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EU commission should be urging Europeans to ditch US products and services 🤷
1·1 month agoIt’s called Web Monetisation. It’s a standard that’s in development. In short, you, the user, can donate/pay money on any website that follows the standard. No patreon, no PayPal, no VISA, no yada yada.
Setup: You install an extension or use a compatible browser, create a wallet with a web payment provider, login / connect with the extension / browser.
Example operation: while browsing you happen upon a website (Lemmy.world for example) or web page (tilvids.com/u/thelinuxexperiment or one of the video pages), the “tip” button is made available, you hit it and 1£ is queued to be sent to the website or person on the webpage. At your leisure, you accept the transaction.
This can be implemented any number of ways e.g statistics are collected (locally) about which websites you visited with web monetisation active, at the end of the month, you are shown a breakdown of that activity. Say 10% peertube, 30% Lemmy, 40% mastodon, and a smattering of other softwares. You say “I want 10£ to be split across the different softwares with a minimum of 1£ per transaction”. Or anything else you can come up with.
That’s it. The website operator doesn’t need you to have PayPal, or patreon, or some special bank. You have a " wallet", you decide how the money is transfered and to whom, and you’re done.
Does this mean that watching a video could pwn you?
These poisoned projects would be shared via places like Gitlab.
Gitlab? You sure? Not GitHub?
Will @zuck@threads.net ever read this though? Does he even use that account?
LOL. Apple makes shoddy hardware but Apple fanboys have to find the blame somewhere else of course. Could never be Apple making a mistake. No no no, somebody else fucked up.
Also, if Apple’s major defense is obfuscation, well…
I’m not sure if you’re intentionally missing the point or not. We’re not talking about encrypted group chats. We’re talking about encrypted Facebook. The amount and type of data involved is very different, so is how long the data will be retained.
But sure, if you want to ignore unsharing things, go ahead. Let’s see how that’ll work out for you 🤷
This does make sense, and I do not understand a lot of the technical details, or how this problem would be solved. I just wish it was haha
:D same. I think the solutions could be applied elsewhere too. They’d be very interesting.
Can’t say I understand what happens technically when someone is kicked from a matrix room, so what what happen with the encryption keys I dunno.
That depends on the client. Some clients will exit, some will stay in the room. Encrypted matrix rooms use “perfect forward secrecy”, meaning new people can’t read the past, and old people removed from the group/chain/chat cannot read new messages. So, being kicked from a room would still allow you to see all the chat history you stored. Or if you sign in with a device that didn’t get the “kick” message yet, the server could still send you all the messages up until the point of the kick message.
I’m not sure how Matrix implements it and server + client implementations can differ.
Sharing != downloading forever. When you browse it, yes, technically it’s in your cache, but that’s why it’s called a cache. Most people won’t install a client that puts their browsing into long-term storage (unless Microsoft takes a screenshot for them and promises never to upload it somewhere). Regardless, it is still a security issue (as I just described with releasing the encryption key). You can choose to ignore it, until someone comes along and exploits it. Then you have a bunch of angry people screaming at you because you “didn’t close an obvious security hole”.
I remember thinking about this long time ago and even asking some hackers about it to get blank stares back. Basically, there are multiple problems around data access.
Take the simple scenario of a unfriending. Let’s say you have 12 friends, but Susie turned out to be a real bitch and you unfriended her. You don’t want Susie to have access to your photos, messages, and basically anything anymore! That means the encryption key has to change -->
Where is all the data hosted and who is going to reencrypt all the entire history from the point Susie became your friend until you unfriended her? The most secure would be that you have all your data and that you re-encrypt it. Great, you are data-frugal and have maybe 10MB you have to re-encrypt. But Karl, your photography pal paid for gigabytes of storage and now has to rencrypt a good chunk of that if he unfriends somebody.
You could of course say “fuck it, the asshole friend probably made a copy and re-encrypting is pointless”, but then your ex-friend can just share the private key with the world and TADA, everybody has access to the files you shared with said friend.And that’s just one problem I can think of right now. When you take more time to think about it, you’ll run into more and more stuff.
I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it definitely isn’t easy. Add to that that many people don’t care and it’s less likely. The closest I get to that is Signal.
People refused to vote for education and instead voted in their own self-interest. This is the result.
Decisions like these are why they can’t move away from proprietary platforms. How much does it really cost to host and maintain this? A single employee could host a mastodon, peertube, and lemmy instance. The employee could also work full-time on one of the projects to address issues.
They also only had 6 accounts on the instance - out of how many politicians and bureaus?
Anyway… shame.
People will never learn, will they? You give them AP and they go for the Jack Dorsey clone. Amazing
The problem isn’t making monetization available, it’s having sufficient pull in the market to make it viable.
That’s creating an chicken and egg problem.
We won’t create monetization options until there’s pull
We won’t join until there’s monetizationSomeone has to break the tie and it’s much easier for us than content creators.
When we’re talking about video storage those petabytes start getting really expensive.
You’re worrying about a scenario a decade out. Also it’s not like peertube is a single entity. It’s a federated group of servers that will each host a part of the total. Not every peer will host the total, so there are no such restrictions on storage.
That company really is good at marketing. And their customers will parrot their ads and marketing to you all the time. “No, they care about privacy!”, “They are climate-neutral!”, “They have the most secure devices on the planet!”, and so on. Whatever the company says is gospel at this point.
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