Gotcha!

How so?

After the news reported on it (404 media and others) Facebook already reversed their decision and unblocked it, I thought

There’s a theory that copyright can help artists make a living.

But copying a design from a corpo after they’ve already made oodles of money is more like liberating the design for use of everyone.

I didn’t even join until then. I thought that info came out way later?

I thought Blockchain was how the protocol knew how to federate, e.g. where to find other users. (?) I don’t really remember how Blockchain works but iirc it is a way to verify trust, e.g. this person really is /u/sem because our shared document says they are.

I know DNS is an alternative but it kind of sucks. Bluesky is inventing it’s open DiD thing for identity and it is centralized in practice but might be a good system. And I have no idea how it works.

Sounds like an interesting thing to try! I do think it might tend to group users into a groupthink / exclusion mentality, maybe, or maybe it won’t, but definitely cool idea.

I’ve seen plenty of mod drama / trolls over the years, seems like a fundamentally human problem, kind of like good vs evil in a way, almost impossible for one side to win over the other.

I think it’s pretty well studied that pseudonyms are much better for human interaction than true anonymity. I’m not a social scientist though so I don’t have the references offhand.

It can be fun to be anonymous but there’s a reason Yikyak shutdown, 4chan, 8chan are how they are, etc. they just don’t tend to work well long term.

With pseudonyms ban evasion is possible but registering an account is at least some friction deterring some bad behavior, and mods have more tools. And on the other side you do have some reputation building that occurs when people have stable usernames.

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

I am not sure how Matrix handles keys but it is a real headache for end users. For me at least

With openid, etc, it’s decentralized compared with centralized and distributed, so you wouldn’t get stuck with one openid provider.

I don’t know much about any of these so thanks for developing for the rest of us.

There’s more abuse potential with full anonymity vs persistent pseudonyms

What would be the possible alternatives to block chain?

To me it didn’t sound like complaining, just sharing that experience.

No not on the server, on the phone. You know how it fills up with photos?

Does it automatically delete pictures when you’re out of space ?

Iirc the cloudflare proxy hides your true IP address

You can also use snapraid (and mergefs) on Linux to do the same thing! I’m excited to recognize this because I recently turned an old PC into a crappy nas with Open Media Vault and used these two.

Ah cool I thought it was full featured

I’ve never seen a config file, I just have the element x app. And use it to access a matrix.org account. I can interact with channels I’ve already joined via the Web interface on other devices. But can’t figure out how to join new ones from the phone.

Unrelated, I should probably make my own post, but in element X I can’t figure out how to join rooms.

I like proton pass it has a free tier and paid version