Recent comments in /f/distributed

Syrinx wrote

I have heard good things about dat. I ran an i2p node for a while, it seems like a decent platform. Freenet is also good, but seems to have a smaller userbase. I actively use mastodon for social media and it works phenomenally.

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lookin4 wrote

Did you ever heard of Freifunk? It is a great grassroots-community consisting of great people with visionary ideas. The majority of their resources, including their wiki and mailing-list is indeed very motivating and inspiring, but unfortunately almost only available in german.

Maybe I can route some of the activists over here, to talk about your idea in this post or you try to get in touch with them via IRC, Mumble, mailing-lists. Probably the best way is by posting on mastodon, diaspora or elsewhere with the hashtag #freifunk - I am pretty sure you get an answer and a public conversation about this may result in a solid base for working on this idea in english and inclusively (not just for the ones subscribed to the lists, the ones online in the chat while you asked etc.)

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jaidedctrl OP wrote (edited )

Fuck, that's a terrible design flaw.
Honestly, though, I get where they're coming from. Dealing with vanity naming on a decentralized network is hard to figure out. But why on Earth did they pick an auctioning system? Wouldn't, perhaps, an expiration system work so much better...? Either you don't upload anything for a year or a "rent" runs out of time...
I'd consider the requirement of investing LBRY credits (or money) in order to upload anything a design flaw, too. Not all content creators have money to fling around...
But it's the best network like this we have, at least for now.
EDIT: Alright, it looks like in the future anyone will be able to earn credits by hosting content, kind of like Filecoin, etc. That's better...

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