How To Fight Deplatforming: Decentralize (9:57) ~ ReasonTV [A+++]

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[–]fschmidt 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

The masses have always been directed by someone else because they are unable to think for themselves. What happened is that religion used to guide them, but religion failed and the sociopathic elite just stepped into the vacuum. So ultimately this was the fault of those who made religion fail. But when religion did guide the masses, they weren't shit. In fact I am old enough to remember when Americans weren't shit.

The current obsession among programmer about security is just another example of modern insanity, comparable to covid insanity. You don't need much security for social media. Email addresses work just fine for user identity. If you want to make data public without revealing email addresses, just use a hash of the email address.

Putting social media on a blockchain is pointless complication. Also such a blockchain would just get too big over time. And finally, users don't want a transactional record. If they edit a post, they want the old one gone.

What distributed social media needs is a clean public protocol for exchanging data. This should include a call to get all the data of a forum/sub so that it can be forked and possibly moved to another platform.

Yes SaidIt is currently the least bad social forum, which proves my original point that humanity has turned to shit. I have offered to contribute to someone to develop a better alternative, but so far no takers.

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$2500/mo is decent money. I'm surprised you haven't found a taker yet. I'm still hopeful about this federated reddit clone even though its creators are a bit extreme: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

[–]fschmidt 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

We discussed Lemmy here. Has anything changed?

When I have more free time to manage someone, I may just hire a programmer at regular salary to work on this and another project. But that is a few months off.

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Nah nothing has changed much other than Lemmy getting federation going for real. I just wanted to say hi I guess. But since we're here, imo you should consider the merits of Lemmy/Mastodon/ActivityPub. It's a total nothing protocol, just an agreement on what to name your rest api fields. No blockchain in sight. The success of Mastodon for Twitter can be the success of Lemmy for Reddit.

There's already a fork of Lemmy to remove the anti-user features.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't buy much of your first paragraph. Organized religions are just as bad as governments. Human lives and memories are short. I'm quite certain in war times people were more stressed and behaving much worse than we do today with bad words from behind screens.

Interesting idea that we have collective cyber-paranoia, largely manufactured. My problem is dependency on the technocratic monopolies more than security.

As a non-Twitter user, I recently learned everyone wants an "edit" option rather than their new monetizing functions. I like how Wikipedia has a record of all the old edits. Whether in an encrypted blockchain or other kind of database, they need not necessarily be public.

I don't know enough about your clean public protocol but it sounds interesting.

Your Luan language sounds interesting too. /u/d3rr had some ideas too.

I also hope for a better next-gen forum. And I believe MetaVotes™ could be a game changer for more quality in the info people provide, with a simple interface. That idea is much deeper and far reaching than I've yet expressed. I have more ideas beyond that and can easily come up with more, though I doubt any with so much potential to be so profoundly revolutionary. I've dropped many hints about it over the last couple weeks. Through my user history you may ctrl-F MetaVote and/or forum to find them all, though collectively they still haven't provided anything close to the whole concept.

I'm not a coder, but I'm willing to work on the conceptual functionality, GUI, and ergonomic flow. How? I'm an animator. It would be easier to adjust pixels than code, and if I were to pre-visualize how it would look, how it would function, and what to expect, not only would we have a solid idea of what to build, a demo-video would help recruit support: feedback improvements, coders, finances, etc.

[–]fschmidt 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I don't buy much of your first paragraph. Organized religions are just as bad as governments.

I assume you say this because you haven't seen a good religion. Yes most religions do suck, bit the good ones stand out. Conservative Mennonites are pretty good.

Human lives and memories are short.

Religion is meant to counter this. Ecclesiastes 1:11

I'm quite certain in war times people were more stressed and behaving much worse than we do today with bad words from behind screens.

Yes at the beginning. But the worthless scum die quickly in war and then things improve.

Interesting idea that we have collective cyber-paranoia, largely manufactured.

Not manufactured in this case. When the population is mentally unstable and hysterical, collective paranoia can occur spontaneously.

My problem is dependency on the technocratic monopolies more than security.

Of course.

As a non-Twitter user, I recently learned everyone wants an "edit" option rather than their new monetizing functions. I like how Wikipedia has a record of all the old edits. Whether in an encrypted blockchain or other kind of database, they need not necessarily be public.

For a wiki it makes sense, but not for social media. A private blockchain would really just be a horrible database implementation in this case.

I'm not a coder, but I'm willing to work on the conceptual functionality, GUI, and ergonomic flow.

Without a coder, nothing will happen. I have very limited time, so I won't invest time discussing ideas that don't have a means of implementation.