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we need a platform that is not addictive. there is a simple solution. pass a very strict law: that every social media company is required to allow their user from turning off their feeds.
Ew. The content problem on TikTok was never the protocol, it's that 99% of short-form video is brainrot slop regardless of who hosts the servers. Slapping ActivityPub on it literally solves nothing for humanity.
the brainrot from tiktok amplified with the brainrot from mastodon, what's not to love?
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I always thought a casino might make more sense if it was run as a cooperative where members were also shareholders, so you could have fun gambling but your money came back to you eventually
Isn't this somewhat like how these new crypto prediction markets work? There is no house taking a cut, all of the winnings get paid out.
My point is that maybe federated casino where there is no casino but sort of p2p on a completely fair 50/50 dice of sorts similar to how casinos operate would be more beneficial than casinos existing with their 3% cuts and the house3% always winning.
At the very least, its possible to do so and similar to Kalshi/Polymarket I feel like its definitely possible.
I don't want to EVER touch gambling but I think its addicting and maybe it can atleast help the addicts if they are in a fair game compared to a rigged game towards the house.
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Who is going to pay for the video bandwidth?
WebTorrents make it work so that everyone shares the cost of distribution.
If it would work well for every user streaming services wouldn't spend millions on CDNs and streaming infra.
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Long overdue in fact. But then perhaps heroin wouldn’t be illegal if it was big pharma was producing it in large quantities. It just got barred early enough. Besides why we always forget how addictive and damaging is the well available alcohol?
Alcohol has fucked up more lives than any other drug in my sphere. People who have had their life fucked by drugs has mostly been because of inhumane government intervention. // Sweden
These are:
Alcohol (+the prescription benzo combo) Gambling Sugar
Add to these tobacco if you want. Nicotine on its won as a standalone agent is perhaps no more damaging than caffeine, but is used in a form-factor that really grills one's lungs.
for example - Russian influenced Balkan areas all take drinking of vodka as something super normal.
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Let me present my take on why the federated alternatives struggle to replace X: Twitter didn't succeed because it was a particularly good solution - it really isn't. It succeeded purely on the back of the network effect. When every open-source alternative simply copies the existing restrictions without adding any unique value, why would users switch to an equally flawed version where none of the accounts they actuall…
People did fly to Bluesky. Some accounts there have 1 million followers. Bluesky got the decentralisation UX right.
I briefly hosted a Lemmy server on my machine just to see how it works and my god never again. The pictures that were automatically synced to my machine did not only make me lose faith in humanity, but it made me shut down and wipe my machine immediately because I was terrified that some of those images would land me some serious jail time. So if you choose to host something like this, be very aware that there are so…
.. ah, yes, "completely unmoderated free speech system that supports images" does mean "may contain CSAM". Heck, even Instagram had a horrific "mirror world" incident where the moderation bit got flipped on a number of images which ordinary users were exposed to. I wouldn't run any kind of publishing system for anons myself. It's potentially valuable for an actual social group though.
Personally I'd love to add in something like the old slashdot comment model, where people would mark content as "helpful", "funny", "insightful", "controversial" etc, and based on how much you trust the people labeling it, you could have things filtered out, or brought forward.
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I really don't buy that argument at all. My parents lived in apartments. Parents for all of human civilization and history have lived in worse. The fastest growing populations have less money and safety nets than middle class folks. It's the dopamine and time suck. Men and women aren't bored and looking to fill the void and boredom with children. (Kids also can't work as free labor on the farm anymore, either, but th…
So you think trudging through life with kids is somehow more virtuous than trying to enjoy limited time you have?
Problem will be growing the user base. YouTube Shorts will be a big competitor.