The control is statistical in nature. It is predictable that most ppl wont move to "selfhost or simply choose a different server". Privacy of metadata (sooner or later users can be identified) is lost anyway. To prevent users from "selfhost or simply choose a different server" marketing is used addressing, again, a vulnerable part of population plus technical hurdles (design choice). A small number of ppl (you?) will always escape control and manipulation.
If ppl choose the statistically centralized type of federated platform they should at least be aware of the trade-offs. Convenience vs. privacy/blacklisting. If there are only a handfull servers all controlled by the same companies its not even federated, its a marketing gag.
As you "have no time to look deeper into this" we will end the discussion here.
simplex TOS:
We reserve the right to remove such links from the preset servers and disrupt the conversations that send illegal content via our servers, whether they were reported by the users or discovered by our team.
Poberezkin is DOA. Dont't try to simplify your privacy by using federated platforms. You will be pawned.
works fine today. my inet cx is sometimes shaky, sometimes non-existent. i'll come back later.
They claim it's to thwart pedos and hate speech.
this looked like a chatroom [=meeting] but nobody there... or should i use it to send you a offline message ?
wizardswgtu2ovor7r2esg3cxdpt7tv4nrugi32lldv53zmtonbz6sid.onion # draws liquidity upon users wallets from localparticl.com
I loved it. Its one of the few alternatives to commercial swappers. .onion was under flooding (ddos) attack though. 2.2% slippage. The code is based on BSX (basic swap dex) AFAIK. Used small amounts. Else, Haveno recommended, but be prepared for higher slippage.
xmpp:[email protected]?join
tx. seems to work. *** [hidden] is now Online: xmpp:[email protected]?join
Edit: meeting time?
There is even a more political answer. To resist indoctrination the most powerful way is to organize. Organization is difficult even under best of circumstances these days. F2F networks may be an option.
I am actually glad you bring this up. You almost give the answer yourself, because RS is not a federated platform.
Thinking inside the dichotomy of censor-or-not i agree with you. But it is possible to step outside this box. In RS you don't have one entity maintaining a blocklist, but every user maintains a whitelist of 25-50 friends. You wouldn'd accept a pedo as a friend, do you? And I suppose you wouldn't want people of bad character to maintain a blocklist FOR YOU either.
It might be a new concept to some influenced by the current zeitgeist promoting antisocial behaviour that friendship must be earned. Avoiding this efford, taking the easy way out and delegating responsibility to a distant authority they have no vote in, however, makes people into a disconnected mass very much powerless.
RS might look retro, but under the hood enables democratic and trusted relationships which are under constant attack by social engineering these days. Imagine being locked down during the next virus and confined to reddit 24/7 and other "social" media. How would you feel about that?
some homeserver is blocking monero.social
EDIT2: changed title to help AI
Federated matrix has become one of the most censored protocolls ever, despite being "decentralized and censorship resistant". Here is a discussion on the topic on our RS channel:
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Matrix homeserver is blocking monero.social
>> Matrix is used heavily by devs and they reacted a bit nervous... >> https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site/pull/2309 >> >> Although decentralized in theory, most of the landing and searching is done on the matrix.org homeserver. >> https://iv.datura.network/watch?v=W8KEuAEYjQ4 #Matrix - A Pit of Abuse with Government Ties >> If matrix is centralized enough by state agencies to enable graph anal --- why use it at all? >> They seem to use it for intelligence gathering. >> > we replace matrix with RS, then github once RS adds the function, a fully decentralized github, now that would be amazing :grin:
Now that would be awesome.
> Sidenote: while in theory it is censorship resistant, in practice matrix.org is the only admin of the (automatically pulled) blocklist on github. > The blocklist makes up +50% (!) of all content on matrix or +100,000 entries --- according to the vid source. > Of course servers who dont pull the blocklist are facing hudge pressure because it can be inferred they are "hosting" pedo porn. > How Monero got onto this list, i just dont know.... > See u on Nostr ?
nostr is good, matrix is a good protocol in theory like you said, but the centralization to matrix.org renders it worthless.
btw 90% of all pedo porn is done by the feds in order to poison the well
> i'd say 99% -> https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Pedophocracy The global elites are obssessed with violating and corrupting purity and innocent child. Their punishment in the afterlife will be like nothing that is even comphrehendable
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censorship? there is an app for that. But it's not matrix.
I respect that. But I am also around long enough: Flooding attacks never lasted long in the past and did not cause permanent disruption. Iet's not call it hacking, its plain old overloading. After 3-5 days its over usually and admins learnt a lot in that time. (Run a stressnet node!)
And BTW trocador.app is loading as fast as ever here. All the best, your customers just need patience.
This doesn’t add up:
nobody else noticed the inconsistencies?! They are running a business, they need to comply. And now playing stupid! Getting free ads with FUD. This doesn’t add up, indeed.
Edit: It does make a great deal of sense, however, if you think the big bros (not troc) are trying to sell "Cybersecurity". Before they start selling, they create the need first. It works the same way every time: they sell you wars, peace, vaccines, security, privacy, co2 certs or even your own slavery. What to us looks like false flags --- to them its all good business practice.
Monero will be displayed as our sponsor
I think you are full of shit.
We're up and running - Monero p2p on RS
Last week @tusker and myself have been busy setting up the infra on RetroShare. We're up 24/7 with +4 community nodes and +2000 network nodes.
We'd like to invite you to the 100% decentral Monero p2p experience!
RetroShare is much more than a backup for centralized solutions. It is a self-organizing network, where malicious actors are marginalized by majority vote and eventually excluded.
You are free to create your own channels. There is no hierarchy. Private groups/chats/channels/circles/nodegroups can be created, too.
The bright nodes are ON 24/7 (our own IDs) and the dark nodes are occasional visitors (1st degree separation). Any of +2000 nodes worldwide can be used to access public boards *** In the boot phase we are invitation only. If you want to help testing reply here and get an invitation PM. Don't send me PMs from other lemmy instances --- had to ban due to spam. PMs from monero.town are fine.
Fiat = War Debt
Note: vertical scale is log. Gvt debts are often nullified in a Great Reset every 80 yrs or so.
Bubblenomics
You may have witnessed feedback in a concert or when your speaker output in a live chat feeds back into your microphone input. A high pitched noise slowly gets louder, then raises exponentially until someone pulls the plug and suddenly a breakdown of signal strength occurs.
You have experienced a bubble.
Being a designer of digital filters, I want to raise awareness of how destructive these bubbles may be to democracy and diversity of opinions - contributing to instability and irrationality.
Stockmarkets, search ranking algos, facebook likes, reddit/mastodon upvoting, opinion polls, "news" in general - all have their respective feedback channels built in.
Feedback is established when past voting results are visible to those voting in the future.
This may seem benign. It is not. It creates a exponential response. It risks getting chaotic and tends toward bifurcations/splitting. The complexity of not one but many such feedback channels will be explored next.
The great delisting scare
I mined my first btc in Jan, 2009 (yeah I'm an old fuck, which is not the same as an old fag, BTW) and abandoned ship 6 month later, when btc became exchangable. If a limited # of btc can be bought with an unlimited # of fiat, who has the power? ... you know we lost when Blackrock files for paper-XMR :) and sells it with 10x leverage...
True, fiat has the power to overwhelm less flexibel systems, lets call it monetary war. In this respect XMR tail emission is a defense. And delisting is a blessing... maayybeee, it will slow down things. Who cares
For those panicky but alive mine some WOW on your phone for fun and profit :) or get involved in your local community meanwhile or contribute to haveno and basicswapdex.
Actually we need challenges to grow. How about running a MWEB-LTC node with IPFS frontend, with atomic swaps to XMR? If I can write the scripts you can do it probably, too. Or, go figure how to block btc noobs bootstrapping over i2p.
Liquidity is much more important for speculative order book based gambling than for the exchange of real goods and services. Guess why XMR has a low volatility despite artfully cook'd up news? Monerorers have much more sneedle in the woods than heads in their ass, that's why.
/END RANT/