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>why would all problematic users congregate on the same server? Isn’t it far more likely that you’ll have to block individual users across numerous servers to keep the platform sane?
Well, exactly. And who's doing all the blocking and filtering? What are the rules? And which community is better at reporting and keeping the instance the way you like it? What about your interests? If you join a busy generic instance, of course, you will become disinterested in your local timeline.
The point of federation is not to be dependent on oligopolies from a single country, one with poor grasp of and legal enforcement of personal privacy at that.
>It kinda loses its point.
Even if it comes to this, it doesn't. Another migration can happen at any point, but this time you wouldn't lose your social contacts - and in the future hopefully neither your content.
>But Google and Microsoft got in the game.
That's like your common anti-Linux argument.
>Search engine indexing for these federated services SUCKS.
Decentralized content/link aggregators just became popular so we'll see what'll happen, but personal social media shouldn't be as public for most people as it right now anyway.
For instance, at medium quality Jxl seems to be better at preserving fine details and structure like the mark on the door, the traces on the lower part of the bridge, but avif appears to be better at preserving clarity of complex details, like far-away windows, cars, a tennis racket.
Still, that's irrelevant because mobility is one of the main purposes of the fediverse. That is, move to Lemmy or something else like kbin, yet, you're connected and may move again later on. Transferring of one's own content is still an open issue, though.
Besides, while tildes incorporates a lot of the lessons mods learned already after the first half a dozen years of Reddit, it is not meant to scale. It's a platform for small/medium instances, not very large ones.
It's a pity, though, there is so little support for decentralization/federation just because its design is a bigger challenge. Another reason is, however, the absence of a constitutional protection of one's privacy outside one's own property. Because of that the consumers of the dominating nation in that market don't really grasp nor care about that aspect.
It was also to be expected not all of these discovered objects were from foreign state or malicious actors. There's a reason the radar filtered out so much before.
But if all of your users were just fine, there are barely any advantages over a federated platform where you can migrate; much more disadvantages instead.
That's why, it seems, the developers actively conflate what one would expect from a private communication platform and a social media platform. But this isn't an alternative to Mastodon or Twitter, it's an alternative to Berty, Cwtch, Speek, Briar, Anonymous Messenger, and maybe Matrix if you use it for encrypted communication only.
It has a legitimate use case for people who may be forced to switch relays very often due to government censorship but still want to continue to talk in public. To anyone else the quality and culture of the moderation system is what defines the quality of their platform, but Nostr undermines the former by design.
As such, it comes to no surprise that the free speech warriors from the crypto community are the main drivers of this protocol. It's just a pity that Snowden seems to have become one of them as well - and it isn't that he supports it, but how. He's just repeating the devs' own flawed narrative.
Decentralization is the right path forward, but you want social media on federated platforms as you need to take care of communities with enforceable rules and provide a service to users, while for private interpersonal or group communication you can opt to federated or peer-to-peer networks.
You're projecting.
>That’s a problem if you really want to be anonymous.
Large emphasis on really.
Stop conflating secrecy with privacy. The former is another pair of shoes entirely.
The later has generated more similar music for me so far. But I welcome every additional project improving the search for music which has been so neglected by most services.
P.S.: Qobuz might be the best one, paying $0.04, on par with Peloton - or $0.03 if you adjust based on Peloton's reduction since then - while being cheaper than Tidal.
Projection much? Who are you speaking for? What countries, what states?
It's difficult to dive in that deep into someone's essay in any case. That's the challenge, not the lacking quality of one's education system.
Adobe has already started to feed its customers' data to its AI. Who says, other providers won't take advantage of broad contracts and terms in order to avoid informing their clients.
Authors have rights, especially artists are often not immediately discovered, and a lot of large businesses would be able to suppress new works for 20 years.
The country was invaded without much competent planning or regard for the consequences, it was then dominated and shaped by its occupiers for two decades, but somehow it's Afghanistan's own fault for being left with a heavily corrupt and untrustworthy government and military.
Just as with the Kurds, the US abandoned a hassle once the opportunity arrived.