service like github. It adds a certain kind of friction to the process of “saving” my work that just isn’t life-giving for me.
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by olah_1 5y ago
> Those servers will be like hobby email servers today. Nobody relies on these for real communication. Maybe as a toy. But everyone would have a gmail as backup. > Eg a real business. Like Gmail, Outlook If it’s a for-profit business,
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by olah_1 5y ago
I definitely do follow Manyverse development. But as you alluded to, I won’t use it until a few new features are developed like “strong” follows vs “soft” (doesn’t automatically seed all of their follower content) follows.
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by olah_1 5y ago
What is the incentive for a server operator to take on all this risk? Most of these people running servers don’t charge anything, so I can only assume that it is a (1) a hobby or (2) they have bad intentions. If 1, they have failed to under

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