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Fractal is a new messaging app for the Gnome desktop, powered by Matrix(medium.com)
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by strypey 8y ago
Debit cards aren't cash. They're credit cards that get instantly paid off from your bank account by direct debit. But you're right to laugh at the idea that cash is dead. In China, everyone who isn't using AliPay or WeCh
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by strypey 8y ago
> it performs some utility like companies do. Pipes perform utilities, not companies. What companies do is manage the social and financial infrastructure around making, or delivering, or laying, or servicing pipes. See the difference? Wh
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by strypey 8y ago
> Albert, another partner as USV has been evolving his understanding and has been working on a book called World After Capital It's probably no reflection on the rest of his thesis, but he's wrong about what was scarce in pre-a
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by strypey 8y ago
I'm guessing you all believe in bridges too, right? I've got one to sell you if you're willing to drop that $100 in a bank account for me ...
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by strypey 8y ago
> It is a supply and demand curve. Where they meet is the equilibrium. Academic economists like Steve Keen have totally demolished the classic supply/demand curve: https://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2012/
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by strypey 8y ago
> Just look at what happened to online gambling 10 years ago. And not a moment too soon. Gambling games are designed to be addictive, to bypass the judgment and decision-making centres in people's brains, and take their money. Prov
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by strypey 8y ago
I think that would be more like SolarCoin: https://solarcoin.org/
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by strypey 8y ago
Those who are concerned about this have three options: * make the effort to learn how to set up and maintain your own instance of your chosen federated social app. You get to decide exactly what data is and isn't shared with the networ
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by strypey 8y ago
Is it possible to do revocable private messages in a decentralized system. My understanding it that the Zot protocol (used by Hubzilla) deals with this by keeping private data on the hub of the user sharing it, while public message can be m
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by strypey 8y ago
It boggles the mind that people still have the blissful trust in the security chops of giant corporations. I could give you a long list of well-funded corporations whose servers have been cracked in the last few years (remember Ashley Mad
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by strypey 8y ago
It might also have its own agenda about what news it wants to be considered "real" or "fake".
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by strypey 8y ago
> Do you believe it is fundamentally wrong for a government -- even with significant public support -- to interfere with one anonymous man's Galtian quest to sell radium toothpaste by mail? Government? Maybe. Private corporations ex
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by strypey 8y ago
I agree there is a middle ground between policing everything and no guidelines or accountability at all. Every decentralized social networks that's pulled in a user base beyond the friends of the devs has had to deal with how to find c
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by strypey 8y ago
Yes, UX matters, especially when you are a new platform trying to establish your initial user base. But nothing matters in social software as much as network effect; people want to be where their friends are (and/or where people they w
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by strypey 8y ago
> Why do you draw this distinction between "instances" and "peers" I understand why you ask this, but the word "instance" has come to mean the server running something like MediaGoblin or Mastodon (the serve
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by strypey 8y ago
The Year of The Linux Desktop is certainly coming sooner than the Year of the Windows Mobile ;P
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by strypey 8y ago
Sure, thinking about user experience and designing user-friendly UI is important. But multi-million dollar UI and the ability to scale without losing performance (due to deep pockets) are the only reasons to use FB, goOgle or any of The Sta
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by strypey 8y ago
You do realize Whatsapp is owned by FB, right? so it's a "creepy digital relationship with our grandma" in exactly the same way messaging Grandma on FB is. The key issue here is not whether we use digital comms channels (or t
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by strypey 8y ago
Doesn't sounds like the Diaspora team have any plans to implement AP, which is a shame. Here's a fairly scathing write-up on ActivityPub from a prominent Diaspora dev: https://schub.io/blog/2018/02/0
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by strypey 8y ago
Very roughly: * AP is a decentralized protocol, like email or XMPP, that standardizes federated interactions from server-to-server, and interactions from server-to-client. Sharing data between end users depends on one or more servers. * SSB
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by strypey 8y ago
> That is just a problem of offering good filters. True, and this is a solved problem in the fediverse. Mastodon dev team have been particularly good at implementing filtering tools at both the user and instance level (like the email fil
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by strypey 8y ago
> I'm a facebook kind of guy and I'm not sure what the solution is when everyone else is on facebook. Somebody was the first person you knew who was on FarceBook, otherwise, from what you're saying, you wouldn't be