Why ActivityPub over Nostr? - function only
I have seen some critical views on Nostr as a part of decentralized network discussions, but most seem to be focused on culture not function.
What are the functional / protocol differences that make you prefer ActivityPub over Nostr?
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Trump lambasts ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe and hints at walking away from Ukraine
Trump lambasts ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe and hints at walking away from Ukraine
US president recycles far-right tropes on European immigration and presses Zelenskyy to accept his peace planPeter Beaumont (The Guardian)
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The idea that Europe is weak is hilarious. Russia invading Ukraine has caused a general rearmament in Europe, this in itself wouldn't make Europe strong but in general European militaries have been proactive about evolving their military technology and doctrine in mostly rational ways and as a result Europe is now a dense fabric of extremely advanced militaries informed by experience from the Ukraine war.
Since WW2 Europe has never been more militarily powerful compared to the US and Russia than it is now. See the rapid development and scaling up of Bohdana 155mm howitzers to 40+ systems a month as one intimidating example.
...which of course is exactly why Trump is insisting Europe is weak lol
Note, I am not arguing the US should cut aid to Ukraine.
Classic FAFO.
The main reason for this development is that he showed everyone that the US cannot be trusted anymore.
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I'd like to learn more about the progress on the rearmament of Europe. Do you have any long form resources I could read?
I only hear bits and pieces about the slow progress. I remember hearing the goal that the EU would produce X amounts of ammunition per year. Did that happen? I also recently heard about Ukraine opening a factory in Denmark. That seems good, but still not the broad rearmament I've been wanting to see.
Are there good overviews, with some stats and maybe some nice looking graphics? I realize a lot is secret, but still.
Edit: I decided not to be a lazy bum and did my own googling. I found this testimony about the "Danish Model" by a member of CSIS. I learnt that Ukraine has capacity to produce $35B of military equipment per year, but only $6B to spend. Other countries are purchasing another $10B worth of military equipment per year from Ukrainian producers. This is the Danish model.
From Production to Procurement: How Europe and Ukraine are Transforming Defense Supply Chains
To sustain Ukraine’s wartime industrial surge, partners must keep channeling allied funds directly into Ukrainian production.www.csis.org
A state, let alone a union of lots of states, are not at war because you feel like it. wiki: war
It is generally characterized by widespread violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces.
So what makes you think the EU is at war and why are all the implications that would have missing?
Note that "being attacked" is something different than being at war, as per above, but I am not going to start a new discussion before we have not finished this one.
Russia still outproduces all of NATO in artillery shells, tanks, etc.
Without a qualitative measure, those numbers are nearly meaningless. It's also worthwhile knowing how much of that materiel actually gets to the front lines. Command economies are notorious about claiming to hit production targets, yet nothing actually changing downstream. Nobody wants to tell the boss they missed their production quota, since doing so can lead to defenestration.
What does "walking away from Ukraine" even mean?
USA is not supporting Ukraine in any manner.
If a weapon bought by some other country is going to be donated to Ukraine, USA adds a 10% punishment fee to the price of the weapon. I don't think this will end if USA "walks away from Ukraine".
The only thing USA walking away would mean would be it no longer trying to pressure Ukraine into capitulating to the Russia.
So... Maybe we should help Trump see us as weak? Walk away, dude, just walk away. Good riddance.
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The last thing he can take away is his satellites and other surveillance, and air defense missiles for which there are not a ready replacement in Europe. So this would be painful for at least another 1-2 years if he did it.
But Europe can also make things painful for Trump by selling Tbills or tariffing US tech services which is a way bigger industry for the US than any goods trade happening between Europe and USA. I'd say Europe has at least as much and maybe more leverage but is just trying to stay better behaved until they really need to show Trump the finger.
And USA is still doing sanctions on russion oil.
Europe is keeping quiet. Talking back doesn't work. Flattering doesn't work. As long as support is still flowing they let him rant and work on alternatives for USA products and services.
More projection from PEDOnald. He is scared he's being viewed as weak and decaying, so just spouting those probably just learned words in anger at something better than he is.
Spoiler: he is weak and decaying.
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Everything this idiot says tends to be the opposite. And frankly, I can see it.
The Europe I see (as a Canadian, with immigrant parents from Portugal) is the same Europe I've always seen; It has it's share of problems, sure. But for the most part, they're older, with a lot more history to draw from, and as a result are just more level headed than the idiot teenagers revving their engine and trying to pick bar fights that is America.
Europe as a continent has been through enough shit that they've kind of, as a culture, learned to say "woah...okay...let's take a step back and look at this a bit before deciding to be an asshole." Canada kind of inherited some of that by virtue of sticking in the commonwealth longer and having a peaceful transition to independence instead of kicking our feet and threatening to move out at 16 like some bratty teenage countries did.
(Apropos of nothing, I also think that this is sort of the problem with a lot of Eastern Bloc countries. With the fall of the Soviet Union, a lot of them (Russia Included) were kicked out on their own all of a sudden and are essentially entering the teenage years of their independence)
Does that mean Europe is perfect? No...of course not. Far from it.
But they're a hell of a lot more put together and strong than the U.S. is at the moment.
Trump is projecting, as usual.
Churchill was on the right track with Operation Unthinkable. And as much as a think Patton was a vainglorious blowhard, he was right about the Russians.
Should have done something in 45.
Homo Stultus: The Case For Renaming Ourselves
The name Homo sapiens—Latin for “wise man”—has always carried an air of self-congratulation. Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy, coined the term in 1758, confident that his species stood apart by virtue of intelligence and reason. But what if wisdom, properly defined as the capacity to act with foresight and moral restraint, has proven not to be humanity’s defining trait but its greatest delusion? In an era of mass extinction, climate collapse, and ecological disintegration—each driven by our own actions—perhaps it is time to set the record straight.The species that burns its own home for temporary comfort, poisons its water for profit, and annihilates the other inhabitants of its shared planet for convenience should no longer be known as Homo sapiens. The more fitting name is Homo stultus—“foolish man.”
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The Petrodollar vs. the Electroyuan
The Petrodollar vs. the Electroyuan
Is the Electroyuan set to replace the Petrodollar? This article unpacks the global shift in power and finance as clean energy rises and climate goals reshape economic alliances.Ebipere K. Clark (APRI)
Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) filed articles of impeachment against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday, accusing him of abusing the powers of his office and undermining public health, putting Americans’ lives at risk.
He “has got to go,” Stevens said in a video announcing the impeachment articles. In an accompanying press statement, she said Kennedy, who rose to prominence as an ardent anti-vaccine activist, “has turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people—spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs, and putting lives at risk.” She called him the “biggest self-created threat to our health and safety.”
It is very unlikely that an impeachment push will gain traction in the Republican-controlled Congress. No other Democratic lawmakers are backing the articles.
Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power
He’s the “biggest self-created threat to our health and safety,” Stevens said.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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What would you suggest as a better, more effective, outlet?
As it stands, you are just commenting on the internet while others are advancing legislation. I am curious what you are doing that is so much more effective that the rest of us should be considering.
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Honey, they are literally the lawmakers and rulers of the country, I'm some dude that makes some part of some company's wheels turn. People in my position and those like mine do not have the power to run the country while those in Congress do. There is not an equivalency in responsibility.
They have a responsibility and duty to actually help address the many many issues this country is facing and they seem to conveniently only remember that when they can't possibly muster the political power to do anything useful. They knew Donald Trump and his fascist goons would try to wrestle control of the country again in 2024 and they spent four years with their heads up their own asses. And that's only looking at four specific years. For decades they've done the bare minimum to keep in power all while the rich got richer, the poor got poorer, and those in power got more powerful.
When it's their turn, they don't remove or restrict the tools of oppression they know the right will use against the populace. Fuck, they expand them! They either half-heartedly talked about or actively fight against measures like raising the minimum wage, addressing the housing crisis, or the cost of healthcare. Don't even start talking to me about the civic process being roadblocks, we're watching those roadblocks break way for the GOP. The DNC never even tries that kind of strong arm behavior to improve things.
Yeah, I'm kvetching on the internet, it's a forum, that's what it's for!
I asked for a suggestion and got back a screed. Let them worry about legislating, then.
What can you or I do right now instead of whining about their job performance? What could you do in your community? Maybe if you tell me a challenge you want to tackle toward this end, I could tell you one I'd like to take on in mine and we could try to motivate each other.
This is our chance.
Focus on flipping the House and Senate in '26.
Use RFK and all the other bozos as reasons to regain control.
The worm DIED of malnutrition. There's nothing there.
He has enough steam to blow the whistle but not enough to pull the train.
Filed by a Democrat so DOA in the current House. Flip it in '26 and we'll talk.
Flip the House AND Senate and it might actually happen.
I pray to God and the baby Jesus that I don't believe in that he will be stripped of power and removed for any office that allows him to make decisions on policy.
Or any decisions. At all... Even outside the office. Him mom should lay out his clothing for the day so he doesn't have to decide anything.
stripped of power and removed for any office that allows him to make decisions
In any other sane rational country, people like JFK and Laura Loomer would be under psychiatric observation in a hospital, but in the US they are made super rich and given unlimited power. Very very strange country.
Minecraft
So, I stopped playing Minecraft when m$ acquired them. I refused to make a ms account. I had already bought the game twice under Mojang.
So, fuck Microsoft. How are you guys playing Mc with friends? Id like to load up my old (7 ish years) world again and play like the good times before ms ruined it all.
Am I stuck with mineclone?
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GitHub - Diegiwg/PrismLauncher-Cracked: This project is a Fork of Prism Launcher, which aims to 'unblock' the use of Offline Accounts, disabling the restriction of having a functional Online Account. No other modifications were applied to the project's so
This project is a Fork of Prism Launcher, which aims to 'unblock' the use of Offline Accounts, disabling the restriction of having a functional Online Account. No other modifications were a...GitHub
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How are you guys playing Mc with friends?
I just made a microsoft account. the only thing it does is log into minecraft, so they can have fun trying to scrape whatever information they want out of that.
You'd still have to pay for the game though.
They wont give my my game since I never "moved" from mojang (i wasn't playing pc games for like 5 years, didnt even know m$ had ruined it until I found out I couldn't log in)
I miss the experience I had with my old minecraft games from time to time but I'm on Luanti now and no longer at Microsoft's mercy.
It's never the same going back to an old place anyway.
True.
Problem is convincing my friend to move since hes obsessed with mc java. I try explaining its an exact clone but theyd rather I just buy the game but I refuse to give em another cent.
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I highly recommend freesmlauncher, it’s a fork of prism launcher that doesn’t make you sign in.
You can then set up a Java server and in server.properties, set “online-mode” to false, that makes it so unverified accounts can join.
The only thing to note is that no skins will be present if you do this. There might be a mod that helps, but idk
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There are many, notably:
-ElyPrism
-PrismLauncher cracked
AVOID at any cost Tlauncher, it's a malware
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I just use legacy launcher llaun.ch/en it have banner ofc if u are from EU or USA
So here direct links which work
- Windows : dl.llaun.ch/legacy/installer
- Mac os : dl.llaun.ch/legacy/dmg
- Ubuntu/debian : dl.llaun.ch/legacy/deb
- Generic java :dl.llaun.ch/legacy/bootstrap
- Source code of project : github.com/LegacyLauncher/arch…
- wiki of project : docs.llaun.ch/
It have integration with Ely.by which implement oauth authorization and allowing to play Minecraft lan version higher than 1.7.10 without Ely.by it not possible ,it will fail encryption communication checks
Legacy Launcher for Minecraft
Download stable, fast, secure and yet customizable Minecraft: Java Edition launcher for freellaun.ch
I have a ligit account I play with.
However, you can play in offline mode using Prism Launcher. Doesn't require a Microsoft account. If you put up a personal Minecraft server, you can disable account checking. I've never tried it though.
I havr them all!! Trouble is convincing others haha
We would also like to play some of our old maps, i am guessing we could convert them?
Yes theres absolutely tools to convert mc worlds to minetest/luanti worlds. using these tools probably requires some willingness to run terminal based shell commands though.
github.com/minetest-tools/mcim…
GitHub - minetest-tools/mcimport
Contribute to minetest-tools/mcimport development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
This post motivated me to check in on minetest and its various games. I fired up a mineclonia world. First time I've played a minecraft-like game in some years, and I'm happy to report that it's quite good, especially with controls mapped to my steam controller.
I think I might even start hosting a persistent server.
Also, fuck Microsoft. I had tried to transfer my Mojang account back in the day only to be met with various obscure errors. Never managed to get it to work.
In addition to what everyone else said, if you are hosting a server, authlib-injector is a thing that switches the auth server from Mojang to something else, meaning that there is actual verification of identity beyond just username.
Multiyggdrasil is a fork of that that lets you use both Mojang and another auth server for maximum compatibility and security with friends.
As someone who has run an offline mode server, it's a question of when, not if, you get griefed
China urged to bring Japan’s Unit 731 atrocities to international court
China urged to bring Japan’s Unit 731 to court for crimes against humanity
Chinese archaeologists invoke Nuremberg in renewed call for a comparable legal reckoning for Japanese atrocities.Ling Xin (South China Morning Post)
There's no Trans Liberation without Class Struggle & Anti-Imperialist Politics
ABC (Anything But Class) leftists and ABI (Anything But Imperialism) leftists be like.
Trans people are statistically strongly affected by homelessness, poverty, unemployment due to discrimination, lack of access to healthcare etc. and most trans people live in the global south. So to ignore class and imperialism in your advocacy for trans rights means to effectively throw the majority of trans people under the bus.
Some relevant sources:
Homelessness and Housing Instability
Among LGBTQ Youth
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Discrimination and Barriers to Well-Being: The State of the LGBTQI+ Community in 2022
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Trans & Poverty
Poverty and Economic Insecurity
in Trans Communities in the EU
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So to ignore class and imperialism in your advocacy for trans rights means to effectively throw the majority of trans people under the bus.
I mean... this is literally what the liberals have said they want to do, re: 2024
Democrats Lost Voters on Transgender Rights. Winning Them Back Won’t Be Easy.
The number of policies liberals seem willing to support shrinks with every election cycle as reactionaries in national media flog them for speaking out. Police Brutality in 2014. Health care in 2016. Climate Change in 2018. Student Debt in 2020. Opposition to Genocide in 2022. It seems 2024 was the year we had to stop caring about LGBTQ.
I wonder what we'll be asked to give up next in our quest to win that "Moderate" voter.
There is only one policy liberals support. Genocide.
They cave on everything else.
The Problem of Recognition in Transitional States, or Sympathy for the Monster
The problem of recognition in transitional states is the difficulty of assigning to a definite set an object that possesses some of the features of two mutually exclusive ones, and the harms attendant on failing to do so.redsails.org
Nemotron 3 Nano is a 30B parameter hybrid reasoning MoE model with ~3.6B active parameters - built for fast, accurate coding, math and agentic tasks, and has a 1M context window.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano - How To Run Guide | Unsloth Documentation
Run & fine-tune NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano locally on your device!docs.unsloth.ai
Ongoing SoundCloud issue blocks VPN users with 403 server error
Users accessing the SoundCloud audio streaming platform through a virtual private network (VPN) connection are denied access to the service and see a 403 'forbidden' error.
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Xbox is dead outside of being a different logo for windows. I think it’s obvious to anybody remotely watching the industry that all they really care about is game pass at this point. Even at the game awards, they were essentially absent outside of a game pass ad, and recently put a finance guy in charge of Zenimax.
I would love to say this won’t end well for them, but they probably crunched the numbers and determined they could continue the same revenue with minimum effort. Enough people will probably stick around on game pass, even after the recent hikes, to keep it as a solid revenue stream.
I sold my Xbox six months ago after it sat collecting dust for a year and a half, glad I did.
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The writing has been on the wall for a while. I remember hearing quotes about wanting to turn Xbox into a Steam competitor back in like 2018. I was honestly surprised when they released the Series. I was pretty sure we would get some sort of streaming only console after the One X|S.
I imagine going forward, in addition to the streaming services, we are going to see Xbox leveraged as “certification” for other manufacturer’s hardware where consumers can be assured that this device meets some set spec for this year’s Xbox games.
But what if we cram it full of AI bloat/spyware? Could we entice you then?
- Microsoft, probably
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I love seeing those videos about game making up until 5th and 6th gen, how creative developers were, managing console hardware capabilities to bypass limitations and find other ways to render faster, wider, more colors, or fit more stuff in less space, pushing the system to its limits.... am I wrong, or is the modern game industry just about using an unoptimized engine to make games, not optimizing shit, releasing games that don't get close to reaching the full hardware potential, and then releasing a next gen of hardware even though the next gen games would probably run even better 2 gens ago if devs had half of the talent and problem-solving skills of past devs?
example:
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Games, like movies and TV, have become so expensive to make because studios and publishers have consolidated so much that they can’t keep the machine running with modest budgets to make modest profits. They have to slop together content with the lowest effort to extract the highest revenue from microtransactions and season passes because every game has to be a Call of Duty/Fortnite/Pokemon level hit or the studio is shuttered by the publisher.
Great games are still being made, just like great movies that aren’t remake or superhero slop are being made. Just not from big money but independent studios instead.
Well, putting together a trailer with Aerosmith or Beatles music playing over it isn't helping the ballooning "development costs" either.
Neither is studios overhiring and then figuring out you can't just hire 500 people and then not let them go. Game studios have become bloated. Overstaffed. And so have their games.
They just can't understand not every game needs to be a 150GB+ open world game, or have the latest realistic graphics. Small games are okay, good even.
Imagine how much more detailed a game could be from a AAA studios if it launched with highly stylized retro inspired graphics. They will never do this of course, but just imagine it. Imagine how much more there could be, with way less time and money being required to do it. A single barrel that might take an artist a whole day to make could easily mean multiple variants of barrel in the same time. They could drop a 20GB game that feels like a 200GB game, and do it in like 6-12 months.
It would be so easy to split their already massive studios into like 20 smaller teams of 50 or less people to work on these kinds of smaller games and they could pump them out quickly. Just flood the market with these highly concentrated titles. But they won't, because its easier to convince a shareholder to make billions from a single game that looks really good visually but plays like trash with MTX for short term profit than it is to convince them to play the long game and make trillions with the volume of smaller games sales and the massively reduced development costs.
Its all about short term profit these days, and its why all the businesses in the world seem to be racing each other to the bottom. Because why play the long game.when you might be dead before you hit the jackpot? Nevermind that you can't take any of it with you to the grave.
After Xbox one, I was unable to understand what the next version was.
And when people can't even name the product, then yeah.
Microsoft just messed up the whole naming convention after the 360 I think. You had the Xbox "one" which was a name people often used to refer to the original Xbox. Then you have an Xbox One S. Then Xbox series X which is a genuinely terrible name. Oh, and the Xbox series S which is not the Xbox One S.
Sony to their credit got it right from the beginning. Simple 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. No medals for guessing what the name of the next Playstation will be.
Every time I see the names of the Xbox lineup my brain just feels tired and kinda shuts down.
I am never going to remember it.
Yeah, as someone who has never owned an Xbox I have little to say about the Original, I remember the 360 as an unreliable red ring of death piece of junk, the One had that galaxy brained name. That's the kind of decision you can't make snorting normal people cocaine, you've got to have that Fortune 500 executive cocaine to name the third product in a series the "One."
The "One" was announced as being a privacy invasion machine that might someday have video games patched onto it; always on internet connection and a required Kinect. That got backpedaled, and everything else I know about that console was Yahtzee saying there weren't any games for it then he stopped mentioning it.
After the "Please stop calling it the XBone", was there a One S that isn't the Series S? And the Series S and Series X are almost as bad as Linux software names. Best Buy employees across the English speaking world have to stop to enunciate "The Series ESS, or the Series ECKSS?" It's like they watched Nintendo kick themselves in the dick naming a console the Wii U, and took it as a challenge.
Microsoft has done an amazing job generating apathy for their gaming division.
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Non-exhaustive list of requirements for future devices, which are standards met or exceeded by current Pixel devices:
Support for using alternate operating systems including full hardware security functionality
Complete monthly Android Security Bulletin patches without any regular delays longer than a week for device support code (firmware, drivers and HALs)
At least 5 years of updates from launch for device support code with phones (Pixels now have 7) and 7 years with tablets
Device support code updated to new monthly, quarterly and yearly releases of AOSP within several months to provide new security improvements (Pixels receive these in the month they're released)
Linux 6.1, 6.6 or 6.12 Generic Kernel Image (GKI) support
Hardware accelerated virtualization usable by GrapheneOS (ideally pKVM to match Pixels but another usable implementation may be acceptable)
Hardware memory tagging (ARM MTE or equivalent)
Hardware-based coarse grained Control Flow Integrity (CFI) for baseline coverage where type-based CFI isn't used or can't be deployed (BTI/PAC, CET IBT or equivalent)
PXN, SMEP or equivalent
PAN, SMAP or equivalent
Isolated radios (cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, etc.), GPU, SSD, media encode / decode, image processor and other components
Support for A/B updates of both the firmware and OS images with automatic rollback if the initial boot fails one or more times
Verified boot with rollback protection for firmware
Verified boot with rollback protection for the OS (Android Verified Boot)
Verified boot key fingerprint for yellow boot state displayed with a secure hash (non-truncated SHA-256 or better)
StrongBox keystore provided by secure element
Hardware key attestation support for the StrongBox keystore
Attest key support for hardware key attestation to provide pinning support
Weaver disk encryption key derivation throttling provided by secure element
Insider attack resistance for updates to the secure element (Owner user authentication required before updates are accepted)
Inline disk encryption acceleration with wrapped key support
64-bit-only device support code
Wi-Fi anonymity support including MAC address randomization, probe sequence number randomization and no other leaked identifiers
Support for disabling USB data and also USB as a whole at a hardware level in the USB controller
Reset attack mitigation for firmware-based boot modes such as fastboot mode zeroing memory left over from the OS and delaying opening up attack surface such as USB functionality until that's completed
Debugging features such as JTAG or serial debugging must be inaccessible while the device is lockedFrom grapheneos.org/faq#device-supp…
GrapheneOS Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to frequently asked questions about GrapheneOS.GrapheneOS
We’ve seen the buyout/burn down methodology against a lot of smaller companies; it sounds a bit like Microsoft is doing that internally to Xbox division. It’s all I can think of to explain so much of the intentional damage.
So, the console war is now basically Nintendo, Sony, and Valve.
One of the main retail store in my country always had a big fucking toys catalog for Christmas. 100s of pages. It has like 15 for gaming this year.
One reference to Xbox. Only one. It's not the console. It's not an accessory. It's not a game. It's the ROG handheld.
It's wild how low it is. Even when people mocked PS3, it was still fine.
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"Their own interests" whose interests, exactly? Who benefitted, and who paid the costs, for the wars in the Middle East? The only people who benefitted seem to be oil companies and war profiteers, while ordinary people (including my own family) paid for it in both money and blood.
The interests of your own country's bourgeoisie might align sometimes with those of the American bourgeoisie, but neither align with your people or the American people.
No they're saying 'they will tell the truth by accident if it happens to be rgw thing they wanted you to believe for bullshit evil reasons anyway'.
I'm not sure I agree, but it's not exactly a pro-imperialist position.
Wild how "defending their own interests" is considered a valid justification, when it basically means "I did it for my own benefit".
"By robbing a bank I'm merely defending my interest to be filthy rich - nothing wrong with that"
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America only entered WWII to take a piece of the pie.
It was pretty clear at that point that if the US didn't enter, the USSR would take the win and have the chance to bring more Nazi-occupied territories into their union. Many US corporations were even collaborating with the Nazis, the US made carve outs to prevent factories in Nazi territories being bombed, as we already know the US profits immensely from war, and then after the war they shipped all the Nazi scientists and generals into high places in government. They weren't exactly sworn enemies. Defeating the Nazis was not as high a priority as limiting the influence of the USSR. Their participation was always cynical, which might be why it seemed "counter-productive" at times.
On Dec. 3 1941, the US as a whole was quite content supplying the allies with everything they needed materially. We had told the USSR to just make tanks, we would give them everything else, including the ammunition for said tanks. Letting the USSR take a win was certainly preferable to what happened after they took a loss at the end of WWI.
I wonder what could have possibly happened on Dec. 4, 1941, that got the country to collectively say, "Fuck that. We aren't sitting by anymore."
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Still better than Russia and China though.
I dont like America at all but lets be real. If either one of those countries would run Europe, we can forget about human rights and our cozy vacations.
And if a muslim country would run it, women would be raped and stoned for being free to wear what they want and say what they want.
America, famous for respecting the human rights of non white people...
when was the last time they incarcerated people based on skin colour? they are still doing it? don't bring in your imperialist bullshit about a country currently attempting an ethnic cleansing on its own people.
Us Europeans are being lorded over by the US and yet we don't have ban to electricity to follow the Amish way of life, just because that's the most backward part of the US.
We're now living in a time where the US is telling us to tank our economy time after time 'just to spite the enemy', while China's economy is growing 5+% per year.
That's not sustainable.
At some point the people of Europe will be looking up at China and Russia for having an industry and commerce instead of letting everything be bought out by the US.
Moreover, our human rights are extremely selective and are based on the protection of the two ruling classes of capitalism, the lawyer class and the merchant (aka as donor) class, having replaced the clergy and nobility that came before.
Human rights is just one way for the laywer class to justify their actions, which primarily serves the merchant class
On top of that, none of those in power are even in Europe anymore. The donors class is all (Anglo-)American and we're obligated to follow "international law" or "agreements with NATO" no matter what you supposedly voted for.
The moment competition shows up from China, in the US, not even the EU, then those rights the rest of us are supposed to have are immediately thrown out of the window, or for us Europeans, six months later.
Freedom of trade?
2000: "That's what has made the US the most powerful nation in the world!"
2025: "National security threat!" "IP theft!"
"No ZTE routers, Huawei phones, or inexpensive BYD cars, for you. Sorry."
Freedom of the press?
2000: "Freedom of speech what the US has and other countries don't."
2025: "Fake news!" "Ruzzian Chinese propaganda!"
"No more RT for you. Sorry. And soon we'll be curtailing TikTok (US), Xiaohongshu (Taiwan)
and any Asian cinema as well. (US)"
Human rights?
2000: "You're allowed to protest about anything."
2025: "Protesting genocide of Palestine by Israel is anti-semitic and thus illegal. (UK)"
Qatari failure to pay contractors leaves migrant workers unpaid, says report
Qatari government clients, and other large businesses, are failing to pay contractors on time for projects, leaving migrant labourers unpaid, according to a report published by Human Rights Watch on Monday.
“Clients at the top of the Qatari contracting supply chain, including government bodies, often have impunity, leaving subcontracting businesses that employ migrant workers bearing the cost,” said Michael Page of Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The documents revealed that both subcontractors struggled to pay workers when clients did not release payments as they were contractually obligated to do.
Attempts by one to demand payment, including legal threats, did not result in payment.
Such violations could result in complicity in contributing to wage theft against migrant workers, the HRW report said.
Qatari failure to pay contractors leaves migrant workers unpaid, says report
Qatari government clients, and other large businesses, are failing to pay contractors on time for projects, leaving migrant labourers unpaid, according to a report published by Human Rights Watch on Monday.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Kiev lying about battlefield situation to influence US peace plan
Kiev lying about battlefield situation to influence US peace plan — source
The Ukrainian mass media are disseminating reports alleging that the Ukrainian army has taken control of the settlements of Kondrashovka, Radkovka, and Moskovka northwest and southwest of KupyanskTASS
Trump dealt major blow as Europe threatens ‘nuclear option’ over Ukraine
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The problem with Trump is that these kinds of threats make him fly into a rage and escalate further. It could widen the relationship between EU and US because of that.
I'm happy EU is biting back for once, but I hate to think how Trump will respond.
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That nuke ship has sailed. Lesson to learn is never rely on other's promises for your own security.
The "peace plan" requires Ukraine to give up half of its army, in exchange they would be "protected". Giving in would be a 100% guarantee that Russia will try again and the US will mostly watch and drag on support.
NATO countries in Europe still assuming US will intervene if they are attacked are completely delusional. You can't even be sure they would send equipment.
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I was going to ask the same. Also how come a US outlet has this and I haven't seen anything on Europe-centric channels.
Sometimes one just has to wait a day or so.
I'm also unclear about what "dumping" those trillions actually means? If we truly had the USA by the balls like that I'm sure I'd have heard about this sooner.
Everyone has the US by the balls, that's what the USD being reserve currency means.
Everyone owns a lot of USD, both cash and securities, so when the US prints money, inflation hits all the world.
Dumping basically means saying "hey, I've got the entire US GDP here in cash USD, I'm selling it for 100 EUR", and watching the US go hyperinflating.
The catch is that it would crash the world economy.
Dumping basically means saying “hey, I’ve got the entire US GDP here in cash USD, I’m selling it for 100 EUR”, and watching the US go hyperinflating.
Oh. That sounds like a lose-lose situation.
It's the express. I personally have never read anything accurate or correct in that paper.
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As someone from the US, do it, rip the bandaid off, this is going to get much much worse before things have the chance to get better and good people here have all been rejected from having meaningful power.
edit this news source is questionable
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Wouldn't they just be shooting themselves in the foot here? Even with all the talk about decoupling and tariffs, the European and American economy are still heavily intertwined and a recession in the US will almost certainly spread to the EU.
Look at what happened in 2008, some wall street crooks made some stupid bets on mortgages and then the euro-zone got sent into a debt crisis.
Potential for a nightmare scenario:
1) Trump dumps Ukraine for Russia.
2) EU dumps $2.34 trillion in US debt
3) Trump pulls out of NATO.
4) Russia invades Poland or some other NATO country.
5) US Dollar is worthless so we couldn't do anything if we wanted to, and Trump is on Russia's side anyway.
I’m no economist and will probably get this wrong, but since there is nobody else here… least I can do is give you enough an answer that someone more knowledgeable will come and correct me.
Basically, governments can print magic slips of paper called “bonds” that people will want to buy for two primary reasons: (1) they get interest when they hold the bonds (interest paid by taxes), and (2) the bond is considered a safe way to store value (like how a house is considered a safe way to store value). The government, in return for selling those magic pieces of paper, gets the money used to buy the bonds. It’s the Treasury Bond market.
Now here’s two important details about the bond market: (1) Bonds have an inverse relationship with cost and interest rates. If stockpiles of bonds get sold, that increases the supply of bonds which causes price to fall — adversely causing interest rates to hike up. (2) Because U.S. Treasury bonds are considered risk-free, all other interest rates in the economy (mortgages, car loans, corporate debt) are built on top of the Treasury yield (Example: If a 10-year Treasury yields 5%, a bank might offer a 10-year mortgage at 5-6%). Basically, Treasury rates set the floor for almost all borrowing costs.
So if a foreign state sells massive quantities of bonds, interest rates everywhere can shoot up. That can make all of our existing debt too difficult to pay back. We’d be stuck with three options if it gets bad enough: (1) default on the debt, (2) debase our currency by printing enough money to push the problem down the road, or (3) balance the governments budget.
From what I understand, we’ve already pushed the limits of option 2 during the Housing Crisis and COVID. Printing more money is talked about as though it’s impossible without causing more harm than good. Honestly, I don’t know what happens if the bond market cracks at this point… a depression comparable to TGD?
Also 3 is infeasible because the rich own congress and the poor are struggling really bad right now. You can't cut the fat off someone skinny and we've spent the majority of 2025 cutting large chunks of muscle off to get a bit of fat. The only realistoc options to balance the budget are to cut military spending (including ice and police), or to start levyying massive taxes that will either impoverish the middle class or actually do a dent in the rich.
1 is somehow actually the worst option of the three though. The united states' wealth comes in part because we always pay our debts. This is how we got here. Borrowing money is extremely low cost for us so we just do it constantly. It became politicized with the two santas strategy, but we rely on cheap debt to have the power to do things. If we default shit like high speed rail, a border wall, single payer health care, war with Venezuela, and even mythical non partisan expensive projects become financially impossible without taking on self destructive amounts of debt.
Unfortunately, I don't think the administration understands any of that. Trump will print money, cut medicaid entirely, and demand we all go hungry for his vanity while he eats his newly hundred dollar big mac
You could look at it that way. Broad strokes yes. The thing is it is probably a bluff.
The problem is the US dollar is the world reserve currency and the Euro Dollar market is massive. So even if a country doesn't transact directly with the US it still is using dollars for transactions. The US is also the only world super power with a military to back that up.
When Russia started up in Ukraine again the Biden administration booted them from the settlement system and froze their funds in western institutions. Seeing that happen China and Russia are heading up a new BRICS settlement system. That is a direct threat to US interests in remaining the reserve currency.
The US response to this is to go after some of those countries joining BRICS with revolutions and stuff. And at home to pass the Genius Act. An attempt to keep US Treasuries relevant by requiring crypto stable coins to hold them as collateral.
What I think is happening is the US is going after all the other transactions for the people in countries with less stable currencies. Brent Johnson the Dollar Milkshake theory guy has his Orlando Investor conference talk on this theory up for free on youtube if you are interested.
TLDR: Some nations aren't happy with the US and how it is acting and are threatening to de-dollarize. Except the US Navy is why much of the trade happens.
I say they dump it and we'll find out who the US really is.
You're answering as if this current tension was not caused entirely by the US deciding to upend the global order and morph into a bully pirate nation that threatens allies chasing the new Monroe Doctrine.
If they choose the military option, rather than return to a sane global political and economic order - the insanity of which is entirely their fault - then we will have the measure of the nation, and they will surely usher in a rapid descent.
I don't think exactly. As I understand: let's say Italy is holding US debt. This debt has a certain value as long as the US economy is good because then there is a chance of repayment. So as long as Italy holds US debt, it's interested in having trade with the US or generally being invested in the US economy to keep up the value of their debt.
If they let go of the debt they would have less interest in keeping the US economy up. They would pr stop encouraging their Italian companies to buy American machines/goods/services.
Something like that.
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Cut to: "In just six months under a Democrat mayor Miami is over budget and underwater!"
Edit: wtf?
I'm saying the Democrat came in just in time to be blamed for the past thirty years of mismanagement, which is exactly what's going to happen. I know Florida and I know politics and this woman is going to be a major scapegoat.
Yes. When you inherit a mess you aren't at fault. But there are limits. Trump likes to constantly blame literally every president before him for his failings. Unfortunately a lot of people believe it.
That said, It's going to be a good tactic for new management to somewhat do the same and specifically point out the bad policies the trump admin made.
Also. --
It's actually a common phenomena for companies to hire women or people of color right as the company is already on a trajectory for failing so they can blame it on that person.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cl…
The argument against this phenomena is that "not all companies do it".
Doesn't mean it's not a common tactic. It is.
Plenty of big companies have been know to pull this tactic.
Then the guy who actually ran the company into the ground can get hired by some other company saying when he left it was running fine.
Yet the women who were ceos when the company closed, will get black listed.
More specifically, women are more likely to occupy positions that are precarious and thus have a higher risk of failure—either because they are appointed to lead organizations (or organizational units) that are in crisis or because they are not given the resources and support needed for success.[5][6]
Within historically Black colleges and universities, minority leaders were more often appointed than white leaders under all circumstances, but in other universities, minority leaders were appointed to leadership positions primarily in times of crisis. These leaders are also likely to suffer from high visibility, scrutiny and performance pressures that their white counterparts do not receive.
Glass cliff positions risk hurting the women executives' reputations and career prospects because, when a company does poorly, people tend to blame its leadership without taking into account situational or contextual variables.[4] Additionally, women who are appointed to glass cliff positions may be subject to increased criticism from shareholders, who may lack confidence in their leadership. In contrast, Men who assume leadership in times of crisis are less likely to experience this backlash, and suffer fewer reputation based consequences.[4] Researchers have found that female leaders find it harder than male ones to get second chances once they have failed due to having fewer mentors and sponsors and less access to a protective "old boys' network".[29]
The only thing that could have stopped Mamdani, is trump endorsing Mamdani...
We're going to keep seeing it play out, Trump's endorsement when he's not on the ballot has always been negligible at best, often detrimental.
trumpers don't vote unless they can also vote for trump. And the reliable Republican voters don't like maga candidates.
It's why I hope red state redistricting goes thru, they'll overshoot what's plausible and end excavating the coming progressive wave.
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BREAKING: Judge Orders Release of Epstein Case Grand Jury Transcripts
Judge Orders Release of Epstein Case Grand Jury Transcripts
Judge Richard M. Berman granted a Justice Department motion on Wednesday to release secret grand jury transcripts related to Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case.Alex Griffing (Mediaite)
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Leaked Pam Bondi memo targets 'anyone who isn’t a Trump supporter': investigator
Leaked Pam Bondi memo targets 'anyone who isn’t a Trump supporter': investigator
A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directs the Justice Department and FBI to compile a list of groups that may be labeled “domestic terrorism” organizations based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy.Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! (Raw Story)
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Neat. One of the first groups to be targeted by fascists to consolidate power are those who oppose them politically. Remember those concentration camps that were only being used for the criminal illegal immigrants? And now they're for any immigrants? And sometimes citizens? Guess who they're going to be used for next.
Americans, you stand at a crossroads. Decades from now what will you want to tell your families you were doing when the fascists came for the next group?
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Most leftists/libs here are not gun owners. Right-wingers/GOP/fascists tend to be the gun owners.
Link to my other post farther down with receipts: alexandrite.app/lemmy.dbzer0.c…
That's your experience, my experience a lot of folks are armed that are libs/leftist vets including me. We just aren't talking about them like "look at my big dick". The ranges I've gone have been a mix of both sides.
I think it's just by the area you live by and your neighbors from your experience.
Except it's not. Y'all are a bunch of sensitive babies about these stats. And again, that's YOUR experience. Also, the word "most" seems to have a strange meaning to you.
Group Personally own a gun Live in gun household
GOP ~45–50% ~55–60%
Indy ~25–30% ~40–45%
Dem ~18–20% ~25–30%
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Key facts about Americans and guns
About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) favor stricter gun laws. Another 26% say that U.S. gun laws are about right, while 15% favor less strict gun laws.Abigail Geiger (Pew Research Center)
That's why they've been operating the way they have been.
Target the weakest links, hope no one stands up for them. They want to even out the numbers before people start to actual fight back.
Honduras is still waiting for the final presidential election count, over a week after the vote
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/39998204
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — More than a week after Hondurans voted to elect a new president, results continue to trickle in as complaints grow about the slow process and allegations of irregularities by the three top candidates.The election to pick a new president and Congress was held on Nov. 30 and as of Monday, 88% of the ballots have been counted.
The two leading candidates are Nasry Asfura, of the conservative National Party, who has 40.21% of the votes and Salvador Nasralla, of the also conservative Liberal Party, who has 39.49%.
Rixi Moncada, who ran for the ruling social democrat LIBRE, or Liberty and Re-foundation party, is in third place with 19.28% of the votes.
https://apnews.com/article/honduras-election-delayed-vote-count-08a21448e663597b5914b96dd7050c80
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in reply to Cooper8 • • •I haven't tried Nostr, so have no opinions on what the experience of actually using it is like, but cryptographic identity seems like it'd be a better way (technically speaking) of doing things than AP; tying everything to domain names has worked rather poorly -- as we've seen repeatedly every time an instance goes offline...
I ended up on AP after jumping ship from reddit. I was on kbin first (since it was readable w/o JS and I liked the UI), and then later using the mlmym interface for lemmy as kbin because more unstable and eventually went offline.
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in reply to Cooper8 • • •See Wikipedia:
Looks like it was never about function or protocol in the first place.
Sounds lovely and taking one look at a random relay confirms this. The only things discussed there are Bitcoin, "Women-are-evil-because-they-dont-sex-me" and some AI bullshit.
cryptographic communications protocol
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in reply to e8d79 • • •Not mostly about protocol or function, I agree. But if we are to take Wikipedia literally, they had at least some technical differences of opinion vis a vis ActivityPub.
IMO spritely is doing the most interesting work but I don't understand any of it.
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in reply to Cooper8 • • •I'm kind of the oppisite in that I prefer Nostr over ActivityPub, but both have their merits. As for technical ways Activity Pub has a leg up:
- Comunities - Activity Pub is built around individual instances, with people able to join communities focused on their interests and/or that have their preferred moderation policies. Some software exists to do similar things on Nostr, but that's not what most people use.
- Platforms - In a similar vein, Activity Pub is probably easier to make a platform out of, be it Meta making Threads or you making your own social media service for your friends. On Nostr people's accounts exist outside of the infrastructure they use, so it'd be hard to provide a more unified experience.
- Ease of Use - Activity Pub generally has a lower technical barrier to entry, you can sign up with an email and a password on most servers. Outside of (upcoming) DiVine or using Frost Bunkers, there's really no easy way to join Nostr without learning how to manage keys.
- Standardizatio
... show moreI'm kind of the oppisite in that I prefer Nostr over ActivityPub, but both have their merits. As for technical ways Activity Pub has a leg up:
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in reply to Cooper8 • • •The identity management is a big one. I've had my ActivityPub account get nuked when Nerdica offline, and my current ActivityPub server (Trom) is sometimes slow and misses remote events. Having an identity I control means that I don't get my account nuked if something breaks, and I can participate within communities without being tied to their infrastrucure if the community is great while their infrastructure is not. It also works across different forms of servers - no needing accounts on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Writefreely, and Peertube in order to experience each form of social media on the network - on Nostr I can just use my same account across the network. It also makes me more tempted to host my own infrastructure, since if I get a case of the stupids, I can't accidentally nuke my account.
I also like the protocol's simplicity. It's pretty lightweight, and pretty easy to extend with some custom code. While custom extentions would break normal stuff (adding custom stuff to shortform posts is just going to make your stuff not work with other people's clients), creating somet
... show moreThe identity management is a big one. I've had my ActivityPub account get nuked when Nerdica offline, and my current ActivityPub server (Trom) is sometimes slow and misses remote events. Having an identity I control means that I don't get my account nuked if something breaks, and I can participate within communities without being tied to their infrastrucure if the community is great while their infrastructure is not. It also works across different forms of servers - no needing accounts on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Writefreely, and Peertube in order to experience each form of social media on the network - on Nostr I can just use my same account across the network. It also makes me more tempted to host my own infrastructure, since if I get a case of the stupids, I can't accidentally nuke my account.
I also like the protocol's simplicity. It's pretty lightweight, and pretty easy to extend with some custom code. While custom extentions would break normal stuff (adding custom stuff to shortform posts is just going to make your stuff not work with other people's clients), creating something like a chess app or geocaching app is pretty easy. Even if said apps wouldn't work with your standard shortform or longform clients, they'd still interact with other apps using the same custom code, and be useable with a standard account.
And, while I seem to be a minority in this thread, I also like the moderation structure of Nostr. There's a few different ways to approach that:
* I use Nostr like RSS, I follow people I like and see their content - and I moderate it like I 'moderate' an RSS feed, i.e. choosing who I do and don't want to see.
* There are other ways to moderate though, for example, by pulling people you follow from the whole network while only setting your global feed (if your client supports a global feed) to pull from specific relays.
* Or you could use something like Ditto, which is a Nostr relay behind a Mastodon front end. Ditto gives users a local feed and global feed (though I beleive both can be enabled or disabled), with the content on the Ditto server being capable of moderating content in the exact same way any Activity Pub server can (including accessing content or controlling moderation via the Mastodon API).
* Last, if I was famous or had people trying to spam me, I could also set my inbox relay (place where people send their replies on outbox model supported clients) to a relay I control, then set rules/filters on who's allowed to reply and/or what content replies could contain.
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in reply to Cooper8 • • •I moved away from centralised social media, because social media owned by multinational corporations benefit from bigotry and rage, and so allow it to fester and grow. They do this by under moderating, or moderating with a bias against the people being harassed and attacked.
So the last thing I would choose to do is go to a platform/network that prides itself on lack of moderation, and requires vulnerable, targeted folk to play whack a mole, with each person having to reactively block individual bigots, one by one, after they've appeared and dumped their payload of hate.
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in reply to Cooper8 • • •In theory yes, in practice, no.
Nostr uses relays. In some ways, a relay is like an instance on the fediverse. Where they differ though, is that a) relays don't talk to each other and b) users can sign up to many different relays and pull/push content to all of them.
So in practice, in order to see a wide amount of content, you need to end up connecting to multiple relays. And even though a relay does have some moderation capabilities to block content, unless every relay you use blocks the content from the bigoted account, you'll see it.
If you signed up only to a single relay, and that relay had good moderation, then in theory, your Nostr experience wouldn't be terrible, but a single niche relay like that will mean you see basically no content. And as soon as you connect to a larger public relay to get more content, you lose all of the moderation advantages offered by your first instance. Which means in practice, there is no incentive to run a well moderated instance.
And so all of the moderation ends up on the end user, who has to manually block
... show moreIn theory yes, in practice, no.
Nostr uses relays. In some ways, a relay is like an instance on the fediverse. Where they differ though, is that a) relays don't talk to each other and b) users can sign up to many different relays and pull/push content to all of them.
So in practice, in order to see a wide amount of content, you need to end up connecting to multiple relays. And even though a relay does have some moderation capabilities to block content, unless every relay you use blocks the content from the bigoted account, you'll see it.
If you signed up only to a single relay, and that relay had good moderation, then in theory, your Nostr experience wouldn't be terrible, but a single niche relay like that will mean you see basically no content. And as soon as you connect to a larger public relay to get more content, you lose all of the moderation advantages offered by your first instance. Which means in practice, there is no incentive to run a well moderated instance.
And so all of the moderation ends up on the end user, who has to manually block accounts only after they appear and dump their load of hate (at which point, the bigot will just spin up another account). Some people prefer that experience, but when you're the regular target of hate, that approach just doesn't work for many folk.
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in reply to Cooper8 • • •This is a good thing: bitches need to learn words are harmless & they can ignore them like humanity has done for millennia.
It's not built into the servers.
Client-side tooling would handle it, so it's entirely at the discretion of the user, which seems better to me.
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in reply to Cooper8 • • •Very coincidental that you just posted this. I've been looking into p2p apps and Nostr caught my attention. Unfortunately like most p2p stuff it seems that most people using it are crypto affliated which is a big turn off.
The more I looked at it though nostr didn't seem that interesting to me as a protocol compared to other p2p protocols like ipfs, Yggdrasil, i2p. Manly because it still seems to centralize around relays and the effectively ended up being your server. From my understanding its easier to move from relay to another since you can publish to multiple relays and your identify is just a key pair so your ID is "portable". The big thing I see from Nostr is a priority to build apps on top of their protocol, compared to the other p2p protocols.
I think it would be neat if there was a non crypto affiliated social media platform built on top of a p2p protocol that did the following
... show more- Use key identify system so your ID is portable and not tied to a single identity server
- All data is locally stored on your machine by default with the option to pin it to a se
Very coincidental that you just posted this. I've been looking into p2p apps and Nostr caught my attention. Unfortunately like most p2p stuff it seems that most people using it are crypto affliated which is a big turn off.
The more I looked at it though nostr didn't seem that interesting to me as a protocol compared to other p2p protocols like ipfs, Yggdrasil, i2p. Manly because it still seems to centralize around relays and the effectively ended up being your server. From my understanding its easier to move from relay to another since you can publish to multiple relays and your identify is just a key pair so your ID is "portable". The big thing I see from Nostr is a priority to build apps on top of their protocol, compared to the other p2p protocols.
I think it would be neat if there was a non crypto affiliated social media platform built on top of a p2p protocol that did the following
- Use key identify system so your ID is portable and not tied to a single identity server
- All data is locally stored on your machine by default with the option to pin it to a server similar to the ipfs pinning servers
- Since it p2p, built with the idea that your peer maybe offline and queue sharing posts until they are online. The pinning servers could also act as an always online client for you to store messages. Like a bouncer in IRC
- No public feed, since it would be a moderation nightmare, you can only see what your followers post and what they reshare. Probably there would be feeds from trusted people you could subscribe to. This shared feeds could be a great way to build communities like in the fediverse
- Built on a p2p protocol that handles thing like NAT punch through and peer connection so anyone's device can act like a peer without needing some server to relay messages to them, or having to port forward on their home connection. Nostr doesn't appear to do this, since it relies on all messages passing through (and hosted by) relay servers. So your own device can't act as a peer on Nostr.
These are the things that would make p2p social media more interesting to me than activitypub. Sadly as far as I can tell Nostr isn't really this, and I'm pretty sure none of the other protocols I mentioned have build an app like this on top of them.
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in reply to Hazematman • • •Sounds a bit like Plebbit, though that is more about P2P "communities/boards" that a user starts and others can post to, rather than a microblog type platform. Unfortunately it also has a strong association with Crypto communities as its founders come from that scene. It is built on IPFS.
What you describe also has similiarities to Secure Scuttlebutt and its successor PZP , which are both unfortunately abandoned but layed a lot of groundwork for asynchronous encryption key based networks.
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in reply to Hazematman • • •GitHub - Peergos/Peergos: A p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol
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in reply to Cooper8 • • •Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr
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in reply to JustTesting • • •Yes this is a great discussion. Generally speaking I see how user local-first posting mirrored by relays under e2ee can help solve some of the downsides of instance based federation, however it seems like the actual implementation makes or breaks the utility.
I have a concept that came up in reading the comments on lobster, which is that the issue of incomplete data due to asynchronous/intermittent downtime push and pull by users to/from the relays as well as inconsistent relays behavior leads to inevitable incomplete/non-consensus/out of date data access (something federation also suffers from).
My idea is that relays, bothe standard and specialized, could host a dedicated encrypted ledger for each user/key that has posted to it (potentially within a time limit, or with approval) that holds only a sequential identifier (counted since the first event by the key) of the user's most recent activity and a unique identifier/key associated with the event the activity was associated with (so that edits would be associated with the UI of the post being edited for example, or
... show moreYes this is a great discussion. Generally speaking I see how user local-first posting mirrored by relays under e2ee can help solve some of the downsides of instance based federation, however it seems like the actual implementation makes or breaks the utility.
I have a concept that came up in reading the comments on lobster, which is that the issue of incomplete data due to asynchronous/intermittent downtime push and pull by users to/from the relays as well as inconsistent relays behavior leads to inevitable incomplete/non-consensus/out of date data access (something federation also suffers from).
My idea is that relays, bothe standard and specialized, could host a dedicated encrypted ledger for each user/key that has posted to it (potentially within a time limit, or with approval) that holds only a sequential identifier (counted since the first event by the key) of the user's most recent activity and a unique identifier/key associated with the event the activity was associated with (so that edits would be associated with the UI of the post being edited for example, or a new message to an ongoing thread would use the UI of the thread and the UI of the message.) Limit this log to very few entries and replace it every time it is updated, say between 1 and 10, and you would keep the size of the file very small, and the pushed update from the user/key would also be very small.
This way a user could push activity log updates to a broader set of hosts/relays than the actual content/event was sent to while keeping the cache/data burden on the broader network down. Ideally this would mean that not only the Relays but also users following the user/key could hold the log (enabling gossip without large cache burden). Unlike a blockchain where the ledgers would need to cross-sync with each-other and seek consensus on larger data chunks, in this case the reader of the ledger can always default to the most recent sequential identifier, and that identifier would be generated by publishing key/user.
This way time code variance isn't an issue, and at time of login a user can pull the logs for all users/keys they follow from relays OR peers they follow and determine the number of events posted by each user/key since they last pulled updates. Then the client could crawl the relays for the actual events with sequential identifiers between those AND stop crawling once they are found.
One issue I see with this sort of system is in the case of deleted events, so perhaps the log would also need to include a string of the sequential identifiers of events which have been deleted within a given time period.
JustTesting
in reply to Cooper8 • • •I don't actually know how nostr deals with messages if you're offline, if at all, not that familiar with the protocol. But your idea sounds workable.
I tend to come at it from the other side, I like the federated model, but think the "supernodes" could behave more like dedicated relays. Like, a lemmy server right now does a lot of things, like serve a frontend, do expensive database queries to show a sorted feed, etc. and a lot of that does not scale very well. So having different kinds of nodes with more specialization, while still following a federated model makes sense to me. Right now if one of my users subscribes to some community, that community's instance will start spamming my instance with updates nonstop, even though that user might not be active or might not even read that community anymore. It would be nicer if there was some kind of beefy instance I could request this data from if necessary, without getting each and every update even though 90% of it might never be viewed. But keeping individual instances that could have their own community and themes, or just b
... show moreI don't actually know how nostr deals with messages if you're offline, if at all, not that familiar with the protocol. But your idea sounds workable.
I tend to come at it from the other side, I like the federated model, but think the "supernodes" could behave more like dedicated relays. Like, a lemmy server right now does a lot of things, like serve a frontend, do expensive database queries to show a sorted feed, etc. and a lot of that does not scale very well. So having different kinds of nodes with more specialization, while still following a federated model makes sense to me. Right now if one of my users subscribes to some community, that community's instance will start spamming my instance with updates nonstop, even though that user might not be active or might not even read that community anymore. It would be nicer if there was some kind of beefy instance I could request this data from if necessary, without getting each and every update even though 90% of it might never be viewed. But keeping individual instances that could have their own community and themes, or just be hosted for you and your friends to reduce the burden on non-techies having to self-host something.
Or put another way, instead of making the relays more instance-y, embrace the super instances and make them more relay-y, but tailor made for that job and still hostable by anyone, if they want to spend on the hardware. But I'm still not clear on where you'd draw the line/how exactly you'd split the responsibility. For lemmy, instead of sending 100's of requests in parallel for each thing that happens, a super-instance could just consolidate all the events and send them as single big requests/batches to sub-instances and maybe that's a good place to draw the line?
Cooper8
Unknown parent • • •My understanding is that the content is essentially self-hosted, so content removed from relays still exists on the posting user's client and can be accessed directly, just like a website sending out RSS. So saying it "still exist on the network" is technically true, but only in the same way that you would say that about say bittorrent or the open web. What people host/post is present raw, what is amplified/"curated"/relayed is filtered. Client settings/config sets default and custom user content interaction, like a browser which can have adblock or not.
In principle, this seems like a decent solution, but I can see why different users prefer different protocols, differing to moderation takes a burden off of the user to vet inbound content. The same can be achieved via relays but the culture of "curation" seems weaker because the pressure from the userbase is lower to optimize it, as users are not solely reliant on any one relays. An odd network effect, but a truly invested curation/admin team could just as easily build a well "curated" relay as a well moderated instance.