thanks, I should have provided that link.

Blocking a somewhat fluctuating list of 25k+ instances is still considerably harder than blocking a pretty stable infrastructure of a single major social media platform.

Wonderful!

Meanwhile, Threadiverse is on the verge of reaching 100k active monthly accounts.

Of course, the numbers are incomparable. But this whole thing made Threadiverse into a viable space for a lot of people. Reddit app developers are starting to develop apps for Lemmy/Kbin. Dozens of new instances got set up. The whole space is bigger, more resilient, and leaps and bounds more vibrant than it was in May and before (I've been here for years).

A lot of people will come back to Reddit. But a lot of people will also remain here. And this space will be there the next time Reddit craps the bed, better prepared to take the influx.

If only there was some kind of a protocol, widely supported, that would allow publishers to push content to their readers directly. Readers could "subscribe" to (say) "channels", which would get populated with items published by publishers.

It could be a really simple method of sindication! I even saw a nice icon that I think would work well for it:

How do you build a community that’s explicitly not tankie without being just as insufferable?

By being aware that there will be things you might not want to tolerate in your community and reacting to them when they show up. Communities differ. Their values differ. And that's okay.

This is a very good point! I don't think microblogging is "all" about specific people one follows, but I agree with the observation that component is definitely more important there than on the threadiverse.

If you had the same username on GMail and Hotmail, would it be the same account, or two?..

This will help:

The source is well-worth visiting and taking the time to read, plenty of additional info!

Ancaps are libertarians cosplaying as anarchists.

Why they feel they need to abuse the "anarchist" label like that is anyone's guess. Perhaps they think it sounds cool?

I've read through dozens of white-papers of "revolutionary" blockchain-based tech startups, all promising to solve Very Important Problems, none actually solving such problems. But sure, let's start here:

Nym tokens provide credentialed access to privacy-enhanced and uncensored internet communication for a unit of time.

This is "privacy for the rich" model. Unsurprisingly: poor people can't push the token to the moon! And looking at their website it is clear they focus more on hyping the token than on actual privacy.

Speaking of their website, this privacy-focused project done clearly by people that care a lot about digital human rights and want to fight surveillance capitalism directly includes on their website stuff from fonts.google.com, googleapis.com, youtube.com, play.google.com, doubleclick.net. Looks legit to me!

It's fascinating how they talk down Tor ("because Tor does not add timing obfuscation or cover traffic to obscure the traffic patterns in circuits"), but fail to mention i2p which solves these issues without the need for bollockschain tokens. Makes sense — Nym seems to basically be i2p with a blockchain token bolted onto it so that it can become an investment vehicle.

So either they did not know about i2p, an important and reasonably well known project which has been around for almost 20 years and is very clearly in the same problem space, or they intentionally decided not to mention it because it would make them look bad. Take your pick: are they ignorant, or disingenuous? Either is a great trait for a project that aims at protecting privacy from the NSA, no less.

On a general level, it is safe to assume any blockchain-based project that offers any kind of token and is in any way monetizable is (at best) a solution in search of a problem, or (at worst) a scam, often Ponzi-shaped, until clearly proven otherwise.

I mean, even the most basic promise of Ethereum smart contracts — that smart contracts are binding, transactions are not going to be reverted, and nobody controls the whole network — flew right out the window just because DAO smart contract had a bug and somebody exploited it; and we can't have that, can we, if people are meant to invest in this, eh?

Privacy and decentralization are too important subjects to be used by cryptobros in their money extraction schemes.

If you think my opinion was not well informed, think again.

Can't wait until it inevitably ends up on https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ 👀