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Hey, you have my GitHub pfp lol, nice. github.com/atheartengineer
Aspiring polymath. Applied R&D @ Privacy and Scaling Explorations #maker #Ethereum🦇🔊🐼🐍🟨🦀 Trying to make the internet better. Opinions are my own and subject to change
Hey, you have my GitHub pfp lol, nice. github.com/atheartengineer
That’s correct, some still find it disrespectful though.
Ok, we are talking in circles, you have your opinions, I have mine. If you want to talk about this over voice at any point, let me know, I don’t think text is going to get anywhere, and Lemmy has a pretty strong bias against crypto (which I understand, but obviously disagree with)
Which is a whole lot of extra engineering that is already taken care of with a blockchain. Whether social networks should forget your username/registration is a different debate.
But there’s no global consensus, it’s not trustless, and smart contracts unlock a lot of additional composable capabilities.
I understand, don’t get me wrong, 99% of stuff in crypto is hot garbage, but having a global database that isn’t controlled by any one (or even dozen) entities is pretty powerful. The 2 guys that started farcaster could quit, or get hit by a bus, or decide it’s not profitable enough and pivot, but at least you have control over your profile still. If reddit was decentralized more, they wouldn’t be able to shut down their APIs for 3rd party clients.
Trust me I understand the criticism of block chains, but if we want open source and the internet to thrive and not be controlled by companies, we need a global layer that is neutral.
Those are different design choices that have different trade offs, I didn’t make these decisions, I’m just explaining how it is
Farcaster uses decentralized hubs and multiple clients, if you want global usernames you need a global db
ARM is not paltry, it’s in small/portable devices because it’s efficient, not weak.
Your article is a pretty reasonable and fair evaluation of farcaster, but then your post saying crypto/web3 is “mostly really dumb and bad” is not very nuanced. I know a lot of people on Lemmy don’t like crypto, and that’s what’s in the meta right now, but if you are going to give something a fair shake, give it a fair shake, don’t just anticipate backlash for covering a crypto topic and preface it with “it’s mostly really dumb and bad”. Ya there are a lot of scams, and a lot of bullshit projects, but there is a core of really useful infrastructure there, which farcaster is using for self sovereign account registration/ownership.
Which can be missed by an examiner
Oh ya, don’t get me wrong, im glad they have what they have and it’s opt in
Same, I report crashes, but regular telemetry is rather not
Very speculative
Zero knowledge and multi-party computation, and technologies that allow, like TLS Notary and proof of email
If they need to buy/sell all our personal information so they can advertise, and they need to do that to survive, I’d say let them go bankrupt.
Also, what is proposed is very reasonable, this won’t cause a recession.
Someone yesterday at an event told me they are having their 8th kid because of Jesus
So many people on Lemmy are pessimistic as shit, makes it hard to read the comments sometimes
I think they are doing this above board, so it’s just “contracts”. It’s not illegal, just shortsighted. Just like lobbying isn’t technically bribery because it’s “official bribery” so it’s got a different name.
Good for him, I hope he is ok