Well... tbh, i have good vision and i can't read it easily. I don't think it'll work and if it does it won't foe very long, it's just a cool design thing making a statment while potentially looking good on a poster

For sure! Cool font though!

not practical.. not yet anyways. but running a node is on the agenda of my next hacking weekend

Considering legacy social media often allow a display-name differing from the username, i'm not sure this will have a very different effect on online communities then what we can already observe in contemporary impersonation scams. However, vigilance has always been necessary online, and is probably going to be all the more important in a context of DID/SSI/VCs

The way i see it, paltform leveraging DID/SSI/VC will have the burden of responsibility to provide meaningful ways for users to verify the authenticity of their peers. "Responsibility" being avoided at all cost in most commercial online contexts, i'm expecting it to be a painful process to begin with. It will boil down to how well we do as communities, and as a specie, at transferring knowledge among us.

Ye. The cybergods will quantum donedid the author for sure: blesseings because wtf genius, cursings because "pwEAsE in$tALl cHroWmiUm"

hahah! so then the user curbs, goes to social media to open an account, and bam:

Account creation aborted. Reason: Absence of discoverable social media trail

You'd have to ask my tinfoil cats about the details. I'm still reluctant to attribute these "people" with the hormones necessary for cooperation, coordination, or anything starting with "co-" really...

..But the tinfoil cats have a point

My tinfoil cats are mewoing about a coordinated effort accros the IT sector to make one year with insane profit and the added side effect of lowering the wages accros the sector.

Ok, to read someone's post, it has to be written somewhere by that someone. So a firehose is definitely writable. If it is anything like you say in your last post, then only identity is decentralized.

I'll investigate on my own some rainy day, many thanks for your effort.

Ok, let's say I create the 2nd firehose in existance, could you elaborate on how I would get everyone to read and write to it? Would I have to merge the bluesky firehose to mine, or have I effectively split the network until someone creates a third firehose that merges both? What if bluesky doesn't care about my firehose, how will their users ever see my posts?

Please rest assured I ask out of genuine curiosity, I don't expect you to have all the answers. But I might as well try my luck as you seem knowledgeable.

Thanks!

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Thanks for your effort! I genuinely appreciate it!

Maybe I misunderstand, but what I gather from your writing, is that bluesky might become decentralized in the future, if a decent amount of separate groups manage to raise 30 million dollars each.

Thanks! In the tutorial, they mention listening to the firehose. I'm not able to wrap my head around this (singular) firehose. But I remember seeing this initiative trying to crowdsource 30 million dollars to run one for 3 years Can you elaborate on that and help me understand better?

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