Who Cares.

Can you explain? Never heard of it.

Anyone have a spare invite code for Abby wallet, was just thinking of checking it out. PM me.

Loose control of your keys on here however and you’ve lost control of your whole identity and follower base.

I expect as popularity of this protocol rises, having a mechanism for invalidation and rotation of keys is going to become more important.

I think much work needs to be done in the future to fix this issue.

It is.

The whole community there is just awful.

I never want TikTok on my phone either.

Your welcome. It’s simply a point of view. Not a dig on the protocol, or project. Just trying to identify potential avenues of problems so they can be fixed or worked around before they become debilitating.

One additional concern is, advertising money goes where the people is. So since this protocol is new yet, and lacking users. We have yet to see advertising flood into the space.

The form that that takes, could potentially be so overwhelming that it floods and blocks legitimate users from actually finding each others posts amidst a sea of advertisements.

One of Instagrams biggest problems is, I can scroll for pages and see nothing but OF advertisements, and one or two friends posts mixed in. All these accounts simply direct people off the platform, and none of them actually interact with their followers on the platform of instagram. So it’s essentially one big advertisement wall.

How’s that problem going to be handled in this protocol? If those accounts don’t come here, that means highly influential people won’t use it, and bring their thousands of followers either.

Evening breeze in Canada.

Of course.

But do you controll the code in the web browser apps on your phone?

No.

App Store can require browsers in use on their devices to block access to a rolling updated list of sites and addresses which serve this protocol. Or not be permitted on their App Store and on people’s devices.

Yes, there most certainly is work arounds. It’s the web.

One of the KEY features which makes sites like YouTube and x/twitter whatever so popular is their ease of use on people’s devices and their pockets.

I can 100% pop open a terminal client on my laptop, load up irssi and connect through a proxy into an irc server. Fully encrypted, and from behind restrictive firewalls. (I’ve done it to bypass draconian university sensors). Yet, it’s pretty pointless when there’s nobody on the other end to talk to.

One needs to educate every single friend how to utilize the service and what steps they need to access it.

People just simply don’t have the brain space to jump through hoops to get connected to you. So they gravitate towards ease of use and familiarity. Twitter Facebook messenger instagram, services they’ve been using for years.

It’s quick, it’s easy and it’s comfortable. They don’t have the same interests in finding new censorship resistant mechanisms to utilize for social media, because frankly they’re comfortable in their bubble already, and don’t want to go where their friends are not. To communicate with, no-one.

Yes this tech exists and it’s frankly awesome, but it’s also essentially irrelevant until it reaches a critical mass of people to become understood by the vast majority and therefore widely useful.

I like the protocol, but right now, while it’s still hugely still being developed, is the time to point out flaws as we see them, so we can fix em before they become problematic.

Taking a course or just some light reading?

Reminds me of some coursework I took in my Psyc classes.

I simply happened to see a mention on X.

X needs to do some serious coding and federate out to this protocol.

Actually there still IS single points of failure.

Let me explain.

- App Stores. At the behest of governments can simply demand that ANY app speaking the protocol be removed.

In addition, they can wield regulatory powers to not permit any phones to be manufactured and licensed for sale that permit the loading of these apps.

We have to fix the root of the problem, authoritarian governments, not find ways to mask the symptoms.

Morning!

Problem with this right now is, lack of content and users.

Sure it exists, but if it exists without anyone knowing about it or using it, what’s the point?

What actually needs to happen is X transitions to this open model. Runs in parallel and users can operate across this protocol.

Got a dog problem here. Three puppies and two big dogs.

Interesting. Just discovered this project, looks interesting. Going to poke around with it.