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What do you mean by fediverse data?

What problem are you trying to solve that isn’t solved by BitTorrent and IPFS?

The nice thing about the fediverse is that it’s largely a concept with a few common protocols to make interoperability easier, you can solve pretty much any problem in line with the fediverse, but you do actually need a problem to solve.

gets regular blood infusions from his son’s blood

No that’s literally what Johnson does!

Theil might but if he does it’s not public knowledge

The vampire is Johnson, Thiel is the one that had his boyfriend pushes off a balcony.

p.s hoping that Thiel spends a lot of time on balconies will get you banned from the r-site, becauase its more cucked than bubba-the-love-spong

I think the issue is putting barriers to legit users even if it prevents some spam will keep us small.

What is the point of “staggered new account permissions”?

At most we should be Autofolding/hiding unpopular comments.

go the way of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,

Still quoted by facists who pretend it’s a better source than Wikipedia?

TIL what pithy actually means.

I think there are a few reasons that mean the network effect of music services (YT music, Spotify, etc) are hard to beat:

• Available of commerical music - a service could obviously enable Piracy but this does make things more complicated
• Exposure for smaller bands - there’s a reason that even C3 content tends to be posted to the fediverse using its YouTube upload instead of the native upload
• Larger training data for recommendations - YT/Spotify can compare your entire listening history to every other user they have and use this to generate playlists of songs you might like, this is computationally expensive, relatively complex algorithmically (especially because it can’t be as simple as I doscribed at scale) & benefits from a large userbase.

This is something I’d like to work on when the world isn’t as on fire, I’m less focused on the backend at the moment and think:

• improvement could first be made to frontend apps like spottube (effective a Spotify privacy app), while piracy is easier (you can’t takedown software for enabling piracy as easily as you can services)
• Scrobbing/Playlist integration across multiple services to get more data even from people still locked in to Spotify
• Playlist generation with open algorithms - honestly this is something the fediverse is pretty weak on, I think Lemmy is really the only app I’ve seen grapple with this and it’s still very much functionally closed (while the code is open users can’t tweak their feeds)

None of this really helps artists though, but by breaking the cartel of music services, playlist generation could more easily include sources that do pay artists.

True but the mesh only needs 1 egress point, instead of everyone being at risk by direct egress.

Everyone complaining about matrix are just complaining about front end issues, they are absolutely fixable.

You can hide an intermittent mesh networking device in anything with a solar panel, it’s not that easy to triangulate users if the communications are intermittent (although that itself doesn’t play nicely with consumer devices.

Satellite internet is not a good option, it’s easy to block and easy to spot people using it.

Maintaining links to the global Internet is easier to do if you’re hiding your transmission inside other things, but that’s easier said than done.

That’s not ironic, people didn’t confuse Reddit for Digg, it wasn’t a even Digg clone nor did it pretend to be one.

I don’t think you can get sued for using a trademark as long as your use doesn’t confuse people into thinking you are the original.

I guess the idea just didn’t have legs!

Hey I’m a human, but have you considered letting the Lord our Savior Tux into your boot partition?

Yeah the article is pretty trash.

15% of the top subs contain corporate propaganda becomes “15% of the subs are compromised”, “compromised” means something more than “contains propaganda” to me.

Wasn’t Digg 2.0 what “created” Reddit (or at least gave it critical mass) (along with the child porn obviously)

Lemmy has VC funding?

I actually think the lack of funding means Lemmy doesnt have the same incentives to enshitify itself.