@vex@0x4d6165 idk i'm not up on whatever fuck shit he's said in recent years, always saw as some kind of reactionary social democrat wingnut, if you ever followed his endless postings on some alt-imperialist semi tankie line half the time
@vex@0x4d6165 i'm talking about the 90's and the politics of the free software movement, i'm not making any kind of moral defense of stallman as a person
@0x4d6165 Free Software movement in the 90's was very explicitly anarchist, while i think pretty milqtoast by european standards Linus and Pals were basically accused of communism n shit, and tech press wouldn't even talk to Stallman half the time because he was always on some leftwing rant, "Free Software" was talked about in disparaging terms, contempoary anarchism owes a lot do the old BBS era even, guy who made Fidonet i think was anarchist
It is interesting that this culture of mutual aide is basically exploitated by capitalism, like the capitalist information infrastructure couldn't function without this socialistic mode of production
open source is so fascinating, how is it that all these programmers, engineers, brilliant people get roped into maintaining other people's software For Free?!
@0x4d6165 i don't know 🥟 but yeah the .onion address should never change, it's a unique cryptographic public key ( your ip changes when your browsing tor, but .onions are "permanent" ) you can however have an unlimited number of onions on a single instance, which maybe could cause problems... you definitely wouldn't want to do open federation over Tor LMAO, i mean you'd want some kind of allowlist or, maybe a public webring of onions that agrees to a moderation policy, there's also ways to link an onion with a domain name,i think you put the .onion address in the http header or html <head> something like that.
There is at least one fedi instance i know of that already has tor federation built in, it's written in rust iirc, had a pleasant exchange with the dev but then looked at their profile and they had an alt on poast so uh, no
i imagine you'd want to have some kind of 3rd party addressbook that converts urls to readable uri, Zot or Nomad whatever that hubzilla uses it has their identity system based on a distributed hash table that could handle the managing multiple addresses things ( dns, tor, i2p etc) pretty easily. IMO everyone should look into what hubzilla did because they claim to solve a lot of the common problems that we always talk about with fedi.
tho If i get a server up i might just end up running Streams since it actually does a lot of what i'm talking about, and maybe i can just tweek the frontend
IPFS i think is just too much of a web3 grift, it is like distributed scuttlebutt in that it's got some good ideas, but there are other projects that solve these problems in a better or simpler way. Like most of what ipfs does as a distributed filesystem is solved by freenet or i2p...
I think we should integrate fedi into distributed darknets like tor and i2p tho, then we can just host instances locally on a .onion and don't pay to pay for domain names
@0x4d6165 yeah i think that we need to re-imagine what social media should be and there should be more integration between different kind of platforms, i don't think i can even follow my funkwhale from mastodon, or with peertube, it suffers from being a different world all together rather than being integrated into what we call fedi, like the peer-tube method of distributed streaming should just be how videos are shared fediwise.
Sorry i am a utopian software crank and have too many opinions on this
and more thought should be put into how we share and index media, like why don't we have some kind of shared alt-text system, so alt text is associated with media hashes, so you can fetch and browse all alt text given for an image 🤯 also there shouldn't be this separation of microblogging and forums --
we can also do stuff like shared calandars, or use geolocation services to have like a decentralized craigslist or tinder etc. Hubzilla, Friendica and Streams all try to address these issues, but they're just so boring compared to misskey type instances
@0x4d6165 this is very very cool, i've been doing a lot of research on stuff like shareable playlists, bookmarks etc. i like that navidrone has a booru type tag organization which is the way to deal with big media libraries, what i want tho is that kind of thing integrated into social media, so i can just share a playlist on fedi or browse other people's playlists, comment on tracks etc. could also have like 'theme songs' songs of the day, instance level radio stations etc.
fedi instances should also function as private torrent trackers imo and host all their information as torrents, you have web-torrent enabled browser clients that seeds the data it's currently cached, this also largely eliminates need for CDN
small instances should be able to piggy back off of larger instances they federate with, like some kind of distributed index that aggregates activitypub data and so instances can query other instances for related information
so i need to set up this server, since i feel most confortable with debian i'm going with antix testing
it will be php8 nginx mariadb, it will be a a mail server nntp via cyrus and a git instance, and irc server, and a whole pubnix thingy, maybe a mud, gonna be dope
this is probably a controversial take butthe war in Gaza & Lebenon is something you can't actually ignore, i'm sorry if it is triggering, it's is traumatizing to all of us we're all here watching the slaughter take place but that's nothing compared to what Palestinians+ are going thru, if you really can't handle it but you should use a Filter instead of demanding people CW any discussion of this shit
