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Andrew
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Software Engineer by day, aspiring beet farmer by night. ☦️💻⚽🏥📷📈💪☕️🇺🇸🇪🇬 Things I like: - #P2P/#decentralized/#opensource stuff - #History (esp Rome/Greece/Egypt) - #Transit oriented city design - #Gadgets/#ElectricVehicles/#Solar Power - #Space exploration - #Videogames (especially #GTA) Things I've Built: - Agora: Follow your favorite topics across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads https://agorasocial.app - Chronicl: Decentralized web archiver that distributes archives across Nostr relays https://chronicl.vercel.app/ “Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor” - Roman poet Theocritus

I like that the "communities" NIP feels familiar compared to how

subreddits work, but it has one of the biggest weaknesses (in my

opinion) of the Reddit model: moderators of communities/subreddits that

effectively act as feudal lords.

If I want to

follow posts about a topic by using hashtags, I have the freedom to see

all posts tagged with that hashtag, sort them how I want in my feed,

mute posts from specific people, etc.

With the

communities/subreddit model, I'm only able to see posts about a topic if

the moderator of the community has deemed that post is allowed.

This

is kind of the same weakness of the fediverse, because it removes the

centralized power that a platform owner like Reddit or Twitter has, but

it simply shifts that power down one level and puts it in the hands of

mods or instance owners.

I'd rather a PWA that updates whenever it wants, than a native app whose app store can take it down whenever it wants.

Progressive Web App master race

Solar eclipse coming April 8th 2024!

#space

#astronomy

#nasa

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/2024/apr-8-total/where-when/

nostr:nprofile1qqs8nsk2uy2w529fs8n4tx60u7z553e4yx5dy2nxhw4elgjgawpqlaspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qzxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eeks6t5vehhycm99ehkuegpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6atn9e3k76twve6kuerfwshxxmmdtu3df6 Out of curiosity, does mostr.pub support Lemmy/Kbin? I've tried things like "android_at_lemmy.world@mostr.pub", but it just seems to load indefinitely.

I am simply whelmed by this news!

Torrent search engines that crawl the DHT seem like they’d be the least likely to be taken down, as they don’t host any torrent files or run their own trackers, they simply crawl the torrent DHT directly for magnet links.

Here's my favorite DHT-based torrent search engine:

https://bitsearch.to

1. Turkic ppls migrate to Europe b/c of defeat by Han China =>

2. Formation of Ottomans who control trade route to Asia =>

3. European Colonization of the Americas to bypass Ottomans =>

4. European Colonization of Southeast Asia 1600 years after the events of step 1

#FullCircle

#history

#mapporn