the first time my partner told me "it's ok to feel sad" i felt something lift off of me that made me feel prepared for the future. sadness is like a tool, a way of communing with your body and your feelings. your feelings are real and this is how they feel. i felt then that i could be sad, and it would help me be strong ✊ ❤
We need to get away from the entire notion of choosing people who the country wants, to peoples' freedom to move where they need to. Doesn't matter if they're brain surgeons or didn't go to school. Doesn't matter if we love their cuisine or would rather eat dirt. Doesn't matter if this country already has lots of people from where they are or none. Human beings > lines on maps.
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an attempt to collect everyone’s blogs - so as to not let precious non-commercial content go unread and unnoticed - is likely the only time i’ll ever ask:
@bob it's the same with dat, but i've never run a bootstrap peer myself. i have the software lined up to do it, but it's another to actually do it. i worry that dat's user-end tooling tends not to make that easy to configure, so that even if i'm running a private tracker, it may be difficult for users to hook into it.
@inmysocks yep, ipfs and dat have a preset list of bootstrap nodes. run your own, plug it into the config, and you should have a private swarm on your hands. i mean, i hope it's that easy.
by default, dat uses public DHT infrastructure for peer discovery, just like IPFS does, which tarr of ssb rightly criticizes as a form of centralization. you can run your own tracker and use it with dat and ipfs to share things more privately; i'd like to see how hard it is to make that happen.
i've been running an instance at dat.bovid.space for a few days now and it seems stable. no apparent memory leaks, no need for restarts, and i've ended up using it for all kinds of stuff. it feels like a sort of ephemeral geocities.