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  • Besides being overhyped basic tech where way more useful and practical solutions existed for decades (Freenet existed since year 2000 btw, and Tahoe-LAFS since 2007), there is nothing private about IPFS. This is a dangerous message to purport.

    IPFS is as practically useful as NFTs. No wonder the two crowds connected well!

    iroh is an attempt to create a useful and practical IPFS. But none of the bigger practical features is implemented yet. And the design itself doesn’t appear to be finalized. I’m willing to give iroh a chance, although the close proximity to the IPFS crowd doesn’t fill one with confidence.


  • Defederation questions/requests should be made in private, at least initially. That is to avoid turning an instance, which may temporarily not be actively administered/moderated, into a hotbed of illegal posting.

    As it stands, any concern troll can turn a random small instance, which may not have an admin around for two days or three, into a hotbed of illegal or potentially-illegal activity, simply by bringing attention to it with a public defederation request.

    Even with the presumption of genuine concern, the effect and end result will be the same.




  • if 9 people are fine sitting at a table with a Nazi, you have 10 nazis

    Good thing there is no table involved.

    both sides

    Actually, if you read carefully, you will find that my arguments are against both sides, where the sides are the Stasi and McCarthyists.

    That is if my argument was ideological. But it wasn’t. It was a technical and practical answer where I consider(ed) whatever ideologies supposedly involved irrelevant.

    Monitoring instances and gouging their supposed collective thought, and making decisions based on that in an attempt to appease the masses, will make the job of general purpose instance admins unattainable.

    It would be a very effective way for the likes of Reddit to fuck with the Fediverse, actually.

    Weekly instance defederation talk loaded with emotional/psychological manipulation, moral grandstanding, and why not, some bullying.

    “table with a Nazi” analogies. Linking the Paradox of tolerance wikipedia page for the 345636556th time. The lot.

    This may work with instances that like their Stasi or McCarthyist wanna be agents (a.k.a. users) keeping their eyes out for baddies.

    For general purpose instances, this will be a great way to make them quit. A desirable outcome for some. I’m not one of them. So, I, and hopefully others, am willing to take the hit and speak out, and state things that some admins may want to state, but don’t feel comfortable doing so publicly.


  • A general purpose instance with no claimed “safe space” offering should only be burdened with instance-level defederation talk when another instance is behaving badly at a technical level, or when its admins are actively involved in, or not actively trying to prevent, spam, brigading, repeat copyright infringement, and stuff like that.

    Bad thoughts expressed in text form by individual users shouldn’t be ground for such talk, and to create a foray over such an inactive instance is quite self-indulging.

    If anything, maybe a couple of previous defederation decisions were taken in haste, and should be reconsidered!

    If you’re looking for a “safe” instance, there are a couple that should suit you. One of them was already recommended to you.






  • Your aggressive tone is predictably inappropriate considering your failure at applying simple logic. You would only have a partial excuse if you’re 11y/o or something.

    There is f-droid the app store, and f-droid.org’s main repo. See, it’s not that hard.

    just because they have an app that allows you to add other repos doesn’t mean those other repos are a part of f-droid

    And that app is called… get it?

    Because those other repos are not f-droid repos

    Repos made to work in the f-droid app are not f-droid repos… wow

    Is the f-droid.org’s archive repo not an f-droid repo, too. lol.

    Please tell me you’re not an adult!

    The thing is, you started on the right track:

    Sync is not open source and Fdroid only allows open source.

    Here, you are on the right. And you could have followed up later by simply pointing out that “Will it be released to F-Droid” usually means “Will it be on f-droid.org’s FOSS-only main repo”, but you decided to rant some weird incoherent shit, and insisted on dying on a hell of straws instead!