Huh. There is a worrying lack of license information, yes. I didn’t even notice.
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Huh. There is a worrying lack of license information, yes. I didn’t even notice.
This reads like a whole lot of research was boiled down to fit the “barely an article” constraints of a casual news outlet. The outline is all over the place but seems well-intended; it’s just not clear what information we’re supposed to take away from this.
Kudos for mentioning GNU Social, Zot and Diaspora, but I’m not really sure any of them are relevant anymore?
First I’ve heard of Virpus but thanks for the heads up. More than 50% packet loss does not sound like a working infrastructure, much less one that should be marketed to consumers.
TL;DR — Ghost started out as a WordPress alternative but gradually moved to focus on newsletter formats (at which point, see u/maegul’s reply), and the dev team have worked on implementing ActivityPub for a good while now.
From what I can tell Ghost is a really mature project with a lot of traction. I think having a federated newsletter platform is an interesting addition to the fediverse.
Thanks, and also good morning. I thought my bleary eyes had scanned for the international angle but apparently my brain is still asleep.
Soz OP!
America
Welcome to the internet 🙄
Everybody else not from the US raise a hand.
Posted before first morning coffee, lesson learned.
You could check out HTML5UP for some simple, well designed site templates. For your needs, maybe something like the Astral template will do?
Agreed. Most people online think having a personal website on their own domain is too much of a hassle, they won’t have the knowledge or time to setup a homelab server.
We need more of the nice people you mention — with the tech knowhow and surplus of time — to maintain community services as alternatives to corporate platforms. I see a few co-op services around where member-owners pay a fee to have access to cloud storage and social platforms; that is one way to ensure the basic upkeep of such a community. I’m not sure how Chatons is financed but they certainly have a wide range of libre and private offerings!
You say that with such certainty, as if proof of stake schemes won’t simply be a greenwashing alibi for accelerating validation of currencies using them, to the point of the same carbon footprint as POW.
You’re simply wrong to say that POS is without environmental impact, even Ethereum’s carbon reductions were only that (and not nearly as high as they claimed).
I mean, that quote is truer for any regular currency than it is for shitcoin. The only unique thing about cryptocurrency (and especially POW ones) is that it’s flushing the environment down the drain even quicker than bog standard hypercapitalism. And still you can’t use your fucking monopoly money to buy a bottled water.
BECOME BITCOIN BECOME LIGHTNING
LOL, not in a million years. Dumping this like the cryptocurrency infected garbage it is.
There’s another reason I don’t share “It’s FOSS” links anywhere: this should have been a github issue but it’s turned into a clickbaity headline. Every othe article coming out of “It’s FOSS” is either low effort, sensationalist, or both.
This is why you don’t sign up with the biggest possible instances, eventually they will become the biggest possible bottleneck in a network. Anything dot world admins do will affect all of their users, that shouldn’t be surprising 🤷
As for dbzer0, this might affect users in the short term but eventually people will figure out how to access the sub from more friendly instances.
Every time non-techies start adopting a blockchain project, the crypto bros win. Nobody else. The “crypto bro problem” is baked into Nostr, it’s called blockchain.
Most people don’t understand cryptocurrency, and don’t want anything to do with it because of its association with scams
This is exactly why I won’t touch Nostr or any blockchain project with a ten foot pole. The crypto Bros are really trying to legitimise the technology so one day they can use the Monopoly money they stashed away.
I’m sad that this connection is only mentioned in a third level comment, potential users should be aware what they’re getting into with Nostr.
So SBCs are shit now?
Nothing changed, the hardware is the same as before. Your little pi servers are still doing the exact same work they did before. The only variables are prices on SBCs vs used small factor x86s, and the short, short attention span of terminally online hobbyists.
Use whatever you like, no need to race after others’ subjective (and often hyperbolic) judgment.
It’s certainly better than all those verification scams that were popping up after a lot of journos migrated off Twitter…
Speaking of bylines, at this time of writing the only comment on the Verge piece claims that “‘Fediverse’ is the dumbest possible name [and] we gotta come up with a different one”. Signed, “DarthLazers” 🤣