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Twitter is down, users getting Rate limit exceeded errors (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by Walop@sopuli.xyz to c/technology

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[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I partially agree with you. But my plan is to hand over the entire thing should I fall ill or get tired of hosting and maintaining it.

But in the end, everything's gonna go away. Even Reddit, like all the platforms before it. That's just the way things work.

What would be better, though? Having a P2P-like system where everything is truly federated? Like... Everyone has all accounts and all content at all times? I don't know how this would work.

At this point in time, there are clear advantages to the current federated system, but there are also clear disadvantes, like what you're describing, as well as some other things, like the different rules and moderation techniques of instances, defederation, etc.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

undefined> What would be better, though? Having a P2P-like system where everything is truly federated? Like… Everyone has all accounts and all content at all times? I don’t know how this would work

I think something mandatory in the server instances that runs a blockchain (not crypto to be clear but that is how it works) IE every instance server is a validator node. When you create an account you do it from an instance, it gets recorded into the blockchain but at that point you have a lemmy account. You can directly log in on any instance as YOU (kind of like how SAML/OAUTH lets you use a google / microsoft / steam account) and use the services. When you post it is signed with your blockchain info. You could get banned on a specific instance and that gets recorded in the block chain. Other instances could chose to look at that info and decide they don't want users that have been banned on multiple other instances or on specific trusted instances. Over time your account essentially becomes more or less trusted but the key think is that your YOU and not bound to one instance.

[–] millie 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How do you handle the current issues with open registration and federation? Having accounts based on the individual instance is kind of what enables Beehaw to exist in the way that it does.

[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds good to me. Any downsides?

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bad instances could put false data into the chain, some vigilance for kicking and untrusting them would be needed
If your account gets hijacked there isn't much you can do about it, no recovery (problem / risk in crypto that is well known) You are personally responsible for your account not the instance and lots of users and not smart enough for this.
Typically to prevent abuse crypto chains specifically put in CPU/GPU compute load to prevent being able to rapidly abuse posting data to the network. This could be done client side in the browser but to some degree would be needed on the instances to prevent people just spinning up malicious instances without cost but if this overhead is limited to identity only IE user creation, sign in, update it would be manageable other than during rapit sign up events like Reddit going down, spikes in interest.

Nothing is free or perfect but the current system somehow didn't learn from decades of spam,bots, abuse in Email, IM and Web Forums. I don't even recall the last web forum phpBB, SMF, Invision, Discourse etc that don't OUT OF THE BOX give server admins a tool box of anti bot and spam / abuse clean up tools.

[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks again for the comprehensive write-up. Account recovery was my main concern, but I don't know much about blockchain technology, so I didn't say anything. I just remember that I registered with a video platform that's blockchain based (forgot the name) and then, I accidentally discarded the password manager entry for it instead of saving the password. Password restore wasn't possible, "because that's how blockchains work".

About the moderation and administration tooling that Lemmy has (or doesn't have): I don't think this project was ever meant to be as big and important as it is right now. I guess we can see a lot of changes soon. I personally can't program in Rust, but I'm planning to start a small PHP project tomorrow for a small admin and mod web panel that directly interacts with the database to have a GUI for some tasks that requre fiddling with the database at this point in time.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

undefined> I don’t think this project was ever meant to be as big and important as it is right now.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse.

It is an easily self-hostable, decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators, outside of their corporate control and meddling.

Well this is Exactly what it is billed as....

[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 1 points 1 year ago

Damn. Yes, well... Can't argue with that.