everyone who uses custodial services deserves to have their money stolen even if it's a nickel

I find these comments appalling

obesidad

I don't know how long I managed to use nostr for so long without observing any pedophiles. there's a lot of them apparently

ooh boy my first nostr hellthread

I am also not a fan of monero lacking things like SPV, forcing the user to sync the whole blockchain. it sucks and it's the thing I dislike the most about monero. but I would happily do that instead of attempting to self-host lightning.

a hamster that lives in an aquarium is a fish

but then I also refuse to run a matrix server because of what graf posted:

matrix-synapse, the server software for the matrix stores every single thing a user account/device does in every room in two tables called state events. so if you opened or closed your matrix client on your phone while in this room, the matrix server has a record of that. if you changed your avatar, or your username. if you joined or left the room. it saves all that data. for everybody in every room the server is in.

so rooms like matrixHQ that have ~50k users in it, it's storing all that data for 50k users since march 2021.

now, that's not the only room thats an issue. there's rooms like the genshin impact room where somebody decided it was a wise idea to bridge the matrix room and a telegram channel with several thousand users, so now that matrix room is full of several thousand telegram bots also keeping tabs on those telegram users on/offline status, their name changes, their profile changes

it's the worst designed protocol i think ive ever seen

from the cock.li help page:

Using XMPP

How do I use XMPP?

With an XMPP client. You log in with your cock.li credentials and it just werks

What's a good XMPP client?

They're all garbage.

proof of stake was not supposed to bring any speed or cost fixes. you might be thinking of ETH 2.0 which was scrapped in favor of just using rollups

I've always said that the magical properties of bitcoin's decentralization don't do diddly squat for all the people who got pushed into custodians by a horrible roadmap. it means nothing if bitcoin is decentralized.

yes that is exactly what I'm talking about. self destructing messages always require you to trust your friend to not write down or save anything. sometimes that's ok and sometimes it isn't.

self destructing messages will always be trust based. it's fine for certain threat models but not others

no it's never ok

I put yunohost on my vps and it came with metronome (fork of prosody) already turned on

lmao parenting has already been removed from the debate on porn KYC

have they worked it out so that you can do a trade to obtain monero if you don't already have some monero to create a security deposit? even if it's a small amount to get started?

how come I never see anyone posting porn or like videos of people dying and stuff

all those people who are pushed into custodians due to high L1 fees will benefit in no way whatsoever from the ability to run a non-mining node off of a TI-89 plugged into a russet potato. they get absolutely nothing out of it at all. everyone in a custodian gets NOTHING from the decentralization of bitcoin.

promoting small blocks plus lightning ended up pushing people into custodians and it was the most evil thing they ever did. they normalized ruggable bitcoin. decentralization flushed down the toilet. evil sick motherfuckers.