@SpencrGreenberg proposes many people would be better off if they curated their social media feed more carefully:
https://twitter.com/SpencrGreenberg/status/1721911661689200762
Economist Bryan Caplan advocates something similar more generally:
https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/03/my_beautiful_bu.html
IMO, I think it's a good idea, but done at the level of the person, rather than the level of posts.
It would be easier to just post funny memes and interesting science. It's time consuming and unpleasant to make unpopular points (such as the fact that Israeli bombs and food/fuel/water embargoes have killed far more children than Hamas has). But imagine if you knew that Jews were being gassed by your government, and you said nothing because it was unpopular?
Many controversial topics are also heavily throttled by social media's censorship algorithms. I might feel more relaxed about building a bubble for myself if I trusted that mainstream media sources weren't routinely spreading lies and propaganda (I bet many people still believe Hunter Biden's laptop was a Russian plant, that Kyle Rittenhouse murdered three black men in cold blood, or that 300 K children are being trafficked in the US ).
So rather than build my bubble at the level of the post, I try to surround myself with peple who can discuss controversial discuss topic politely, follow good argumentation practices, and assume good will. People who fail to do those things consistently get dropped from my feed.
One of my dreams is to find a forum that enforces / rewards good argumentation / epistemic practices:
https://fakenous.substack.com/p/tips-for-debate-part-1
https://fakenous.substack.com/p/tips-for-debate-part-2
https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/05/the_bettors_oat.html
Are you familiar with Arweave? It's a project intended to store data permanently in a decentralized, censorship manner for a one time fee.
One of the concerns I have about the njump service is that the service will be abandoned, and the njump links will go 404.
Therefore, I'd like the njump info be stored on the Arweave network, and the Arweave link posted to twitter instead of the link to njump. That way, even if the njump service disappears, my tweet will still be visible on Twitter. I'd also like the arweave link to be added to my Nostr post.
Since the Arweave network necessarily requires a fee for storage, this could also be a way to finance the service--add a percentage for the Twitter bridge on top of the Arweave fee.
Arweave doesn't charge a fee for storage up to 500 KB, so maybe short, image-free tweets are free, and charge a fee for long tweets + image / video storage.
https://ardrive.io/features/free-500
https://scribe.rip/@arweave/what-is-arweave-explain-like-im-five-425362144eb5
Welcome to Nostr, Rocco!
Great, thanks!
"Freifunk (German for: "free radio") is a non-commercial open grassroots initiative to support free computer networks in the German region. Freifunk is part of the international movement for a wireless community network. The initiative counts about 400 local communities[1] with over 41,000 access points.[2] Among them, Münster, Aachen, Munich, Hanover, Stuttgart, and Uelzen are the biggest communities, with more than 1,000 access points each."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk
#mesh
#censorship
#freifunk
Sorry for the repost, but I had to correct the spelling of Pihkal and Tihkal.
An Alexander and Ann Shulgin Pixar biopic would be amazing. Miyasaki / Studio Ghibli is also acceptable.
#archer_humor
#archer_drugs
#dnm
#monero
[Apologies if this is the wrong place to post feedback for this service -- please feel free to direct me to a better place.]
Thanks again for creating this service! It's great--I'm glad to have it. My feedback is only intended to help improve the service.
1. I know Twitter doesn't yet support uploading longform tweets via the API. When it becomes possible to do so, I would prefer that the tweet not be truncated.
2. May we also have a flag to turn off the njump link? Unfortunately, Twitter posts mostly a duplicate of the tweet as a preview in blinding black on white text.
3. Would like to be able to upload attached images directly to Twitter. As I think only one image per upload is allowed, upload the first image in the tweet, if there are multiple images.
Example tweet posted below.
Sorry, all I had was "penis!" written 50 times in a row.
After the CCS hack, fluffypony proposes breaking up the Monero Core team:
"Currently the Monero Core Team is responsible for a number of things that are critical to Monero, and as a result there is a great level of trust implicit in them. For instance, a malicious Monero Core Team member could hijack the domain, and serve up malicious Monero downloads right after a new release. No matter how quickly this is detected, there will be many affected downloads, and could cause massive financial and privacy-related network damage. The recent CSS wallet incident is also an example of risks that the Core Team presents.
Additionally, this has been a thankless job that the Core Team has taken on (for no compensation), although even if there were compensation and constant praise it would still be a centralising force that we should try and eviscerate.
My suggestion, and I encourage us to use this thread to iterate on it in public, is to break the Core Team up into 6 self-assembling workgroups. This is not a complicated exercise, apart from the community coming to consensus as to who should form part of the workgroups. I would suggest we aim for a January 1st, 2025, cutover date for this."
https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/921
#monero
#archer_crypto
If anyone deserves a Pixar biopic, it's certainly Alexander and Ann Shulgin .
#psychedelics
#art
#memes
#archer_humor
"Arweave is the permanent information storage system, engineered to fulfill a set of immutable principles. When the Arweave community says permanent, we mean it. Truly permanent storage requires a system of perpetual technical renewal to adapt to the ever-changing environment. That is why today we present the Framework for Evolving Arweave. This mechanism is the culmination of significant research, setting the immutable foundations that will ensure the fulfillment of the protocols’ vision."
#arweave
#archer_arweave
#archer_crypto
"One of the fundamental principles of open decentralized protocols is that they should be self-governing based on their built-in mechanisms, without any central authority or controlling entity. In addition, our protocol, which stores data permanently, needs to be able to adapt to an environment that will inevitably shift in unpredictable ways over time. Without proper mechanisms in place to allow for upgrades and innovation, a protocol risks becoming stagnant, vulnerable to exploits, and inadequate for new use cases.
Many protocols have codified governance mechanisms in an attempt to address similar needs. Unfortunately, many of the current practices of governance, such as token voting DAOs, have proven to be less robust than initially hoped. Recent cases of dysfunction in Uniswap and MakerDAO — amongst many others — illustrate examples of governance slipping back to the behaviors of traditional companies, abandoning the core principle of guaranteed immutable rights for users. These dynamics pose serious threats to the neutrality, utility, and longevity of these protocols.
To avoid these problems, Arweave embraces an entirely different approach: protocol evolution. Outlined in The Framework for Evolving Arweave, launched today, protocol evolution enables a thoroughly resilient and market-based process for network upgrades that embraces competition."
https://scribe.rip/@arweave/arweave-is-an-evolutionary-protocol-e072f5e69eaa
Great list! Here's some more. No doubt some overlap with some that you've mentioned, but deserve individual attention.
1. Tradable bounties, like the social policy bond system (https://socialgoals.com/).
2. Lotteries. Every zap goes into a pool that pays out users daily / monthly. Developer gets a percentage.
3. Service Level Agreements / Retainers. Pay a fee, get prioritized customer support.
4. Build a Monero miner into the client. Share all mining proceeds with p2pool. Developer gets a percentage.
5. Fines / virtual swear jar.
6. Escrow services.
7. Dispute resolution (e.g. Kleros)
8. Loss leader for consulting services.
9. Retroactive public goods funding. (https://tea.xyz, https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/11/16/retro1.html)
10. Venture capital (help users to start businesses of their own, take a percentage)
11. Token sales + dev tax / founders reward (https://z.cash)
12. Bridging services - send / receive nostr posts to legacy services (Twitter / Facebook, Instagram) for a fee
13. Identity vetting / management (BrightID, STAMP Protocol)
14. Rugpulls. :)
15. Contract enforcement. Require performance bonds from members which are forfeit if they don't fulfill contracts with other members.
16. BAT token (Brave browser rewards)
17. Incentivized forking (https://scribe.rip/@arweave/arweave-is-an-evolutionary-protocol-e072f5e69eaa)
The links for retroactive public goods funding got mangled:
Great list! Here's some more. No doubt some overlap with some that you've mentioned, but deserve individual attention.
1. Tradable bounties, like the social policy bond system (https://socialgoals.com/).
2. Lotteries. Every zap goes into a pool that pays out users daily / monthly. Developer gets a percentage.
3. Service Level Agreements / Retainers. Pay a fee, get prioritized customer support.
4. Build a Monero miner into the client. Share all mining proceeds with p2pool. Developer gets a percentage.
5. Fines / virtual swear jar.
6. Escrow services.
7. Dispute resolution (e.g. Kleros)
8. Loss leader for consulting services.
9. Retroactive public goods funding. (https://tea.xyz, https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/11/16/retro1.html)
10. Venture capital (help users to start businesses of their own, take a percentage)
11. Token sales + dev tax / founders reward (https://z.cash)
12. Bridging services - send / receive nostr posts to legacy services (Twitter / Facebook, Instagram) for a fee
13. Identity vetting / management (BrightID, STAMP Protocol)
14. Rugpulls. :)
15. Contract enforcement. Require performance bonds from members which are forfeit if they don't fulfill contracts with other members.
16. BAT token (Brave browser rewards)
17. Incentivized forking (https://scribe.rip/@arweave/arweave-is-an-evolutionary-protocol-e072f5e69eaa)
Thanks for the pointers. Here's a few more projects that try to solve real problems that Bitcoin doesn't try to solve:
Handshake - censorship resistant DNS
Arweave - permanent web storage (aims for at least 200 years)
Chia - novel, low cost consensus mechanism
Filecoin - low cost, decentralized storage
Zcash - privacy
Chainlink - Oracle services
Nym - incentivized mixnet
Kleros - decentralized dispute resolution
Tari - private NFT's
"A few years ago a group of child pornographers was infiltrated by police who were able to monitor, interact, and aggressively investigate the members. Despite engaging in a 15 month undercover operation, only one in three of the pedophiles were successfully apprehended. The majority, including the now infamous leader Yardbird, escaped capture. The dismal success rate of the law enforcement officials was due entirely to the strict security rules followed by the group.
This post will examine those rules, the reasons for their success, and the problems the group faced which necessitated those rules."
https://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/12/01/yardbirds-effective-usenet-tradecraft/
Maybe offer several options, and let people choose? With a free response option? On the podcast "Blocked and Reported", premium supporters are called "primos". On the podcast, the Political Orphanage, they're called "orphans".