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a few years ago i figured out a simple, slow, kinda awful protocol for anonymous broadcast messaging in a fully transparent network, intended to implement Love Dares Not from @doctorow's Walkaway cryptography is pretty fun and amazing
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honestly we still feel like y'all might be overcomplicating it. but we'll see we guess.
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overcomplicating how?
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do we really need to put everything in the p2p layer? it just reeks of blockchain to us.
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im not sure what you mean can you elaborate
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like, why not use indieweb for inspiration instead?
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a) p2p is older than indieweb b) federation is still ultimately centralized and has a loooot of problems c) what's wrong with p2p?
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its very not p2p. like, anything that is "aaS" cannot be p2p because p2p is inherently about everyone in the network having equivalent roles, and to @SarahJamieLewis's point about decentralization, about power being anti-concentrated
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and indieweb has always been hyper concentrated. its kind of unfortunate that it went the route it did, tbh. they couldve done something really interesting but instead its just... twitter plus inter-server distribution :\
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Replying to @defnotbeka @SoniEx2 @SarahJamieLewis
you're talking about Mastodon/fediverse specifically, right? because indieweb encompasses a lot more than just that model

Sep 29, 2022 · 10:57 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @SoniEx2 @SarahJamieLewis
i am, yes, because its the only relevant aspect of indieweb in the context of the thread that i wrote, as far as i can tell
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the original mention of indieweb was sufficiently vague that I don't blame you for conflating it with mastodon, but there's a lot more to draw inspiration from than just what mastodon did. for example, i'm not even writing this on twitter, i'm writing it on my own website.