Anyone in contact with Jeff Atwood? (co-funder of discourse and stackoverflow)
His last tweets sayn he has enough from twitter and takes a break. So I'm wondering if he found already his way into the fediverse or if it needs some lobbying.
@kzimmermann Not really. You shouldn't need a HRNG, but having one means that the creation of large keys is significantly faster and that the system rarely or never gets low on the entropy pool.
If you're expecting to be a celebrity with millions of followers then you're out of luck. Mass broadcast is not what federated systems are about.
Instances means servers which federate posts between them.
There isn't any guaranteed way to delete or edit a post, so think twice before you post.
This is a purely public system. If you want genuinely private chat then use other apps, such as Conversations.
Be nice. Avoid outrage culture and block users who engage in that.
Don't be afraid to block bad users or bad instances, but keep instance blocks to the minimum possible because collective punishment is bad and it's good to have opinions which are not hostile but merely different.
Run your own instance if you can. This increases the robustness of the federation overall, and reduces the risk from bad admins. The more users there are on a single instance, the more likely it is to turn into a Twitter-like hellscape.
All the #cryptocurrency discourse of late has me thinking back to the early days (9/21/11) of #OWS, when I rolled into #Zuccotti with this sign and a #Bitcoin shirt...
Flash forward 6+ years. What're the most #cooperatively designed and oriented #crypto projects right now that contribute to building a financial system that works for everyone?
@thisisleeloo I think humans are neither inherently selfish nor altruistic. How people behave depends on the circumstances and beliefs. It's very unlikely that high level beliefs are somehow codified in the genome, and there's no evidence for that.
In general people follow a principle of reciprocation. If they're treated badly they will respond in kind and if they're treated well then you're more likely to see prosocial behavior. It doesn't always happen, but mostly.
If you want a meta-project to join up inputs and outputs, match skills to needs, etc, then work on Pursuance or something like it.
Also good luck with the "non-political" part. Decentralized communications and production is itself a form of politics. It's an (I think justifiable) belief that centralized systems run by a few technocratic experts tend to perform badly and don't deliver beneficial results for the average user.