America too often makes me feel sad.
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LucasArts adventure games of old can feel like being on a journey. Indiana Jones. Grim Fandango. Full Throttle.
Following a decentralized identifier would essentially be like following a unique public key. Their screen name is just some text which can be anything. The bigger problem is the overall infrastructure of Fedi which is very much based on lists of user@domain .. this no longer trivially works if the "user" you follow could be posting from anywhere. It doesn't seem unsolvable, just kind of difficult to imagine with the momentum behind Fedi as it is right now.
You might slightly misunderstand how federation works. On Mastodon someone on your instance must follow someone on a remote instance to get their posts pushed to your instance. Same with Lemmy, someone on your instance must follow a remote community to get posts & comments. Since you're on a single user instance (like me) we don't see anything we don't follow/subscribe...
Intentionally destroying a dam is an internationally recognized war crime.
Works and installations containing dangerous forces, namely dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations, shall not be made the object of attack, even where these objects are military objectives, if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses among the civilian population. Other military objectives located at or in the vicinity of these works or installations shall not be made the object of attack if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces from the works or installations and consequent severe losses among the civilian population.
True. Let’s be honest though, in a world where people are used to huge centralized platforms like Twitter and Reddit, the Fediverse is unfamiliar and confusing. Not sure what can be done about it other than educating people. But there may always be a slight barrier to entry.
No. I am on my own little single-user instance and I can follow, vote, post and reply anywhere from here. It's just a little awkward sometimes because you have to learn how to paste URLs in the search box, and until you subscribe there will be some missing content. But once you get past that, everything works.
Technology running on technology originally developed by the American Military-Industrial Complex. It is an odd mixture of influences.
Something like that. But also with fully decentralized identity. So all content is signed by a keypair which is local to the user, and can be used to access Fedi through arbitrary instances. Probably I am too wishful.
I don't completely disagree, but that's not what I meant. People are conflating the views of Lemmy's main developers with the project itself, and I believe they can be separated.
No. And I think it's a really hard problem. poVoq was right to call me out on full replication being a bad move, because duplicating all content on every server is obviously inefficient. But a solution in-between, with decentralization and redundancy, is probably a very complex challenge. Doesn't seem impossible, but very complex network protocols rarely seem to succeed.
Edit: Sorry I was still thinking about some fabled perfect protocol. But if you're looking into decentralized identifiers, W3 is working on one approach. It's not something I have seen used anywhere or integrated with ActivityPub yet, but that could be the future I'm hoping for. Probably.
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