dwr updatesCan you solve spam at the protocol-level?
Assumption: a credibly neutral decentralized social networking protocol is desirable.In order to achieve "credibly neutral decentralization" for the protocol data it must be 1) replicated across many servers / nodes 2) user-controlled, i.e. the user does not have to rely on any other party to add / remove messages to the protocol 3) sign ups are permissionless.This means that anyone (or AI) can sign up for an account and post whatever they want at the protocol level. Any compromise on this ne...
dwr updatesWhat does sufficient decentralization mean?
I often see people say Farcaster isn't "sufficiently decentralized". You're free to define what "sufficiently decentralized" means to you, of course, but how we think about it is laid out in Varun's blog post:A social network achieves sufficient decentralization if two users can find each other and communicate, even if the rest of the network wants to prevent it. This implies that users can always reach their audience, which can only be true if developers can build many clients on the network...
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dwr updatesCan you solve spam at the protocol-level?
Assumption: a credibly neutral decentralized social networking protocol is desirable.In order to achieve "credibly neutral decentralization" for the protocol data it must be 1) replicated across many servers / nodes 2) user-controlled, i.e. the user does not have to rely on any other party to add / remove messages to the protocol 3) sign ups are permissionless.This means that anyone (or AI) can sign up for an account and post whatever they want at the protocol level. Any compromise on this ne...
dwr updatesWhat does sufficient decentralization mean?
I often see people say Farcaster isn't "sufficiently decentralized". You're free to define what "sufficiently decentralized" means to you, of course, but how we think about it is laid out in Varun's blog post:A social network achieves sufficient decentralization if two users can find each other and communicate, even if the rest of the network wants to prevent it. This implies that users can always reach their audience, which can only be true if developers can build many clients on the network...
dwr updatesWhere are the apps?
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Hello! I'm trying out using Paragraph for longer form, lightly edited thoughts. If you're receiving this via email, you signed up at some point!
I woke up this morning and saw a cast from Tarun on SBF:
The last 12h of Twitter takes on SBF has been a mixture of misplaced elation, investors unable to grapple with personal responsibility, and dunks from people who made money from Alameda; perhaps trauma is healed this way, but I respect the opinions of those who were quieter much more
To which I responded:
Not an SBF fan, but always weird when decades in prison is something people celebrate. Maybe if you’re a direct victim, but peanut gallery is cringe. Legal system worked. Let’s move on.
And then further:
The overlap of the “Free Ross!” and “haha SBF going to jail for decades!” crowd is a strange one.
To which he tweeted:
And there was a bunch of discussion.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a guilty as anyone in engaging in schadenfreude, but as I've gotten older I've found myself more often reflecting on what it would be like to be in the other person's shoes. Not condoning behavior, but what it would physically feel like to have the fear and uncertainty of looming decades in a prison cell. You sort of lose the appetite to take the cheap shot (or at least your direct at a more irreverent situation). No one is forcing you to tweet / cast the hot take.
Any human being—no matter how awful and deserving—spending decades in a prison cell is tragic. Necessary? Likely. Harsh reality? Yes. But still tragic on a human level.
P.S. — when I went to start writing this, this cast was at the top of my feed.
Very unpopular opinion: I don't celebrate anyone being thrown into the US's for-profit, inhumane prison system, no matter the crime. I welcome them being off the streets, but any human being put in the US prison system is a travesty criminals should be rehabilitated, not made worse w mental distress and dehumanization
Hello! I'm trying out using Paragraph for longer form, lightly edited thoughts. If you're receiving this via email, you signed up at some point!
I woke up this morning and saw a cast from Tarun on SBF:
The last 12h of Twitter takes on SBF has been a mixture of misplaced elation, investors unable to grapple with personal responsibility, and dunks from people who made money from Alameda; perhaps trauma is healed this way, but I respect the opinions of those who were quieter much more
To which I responded:
Not an SBF fan, but always weird when decades in prison is something people celebrate. Maybe if you’re a direct victim, but peanut gallery is cringe. Legal system worked. Let’s move on.
And then further:
The overlap of the “Free Ross!” and “haha SBF going to jail for decades!” crowd is a strange one.
To which he tweeted:
And there was a bunch of discussion.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a guilty as anyone in engaging in schadenfreude, but as I've gotten older I've found myself more often reflecting on what it would be like to be in the other person's shoes. Not condoning behavior, but what it would physically feel like to have the fear and uncertainty of looming decades in a prison cell. You sort of lose the appetite to take the cheap shot (or at least your direct at a more irreverent situation). No one is forcing you to tweet / cast the hot take.
Any human being—no matter how awful and deserving—spending decades in a prison cell is tragic. Necessary? Likely. Harsh reality? Yes. But still tragic on a human level.
P.S. — when I went to start writing this, this cast was at the top of my feed.
Very unpopular opinion: I don't celebrate anyone being thrown into the US's for-profit, inhumane prison system, no matter the crime. I welcome them being off the streets, but any human being put in the US prison system is a travesty criminals should be rehabilitated, not made worse w mental distress and dehumanization
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