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Re: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative

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Post by antifa »

dangerlibrary wrote: post #61
throw_m239339 wrote: post #56

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> What's stopping a determined spammer paying for accounts? Paid accounts adds a significant overhead to the spamming. Spammers just don't spam for the sake of it, they want to sell people something, legal or not. It's one thing to buy millions of spam accounts for $100 on the dark web. It's another to have to spend $5 bucks a month per account on millions of accounts...

For nation-state actors looking to spread disinformation, paid accounts are effectively free.

As an individual, $5/month for a social media account is expensive and alienating. The vast majority of real people are already priced out.

For a business, a shill account can be one of the cheapest marketing options.

Re: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative

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Post by pw201 »

mikrotikker wrote: post #232
smackeyacky wrote: post #110

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They do vote and they should vote. That to me is quite different from deliberately inflaming them to other actions. edit: what I mean by that is that facebook, twitter and reddit and 4chan should be held directly responsible for the violence they foster. "we're just a communication mechanism" doesn't cut it anymore. Their promotion algorithms are very different from being a telephone company

Yes they do not deserve section 230 protections as the algorithm makes them a publisher.

Where does this "publisher/platform" meme come from? It's completely incorrect but I keep seeing it. https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre... for more.

Re: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative

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Post by witheld »

dang wrote: post #234
witheld wrote: post #124

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One of the first posts I saw was the N word over and over

That's no excuse for posting bad comments yourself. A big internet forum like HN gets tons of crap comments. Most eventually get moderated, but not all; and even the ones that get moderated take time before we see them.

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Post by throwaway81523 »

boramalper wrote: post #233
throwaway81523 wrote: post #179

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I spent a lot of time on Wikipedia back in the day. It is monstrously screwed up too, less by the profit motive per se than by innate bureaucratic urges, and (in the Wikimedia Foundation's case) the desire to control a bunch of money and direct it to one's pet projects, which is the next best thing to getting one's own hands on the money. Besides money, the other corrupting substance is Google search rank, which lead…

I love the idea of built-in offline Wikipedia, huge plus. Coming back to your first point... how often would you maintain a fork of your own encyclopedia ? Even with Git, you would fork mostly in order to submit a PR to the original repo. I'm just trying to understand the use-case here since I cannot imagine a situation where I would fork Wikipedia and make my edits to be shared with my friends only and my friends wo…

That would have been a good space for experimentation if the Wikipedia monoculture hadn't stopped it from happening. One idea is you could mark specific articles or categories as forked, so that your changes in those wouldn't get pushed upstream. Overall it might be something like the Linux kernel, where there are tons of forks out there for particular device families or whatever.

As a Wikipedia example, look up Joy Milne (the lady who can smell Parkinsn's disease) with a web search, then look her up on Wikipedia. Wikipedia says nothing or almost nothing. That's not an oversight, that's Wikipedia bureaucracy in action. You might be able to get an edit through by battling the bureaucracy for long enough, but if you have an interest in this illness and wanted to gather and share info about it, it would be simpler to just fork the PD article. Et cetera.

Re: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative

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Post by dvasdekis »

FireInsight wrote: post #147
dvasdekis wrote: post #139

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So sad he never went Open Source, it would have been so instructive for us mortals

Who is he? Aether is FOSS. https://github.com/aethereans/aether-app

Apologies - you're correct, but it's a very early version on Github. The author hasn't updated the public open source repo in yonks.
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