Hello there!
I’m also @savvywolf@furry.engineer , and I have a website at https://www.savagewolf.org/ .
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Most registrars have some form of whois protection now, so the only people who can easily see it are the registars themselves (and the government that controls them).
Assuming you’re paying for a domain using real money, they’ll need your information on file as part of the online payment anyway, so using a fake id doesn’t really hide anything from them.
I’ve seen people suggesting and using Anubis, haven’t used it myself though.
If it stays up, it’s certainly going to be interesting seeing the difference in view counts between it and his other videos.
Had a quick look through your website and something jumped out at me (about the enterprise edition, I assume that the community edition doesn’t have this clause):
There is not a hard limit for activations per license as we understand the need to run XPipe on many machines per user. There is instead a soft activation/usage limit that is tracked for the license key and uses common usage patterns as a reference.
I may be missing something obvious (it’s a hobby of mine), but I can’t seem to find anywhere what exactly these soft limits are.
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Uhh… No, your link is to Github. If Microsoft decide they don’t like something you’re doing, they can wipe your app off the surface of the planet. At least mirror it to Codeberg or something.
Same thing for Google and Apple by the way, if you want to make a mobile app. They don’t like you, you’re gone from their platform.
They can make you life harder, tracking you, sending you to jail etc but they can’t prevent the initial p2p connection.
Honestly, if I were doing anything that required a uncensorable network connection, “avoiding going to jail” feels like it’d be one of my top priorities…
Also, no, base64 encoding isn’t allowed in the protocol, you literally can’t publish it to the p2p network because there are character limits.
What are you going to do? Ask people politely to not do it?
Nope, how would that make any sense? A community is such if it’s moderated. If it’s unmoderated, it’s not even a community, it would be fully unusable because of spam.
Every time Plebbit has been shilled here, the advertising has always criticized “power-tripping” Reddit and Lemmy[sic] mods and tries to place itself as a “free speech” platform.
Our clients use https://github.com/plebbit/temporary-default-subplebbits
So your decentralised peer to peer platform has a list of curated nodes that must have nearly 100% uptime.
you can query the ethereum and solana blockchains for .eth and .sol domains respectively with text records/subdomains of value “subplebbit-address” (see: https://dune.com/plebbit/plebbit-protocol) and we’ll support more decentralized domain systems later.
Just copy ATProto and use did identifiers with DNS. No need to use blockchain for name lookups.
Okay, this project has consumed too much of my time so… I’m probably just going to leave it here. However I do have some last thoughts.
I agree that ActivityPub does have centralization problems. It’s mostly decentralized, but has problems with having many small kingdoms that tend to not always get along. I think that’s something that ATProto gets right; your name and “instance” are decoupled so it’s trivial to hop from one to another. And honestly, I think a Lemmy-like built on top of ATProto could work really well, and may even be better than AP based ones.
But… This project seems to be reinventing the wheel for no good reason. It ignores existing technologies in favour of venture capitalist scams. It has a very muddled set of priorities. The project management is sending out massive red flags. I don’t have trust that this project will solve the problems with Lemmy and Reddit.
doesn’t rely on any servers or instances .
Yet is hosted on Github and presumably requires a working DNS and HTTPS system to download.
Users connect to your node directly, p2p, and nobody can stop you.
Except your ISP and/or government.
the protocol is text only, to embed media, you need to host it on the regular ( Centralized ) internet, and then you link to it like https://example.com/image.jpg, and the host will stop hosting that image and report your IP.
So your supposedly non-centralized project requires external hosting? It’s like NFTs where the images were just worthless links. :P Also, uh, base64 encoding is a thing and clients will absolutely start supporting it.
the community creator can assign mods, mods can remove posts from that community.
… Isn’t this what you’ve been trying to avoid?
if a community is badly moderated, the user will never see it, it wont be recommended to him.
Finally, a mention of content discovery. How is your recommendation system implemented? What decides whether a community is worth being recommended?
Also being p2p, seedit is not private, so it can’t really be used for illegal activity
Wait… Isn’t your whole pitch that it was censorship resistant? Can you clarify your threat model here, who are you actually worried about censoring your platform?
[ActivityPub servers] are hard to run and manage.
And using a completely unknown new service and protocol isn’t? I’m sure there’s tons of documentation out there for hosting Mostodon or Lemmy servers.
the problem with federated social media is that each federated instance is just a regular centralized sites.
I agree with this, but not for the reasons you’ve stated.
P2P also scales infinitely, which is the reverse of centralized websites like federated instances: the more users there are, the faster it gets.
P2P scales much worse than centralized systems. Centralized systems scale at N connections per node, while P2P systems scale at N^2 connections per node.
You know what, I don’t mind this project. We need a place for far right people to go to to avoid “censorship” (getting banned from a subreddit for doing nothing but throwing slurs at people) and collaborate on their “plans” (killing minorities) on a platform that is “private” (easily traceable, unencrypted and linked to your IP address).
It still looks like you’re relying on IP addresses, which means if you want to host a Plebbit server (sorry, “always on peer”) you need one of the following:
Imagine Bob is hosting a community about cat pictures, and I want to send him a picture of my cat to forward to other followers of that community.
How do I:
All of this in a political environment that bans the sharing of cat pictures.
With Plebbit there’s no global admins like Reddit, so you fully own your community and nobody can take it away from you.
I mean, that’s true of Lemmy and any other message board type system based on ActivityPub and ATProto. From a technical standpoint, there is no central authority on them.
My question is… What does this do that ActivityPub and ATProto doesn’t do? That’s the angle you should approach this from (and be ready to defend… People on Lemmy seem adamant that ActivityPub is perfect and unbeatable…). We’re technical people here, sell it as a technical solution to a problem rather than using buzzwords or comparing it to Bitcoin.
You’ve mentioned serverless many times, but ultimately I need to send content somewhere and ask someone to send me content. I can’t just throw my posts into the wind and expect someone else to get them. So how do I make a post if not by sending it to a trusted person?
If I wanted to self host a search engine, I’d just use a proper one that actually searches content rather than regurgitates bullshit.
Search engines worked just fine until Google and Microsoft decided that they wanted to sell their AI products.
Ehh… I’ll do it tomorrow.
I like the idea of simple apps, but does their website have to have that silly dvd bouncing thing obstructing text? Especially since it starts playing sound if you interact with it wrong.
In regards to full system backups, there’s no real need to back up the OS itself. Canonical will give you a clean Ubuntu install if you ask then nice enough, after all. Personally, the risk of having to spend an afternoon reconfiguring my system isn’t that big a deal compared to the storage and time needed to back up an entire image.
I know systems generate a lot of “cruft” in terms of instslled programs and tweaked configurations over time which can be hard to keep track of and remember. But imo that should be avoided at all costs because it leads to compatibility and security issues.
For backing up databases, there’s scripts like automysqlbackup and pg_dump which will export a database to an sql file which can be easily backed up without worrying about copying a broken file.
I actually recently set up borgmatic earlier today and I’d recommend it except for the fact that you seem to be using Docker, and I’m not sure how best to backup containers.
It’ll still slow them down and reduce load on your server. I also think many of these crawlers focus on volume; time spent computing the hash is time not spent crawling someone else’s site.