Hello saiditors how is things going? I have read you have been having some problems with the site. Something about magnora7 disappearing and missing payments for the hosting. I have really liked here, I particularly like d3rr and my interactions with him ;-) but these problems and some others I

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[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

They have also dropped downvotes like saidit did.

I don't mind the downvote. I just don't want it subtracting. YouTube shows both up and down for a ratio.

They have a new communities feature that allows anyone to make multiple communities from the same content.

Not sure what this means. I like the idea of metatags that can act as communities. I'm on board if it's like that.

The structure of discussions.app is to have no censorship at the base but then on top content is hidden by anyone for anyone.

Very interesting idea.

You might appreciate the links in the sidebar of /s/Cassy including /s/DecentralizeAllThings.

[–]hellosaidit[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Not sure what this means. I like the idea of metatags that can act as communities. I'm on board if it's like that.

You will understand discussions.app community feature better as filters made by groups on the platform. It is setup to look and function like subs but no one owns the content as any community can use it. You can fork a community with all its content while still being linked to the old community, content is always shared.

Thanks I have checked out cassy and will the other link.

Making these platforms is very difficult far more so than centralized ones. The sole dev xia256 behind discussions.app has been working on this for years now. It really deserves some users and recognition.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Is it difficult to install? As you've seen, Cassy is not just about one solution, so I'm thinking it would be a good thing to add to our list of platforms, perhaps even the next.

Three more things on our wish list: a good decentralized search (ie. YaCe) and some kind of auto-archiving/web-scraping to log the content we share. Obviously we wouldn't need to archive the entire internet, but most critical is the heavily censored stuff. And of course, when I get some extra PCs I aim to set up a PeerTube with several NAS. I've already got about 50tb of YouTube offline, not even counting the other offline drives full of stuff. I'm a digital hoarder.

[–]hellosaidit[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The previous version of discussions.app wasn't super hard to install, but the new version isnt on github yet though it will be.

Its easy enough to copypasta web articles into discussions and so they then get saved in the blockchain.

Blockchains are perfect for proof of original content. Like so many news articles now get edited even years later, you can not play that game with a blockchain

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

IMO the blockchain is not ideal for archiving. Before you know it the thing is too huge, and without the full ledger it won't work - unless you can have partial chains, etc.

OR archive the source address contents with IPFS then have just the source address and the IPFS address logged together in the blockchain - assuming you even need the blockchain for anything other than a master-record. I'm guessing IPFS must have their own kind of master-record type things. Sometimes redundancies are good and sometimes they're a waste.