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[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

From a limited point of view I'd agree. I'd also say that humanity has always been shit. I'd also say humanity has been manipulated into being shitty by the ruling class and their corporatocracy who control the media.

One man who weighs a couple hundred pounds give or take can steer an entire cruise ship of thousands of tonnes because of the system built for his control.

FYI, the blockchain in the video is for user identity - in order to liberate ourselves from Google. When sites ask us to sign in using your Google profile I'd definitely rather use a different FLOSS sign in client.

Why not put social media on a blockchain? Use another if you don't like that one. There's no shortage of flavours of social media to chose from.

SaidIt is as close to a remote community as I know with strong beliefs that corruption abounds and needs to be exposed. Religious fervor or not, that's where I'm starting from.

[–]fschmidt 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 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.