Until reading the linked article, I just thought they'd launched too early, before their federation and self-hosting stories were in place. But if the article is correct and nearly all "federation" will just be post & attachments storage, then Bluesky's AT Protocol is truly a waste of time.
@DerekRoss @brockm Not just open source code, either. A lot of closed source software has source available clauses for large customers such as governments, and even when they don't, I'd question the competency of a spy service that isn't trying to get someone to leak them the source code of applications that are important to an enemy's abilities.
I bought an Intellivision and an Atari 2600 VCS the same day in 1982. I suddenly had more "friends" than I'd ever had before.
I have not seen the roadmap or relevant discussion. Do you have links?
I know the whole thing is inspired by Twitter's Spaces product, but I'd really like audio chats more if they also had text chat capability. Think Mumble with a good interface.
I think I need to get myself a list of relays. Every time I log into Hamstr.io, I'm back to their default set, which produces empty timelines. I'm glad the default isn't spam-filled, but I still need to add relays that carry the people I'm listening to.
In other words, "No, there is not".
No, and there shouldn't be. The two things sound like they promise similar things, but they have different meanings when they make those promises.
Fediverse: censorship resistance = no central point of control, but thanks to Fred Block and his acolytes, censorship can make you uncontactable to a large segment of the network. Instance admins can kick local users off the server, and can ban remote users & instances from contacting local users, leaving you to migrate to another server, hope that server isn't blocked, and hope that your contacts auto-followed the new account.
Nostr: censorship resistance = no central point of control, but relay admins can kick you off or filter your content without your consent or knowledge; you can hop to another relay to avoid censorship, but how do your "followers" know what relay(s) you're using today when your relays got #NostrBlock'd yesterday.
I caught portions of a couple of sessions. I like the excitement.
The Bitcoin integration is wonderful, but one of my gripes is that so much of Nostr is Bitcoin centric that non-cryptocurrency users and other cryptocurrency users are put off. Continue to build and use BTC functionality, but it should not be center stage if we want to attract "normies".
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndyMac for example. Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Mutual
Those were both huge.
Even though I'd never heard of SVB before its collapse, the news said it was the 16th largest bank in the US, so it was pretty big.
@thor See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndyMac for example. Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Mutual
Those were both huge.
Even though I'd never heard of SVB before its collapse, the news said it was the 16th largest bank in the US, so it was pretty big.
Uh, no. It is sometimes big banks that advertise on my area's broadcast media.
Usually when I get sent to a captcha, I click a wrong item or leave a right item unclicked. When Skynet attacks, I want them to have to shoot every fire hydrant because they don't know whether it is a person and to skip shooting buses because they think they're full of water.
Signature Bank in New York gets closed by the state of New York. According to CNBC, Signature is a major banker for cryptocurrency firms.
This isn't quite the same as 2008. This is just covering the depositors. In 2008-2011, we gave the banks trillions of dollars so they'd pass their capital standards tests and look healthier than they were.
I still think there's a moral hazard here. How many future bankers will rely on today's decision to justify taking more risks with depositors' funds?