We shouldn’t expect bodies and companies that benefit from centralization to give us crumbs. Remember IPv6 global multicast? ISPs killed that on sight.
We need to get encrypted mesh networking (Yggdrasil, CJDNS, FIPS etc) out there before it’s too late.
I’m using nix for managing npm dependencies in a project and it seems like I accidentally got some protection from these attacks because of the nix sandbox.
Looks like I got more than I begged for.
I have been a mastodon user for ages. Its a great platform.
But I haven't been able to recruit for it. And the app I used died and was removed from the play store. I use it to read interesting conversations between european hackers.
It certainly hasnt paid dividends to run my own masto server. I will be retiring it and moving my account somewhere else. I dont post anything there, because nobody I know is there, and so why care about owning my own data?
Mastodon might be better for corporate censorship, but I remember hearing that federated platforms can have problems with censorship from instances blocking each other.
I tried Nostr but there wasn't a great algorithim. All the interesting things are on twitter. I don't really see a huge point in having an account on twitter, though—it feels like all comments go into the void.
Running isn't any long term solution. That is why people are mad. Censorship follows where the people are. If a critical mass of people goes to mastodon, that is where the advertising and censorship will go. Just like how it went to reddit after a critical mass went there.
The comparison doesn’t even make sense. Reddit is a centralized platform, not a protocol.
I won’t say it’s impossible to censor something like nostr but good luck with that.
If people spent 5 minutes googling decentralized alternatives to stuff they would realize they don’t need to build anything, just pick something and use.
We need to get encrypted mesh networking (Yggdrasil, CJDNS, FIPS etc) out there before it’s too late.