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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 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.