I will start working on private communities soon.

With crypto you can make international transfers within a few minutes and only pay a few cents. Using a bank account it takes multiple days, and costs a few euros at least. For me that’s a major use case and something I do regularly.

We will soon get a new round of funding from NLnet, once that is finalized we will publish a blog post with the milestones.

I suppose this could be improved, but not sure how exactly. Afaik there is no issue about this yet, and anyway we lack development resources to implement everything. Sometimes I imagine how much we could achieve if Lemmy had 2000 employees like Reddit.

Admins are legally responsible for anything that gets posted on their server, so they require control. They also put in time and money to keep the server running.

There may be other technologies where all-powerful admins aren’t necessary, like peer-to-peer networks. But then everything gets much more complicated. No more opening a website and entering username and password, now users need to install a client first and use a private key. It’s not clear who is responsible for moderation. Scaling will be much more difficult. Users don’t want to store gigabytes of historical data on their devices, so some servers are still needed. The way Activitypub and Lemmy works is really a hybrid between normal websites which is a well-known paradigm, and p2p which is still experimental. The p2p part is only done on the server because it would be too complex otherwise.

Test accounts…

Fedizenship

Having kids is great. Don’t believe all the horror stories.

That’s quite slow then. I can torrent an entire movie within two minutes or so.

Edit: Getting 12+ MiB/s with a popular movie from 2006.

You can’t make real journalism in a few hundred characters or in a 10 sec video. But there are lots of bloggers with their own websites.

I am honored.