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by rakoo 3y ago
I'm sure spam bots and scammers aren't waiting on indexes to appear and do their own, so providing an index can't make them more problematic they already are. Trolls, bullies and harassers though will have better access to yo
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by rakoo 3y ago
That's the thing: you are deemed innocent until proven, guilty or innocent.This framework supposes there is a common search for truth and working together. The current situation is not that: there is no accountability of reddit, no d
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by rakoo 3y ago
The problem is that you don't know if the link you're clicking on is a lemmy link or not. We are slowly approaching the limits of web browsing, where the document and the application are intertwined. We are limited by the tools at
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by rakoo 3y ago
This supposes that the sandbox (ie the State) is somehow neutral and independent, which it isn't: in all democracies, the State has always been made by the bourgeoisie, for the bourgeoisie. Only the fact that it needs people to consume
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by rakoo 3y ago
You need to define what "successful" means, because I feel we don't have the same definition. To me, being able to control the medium and communicate with the people I'm interested in is already a success. The fediverse
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by rakoo 3y ago
Capitalism endgame is monopoly, any sufficiently old market ends in a n-opoly. Competition doesn't work, we've been trying that for centuries already and this is where we are. Companies' goal isn't to better people&#x27
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by rakoo 3y ago
Here you go: https://woob.tech/
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by rakoo 3y ago
Here's an even better version: all servers exchange everything, it's all text, properly managed the synchronization is efficient. Clients list topics and get full threaas with the assurance they have everything. Mods decide whethe
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by rakoo 3y ago
Look at the history of Mastodon. Contributors come in all shapes, but all of them want to be able to create without being harassed, insulted, mocked, trolled. Control over your means of communication is a mandatory step for that. Yes, your
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by rakoo 3y ago
Lemmy has the same functionality, and allows people to both control their own conditions and talk to anyone. That's the reason this whole ruckus is happening. Centralized alternatives don't have that. I don't know who said
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by rakoo 3y ago
Fail at what exactly ? What are your criterias for success ? If it's something like eternal growth ana scalability, I would consider that a failure. My criteria is if everyone has access to the people they care about, in conditions the
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by rakoo 3y ago
I've said it in a sibling post, but I don't believe our political systems are perfect models of democracy but are closer to benevolent dictatorships. It's comfortable, but that's not xhat the fediverse is about. There ar
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by rakoo 3y ago
For a more precise background* I don't believe a representative democracy, where we must abandon all power to someone else who we hepe will do the right thing is a model we should be pursuing. Polls are not a good thing per se, they&#x
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by rakoo 3y ago
> benefit from the product and gain an incentive > An infintessimal fraction of users care about philosophy or architecture [...] Users came for their cat pics. Give them their cat pics. Pitch them on the back end afterwards. I'm
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by rakoo 3y ago
There's a third-party indexer here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities Much like any true decentralized system, there can be as many star trek communities as there are trekkies. But this is not a technical problem, it&
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by rakoo 3y ago
I can't agree more with you, unfortunately there's a real C check of our position and our history to do, us being technical people: - we must stop assuming everyone is equal. Access to a computer, access to a smartphone, access to
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by rakoo 3y ago
Chat is a very bad flow for this, because chat is a stream, not a garden. It's made for quick feedback. What you want is closer to a wiki, but I understand you need to share it with other people and discuss about it. I don't know
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by rakoo 3y ago
I think there's an issue in your thinking: you're only approaching this situation in terms of technology. This is in fact the reason why the "solution" in western countries is open source and decentralization: we think i
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by rakoo 3y ago
So you can join; it's just a different process you're not used to. You can (and maybe should) host your own lemmy instance and participate in the discussions.
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by rakoo 3y ago
> How does someone weaponize your information Show baby diapers ads because Google knows I'm pregnant. Increase the price of baby furnitures because Amazon knows I'm pregnant. Decline a job interview because LinkedIn knows I&#x
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by rakoo 3y ago
There's a list here: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/13x9sy7/now_that... Note that all of these are still centralized, so still subjects to similar issues. Once again selfhosting is the
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by rakoo 3y ago
On the technical side, garage ( https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/ ) does multi master replication by default, so is probably better for this use case. Still with S3 API.
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by rakoo 3y ago
I was mostly joking because the article is about using usenet so it would make sense to talk about it over usenet. I've never used Zulip actively but in my mind it actually was the bridge between mostly-realtime and expected delay, is
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by rakoo 3y ago
No usenet feed ?
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by rakoo 3y ago
Do you have any more details ?
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by rakoo 3y ago
You can't build a decentralized search because there's no way to trust whatever results you get until you actually build it. If you don't want to rely on a specific community, your best bet is to crawl yourself and search loc
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by rakoo 3y ago
No, again in that threat model I can decide exactly which certificates and which CA I trust, one by one.
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by rakoo 3y ago
Wrong, TLS security is independent from DNS. If my threat model includes nation states I'll trust my own certificates or my very own CA.
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by rakoo 3y ago
This sounds more or like like what factotum ( https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man4/factotum.html ), from plan9, tried to do
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by rakoo 3y ago
It's naïve in our system where problems are not solved as a group, but as a sum of individuals. If you don't trust someone to do something on your computer, then you also probably don't trust them to do much more outside; how

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