thank you. that’s indeed fascinating to contemplate about.

If you don’t delete your comment next time, others can see what stands corrected ;-)

There needs to be high-quality discussion about how to make sure that users of social media platforms are humans instead of bots, but it needs to be a discussion happening in the open and not behind closed doors.

Right now, the approach is to not talk about it and assume that verification can only happen via photo. It could also be done in different ways, such as using a QR code that you get at a supermarket; or by only allowing 1 user account per physical device (which would make bot accounts expensive). There’s lots of possible ways and none of them are discussed.

After reading the article, it sounds like they’re just making yet another xitter clone with the hopes that govt figures will use it.

Nothing puts me off more than advocating for a new product or set of technology without reasonably comparing it to already-existing technology. They should dedicate a section of their homepage to an explanation what’s the difference between their system and Mastodon.

like, i want to see posts from communities that i already subscribed to, but because there’s more than 1000 communities on the fediverse and i’m only subscribed to a small countable subset of them, i inevitably lose out on a lot of content. (The “all” feed sucks unfortunately). So how to solve this?

The lack of discoverability is non-starter for many.

The Fediverse significantly lacks behind on the Content Discoverability technology.

I guess this is because there was a loud public outcry in the last 20 years that whoever makes your feed (this is called an “recommendation algorithm” or abbreviated “the algorithm”) has a lot of political power to decide what you see and what you don’t see, and that’s frowned upon. Because everybody that has power over what you see and what you don’t see is bad. That is why nobody wanted to provide an recommendation algorithm for the fediverse, because they would expose themselves to wild accusations. There should be an open-source recommendation algorithm, though; I’m sure of it.

So, my main takeaway is that ATProto basically splits user authentication and content storage and feed algorithm? Like, these are 3 separate things?

You can have your own authentication server at home that basically just says that you are you (similar to a cryptographic identity), then you can store your content on google cloud and then use a 3rd-party feed algorithm?

the man certainly does not do deep thinking but the thinktanks that are his advisors sure do.

You’d still have to work in space, though. Probably more than on Earth, in fact.

Selling US Treasury bonds is exactly what Trump wants as it would devalue the dollar (flooding the market with dollars basically devalues the dollar) and Trump wants to devalue the dollar to make manufacturing in the US more attractive and to stimulate exports and therefore jobs in the US.

just apply to be a cow in a barn

solar is Big Nuclear In The Sky - nuclear without the hazard

source: some study from 1990 i assume?

it’s not money and power because both are on the side of renewable energy: money already today and power in the future

You can research all you want, but the periodic table is not changing, and Chinese R&D is decades ahead of the West.

Chinese Sodium-Ion Batteries enter the chat

too often people behave like that.

truly chaotic neutral

yeah content discovery sucks unfortunately :(

I do think there maybe should be better lists and indexes of stuff that shows you related content on the Fediverse.

One problem i see is how do you deal with monetized content? Should monetization be possible on the Fediverse? Because i see no meaningful way to do that. Maybe you could add a link to donations to your uploads, but there’s no “paid subscription” feature AFAIK. And IMHO there shouldn’t be either.

that’s a good idea as well! might consider that.