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Evolution will take care of that. A lot of them will simply fizzle out.
Beware evolution's pruning. It optimises for survival (and as a consequence, reproduction and ruthlessness), which is often at odds with what people value.
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Probably not a coincidence that this gets posted with no context the day that Parler gets kicked off AWS. I presume it's someone trying to offer Cabal as a Parler alternative.
I doubt that https://github.com/cabal-club/commons/blob/master/values.md#...
At best this can:
* influence the observable qualities of the closely-collaborating dev community – who’ll have to outwardly project these values.
* lead to the prioritization of decentralized user-driven moderation features, which still allow the disfavored groups to communicate with other willing audiences, with minimized impact on unwilling audiences.
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Briar only works on Android so it's inherently flawed. Of course, Cabal being written in javascript is also a major minus. As an oldschool Unix hacker, I don't really get the node.js fixation for command line tools. It's a certainty that they'll never be used by a significant chunk of knowledgeable, expert Unix users that want nothing to do with node. Finally, there is no protocol documentation anywhere that I can se…
No knowledgeable, expert Unix user I know brushes a Node program aside just because it is Node.
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Beware evolution's pruning. It optimises for survival (and as a consequence, reproduction and ruthlessness), which is often at odds with what people value.
I picked up The Selfish Gene because I was hoping to figure out how JavaScript got so popular.
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Beware evolution's pruning. It optimises for survival (and as a consequence, reproduction and ruthlessness), which is often at odds with what people value.
I get your point, but a product is only bought or used if people value it in some way (whether for good reasons or bad reasons), so product evolution has people’s values built into the process.
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I picked up The Selfish Gene because I was hoping to figure out how JavaScript got so popular.
Any insights?
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> MAGA folks looking for platforms for their "free speech". This is not a target demographic you should strive for.
I am not really a big fan of end-to-end encryption for solving society’s main communication problems, I think people (pseudonymous or not) should be accountable for their speech. But I do believe in empowering people and uniting communities. If you want to run your own social network out of your own servers, you should be able to. The fact that the software to power user friendly communication platforms is scarce is…
There is certainly some speech which is and should be illegal, but if you optimize communication systems for "accountability" you might end up in a situation which is worse than what we have now.
“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.” ― Idi Amin
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> MAGA folks looking for platforms for their "free speech". This is not a target demographic you should strive for.
I am not really a big fan of end-to-end encryption for solving society’s main communication problems, I think people (pseudonymous or not) should be accountable for their speech. But I do believe in empowering people and uniting communities. If you want to run your own social network out of your own servers, you should be able to. The fact that the software to power user friendly communication platforms is scarce is…
But I also think we should do everything in our power to dissuade dangerous folks (example: violent extremists) from using these tools.
>All traffic is encrypted using a symmetric key, meaning that anybody who has the cabal://abcdef key can read cabal network traffic.
If you're even considering this, look at https://tox.chat/ instead. That one's been around for a while (thus mature) and actually has full forward secrecy.