CanadaPlus

@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org

Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.

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CanadaPlus,

Protocols can be swapped out. That has to be one of the easiest parts of expanding to a new planet. Lemmy already has a problem with displaying the delay accessing a new community to users, but I imagine it will be fixed soon, and then we'll just have to get used to it. Differences that can't be engineered away:

Fediverse/internet: Real-time chats won't exist between planets, and between stars asynchronous communities like this one will be impossible. Instead, years-old content will role in, and if you want to send something specific it will have to be in a self-contained package that can be consumed without much context, almost like a time capsule.

Cryptocurrency: Whatever you're buying will take at least as long as the data to reach you, and for anything physical probably many, many times more, so it will work about the same.

PS. I habitually use Tor. It's pretty fine actually, the bigger problem is stuff understandably blocking me.

somegeek, to RedditMigration

What Does Federation Exactly mean?

hi guys, so I have migrated from reddit, I'm just confused what federation means exactly. what happens when I turn federation off in Kbin?

CanadaPlus,

Federation means multiple servers (instances) provide the same content. If you turn it off, you'll only see things that happen to be on the same instance.

CanadaPlus,

Mods are not an endless resource, though, and as you can see they're burning through them fast.

CanadaPlus,

I fully expect it's going to get better. None of the issues mentioned, from a quick skim, are insurmountable except figuring out where to sign up.

CanadaPlus,

I hope the hype is dead. What are people buying drugs on the deep net with these days?

CanadaPlus,

That makes good sense. See, illegal remote purchases was a very real practical application all along, so there's definitely a floor price on crypto. It's not dying completely.

CanadaPlus,

Oooooh yeah! That was one of my favourite haunts on Reddit.

A federated link

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Federated link to the UK one.

Federated link to the generic one.

Federated link to the Kbin one.

You might want to remove your links and edit these ones in, as they currently won't work in a confusing way. There's still a lot of rough edges on the Fediverse.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Mmm. On Lemmy you can look at the comment source code, but in case you can't on Kbin:

Federated link to the UK one.

Federated link to the generic one.

Federated link to the Kbin one.

If you do it that way, Lemmy at least will fill in whichever instance the user is on, so they can participate. On the bright side, they clearly fixed the "can't respond to Kbin users" issue.

The 404 thing is probably instance-specific.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Choosing who you federate with and then moderating abusive people that slip through anyway is going to be very important.

CanadaPlus,

Yes. There's basic functionality now, but there's no automod or similar.

CanadaPlus,

The possible problem with that is someone will eventually write a script that starts up new instances and then runs spambots on them. It's what happened with email. I think you can still self-host an email server, though, it's just a matter of running it well and communicating with the people that run blacklists if you get on one.

MxM111, to RedditMigration
MxM111 avatar

Can anyone explain how banning works in fedeverse? Say, I have account here on kbin.social and get permabaned, does it mean that I can not login at all? Or just that I can not post threads and microblogs on kbin.social? Can account still be transferred to another kbin instance? Can banned kbin account be transferred to lemmy? Same questions about if I have lemmy.ml account - I can't post anywhere if I get permabaned? Also, what if I have lemmy.ml account but got permabanded on kbin.social? Any impact on my ability to post at other kbin servers?

CanadaPlus,

Say, I have account here on kbin.social and get permabaned, does it mean that I can not login at all?

If you get banned from all of kbin.social, yes. It's like getting a Reddit suspension. On the other hand, if a community like Technology@beehaw.org bans you, you just can't post there, but can still post other places, like a normal Reddit ban.

I think you could still post on other beehaw communities if you're banned from Technology, or other Kbin ones if you were banned here, but I need to confirm that. That's how it should work, anyway.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Cool tip: most "science news" sources are shit. They read a study and just assume it must be solid and has no catches, so a lot of the "advances" you read about will never be heard from again. If you want the straight dope read a journal like nature.com/news or similar.

Nature could not shut up about CRISPR when it was first discovered. It was like, derailed for months with buzz about it and the similar techniques that it inspired.

CanadaPlus,

Maybe companies should be required to sell spare parts at a reasonable rate, then.

CanadaPlus,

No, it's easy as shit to smack a little audio DAC in there. It probably means your phone has to be at least as think as the whole port, but so what? It's a fashion statement to move to pure wireless really.

CanadaPlus,

Maybe? There's a lot of other things that can move mass between latitudes.

CanadaPlus,

I mean, the research is right there if you want to confirm it yourself. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but they have it.

CanadaPlus,

I didn't actually read it, but it's AGU which is kind of a big deal. If Earth science academics got this Earth science wrong that is itself extraordinary.

I'm reading it now. Do you understand it all? It looks like they're using spherical harmonics to approximate the contributions of each water shift to the drift of the rotational pole, which I sort of get but don't really.

CanadaPlus,

Thank you, I'm here all week.

CanadaPlus,

Eh. Better than ads. At the end of the day streaming services, at least, are never going to be able to run on just donations.

CanadaPlus,

Would it be possible for everyone to switch to piracy? Could the current piracy infrastructure support that? I've never actually considered that. Video is heavy.

Of course, if that's where we're going as a society we're going to need a new way to fund productions. That's not a bad thing, the artificial scarcity model we have is dumb. Maybe state-funded agencies like the BBC could massively expand.

CanadaPlus,

The entire dark side should be a preserve for radio astronomy. There's no other activity that can't be done somewhere else, it's a no-brainer.

CanadaPlus,

Hmm, that's neat. So you're stretching the equator of a globe to a square and then hinging it apart at the hemispheres, basically.

CanadaPlus,

Where, roughly, is it? I'm going to guess it's pretty remote by the lack of human artifacts in the picture and just the statistics of how inhabited Finland is.

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