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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
Reason basically because like put in https://xkcd.com/1782/ there will always be at least one person (more like a group of nerds) still using it decades later.
Imagine claiming that email, IRC, phone calls, … will die.
Heck even Usenet (which has political centralisation) is a shadow of itself that refuses to die but it's still there.
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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
Mastodon vs. Twitter thing reminds me: Tech journalists challenge understanding that strongly decentralised network will outlive their competitors.
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While big tech is fucking over dissent online, remember what they want you to forget.
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@charliebrownau @ryo They're right here. One is written in C++. The other is written in Go.

geti2p.net/he/about/alternativ

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@charliebrownau @ryo I know it had military origin. I do believe that I2P is superior and we should be using that instead, but people avoid it because the main implementation is written in Java, despite the fact that native implementations exist.

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xianc78

@ryo It's still a problem. There are many different darknets out there. Some instances will only support Tor. Others will only support I2P. Some will support both. It's going to be a huge mess.

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@ryo The only problem I see with Tor or I2P is that Email, XMPP, Fediverse, etc servers will have to be configured to communicate with servers using those darknets which is going to break federation as not everyone will do it.

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寮 :verified: :chinafied: :lolified: :niggerfied: :cheezified: :frogified:
Decentralization through federation is the true answer to the censorship problem
http://asc7ewkcvat2wsoi5yuwkej5ukyrqqnpnzpj4u34r2jxnoxhnbx6yqad.onion/blog/decentralize-federate-is-solution/
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Dr. NEETzsche, GED
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Alex Gleason

I’m reading about ATProtocol so you don’t have to.

Instead of ActivityPub IDs (which are URLs like https://gleasonator.com/users/alex), they use DIDs (“decentalized ID”). What’s a DID? Absolutely nothing - it’s an 87 page document describing the format of a string that starts with did: and no implementation details.

The implementation is up to you. Well, there are some already. We have did:etho:Ac9aB5Fc04Dc1cB1789Af75b523Bd23C70B2D717 for Ethereum addresses, did:dns:alexgleason.me for domain names, and there’s even one called did:id:xxx for MasterCard’s proprietary/centralized(!) ID network. DIDs are in the format did:<method>:<id>, where the method can be a known method enshrined by the w3c, or a custom one.

So what’s ATProtocol using? A custom “work in progress” DID method called “placeholder” (did:plc:<id>) that… seems to talk to a centralized server?

Remember when Bluesky was under development for 2 years because they couldn’t figure out how to do decentralized identity. So what did they do? THEY JUST GAVE UP?

The did:plc spec is a vague “work in progress”: https://atproto.com/specs/did-plc

We cheekily titled the method “Placeholder”, because we don’t want it to stick around. We’re actively hoping to replace it with something less centralized.

So they still haven’t actually solved the core problem they set out to solve… are they going to resolve DIDs by talking to a centralized service? I suppose they thought since DID has the word “decentralized” in it, that’s good enough to move forward.

This is not inspiring confidence.

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@ItsSkyDragonz Why are you using TikTok?

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@wrongthink Yeah, but if email caught on, then there is no reason for XMPP not to.

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My latest post is about everyone's favourite Wiki! It talks about alternatives to Wikipedia for doing more intensive research and why you should never give the Wikimedia Foundation any of your money!

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/wikipedia-is-a-source-of-political-propaganda/
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@vriska Learn the command-line. That's how you get a (somewhat) deeper knowledge of how the operating system works. Then, you can go anywhere from there.

That's how it worked for me.

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New Article! - Useful Technologies/Techniques That Normies Don't Know About But Should

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AAAAAAAAAND in today's "get the fuck off the already completely destroyed clearnet and move to the darknet instead" news...

WEF report conspires online "interventions" including content removal, warning labels to prevent kids from growing up
https://hozon.site/archive/1666853786/reclaimthenet.org/wef-interventions-removal-warning-labels-kids//index.html

World Bank consultant: "Digital slavery is not enough," suggests a need for access to data
https://hozon.site/archive/1666853813/reclaimthenet.org/world-bank-digital-identity-access-to-data//index.html

EuroKGB wants to know how to police reality in the dead universe
https://hozon.site/archive/1666853872/reclaimthenet.org/europol-wants-to-know-how-to-police-misinformation-in-the-metaverse//index.html

'AI-Powered' Music Mixer Responds to MAFIAA Copyright (which is a scam) "Infringement" Threats
https://torrentfreak.com/ai-powered-music-mixer-responds-to-riaas-copyright-infringement-claims-221026/
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Simple Sabotage -

corbettreport.com/solutionswat

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Evelyn fra denne andre øya

There's been some campaigns to change certain terms in computing, and I think some of them actually make some sense, but one that's always irritated me is the campaign to rename 'master' in version control software, because it relies on etymological nonsense, i.e. assuming that 'master' must necessarily refer to a relationship which also contains a 'slave', when this is not the case in this instance

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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

JavaScript developers after NodeJS can’t sizecode, all they know is npm install react

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xianc78

@ryo It's probably going to be hard though because politics and technology do overlap.

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