PropaGandalf @ PropaGandalf @lemmy.world

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Also different fetish and kink communities.

Exactly: I'd say federation and distribution are both a form of decentralization. Whereas distributed networks rely on P2P communication federated systems still have some centralized components but overall share no single point if failure.

These are all valid points which I partially forgot about and I'd love to write a follow up post reagrding this exact issue.

I think that most of your concerns are addressable on a technical level. Others will rely on the instance's community to guarantee an even safer experience. This will also benefit these instances as they can advertise with this trust level they recieve from the users.

Federation is a part of decentralization. Instead of one server you have multiple user run ones. It is not distribution though as there is no P2P component.

Ah yeah a federated wiki with instances for various topics. One focused on tech others on video games, ... Like a decentralized Fandom.

I am convinced that decentralisation and publicity and secure private chats are not mutually exclusive if you use the appropriate protocols: On the one hand you can have ActivityPub, which is suitable for communication and discoverability between instances, and on the other hand you could use a secure messaging protocol such as Matrix, which could then be used for private chats.

I mean in the end you want to be discovered by other people so you need to provide some info about you. The good thing is that you decide what personal information you want to share with everyone and what details you only want to talk about with certain people.

For your information: We already have a centralized, open source dating app. It's called Alovoa.

Haha lol

Mailing lists tend to become very cluttered and confusing over time.

Wow that's great to hear! I will check it out.

True, now that you point it out it gets even worse lol

I would understand if they had only simplified the neural part of the logo for the sake of simplicity and scalability. I really liked the shape of the house tho because it did resemble a real house. The new shape looks just like a wierd toy block.

Yes exactly. It is really cumbersome as you can't be sure who has your data an who not.

Now I understand what you mean. But no it isn't. Just wanted to sound like an old advertisement slogan.

Hey fellow SimpleX enjoyer. It's still very early but only by spreading the word we can inform people about this great alternative!

SimpleX or Briar

Both: I use SearXNG!

Saarland time

I'm waiting for my RISC-V boards. Fuck this.

True I didn't take this into account. On the other hand we have systemd soft-reboot now.

• Has over 100 obscure USE flags he forgot what they do
• Needs two days to configure his kernel and two more to compile it.
• Uses ancient thinkpad
• Uses lynx because firefox won't compile
• Uses rusty old software because of "tradition"
• Uptime ~30 years