Posts by samwightt@ruby.social
(DIR) Post #3434343 by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-01-27T17:07:43Z
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@phoenixIt's pretty great right now actually, I've yet to find any problems with it.
(DIR) Post #3434475 by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-01-27T09:25:17Z
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@_mark Any suggestions on how best to de-Google your life? I've tried DuckDuckGo in the past, but for some reason it never really stuck.
(DIR) Post #3434477 by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-01-27T17:05:12Z
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@_markI kids found that it didn't have as relevant results to me imo. DuckDuckGo couldn't match Google in local results, even when I gave it my exact location, and I just found that Google 'got' me a lot more than DDG. It was just easier to find what I was lookout for with Google. And thanks for the advice, I'll definitely look into doing that!
(DIR) Post #3434779 by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-01-27T17:16:39Z
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@phoenixAh yeah, fair point. Using it for anything else though is literally amazing. Also I'm kinda new to the Mastodon thing, what's Plemora?
(DIR) Post #3441659 by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-01-27T21:19:18Z
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@phoenix Hey sorry to bother you again, but how exactly does search on Mastodon work again? Like does it just search your instance?
(DIR) Post #3441696 by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-01-27T21:21:44Z
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@puffycheeks @phoenix Okay that's pretty impressive... Has anyone ever tried to do something with IPFS and Mastadon? Like is there a way to just make your local machine the node and sync content between your devices?
(DIR) Post #3441698 by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-01-27T21:26:13Z
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@phoenix Ah gotcha, thank you so much! And that makes a lot more sense.
(DIR) Post #3441801 by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-01-27T21:27:56Z
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@phoenix @puffycheeks I don't know if it would necessarily work with Mastodon's protocols, but could you potentially do something with a DHT and completely distribute the social network, so that identities were only tied down to the specific device/user?
(DIR) Post #3441857 by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-01-27T21:31:43Z
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@phoenix @puffycheeks Ooo, looks nice. Gonna have to try using it.
(DIR) Post #3442604 by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-01-27T21:45:01Z
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@phoenix @puffycheeks Okay, so Scuttlebutt seems to be a little bit more "sharded" than I was thinking, and it seems harder to transport from desktop to mobile. This would be something that's actually distributed, based on a DHT or blockchain, so that it's portable as well as permanent and highly available.
(DIR) Post #3442605 by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-01-27T21:46:12Z
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@phoenix Portability seems to be the main thing that Mastodon struggles with; if the admin here for instance shuts down this server, I have no way to transport my account to a different instance. That's pretty unnerving.
(DIR) Post #3442954 by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-01-27T22:02:08Z
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I think if we want truly distributed networks to work (not federated networks), then we have to address the issue of cost. Right now on the web, server admins pay to host content and make money through advertisements. On the distributed web, however, there is no central server, so users end up paying for content themselves. This is not something that regular web users are used to doing, so they won't adopt distributed technology until it is free for them to use.
(DIR) Post #9fynfRocXLR1cmFgaO by samwightt@ruby.social
2019-02-19T03:06:41Z
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Well, got my first job at a startup. Gonna be working as a front end developer for Overlay.AI!