Posts by zaskoda@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #APYaG7Pdy7sJGshLSS by zaskoda@mastodon.social
       2022-11-09T19:10:00Z
       
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       @chartier But if they don't build a model to help fund the expense of running servers, this will all got the way of IRC, Email, Newsgroups etc. Users must be the customer in order to prevent becoming the product.
       
 (DIR) Post #APYaG8dVQ4Yd4ABvhg by zaskoda@mastodon.social
       2022-11-10T16:28:56Z
       
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       @gerwitz @chartier okay, let's gets into that. Email is federated. Yet, most people use one of a few big providers who exploit user data to target ads. If you're not paying for the product, you will become the product.  Running your own email server is prohibitively challenging, in part because of spam. And spam happens because sending email is free. Charge one tenth of a penny for an email and it would drastically reduce spam. But you want it all to be free.
       
 (DIR) Post #APYaG9cpk3c88MsuIK by zaskoda@mastodon.social
       2022-11-10T16:38:19Z
       
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       @chartier @gerwitz I feel like you've never actually attempted to run your own mail server. Do it, show me. Move your email to a server you maintain yourself. If it's so easy breezy, it should be no big deal for you, yeah? We can talk later about everything that's going to go terribly wrong.
       
 (DIR) Post #APYaGBEnkNZx8Pek76 by zaskoda@mastodon.social
       2022-11-10T16:40:49Z
       
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       @chartier @gerwitz here's a slightly better overview of the challenge than I would be able to write up myself: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may-not-want-to-run-your-own-mail-server
       
 (DIR) Post #AQkTGxIYha7x8NhTDE by zaskoda@mastodon.social
       2022-12-18T23:01:10Z
       
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       Dear Mastodon community, please be kind to the #Web3 community coming your way. I know the "crypto" scene is full of gross, but those at the heart of Web3 share the same principles of decentralization.
       
 (DIR) Post #AQntryx2hR7HG2penw by zaskoda@mastodon.social
       2022-12-20T16:38:50Z
       
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       Got up to see the sunrise, but then I fell asleep again. #gm
       
 (DIR) Post #AQujE8pysvkcttc2bY by zaskoda@mastodon.social
       2022-12-23T16:55:37Z
       
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       Any other #Atari fans out there on Mastodon? If so, I'd love to hear what you think should happen to the Atari brand. Should it be resurrected or buried? If the former, what products do you want to see?
       
 (DIR) Post #AQujQPKPOlfXWLh4Xw by zaskoda@mastodon.social
       2022-12-21T21:33:31Z
       
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       "What people don’t understand is how complicated it is to run a platform like this and how expensive it is.” This is where #Web3 has the advantage. Distributed legers pay their node operators with a native mechanism. This is critical for decentralization. Mastodon fails to provide such a mechanism. And then there's data privacy, which is even more concerning. But that's a much larger Toot. https://www.wired.com/story/mastodon-legal-issues-tipping-point/