Main.

Don’t get me wrong, the whole debate is Microsoft just being performative (why not use your vast wealth to actually help people?). But honestly, putting the debate aside, “main” is just a clearer and more intuitive name.

It’ll still slow them down and reduce load on your server. I also think many of these crawlers focus on volume; time spent computing the hash is time not spent crawling someone else’s site.

Most registrars have some form of whois protection now, so the only people who can easily see it are the registars themselves (and the government that controls them).

Assuming you’re paying for a domain using real money, they’ll need your information on file as part of the online payment anyway, so using a fake id doesn’t really hide anything from them.

I’ve seen people suggesting and using Anubis, haven’t used it myself though.

People who have a favourite pencil.

Firstly, the Prime Minister and an MP are very different, so it’s not really a fair comparison. Replacing an MP with one of the same party might result in what? Your bins being taken out on a different day?

Anyway, I think this is a “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good situation”. Without any safeguards, an assassination is most likely to come from someone across the political spectrum than someone next to them. So it makes sense to focus on preventing that even if it does open a potential (risky to execute) exploit.

… Isn’t wanting to kill someone with vastly different views more common than wanting to kill someone with only slightly different views?

Like, sure someone could kill someone in the party they like for the chance to get someone they like better in power. But realistically it won’t change much (they’re still bound by the same whip) and it’s not worth the risk of going to jail.

Presumably because the “AI” that these people are working on is different from what’s being shoved down our throat by aibros.

Stuff like folding proteins or whatever it is they do all day.

If it stays up, it’s certainly going to be interesting seeing the difference in view counts between it and his other videos.

Had a quick look through your website and something jumped out at me (about the enterprise edition, I assume that the community edition doesn’t have this clause):

There is not a hard limit for activations per license as we understand the need to run XPipe on many machines per user. There is instead a soft activation/usage limit that is tracked for the license key and uses common usage patterns as a reference.

I may be missing something obvious (it’s a hobby of mine), but I can’t seem to find anywhere what exactly these soft limits are.

Incorrect

Uhh… No, your link is to Github. If Microsoft decide they don’t like something you’re doing, they can wipe your app off the surface of the planet. At least mirror it to Codeberg or something.

Same thing for Google and Apple by the way, if you want to make a mobile app. They don’t like you, you’re gone from their platform.

They can make you life harder, tracking you, sending you to jail etc but they can’t prevent the initial p2p connection.

Honestly, if I were doing anything that required a uncensorable network connection, “avoiding going to jail” feels like it’d be one of my top priorities…

Also, no, base64 encoding isn’t allowed in the protocol, you literally can’t publish it to the p2p network because there are character limits.

What are you going to do? Ask people politely to not do it?

Nope, how would that make any sense? A community is such if it’s moderated. If it’s unmoderated, it’s not even a community, it would be fully unusable because of spam.

Every time Plebbit has been shilled here, the advertising has always criticized “power-tripping” Reddit and Lemmy[sic] mods and tries to place itself as a “free speech” platform.

Our clients use https://github.com/plebbit/temporary-default-subplebbits

So your decentralised peer to peer platform has a list of curated nodes that must have nearly 100% uptime.

you can query the ethereum and solana blockchains for .eth and .sol domains respectively with text records/subdomains of value “subplebbit-address” (see: https://dune.com/plebbit/plebbit-protocol) and we’ll support more decentralized domain systems later.

Just copy ATProto and use did identifiers with DNS. No need to use blockchain for name lookups.

Okay, this project has consumed too much of my time so… I’m probably just going to leave it here. However I do have some last thoughts.

I agree that ActivityPub does have centralization problems. It’s mostly decentralized, but has problems with having many small kingdoms that tend to not always get along. I think that’s something that ATProto gets right; your name and “instance” are decoupled so it’s trivial to hop from one to another. And honestly, I think a Lemmy-like built on top of ATProto could work really well, and may even be better than AP based ones.

But… This project seems to be reinventing the wheel for no good reason. It ignores existing technologies in favour of venture capitalist scams. It has a very muddled set of priorities. The project management is sending out massive red flags. I don’t have trust that this project will solve the problems with Lemmy and Reddit.

doesn’t rely on any servers or instances .

Yet is hosted on Github and presumably requires a working DNS and HTTPS system to download.

Users connect to your node directly, p2p, and nobody can stop you.

Except your ISP and/or government.

the protocol is text only, to embed media, you need to host it on the regular ( Centralized ) internet, and then you link to it like https://example.com/image.jpg, and the host will stop hosting that image and report your IP.

So your supposedly non-centralized project requires external hosting? It’s like NFTs where the images were just worthless links. :P Also, uh, base64 encoding is a thing and clients will absolutely start supporting it.

the community creator can assign mods, mods can remove posts from that community.

… Isn’t this what you’ve been trying to avoid?

if a community is badly moderated, the user will never see it, it wont be recommended to him.

Finally, a mention of content discovery. How is your recommendation system implemented? What decides whether a community is worth being recommended?

Also being p2p, seedit is not private, so it can’t really be used for illegal activity

Wait… Isn’t your whole pitch that it was censorship resistant? Can you clarify your threat model here, who are you actually worried about censoring your platform?

[ActivityPub servers] are hard to run and manage.

And using a completely unknown new service and protocol isn’t? I’m sure there’s tons of documentation out there for hosting Mostodon or Lemmy servers.

the problem with federated social media is that each federated instance is just a regular centralized sites.

I agree with this, but not for the reasons you’ve stated.

P2P also scales infinitely, which is the reverse of centralized websites like federated instances: the more users there are, the faster it gets.

P2P scales much worse than centralized systems. Centralized systems scale at N connections per node, while P2P systems scale at N^2 connections per node.

You know what, I don’t mind this project. We need a place for far right people to go to to avoid “censorship” (getting banned from a subreddit for doing nothing but throwing slurs at people) and collaborate on their “plans” (killing minorities) on a platform that is “private” (easily traceable, unencrypted and linked to your IP address).

Just a heads up to anyone reading this: Don’t format your home folder as FAT32/ntfs. Some stuff in there needs Linux specific permission bits and you might be limited in terms of maximum file size.

Consider mounting at /home/usename/shared or something instead if you want a shared drive.

Think we can get them to rename it to xy11? You know, because only having x is part of the feminist agenda.

Incidentally, both bad sex and code documentation both involve std vectors.

Unironically I’ve been feeling quite a bit better after putting my phone in another room as I sleep. I think it now makes the bedroom a place where my brain feels it can take a break from the horrors of the world.

People have absolutely taken a multi-year break from Minecraft before.

Really though, why is there a time limit at all? Google still allows you to convert old Youtube accounts to Google accounts, why can’t Microsoft do the same?

… Didn’t they revoke the Minecraft licenses people purchased because they didn’t manage to migrate their Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts in a short amount of time?

Ironically, I find myself writing more code when CI is broken and I don’t have to babysit it.

Hot take: Clean up your darn imports. Otherwise you just make the links between modules confusing and messy.