Post ANykgWZr5VXXdvCqH2 by john@mk.nixnet.social
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 (DIR) Post #ANyUUeEDDYJCd8OiSe by fluffy@social.handholding.io
       2022-09-27T01:45:23.470872Z
       
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       @Moon what are your thoughts about Lens Protocol lens.xyz ?
       
 (DIR) Post #ANyUjlaG9Th3mqv3Pk by Moon@shitposter.club
       2022-09-27T01:47:50.559311Z
       
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       @fluffy I'm going to have to learn about it but I don't like Polygon much because I think it's overrun with spam. But I'll do a good look into it in the morning when I wake up.
       
 (DIR) Post #ANyVSJcuwUx46vPB1E by fluffy@social.handholding.io
       2022-09-27T01:56:12.231547Z
       
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       I've been told it's a social protocol built by the aave devs, purportedly a passion project
       
 (DIR) Post #ANykgWZr5VXXdvCqH2 by john@mk.nixnet.social
       2022-09-27T04:45:53.972Z
       
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       @fluffy@social.handholding.io @Moon@shitposter.club I wasn't familiar, but glancing around the basic idea seems sound. Of course with these things as always it's adoption that matters most.Relative to the fedi as we know it, I can see a few advantages and at at least one thing that would be difficult to do.1) Integrating value is more natural. For most use cases that doesn't matter. For things like Patreon substitutes, it's an obvious bonus. But there's also an idea I've heard that I like a lot - direct messages from strangers if your parking gets validated (you put in a tiny micropayment deposit in order to DM, then if they user reads it and does NOT report it as spam, you get your money back).2) Users wouldn't have to go out of their way to "download my data" on a regular basis and "move" their accounts to deal with one instance/app going down. Since the data, including following relations, lives outside the instance. 3) Most "web3" folks put their sites on IPFS, which should make it possible to not rely on one particular martyr's hosting solution.As for the "downside", if you choose to see it this way, it would be very difficult to do the equivalent of an instance block (defederate with an instance whose moderation policilies you disagree with). Sure, an admin can write their dapp's contract however they want, if it has one, so for some uses you could ban individual users. But most moderation would have to be done by each user. Maybe mute, ignore & block are insufficient, but one could write their own tools to fill that gap, one hopes. Otherwise... things might be pretty much the same? I guess?