Did anybody ever go as far as to click a link and see what kind of virus it was?

Unrealistic that the Tesla would want to help

Can I lick it? (Yes you can!)

Imagine this on top of wide putin

What’s with that dudes head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06w3-l1AzFk

How safe is the shower of doom?

I enjoyed reading these as a kid

Yeah like how is this even a question

I have a raspberry pi 4 with

• A Uninterrupted Power Supply
• External powered HDD for the data drive

There’s one I saw that gave the bot a long circular form to fill out or something, I can’t exactly remember

I didn’t know that was the entire point of self hosting. Some people want to self host things for the public, like a website or game server.

There is a program called “yunohost” to simplify this process.

Maybe a VPS is better for website hosting but some people want to self host.

Seconding sending an email. SMB for big stuff.

Gotcha!

How so?

I thought Blockchain was how the protocol knew how to federate, e.g. where to find other users. (?) I don’t really remember how Blockchain works but iirc it is a way to verify trust, e.g. this person really is /u/sem because our shared document says they are.

I know DNS is an alternative but it kind of sucks. Bluesky is inventing it’s open DiD thing for identity and it is centralized in practice but might be a good system. And I have no idea how it works.

Sounds like an interesting thing to try! I do think it might tend to group users into a groupthink / exclusion mentality, maybe, or maybe it won’t, but definitely cool idea.

I’ve seen plenty of mod drama / trolls over the years, seems like a fundamentally human problem, kind of like good vs evil in a way, almost impossible for one side to win over the other.

I think it’s pretty well studied that pseudonyms are much better for human interaction than true anonymity. I’m not a social scientist though so I don’t have the references offhand.

It can be fun to be anonymous but there’s a reason Yikyak shutdown, 4chan, 8chan are how they are, etc. they just don’t tend to work well long term.

With pseudonyms ban evasion is possible but registering an account is at least some friction deterring some bad behavior, and mods have more tools. And on the other side you do have some reputation building that occurs when people have stable usernames.

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

I am not sure how Matrix handles keys but it is a real headache for end users. For me at least

With openid, etc, it’s decentralized compared with centralized and distributed, so you wouldn’t get stuck with one openid provider.

I don’t know much about any of these so thanks for developing for the rest of us.

There’s more abuse potential with full anonymity vs persistent pseudonyms

What would be the possible alternatives to block chain?