My understanding is that the content is essentially self-hosted, so content removed from relays still exists on the posting user’s client and can be accessed directly, just like a website sending out RSS. So saying it “still exist on the network” is technically true, but only in the same way that you would say that about say bittorrent or the open web. What people host/post is present raw, what is amplified/“curated”/relayed is filtered. Client settings/config sets default and custom user content interaction, like a browser which can have adblock or not.

In principle, this seems like a decent solution, but I can see why different users prefer different protocols, differing to moderation takes a burden off of the user to vet inbound content. The same can be achieved via relays but the culture of “curation” seems weaker because the pressure from the userbase is lower to optimize it, as users are not solely reliant on any one relays. An odd network effect, but a truly invested curation/admin team could just as easily build a well “curated” relay as a well moderated instance.

This is helpful thanks, seems like ditto is an interesting middle ground.

maybe Peergos? I’m not sure, seem to match up on Goals but IDK about execution: https://github.com/Peergos/Peergos?tab=readme-ov-file

Sounds a bit like Plebbit, though that is more about P2P “communities/boards” that a user starts and others can post to, rather than a microblog type platform. Unfortunately it also has a strong association with Crypto communities as its founders come from that scene. It is built on IPFS.

What you describe also has similiarities to Secure Scuttlebutt and its successor PZP , which are both unfortunately abandoned but layed a lot of groundwork for asynchronous encryption key based networks.

Vlogbrothers ftw

Client-side curation sounds like whitelisting effectively, if you follow only the curated feed and the curated feed resigns all events posted by selected keys, that’s a whitelist and seems like a decent solution for casual users so long as they can find trusted curators and clients that enable them to be easily discovered and subscribed to. What client is best for this currently?

On the flipside, if those “curators” were able to export and import lists of keys to automatically exclude from feeds, that would be very useful for the curators who have to manually or automatically sort events and new users to build their feeds. Is that feature currently available? Eliminating known bot accounts from feeds seems like minimum viable feature set for new curators in the current state of play.

So there are no moderation tools / whitelist/blacklists?

What do you prefer about Nostr?

The question is why is this the case? The simple answer is p2p solutions struggle with asynchronous communications due to variable uptime of consumer devices. That said, that can be overcome by various means.

Establishing a user base for any communications platform is a challenge, largely adoption is driven by user experience and project narrative. There is no reason a p2p project couldn’t meet these criteria, they have before many times for file-sharing.

In fact, I think a self-hosted cloud storage solution with a communications platform built on it could be a great way to get a network of this type established. I know various file-sharing platforms like Soulseek have had these features, but I wonder if you slapped a WhatsApp clone UI onto it and push it as “own and share your files securely, no one you don’t specifically share the file with ever holds the files” if that wouldn’t pick up some steam.

Thunderbolt is a proprietary specification by Intel and Apple, while Displayport is an open standard developed by VESA.

USB connector hardware can meet the Thunderbolt or Displayport specifications, but must conform. Most do not.

You could include “either x or y or z…” specifications in the unified documentation.

So “Either soft deletion is to be disabled as by default in which case [explain standard behavior], or it is to be enabled by [yadda yadda]…”

The single document is searchable and cross-referenced internally, making it better in many cases.

Thanks Chicago School of Economics you neoliberal bastards, “monopolies are efficient” my ass.

Sadly Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol is abandonware, as is it’s more scalable but far less tested successor PZP

The p2p social approach seems so necessary, but projects that actually implement it are fraught with challenges it seems.

Does the BW-16D1HT offer good performance for 4kbluray playback as well as ripping? Looking at it it seems price competitive with the stand-alone players, and if it is good it would make financial sense to buy a dedicated pc and enclosure as an alternative to stand-alone player assuming it can drive HDR and Atmos

trichroic prisms, also called X Cubes, like what is inside a projector. You can get them in ebay pretty cheap, and they are just very cool to look at and play with, seeing how the light is split into three colors.

Awesome, this is huge news.

If you want to see a lot of real fossils directly, no replicas, go to Dinosaur National Monument and check out the Quarry Exhibit Hall. A huge wall of fossils still in their stone matrix.

Hmmm… somewhere in here is a solution for the Bluetooth connection prioritization/stealing quagmire but I cant sus out how.

If bluetooth audio devices would include a paired device selection function by cycling through the list of connected devices sequentially instead of auto-prioritizing either the most recent connection or the most recently paired device that would fix a lot of the Bluetooth hellscape we are in right now.

looks nice

DEX is actually pretty good when used with a keyboard and external monitor. I also dont love thr Samsung walled garden, but I end up buying their products because I use my phones for several years at a time before replacing them so top end hardware specs are a priority and especially cameras.

I would go Sony but the data band support in the US is incomplete, and I can’t get caught out by poor cell service while traveling.

I am considering going Pixel next but Graphene hasn’t been announced for Pixel 10 yet so I’m a bit on the fence, I guess I could buy an older model and give it a try wifi only for a bit to see how I like it.