Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social), page 21

@Laurelai @emacsen We should absolutely kick nazis out, and advocate for kicking nazis out. Can we do it in a "robust" way?

It's definitely easy to think of how much better it can be if we could centralize the power "on our side". The best game design is one where you can be satisfied with the game rules when it's your opponent's turn.

We need a robust solution. Centralization ain't it. Blocklists, in the long run, ain't it either, but they're doing a better job than nothing for now.

Maybe the best "pitch" is just running, end-user-facing code.

I kinda worry that while Spritely Magenc/Crystal are a bit more obvious as to why they're necessary (secure/private content distribution that can survive nodes going down), it's not as obvious why I'm building Goblins/Goblinoid. I need to work on my "pitch" (yuck, can't think of a better word though) for why it's necessary for the more advanced secure interactions stuff.

Need to add some tests, then it's on to vats, then it's on to games.

... I probably should spend some time in the middle there actually making the announcement about Spritely Crystal since that one's already basically done :P

I'm bad at PR

E-style promises now work in goblins/goblinoid

95 commits in Goblinoid in 2 weeks; I've been busy https://gitlab.com/spritely/goblinoid/commits/master

@liw @emacsen Yup! The problems are similar: the propagation of unwanted content.

@trwnh @emacsen Not saying that's the exact solution, but it points in the right direction of it :)

@trwnh @emacsen Yep!

@Laurelai @emacsen That's one path, though if implemented in a way that's *merely* the inverse of blocklists right now, it will result in centralization because eventually everyone will just trust about 3 nodes. Now you're back to centralization again.

There are some alternatives, "web of trust", "petnames", "ocaps" are (unsurprisingly) some relevant words towards the solutions.

@jakob "No Gnus Is Good/Bad News" https://ding.gnus.narkive.com/lx7H7pCX/no-gnus-is-good-news-or-no-news-is-good-news

did I get the wrong takeaway from Serial Experiments Lain by thinking "heck yeah let me upload my brain into a computer and be DONE with this stupid body"

just embrace the future folks, most of your friends online will be bots

if all goes well you can replace yourself with a bot

you're free, you can stop trying now, the bot will take care of it, shh don't worry you'll live foreverish

horse_ebooks: "oh wait it's not a bot everyone is disappointed, I have been deceived"

increasingly about many online personas: "oh wait it's a bot everyone is disappointed, I have been deceived"

probably is a gnus plugin to read HN out there named this

hacker gnus #sorrynotsorry

it seems that the Discourse in US politics has now officially reached the "Not All Concentration Camps" stage. Not especially keen to find out what stage comes next.

:(