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by yogthos 6y ago
This is akin to saying you can't have a coherent identity across instances for email. It's a nonsensical statement because the whole point of having a federation is that you have identity on one instance and you can interact with
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by yogthos 6y ago
Currently, Mastodon is a federation with millions of users on it, and it's been working for many years now. So, it's very clear that it's already worked out.
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by yogthos 6y ago
The article isn't talking about security through obscurity at all. What it says is that Mastodon doesn't have a single point of failure like Twitter because it's a distributed network. With Twitter you can hack the entire net
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by yogthos 6y ago
Mastodon has millions of users now, and it's a part of a bigger fediverse community. Let's not belittle open source alternatives to commercial social media. The point that the article makes is that while obviously nothing can be i
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Twitter Got Hacked, Is Mastodon Immune?(mikestone.me)
64 points by yogthos 6y ago|99 comments
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by yogthos 6y ago
Once again, it's a completely separate issue. You can have a centralized service that also uses an open protocol that people can make custom clients for. Furthermore, people use stuff like Tor for anonymity with decentralized systems.
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by yogthos 6y ago
This is completely tangential to using open communication protocols.
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by yogthos 6y ago
This is a huge win for open chat protocols, and we really need an open protocol for chat communication to become a standard. The fact that most of the popular chat platforms are proprietary is a travesty. It’s especially painful nowadays wh
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by yogthos 6y ago
Words like efficiency and freedom are loaded terms that have an implicit context. It's always important to ask what the context actually is. Efficient to what end, or freedom to do what. All too often we discover that we are not the be
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Reddit says it’s fixing code in its iOS app that copied clipboard contents(theverge.com)
3 points by yogthos 6y ago|0 comments
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by yogthos 6y ago
So, do enlighten us, what exactly do you claim antifa actually stands for if you're saying they're not acting in the spirit of their name?
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by yogthos 6y ago
In fact, I'd argue that anybody who's not explicitly anti-fascist is at the very least comfortable with fascism.
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by yogthos 6y ago
The problem is that /r/metacanda is a hate sub for white supremacists by white supermacists. Apparently that's well within Reddit ToS though.
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by yogthos 6y ago
the developers of Lemmy are very clear about their stance regarding nazis at least, and that's more than I can say for Reddit https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/34286 Their developer code of conduct also looks good in that
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by yogthos 6y ago
Nothing can prevent terrible people from using an open source project. Meanwhile, Reddit doesn't do much of anything about this problem either. For, example /r/metacanada exists, and white supremacists from there are also mo
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Lemmy v0.7.0 is out, and secures 45.000 € NLnet funding(dev.lemmy.ml)
1 points by yogthos 6y ago|0 comments
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by yogthos 6y ago
It feels like change for the sake of change to me. There doesn't appear to be any actual improvement in terms of UI or functionality as far as I can tell.
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by yogthos 6y ago
The github repo is here https://github.com/chr15m/slingcode
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by yogthos 6y ago
It's worth noting that open source isn't directly at odds with commercial funding. There are lots of open source products out there like Android, GitLab, Nextcloud, IntelliJ,and many others that are developed commercially, but als
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by yogthos 6y ago
My whole point is that what people pay for changes over time. So, if you invest in a piece of software, then it's very likely going to continue evolving to stay profitable and chase whatever new fads happen to be. This has been the cas
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by yogthos 6y ago
yeah that's a trade off, but having your own server has some advantages as well since it's always available. Also provides an easy way to share stuff with friends. Syncthing is definitely nice if you just need p2p sync between dev
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by yogthos 6y ago
I highly recommend NextCloud. It's trivial to set up with Digital Ocean, and I've been using it for a couple of years now without a hiccup. I use it as a file server, calendar, and a media streaming solution.
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by yogthos 6y ago
I've come to realize that open source is the only type of software worth investing into. No matter how great a commercial piece of software might be, sooner or later it's going to either disappear or change in a way that doesn&#x2
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ESP32-Based Board Uses ClojureScript to Explore Building IoT Devices(hackster.io)
2 points by yogthos 6y ago|0 comments
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by yogthos 6y ago
Ah I haven't watched the ClojuTRE talk, thanks for the link. :)
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Transducers from the Ground Up(bsless.github.io)
4 points by yogthos 6y ago|0 comments
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by yogthos 6y ago
And here's a talk from JUXT (company developing Crux) about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Stja6YUB94
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by yogthos 6y ago
That's of course the downside of a federated internet model run by many individual administrators. Nowadays, there are very large instances that are funded, and are very unlikely to just up and disappear. Also, running your own instanc
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by yogthos 6y ago
Mastodon does likes and retweets, but lets you completely ignore them removing the stimulus. So, the difference with Twitter is that you're constantly notified that people liked or retweeted your stuff, and you see the numbers. When th
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by yogthos 6y ago
I think the answer is to decommericalize social media. I use Mastodon Social and it has none of these problems because it doesn't aim to monetize the users of the platform. It's an open source project developed by the users for th

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