Considering legacy social media often allow a display-name differing from the username, i’m not sure this will have a very different effect on online communities then what we can already observe in contemporary impersonation scams. However, vigilance has always been necessary online, and is probably going to be all the more important in a context of DID/SSI/VCs

The way i see it, paltform leveraging DID/SSI/VC will have the burden of responsibility to provide meaningful ways for users to verify the authenticity of their peers. “Responsibility” being avoided at all cost in most commercial online contexts, i’m expecting it to be a painful process to begin with. It will boil down to how well we do as communities, and as a specie, at transferring knowledge among us.

fuck off ai music members be like:

Ye. The cybergods will quantum donedid the author for sure: blesseings because wtf genius, cursings because “pwEAsE in$tALl cHroWmiUm”

hahah! so then the user curbs, goes to social media to open an account, and bam:

Account creation aborted. Reason: Absence of discoverable social media trail

You’d have to ask my tinfoil cats about the details. I’m still reluctant to attribute these “people” with the hormones necessary for cooperation, coordination, or anything starting with “co-” really…

…But the tinfoil cats have a point

My tinfoil cats are mewoing about a coordinated effort accros the IT sector to make one year with insane profit and the added side effect of lowering the wages accros the sector.

On a comical tangent, this popped up in the feed yesterday. It made me reflect over your input and chuckle. I figure it might make you laugh too 😅 https://jumble.social/notes/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq5xeflpdskqvdq4swxj59793uvdzqzc9pzatjk3nhmcg2h0js8trqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7qpqzj6rzszq2ljccvqdswaccuag2m62y6asfw3rrvtxvacza39jy2uscksd8c

Very good points, thanks for elaborating!

To be fair, the last time anyone had to paste their key into a shiny new app was probably 2 years ago. Most users today will have a signer that the private key never leaves. And key-rotation is definitely on it’s way, it’s getting time pressing :D

I’m not sure any social media should ever be used for secrecy or privacy, be it nostr or whateverland.eeaah™. Which is a social question, not so much technical. Meanwhile, i think it’s pretty good to democratize the knowledge of key-management. After all, privacy and security on-line is more a matter of hygiene then it will ever be an app.

PGP/GPG anyone? Either way, I for one am excited to see how much longer they’re non-rotatable.

Ok, to read someone’s post, it has to be written somewhere by that someone. So a firehose is definitely writable. If it is anything like you say in your last post, then only identity is decentralized.

I’ll investigate on my own some rainy day, many thanks for your effort.

Ok, let’s say I create the 2nd firehose in existance, could you elaborate on how I would get everyone to read and write to it? Would I have to merge the bluesky firehose to mine, or have I effectively split the network until someone creates a third firehose that merges both? What if bluesky doesn’t care about my firehose, how will their users ever see my posts?

Please rest assured I ask out of genuine curiosity, I don’t expect you to have all the answers. But I might as well try my luck as you seem knowledgeable.

Thanks!

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Thanks for your effort! I genuinely appreciate it!

Maybe I misunderstand, but what I gather from your writing, is that bluesky might become decentralized in the future, if a decent amount of separate groups manage to raise 30 million dollars each.

Thanks! In the tutorial, they mention listening to the firehose. I’m not able to wrap my head around this (singular) firehose. But I remember seeing this initiative trying to crowdsource 30 million dollars to run one for 3 years Can you elaborate on that and help me understand better?

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What do I need to run an atproto application?

Cue the hives https://thirdmanrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hate-to-say-i-told-you-so-radio-edit

I feel sorry for everyone not painting graffiti 😅

Sure, but what gets me is it appears the judge based the sentence on this… “Testimony”. Don’t get me wrong, death sentence or whatever is the USAian milder version if maximum sentence is despicable and I wish it upon no one. It’s just spooky as fuck to see how new tech is swaying old farts in power.

no more licking tea-pools off the table!

wonderful!

Alt-text: monkey-lookaway meme. 2 pannels. 1st pannel monkey look at the camera while facing away from the camera. 2nd pannel monkey looks away from the camera face hasn’t moved. Above the whole panel, text that says “Thubderbird while Mozilla fucks up Firefox”