We’re talking about the need for a system to deal with major access of a main facebook/insta/twitter etc… to a majority of people.

IE of the scale that someone can go “Hey I bet my aunt that I haven’t talked to in 15 years might be on here, let me check”. Not a common occourance in a closed off discord community.

Also, noting that doesn’t fully solve the primary problem… of still being at the whims and controls of a single point of failure. of which if Discord Inc could at any point in time decide to spy on closed rooms, censor any content they dislike etc…

10th largest instance being like 10k users… we’re talking about the need for a solution to help pull the literal billions of users from mainstream social media

To me the reality of it is so damn stupid, If this were back to lying about quake, that’s one thing. He’s claiming on games with continual progression however. Of which even if you have amazing skill, it’s meaningless without time. IE it would be well understood that if someone is in those leaderboards legitimately, they’ve been living the NEET lifestyle (IE spending almost all waking hours playing the game), not say… on a nation tour following around a presidential candidate, while also forming a new government consulting group, spending considerable time on twitter as a user… and being a micromanaging incompetent CEO at 4+ companies.

Concept is however that if a new instance is detatched from the old one… then it’s basically the same story of leaving myspace for facebook etc… we go through the long vetting process etc… over and over again, userbase fragments reaching critical mass is a challange every time. I mean yeah if we start with a circle of 10 trusted networks. One goes wrong it defederates, people migrate to one of the 9 or a new one gets brought into the circle. but actual vetting is a difficult process to go with, and makes growing very difficult.

Isn’t that basically the same result though…

Problem with tech oligarchy is it just takes one person to get corrupted and then he blocks out all opinion that attacks his goals.

So the solution is federation, free speech instances that everyone can say whatever they want no matter how unpopular.

How do we counteract the bots…

Well we need the instances to verify who gets in, and make sure the members aren’t bots or saying unpopular things. These instances will need to be big, and well funded.

How do we counter these instance owners getting bought out, corrupted (repeat loop).

I mean… if you are asking me based on the evidence I have seen… yeah.

On the other hand, if I lived in new york, and were selected as a Jury… I’d say the evidence is not compelling.

I mean, the word criminal basically means law breaker.

Now as many laws are unjust and many horrific actions are protected by the law.

Just like at one point in time… a futitive slave, would be by definition a criminal, and his owner by definition not a criminal.

Again, the whole concept is noting that it’s about the definition of the word criminal… and that criminal does not have to do with morality… only in concurance with the laws of the land it is taking place in.

I mean really depends whether or not he manages to continue to succesfully own the US government. He made basically statements along the lines of if trump loses the election he could go to jail. I assume he’s betting on either the trump administration killing democracy… or being able to buy the next election too. Or perhaps just often enough that the supreme court never gets fixed.

I mean both… obviously if you want to get on trumps good side you combine bribing with censoring content he doesn’t like, and making sure not to censor or even fact check his lies.

Wonder how he’d fare against trump at golf.

Gig apps prices are never the real price. Just like doordash, or uber or anything else.

$60 per night… plus $60 cleanup fee, plus $18 airbnb fee. Before taxes of course. (and of course, this isn’t a hotel, they do expect you to clean up when you are done, in spite of the fee).

IMO maybe the $140 price tag for a single night.

I’m roughly trying to skim to understand… of course both sides are over my head in development. But it sounds like the first thing they had was just lack of confidence they could do… well exactly what OP wants (IE specifically keeping posts private and only shared with who he wants). That combined with technical difficulty with limited development resources to rewrite the protocol itself.

If I remember right, diaspora was kind of poised to be the fediverse facebook a very long time ago, one of it’s major features was aspects, which indeed was set where you added people to categories, and could make posts only visible to certain categories (basically if you remember google plus, that’s what they were copying). Though from what I’ve seen it took a huge PR hit very early on, but still is kind of alive last I checked.

https://diasporafoundation.org/

Doubles down too, because within a week the novelty wears off and the rich people don’t use it, it’s just sitting in the corner, collecting their data, possibly raking in a subscription fee that they forgot about.

Obviously the point is selective enforcement… IE Musk can ban anyone “impersonating” himself or any of the white supremicists he likes… while he can chose not to enforce the rules on people that may be trying to damage his opponents.

Much like the “no negativity” rule.

Oh one further side note, gatebox didn’t go under, nor did the service fully discontinue. It just lost the license for Hatsune Miku. So in short it’s only unhappy for the sort of people that actually go all in to the mindset. (IE the guy could go to one that says and does all of the same things as his old one did, but not with the same face and voice, and probably could have avoided the problem if he started with something that was property of gatebox, and not licensed from a game).

Don’t have instagram so I cant look past the first page of thumbnails… but is one of those pics of him with a girl in a wedding dress? Or is he just at a friends wedding with a life sized miku doll.

What’s more weird to me is… acting like this is new…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKaNqfykg

Right though that’s my point.

Minimum specs etc… is something PC gamers are more than used to… but also why there’s a large console market that doesn’t game on PCs.

My fear is bad acting OEMs… playing on user ignorance to assume automatically that the steamOS logo means it can run most games, and shipping out hardware that utterly fails at that use purpose, and as uneducated consumers may think the “runs steamOS”, logo could be some form of endorsement from valve to imply it in fact is suitable for gaming.