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- Comment on Beckn Protocol 2 days ago:
Doesn’t really help much. Seems to be some spin on blockchain/cryptocurrency, and doesn’t really do a good job of explaining the value proposition.
- Comment on Beckn Protocol 3 days ago:
Create, enable and scale economic and digital exchange across and between diverse sectors.
Seems cryptocurrency related. Lot of marketing fluff.
Beckn Protocol is perhaps the least well-known project outside of tech circles, but is likely the most impactful of all work Nilekani has championed since Aadhaar
Who and what are those?
The github repo is slightly better, but not by much:
Beckn is an open protocol that allows local businesses across any industry to be discovered and engaged by any beckn-enabled application. Beckn protocol helps businesses co-create solutions for the masses seamlessly, by combining services of any form or provider.
Beckn protocol is a collection of open specifications consisting of protocol APIs, message formats, network design and reference architectures to allow any two entities to execute commercial transactions without being on the same platform.
This server-to-server communication protocol allows any consumer facing online platform to discover and transact with any business with minimal implementation overhead. The server-to-server nature of the protocol allows rich user experiences to be built by bundling services from multiple independent platforms.
Beckn protocol decouples the demand side digital infrastructure in the form of apps and other channels from the supply side service provisioning infrastructure. It does this by making integratedservices available not just on a single platform but potentially on any online consumer interface, (online maps, messaging, wallets, voice assistant apps and devices) that have mainstream adoption in a city.
Beckn is a protocol, not a platform. It adopts a decentralized architecture that obviates the need for creating a centralised platform in order to integrate services from multiple providers simultaneously ensuring privacy and security by design by enabling secure, encrypted iteractions.
The project could really use a “What problem is this trying to solve?” section. Is it aiming to replace something existing like HTTPS/Visa/etc?
- Comment on So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Not really sure how that works with federation. You’re not “using” lemmy.world, you’re using lemm.ee, which has a copy of content from lemmy.world.
- Comment on Multiple Lemmy Accounts? 4 weeks ago:
I have multiple accounts, but only really for moderation purposes. Cross-instance moderation is semi-broken, so it’s easier to do it that way. Other than that, having an alt is useful in case your main instance goes down.
I wouldn’t generally worry about impersonation, if someone tries it you could contact the admin of that instance and they’re generally pretty responsive.
- Comment on What Fediverse services do you use? 5 weeks ago:
Pixelfed/Mastodon/etc sort of work with Lemmy, in that they can see Lemmy posts. Lemmy can see posts from them if you tag them appropriately, which rarely happens. They only sort of federate properly. And yeah, Loops is like TikTok for the Fediverse.
I’m not saying PieFed is better than Lemmy, just saying that apart from Lemmy, your best option is probably PieFed atm.
- Comment on What Fediverse services do you use? 5 weeks ago:
Mostly Lemmy via discuss.online, with a little bit of Pixelfed via social.photo and Mastodon via utter.online.
I was using Loops pretty heavily for a while, but the most recent update made it not work right on my phone (and there’s no web version), so maybe I’ll try again when it’s out of beta. It’s also not truly federated atm, so only sort of counts.
I’ve tried out a bit of PieFed and it looks really nice. Probably the best Lemmy threadiverse alternative atm. The dev does some interesting experiments like Private Voting
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- Comment on What exactly is the Fediverse? 1 month ago:
It’s federated, just not to the ActivityPub universe, right? People have been able to join rooms on discuss.online using their matrix.org accounts, which to me counts as federated.
- Comment on What exactly is the Fediverse? 1 month ago:
It seems like you’d say that Matrix isn’t included? It’s not ActivityPub/AT/nostr
- Submitted 1 month ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I don’t think mutual aid can work well like that on the internet. Works great in person, works OK for GoFundMe-type stuff like “I had something happen to me that will take a lot of money to fix”. Too easy to scam and grift for small stuff like this though, where for all you know they’re just a very clever dog on the internet.
- Comment on Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies? 1 month ago:
Even non-profits aren’t immune to hostile takeovers. OpenAI is a for-profit company controlled by a non-profit, and that hasn’t stopped them from turning into something indistinguishable from a regular for-profit company. They’ve also been making noise about abandoning the fig leaf of the non-profit.
Mozilla is another one where nominally they’re a for-profit controlled by a non-profit, but they’re now getting into shoving ads in your face just like any other company.
It is harder to turn bad when you’re a non-profit but not impossible, without something of a poison pill that makes it unacceptable to for-profit takeovers.
- Comment on Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies? 1 month ago:
I think supporter badges would be a good monetization model for each instance. ActivityPub could allow for an arbitrary “badge” field (to my knowledge it doesn’t currently have anything like this but I also haven’t read the spec), and each server could fill it in however it likes. Other servers/users could limit displaying them if they get abused, à la pig poop balls on hexbear (or whatever it’s moved on to being called now).
- Comment on Why should someone join the Fediverse? 1 month ago:
Because you’re sick of being toyed with by billionaire’s algorithms designed to wring everything last drop out of you they can.
- Comment on Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog 1 month ago:
Is there a way to leave comments from Lemmy?
- Comment on What do you guys think of rss.ponder.cat? 1 month ago:
Yeah sorry, by “you” I really meant “one”. If someone doesn’t like it, they can block the instance
- Comment on What do you guys think of rss.ponder.cat? 1 month ago:
If you don’t like it, block the instance. That’s the magic of the fediverse 🪄
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 1 month ago:
The userbase is small enough that hashing would be easy cracked by a determined person. Even with salting, iterating through the entire userbase and hashing each username+salt to check for a match would probably not take long
- Submitted 1 month ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 1 month ago:
Over on the linked page? They’ve got custom “emojis”, which are just pictures uploaded by an admin. Lemmy has that feature in general, but it’s not used much on other instances. If it’s enabled on your instance, you can type
:to select from all regular emojis plus custom ones. - Comment on Never in my life has it been harder to control my spending impulse than this moment 1 month ago:
Yeah, he’s a piece of shit. I was trying to think of something they wouldn’t like, even ironically.
- Comment on Never in my life has it been harder to control my spending impulse than this moment 1 month ago:
Someone needs to turn it into a Biden 2028 site
- Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse 1 month ago:
Tumblr doesn’t really strike me as leftist, so much as having a low signal:noise ratio
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 1 month ago:
- Submitted 1 month ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Before they hired me THIS was part of the process. Had to submit an answer as to what she was holding 1 month ago:
If you’re up for it, that would be great to post over in the thread I just created in !asklemmy@lemmy.world:
- Comment on Before they hired me THIS was part of the process. Had to submit an answer as to what she was holding 1 month ago:
Made a thread over in !asklemmy@lemmy.world:
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 2 months ago:
Thanks, I appreciate hearing it!
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 2 months ago:
I think there has to be some level of curation. I set up a queue to post loops to !loops@midwest.social, but I didn’t just write a script that posts everything. I use Loops myself and add things I think are interesting to the queue to be posted. It’s a lot of manual work, but I’m happy to do it for now to help grow the Fediverse, and I enjoy watching the loops anyways.
You could accomplish this with more automatic curation, such as automatically reposting stuff that’s highly upvoted or has some other signal that it’s interesting. I didn’t do that for Loops because there’s a lot of stuff that’s highly-upvoted and is just stuff scraped from TikTok and I don’t care for those. I would probably use this approach if I didn’t want to wade through myself to find signal.
