savvywolf
@savvywolf@pawb.social
Hello there!
I’m also @savvywolf@mastodon.scot , and I have a website at www.savagewolf.org .
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 2 days ago:
If it stays up, it’s certainly going to be interesting seeing the difference in view counts between it and his other videos.
- Comment on What’s the best, reasonably priced, handheld device I can buy to play GameCube games? 2 days ago:
Probably a Steam deck; I’ve used mine to play Gamecube games and it’s worked fine.
- Comment on XPipe - A connection hub for all your servers: Status update for the v16 release 3 days ago:
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.
- Comment on I'm the creator of Seedit and I'm here to share how it works and clear up some Concerns/FUDS 6 days ago:
Incorrect
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 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: 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.
- Comment on I'm the creator of Seedit and I'm here to share how it works and clear up some Concerns/FUDS 6 days ago:
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 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).
- Comment on Why selfhosted social media protocols are hated ? 3 weeks ago:
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:
- Use a hosting provider, which is something you want to avoid according to your pitch.
- Serve it from your own personal network under your own IP. Given that you’re worried about censorship from even the DNS system, I imagine this is something you absolutely don’t want to do.
- Comment on Why selfhosted social media protocols are hated ? 3 weeks ago:
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:
- Locate bob given a name or some other ID
- Verify that it is indeed Bob (and not someone pretending to be Bob)
- Prove to Bob that I am indeed who I say I am
- Send that cat picture without anyone in the middle snooping on it
All of this in a political environment that bans the sharing of cat pictures.
- Comment on Why selfhosted social media protocols are hated ? 3 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Why selfhosted social media protocols are hated ? 3 weeks ago:
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?
- Comment on Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? 2 months ago:
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.
- Comment on World Backup Day 2 months ago:
Ehh… I’ll do it tomorrow.
- Comment on Dumbware.io - Stupid Simple Software 3 months ago:
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.
- Comment on How often do you run backups on your system? 4 months ago:
Daily backups here. Storage is cheap. Losing data is not.
- Comment on Super Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Reveals He Started Work On A New Game 2 Years Ago | Retro Dodo 8 months ago:
Man, fuck the games industry.
- Comment on Super Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Reveals He Started Work On A New Game 2 Years Ago | Retro Dodo 8 months ago:
I’m not entirely sure why this is news. Do people think he gets put into a test tube or something when when he’s not needed?
He’s a professional game developer, he’s probably working on games constantly.
- Comment on Time Crisis Is Returning With A New AI Powered Gun That Works On Modern TVs | Retro Dodo 8 months ago:
So I’ve thought about this a bit more. Games like this flash the screen black with a white square on the target, and then detects whether the lightgun is pointing at white or black. I guess they could take a picture of the TV and combine that with sensor data, put it into an AI and then figure out where on the screen the gun is pointed at? I guess that would count as “AI”?
I’m sure the diehard lightgun fans won’t find it accurate enough though.
- Comment on Time Crisis Is Returning With A New AI Powered Gun That Works On Modern TVs | Retro Dodo 8 months ago:
… Does anyone know what the AI actually does?
Honestly, the fact that the article writer is shilling an AI product without actually explaining what the AI does is kinda making me doubt their journalistic integrity.
