kevinak

I am, I just don’t have the same values in terms of what I want from my decentralized social media.

VCs have put in $120 million, so someone thinks that it's worth something.

Moving the PLC to an independent org doesn't make it decentralized.

How would they fix it?

This is still centralized.

Right, but they couldn't take their social graph with them. They essentially had to start from scratch.

I do advocate for using other networks (specifically Nostr) that are not designed like this, but the network effect is big and most of my friends are on Blue Sky because they have been lured into a false sense of “it’s decentralised, I can just move! If something bad happens”.

There seems to be an issue with the caching mechanism that I built.

In the meantime the article is also on Nostr if anyone wants to read it: https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzql5ujf9w2f2ujkj9f552a...

Thanks for the heads up!

Nostr doesn’t have these issues

I’ll keep that in mind, thanks!

It is not, but I have used Claude to edit it.

Most people were happy with Twitter as well

How so?

I should add a time stamp to the blog.

I know very well what it is, it doesn’t change anything in the grand scheme of things. I wish it did!

Nostr - it has none of the problems mentioned in the article.

https://nostr.com/ ?

Funnily enough you can use Bitcoin at most merchants that use a Square PoS device, which is like 25% of merchants in the US. It just takes time for folks to change their behaviors. And why would they, if they're getting X% cashback on all purchases using their credit cards?

It very much came from the Bitcoin world and was sold as a way to run your own node. Great experience if you’re into that but it’s nothing that is forced on you, they’re just “apps” like everything else you can install on it.

I run an umbrel on an off the shelf mini pc and it’s been great! Very polished and nice experience!

I mean it depends on the query and what you're doing of course, but it's not impossible to reach writes/s in the 80k range.

Yes, that's why I would expect it to smoke Postgres here, in process is orders of magnitude faster. Do you really need concurrency here when you can do 10-100k+ inserts per second?

Is FastAPI just bad with SQLite? I would have expected SQLite to smoke Postgres in terms of ops/s.

Like GP I haven't experienced many WebView based apps that are great so I had to give this a spin and I have to say it's actually pretty good! I would not have identified this as a WebView app if I didn't already know about it from this comment.

It is, but it's not so hard that you can't figure it out to keep your 15 billion safe.

It boggles my mind that people like this don't set up multi-sig wallets using hardware devices that are physically not in the same location.

Unless the criminals used the Lightning Network of course, not likely though since the amount is so large.

That doesn't appear to be how they seized the funds though, the criminal hasn't been caught so they must have hacked his devices to gain access to the private keys. No $5 wrench involved.

He's talking about Nostr here, not mastodon.

Yeah, although I would argue that there are far fewer moving pieces in Nostr than there are in ATProto and that's part of why it's so simple - it's just clients and relays. That's it!

Edit: another thing I thought about just now is that you don't really have to worry about implementing most NIPs - many are not relevant if you're just building an application. All the Bitcoin Lightning Network stuff, for example, or private messaging, Blossom, etc.

That's not an issue with Nostr, it's an issue with the client that they decided to link to. Here's the content loading just fine in Primal: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsqfeuezj38syyppscdpu0c0zwermxl...