masterofballs
@masterofballs@exploding-heads.com
- Comment on I Was Banned From LemmyWorld For No Clear Reason 1 year ago:
They enforce narrative hard. I was following along one thread about California not allowing parents to be told about their kids changing gender. Every negative comment would disappear and the user banned.
I’m thinking it’s partly a problem with the incentive system the fediverse creates. The type of person that wants that kinda admin power. It’s just usually not a healthy type of person.
I think reducing their power with technology like nostr is important but ultimately we need healthier incentives to participate.
Handing out Bitcoin is a decent idea. If people would just shut the fuck up about Bitcoin the rest of the time
- Comment on What Do You Look Like? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Donald Trump States "Truth Social Is My Home" After Tweeting Mugshot To Twitter 1 year ago:
No one uses truth social anymore
- Comment on Viral Country Singer Oliver Anthony Pisses Off Racists With First Interview Since Topping Hot 100 1 year ago:
I don’t see at all how it’s one of our largest strength. It’s a constant source of conflict. Places like Japan can really focus on their society and not have whole cities brought to the grown because a white cop killed a black person.
Not do they have gangs of “insert color” people beating the shit out of Japanese youth.
Any time you add a element of diversity it’s going to increase conflict . So it should be for good reason every time.
In America it’s always been about cheap labor.
I love that I can learn a language and practice it in America because we have so many immigrants but it’s kinda crazy to think it’s our greatest strength.
That would be our natural resources and freedom living constitution if you asked me.
- Comment on This guy on reddit lol 1 year ago:
Weak. Needs to do squats, pushups and stop complaining.
- Comment on Andrew Tate Is LYING about His DISTURBING Case... 1 year ago:
Yeah the lawsuit they are filing did have a pedo in it and that’s weird.
- Comment on Andrew Tate Is LYING about His DISTURBING Case... 1 year ago:
Watching. He called Tucker Carlson and Candice owens mainstream media. Which is given that tucker is only on twitter seems kinda silly and Candice just isn’t popular enough to be considered mainstream. But i’ll watch the rest and see
- Comment on Are you guys ok ? 1 year ago:
It takes like a year of full time work to make a reddit app. Like a decent one. It will come but not quickly. The ones that came out are pretty decent for how quick they. Came out. And they are getting better.
- Comment on Are you guys ok ? 1 year ago:
Not hosting this is just my wallet. I guess because I’m missing some google service on grapheneOS
- Comment on Are you guys ok ? 1 year ago:
I’m the one been hyping nostr hard but it’s not perfect for me either. Eats the shit out of my mobile data. I think that is because you pull from so many different relays it’s like running 15 sites at the same time. That is a problem. It’s solvable with compromises.
- Comment on Are you guys ok ? 1 year ago:
I’m the opposite. I can receive sats but can’t send them. nostrchat.io/…/08642dad6729819cc79650d18b93c5c913…
- Comment on If you guys are still going to use lemmy after EH goes down, what do you think of these ones? 1 year ago:
I think lemmy will end up breaking off into so many echo Chambers, ppl will realize the farce of what the fediverse claims to be and go right back to reddit.
I had really hoped that instances that allowed more wide and varied opinions would naturally grow in size to be the largest. Instead de-federation as continue to cut and slice and separate anyone and everyone. It will never be able to compete with large centralize services like that.
- Comment on BREAKING: Jordan Peterson forced to undergo reeducation from Ontario College of Psychologists to retain his license 1 year ago:
Oh no, guess he’ll have to take his millions of dollars drive a few miles to the United States if he still wants to work.
- Comment on Chicago woman charged with threatening to kill Donald Trump and his youngest son, Barron 1 year ago:
Nasty woman!
- Comment on More troll posting on Lemmy world 1 year ago:
I said I owned three restaurants and a gas station ( I don’t) and a millionaire, have slept with hundreds of women so they should take my advice and go to the gym. Really makes libtards angry when you suggest they should better themselves or not watch porn. Lol makes them so mad
- Comment on More troll posting on Lemmy world 1 year ago:
Oh man I had some funny ones yesterday before they nuked that account.
- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
I mean I know this isn’t a answer for everyone but I maintain like wolfballs.com . And I can post my information there. domain names are reasonably anonymous and so far has not been attacked by censorship. Other than that, keep your shit secure I guess. But yeah I can see the value in increasing that security.
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- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
Back up isn’t really a problem atleast. You can access everyone’s followers on nostr. Everything is public. Person to person messages are kept private with encryption. If you lose your PK though those all become public.
- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
Well, what is the key server? It has to be a person, computer, blockchain. Something right?
- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
Ok so the masterkey and the key server are the central authority. You can implement the same thing in nostr. For example, someone could just manage your key for you. And you interact through a normal username and password. I’m sure those kinda service will come about.
- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
I don’t really understand that. Sounds like there needs to be some kinda central authority for that to work. I would have to read more about it. The guy who made nostr is really good with crypto stuff though. Someone said he was a core bitcoin developer.
- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
Lemmy world is probably the best place to troll right now. It has a very low bar of entry. You can use a fake email to sign up. Immediately start posting images in comments. You’ll get banned but not before getting lots of soyboys super angry.
Nostr is going to have anti trolling measures. Already people have it set to where they ignore comments from people not in their circle of friends. Just as a spam reduction technique.
If trolling libtards is your thing, right now the fediverse is perfect. Like, i’m surprised no one has made whole websites dedicated to it. A few months ago one of those libtard journalist Taylor Lorenz signed up on mastodon and had thousands of antisemetic replies on her first post. She’s Jewish. stuff like,
“The holocaust never happened but it should have”
I think she cried.
yesterday I posted a bunch of rage inducing graphs on lemmy world’s feminist forums and it took them like 8 hours to ban me. Not before getting hundreds of downvotes. Stuff about being childless and being depressed.
To me that isn’t really what digital freedom is about. Even if it’s really funny. I don’t want anyone telling me who I can listen to. It’s morally reprehensible. The technology should allow users to block trolls though. Just from a engineering perspective.
- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
I know there are people like that, but that just feels weird to me. I get it for content creation (art, music, code, video, etc) or other things where people have to put in time and effort or provide a community service but have costs to offset. But literally paying someone based on what they say just feels alien to me. Maybe cuz I can’t think of it in terms of IRL interaction without imagining someone paying people to be friends with them.
I get so excited with someone sends me 3 cents. I know i’ll never use it most likely but I mean, you post lots of quality memes. To me it makes sense that people who enjoy it and want it to continue should start tipping.
I like to think of it less of a culture of paying to talk to someone and more of a culture of giving and celebrating each other and prosperity. As apposed to a communist fediverse where everyone complains about billionaires.
- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
No private keys are sacred in nostr. Just like Bitcoin. You lose it you have to tell all your followers to re follow the new public key .
- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
I’m currious how data is copied around without overloading nodes. It seems like it may also have the problem of some people don’t see some comments on a specific post, which leads to confusing conversations
I don’t fully understand how all that works. I know there is some nips about finding out where users usually post stuff too. But i have noticed in some clients i’ll see stuff in chat thats not in other’s because the relays are different.
That is just the trade off you get for decentralization though
- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
Well, the idea that I can create my own pleroma instance, create an identity, and then go check out noagenda or whoever
I keep seeing this an as argument for the fediverse. But it really is not and i’ll tell you why.
If everyone who used the fediverse hosted their own instance they would indeed have decentralized identities.
But they don’t.
So in your example, yes you can create your instance and your identity will be separate from noagenda social. But what happens when noagenda social bans you?
Every single user on no agenda social is banned from seeing you.
But yea, that’s why I want to like nostr, mehbe someday a different client
This is fair. And i’m not married to nostr. I believe though in a year or two we should have a pretty solid solution. It’s an ok mastodon and twitter alternative for now. Uses a lot of data though.
- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
If people followed identites, rather than identities of an instance
That is exactly how nostr works. And is the main selling point of it. You request a public key from any relay and if that relay has it’s data and is willing to share it you get it. Simple.
The fediverse almost does this. I
The fediverse does not do this at all. I’m not sure where you are getting at. They own your identity. Identities in the fediverse are 100% centralized.
- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
It like directly goes to your nervous system. We are hard wired to repeat behavior that has rewards.
- Comment on Some interesting comments on the move 1 year ago:
If I remember that comment right, wasn’t it more about government takedown of central authorities? Nodes, in this case?
If other powers gain control of the node, what happens?
two points on this.
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The fediverse has nodes too. But they own identities where nostr nodes do not. However, activity pub also relies on domain name resolution. Nostr does not. so nostr is more decentralized in that regard.
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Because internet is a common carrier that has government funding in the united states they get free speech protection. So you can host it in your house and it won’t be seized. It’s just a ip address.
You could even host a relay from your phone.
To be fair, I haven’t studied how nodes even work, but I suspect some will get large enough to self-destruct the whole point. Like lemmy.world, where they seem to ban and block at a whim, unless it’s pedo stuff. That shit stays.
So there will likely always be a couple really large relays everyone uses. But users always use more than one. And data is copied to all of your relays when you post. When one goes down everyone will just shuffle over it’s not a big deal. When lemmy.world goes down lots of stuff will be lost forever. Everyone’s communities will be orphaned. Accounts gone. ect.
There is no private data on the relays. I can give you a copy of my relay database right now and it’s no big deal.
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