I don't think you were making this argument, but I want to highlight that data is not morally neutral. Google Maps drives even less customers to stores that are smaller, and already have difficulty getting customers.

I’m pretty sure that if everything would have been EE2E on Telegram it would never have reached the size and popularity that it has.

I don't know what you're saying here because it makes no sense. No one who uses or shills for Telegram thinks lack of EE2E is a good thing, absolutely no one. They use it despite of lack of EE2E (ignorance or ideologically-flavored ignorance).

*programmatically

You could put the copy of the password generator on a server owned by you to almost equivalent results, but IPFS is useful here because I can use the copy you've made (after checking once it's not malicious) and keep safely using it knowing nobody has the power to swap it for something malicious, or the hash would be different.

Should we practice what we preach here? Wanna post the address here?

NINTENDO ____ THIS __

This article is from July.

Interplanetary Wayback uses IPFS to store web page archives, although the index of those pages stays on the instance. Seems to be actively developed by a professional team.

https://github.com/oduwsdl/ipwb

From a google search and memory: There's nntpchan, diboard, openchan, Fchan (this one is federated on ActivityPub (official instance dead (active instance: https://usagi.reisen)))

There's a couple of attempts at decentralized 4chan clones that you can probably google whitepapers for (keyword: decentralized imageboard) but no name has really stuck. Beckons asking why they keep failing.

Bittorrent is also known for being easy to track outside of private trackers. You're saying IPFS is easy to block and track, but how does that look like relative to bittorrent? Because if it's about even, IPFS still has the advantage of not having a centralized tracker.

That is the case. Looks like I was confused. Thanks for the patience.

So you're running a website, and nerdctl's IPFS support let you serve your website over IPFS?

I think IPFS alternatives to the services below would improve their reliability, I would use them right now if they exist.

• IPFS alternative to archive.org and web.archive.org (Wayback machine)
• IPFS alternative to torrent trackers for pirated media, such as nyaa.si. The file transfers are decentralized but the content index (tracker) itself is centralized. Which is a pretty critical flaw, recently made apparent with RARBG's takedown.

TOR is a thing, it's not hard to upload files anonymously.

Being anonymous isn't incompatible with helping people

You're missing the point I've made completely.

Do people create mods for games or create open source software solely for recognition?

They can't gain recognition, uploading anonymously. But if someone purely wants the crack for the game to exist they could do it

What is BORU?

Whether that would be worse than running Denuvo malware is up for debate lol

I don't buy this. It's easy to upload files anonymously.

Nvm, when I refreshed the thread I saw Lemmy already does this. I haven't used Lemmy in recent months.

I think the UI, instead of just bringing the posts up without explanation, should show you how many new comments the post received. It would be great for keeping tabs on a discussion, too.

The Reddit Enhancement Suite stores a cookie that remembers the number of comments when you visited a post. It's a killer feature.

A more modern UI example:

Like, posts are old because there’s little new content

Yeah, but you could be underestimating the effect of the Active sorting bumping old posts, which leads to a few posts threads rising over and over. Perhaps there's more eagerness to make new threads than you can see, because most of those new threads don't spark the fire of discussion and get quickly buried.

Active sorting is more like 4chan, Hot sorting is like Reddit or HN.

Yup this doesn't seem robust at all. Any message anchor= just points to a message UUID, which means there is a page, showing adjacent messages, for every message. The pages are mostly duplicates.

The pages are plain html, so yeah? Now I'm unsure if search engines can really scrape the entire post history because pagination is done with anchors, I'm not sure how robust anchors are.

An anchor looks like this: https://view.matrix.org/room/!OGEhHVWSdvArJzumhm:matrix.org/?anchor=$c2Qx9k8CB4WBrNsIxW4WxlZ1MqBvYS-tfGFsA7QkxMg&offset=60

https://view.matrix.org

See also https://searchenginemap.com, a pretty nifty summary of the few existing independent crawlers, and the many metasearch engines that feed off them.

Imagine celebrating that spyware can now run on Linux

Anti-cheat software is fundamentally at odds with the idea "the computer is yours, it belongs to you, and it should do what you say, whether or not other people like it."

To make an anti cheat system, you are explicitly making a program that is trying to subvert the wishes of the end user.

^source^

Very clickbaity title. It's not concluded federation is bad, just that pursuing the ideal at all costs is a losing battle. Things naturally centralize, so we might as well make the big centre democratic. Wikipedia is fraught with problems and outside influence, but it's a good example of democratic centralization I guess. Mastodon is still better for allowing federation with the big instances though.

"But muh youtuber-shilled privacy panacea!"

Calling lemmy's users 'Lemmings' may be a neat reminder of the harm of groupthink, something upvote-based forums incentivize, IMO.

That's probably worse than not contributing.

There are engines I use to see past the useless SEO clickfarms that plague google results:

• https://wiby.me (focuses of non-commercial, lightweight websites. websites can be manually submited. not many results, but usually high quality.)
• https://millionshort.com (Metasearch engine which filters the top 100/1k/10k/100k/1M ranked sites, exposing obscurer sites which may be highly novel)
• https://duckduckgo.com (I'm sure everyone here knows about it, it's pretty solid. At least it finds forum discussion unlike google.)

Evolution is like a brute-force attack that tries out random mutations over time, and usually keeps them as long as they don't affect chances of reproduction. As long as a bug isn't critical it'll continue to get copied to the next offspring. Not every phenomenon that evolves has a purpose.

I agree. If they're used solely as any other public forum. The problem is it supports the ecosystem of these platforms' faux private chats. Also if you have to create an account to view a public chat why not make it encrypted all the way? Matrix.org supports encrypted rooms.

It's also ridiculous that you have to give a phone number to use any "type of public forum", telegram.

Telegram is no more secure than any other for-profit platform it claims to be an alternative to.

A service like letterboxd, myanimelist, and goodreads, that unifies all these mediums and more, into one single media tracking site with individual user profiles and off that, on the side, some social-networking. As of today, there's no site for tracking ALL media, rather only many sites focused on a single medium, each with ad-hoc databases and different UI:

• Film (IMDB, letterboxd)
• Anime (myanimelist, anilist, kitsu)
• Games (mobygames, glitchwave?)
• Literature (goodreads, bookwyrm (federated!)
• Music (rateyourmusic, ...)

If I'd just like to keep track of media I consume I can just keep one big offline spreadsheet, but what I enjoy of these services is the ability to make friends with similar tastes and being introduced to amazing art through personalized recommendations, that I otherwise would've never known about.

Apart of being fragmented, most of the aforementioned available media tracking services sell user's data and are proprietary. I guess I'd like to see something like bookwyrm, but with a larger scope than just books. Maybe integration with Wikidata is the only viable solution for the herculean scope of cataloguing every media release that ever existed. Not sure how this would turn out in practice, but Wikidata could benefit too, from having legions of people adding info on their favorite obscure shows.

What do you find weird about it?

OpenSource Builders still does not support user input through the website, you need to create an issue for something to be added, but as far as I know they were working on that.

I think without supporting user input it can never hope to cover the crowdsourced breadth and detail of alternativeto. It's no more than a frontend for another awesome-list , as it currently stands.