Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍
Joined Apr 2022
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Thinking about the asynchronous power of todays ‘speakers’ in the US - everything from Citizens United to Musk. The First Amendment is not cut out for rampant unregulated business scale. It comes from a point in history that assumed oppression of citizens, inequity and effective dictatorship, can only come from the government . The American belief that commerce will correct course in favor of a better society seems unshakeable despite the vast towering evidence to the contrary.
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*teleports behind you with a p2p storage mesh* nothing personnel, kid
@jauntywunderkind420@cybre.space That makes sense. I still worry that this places the bulk of the power in the hands of hosting providers and the nerds that actually operate the software rather than people. 😅 E.g. if a hosting provider decides to deplatform all queer people or sex workers, they can for whatever reason. Happens with Youtube and Apple-related things. I guess if it's easier to run the hosting then more groups can participate in that?
@jauntywunderkind420@cybre.space Interesting. Do you have thoughts on how this could be 10x better than the status quo of running matrix servers on regular cloud hosts? (particularly to users of the service).
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“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”
I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)
Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.
This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.
My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.
@cblgh God I wish. 😭😭😭😭 Maybe if I move somewhere a bit more rural than Ottawa where it'd be more worth the effort vs just dealing with the pain of the duopoly. 🤔
Realistically, after I get another grant or two with the Wakoma folks to get p2p stuff working on mesh networks I should be able to reproduce that in local contexts.
@cblgh 👀 Having a mesh would be swell actually. I think there was legislation passed recently that made it easier to connect to the internet backbone in Canada.
In general Canadian ISPs are a duoploy and actively engage in anti-competitive legislation to make internet shit for everyone here. 😅
@jauntywunderkind420@cybre.space Yeah, TBH for my self hosting needs I can probably get away with just a TB HDD, like 8 GB RAM and whatever mid tier CPU. I kinda started exploring with this Synology NAS and it's been nice enough that I've been wanting to expand my setup. :o
Though again I'd rather just not need to think about servers in the first place.
@cblgh :O Thanks for the tip. I was initially looking at server racks and Intel NUC style devices. I think I'd still need to figure out a custom internet connection which'd give decent outbound. Mine start puking when I do anything more than a megabit or so.
Also been thinking of setting up my own dedicated hardware for self-hosting instead of using Digital Ocean and I think the labor cost + hardware cost for doing that will be even higher than just using Digital Ocean. 😅
I probably play 3x more for self-hosting my own matrix/mastodon/etc than I would for paying someone else to handle all that.
It'd be nice if we didn't need to host _anything_ in order to use information technology. Maybe just for backups.
@MarkusEicher Mutability is still rough around the edges in IPFS. IPNS with pubsub is the most reliable option right now, but you'll likely want to create your own application-specific thing on top of pubsub or some other side-channels. Pinning services also don't have good support for mutable data so it can be a bit painful.
Might also want to look into Earthstar. https://earthstar-project.org/get-started/how-it-works
Biggest pro of IPFS is that the Filecoin Foundation funds small efforts to get you started. 😁
Are there business models out there that aren't just rent-seeking with extra steps? Is getting paid for labor something businesses still do?
@gwil Time to organize more of your information spatially? :o
Once I can get a decent VR setup I've been wanting to migrate to @stardustxr and start storing notes and tabs in spatial corners of my workspace.
cryptocurrency, tokenomics
Are people that aren't already wealthy actually making money on "tokenomics"? Like, I get the promise of cryptocurrency enabling microtransactions for contributing to either compute or content and people getting paid for that, but is it actually worth it for the average person?
Can a person pay for rent and food from some distributed compute project if they don't already have lots of disposable income?
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Anyone know some profane word filter lists that focus exclusively on hate speech?
I don't want to have to filter things like ass and shit just to get rid of racial slurs
@the_feral_housewife@hellsite.site Real shit?
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Just for fun I created an account on #reddit and started to reply to /r/AskReddit posts using #chatgpt generated responses. Everyone thinks they are legit - they are being replied to, up voted. It is a bit overly formal and wordy in places and also it isn't using a consistent persona across all the replies, but I think that can be easily fixed with a more complex prompt that encourages terseness and gives it a persona.
I'll make another account and fix that.
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(there are plenty of people in #advertising today who are sympathetic to #adReform, but pitching a post-surveillance ad project to work or clients now is like pitching an HTML5 project when almost all users had Flash installed. Advertisers are always a couple steps behind early adopter users, and ad-supported sites are at best one step behind advertisers #endSurveillanceCapitalism is going to be tech early adopters first, followed at some point by innovative advertisers+sites, then more users)
@the_feral_housewife@hellsite.site the fabled two genders 😍
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- @RangerMauve
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍
Joined Apr 2022
