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So... this seems like a good time to start experimenting with Mastodon.
I'm very skeptical about the chances of getting enough network effect to bootstrap a new social media site in general, and even more for distributed/decentralized/non-commercial ones.
Still, recent events on Twitter make me believe there is a chance, and I'd like to help make that happen.
@excellion@bitcoinhackers.org In fairness, this is probably a matter of ethics not stupidity.
Musk is probably betting on the fact that US law will probably let him get away with banning links to other sites. The same way Apple can get away with banning side loading.
And if his goal is to successfully crush left wing Twitter, he's still achieving that. Mastodon isn't going to replace what Twitter was for the left.
Sad though.
Birdsite
@TechConnectify Reading comprehension...
I have two rented VPS servers running full-rbf nodes that were previously in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, quite close to the front lines in Kherson.
The hosting company finally gave up and moved their whole operation to a Kyiv data center this weekend. Russia has been trying to destroy the entire Ukrainian power grid for two months now; wouldn't be surprised if that hosting company can't get enough diesel fuel in Mykolaiv due to demand by other critical services.
Sad.
@waxwing The movie! It's basically a cross between The Goonies and Dr Who. 😂
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Twitter is blocking posts with links to Mastodon instances. They aren't just blocking the ones run by the Mastodon project but also smaller instances.
They're even blocking https://infosec.exchange/, https://ioc.exchange/ and https://hachyderm.io/. Perhaps they automated it.
“Robot Overlords Trailer”
https://youtu.be/03Y7sd_LLEU
Better than I expected.
@ademan The op_return size got reduced at the last minute, making the original idea unworkable. So I moved on to other things.
@ademan I don't think one ever got written in the end.
Interesting! A full-rbf doublespend just got mined by... a miner on P2Pool!
https://mempool.space/tx/9c8a9cc21cc80ff6ee5daffe8f9283b5501e8333e81b3077cdf97b35a3434959
I didn't even know P2Pool still existed. And it kinda doesn't: according to https://web.archive.org/web/20201029044054/http://p2p-usa.xyz:9334/static/ the expected time between blocks right now is 3.2 years. Looks like the last block was 2 years ago.
Seems like the particular P2Pool miner that found the block had a high minimum fee, as the block only contained the high-fee parts of the mempool: https://miningpool.observer/template-and-block/00000000000000000001f6fc9422b5e1babc73f135d4a2ce3550494f54b601ac
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-December/021270.html
Full-RBF Peering Bitcoin Core v24.0.1 is released.
tl;dr: this ensures you're connected to other full-rbf nodes, by advertising a FULL_RBF service bit, and connecting to four additional nodes advertising that service.
Why I'm Less Than Infinitely Hostile To Cryptocurrency
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-im-less-than-infinitely-hostile
"RevengeFor.com - Russia will be punished for everything!"
https://youtu.be/Y1ba5tFJxCI
Nice.
A tale of two particles - The Works in Progress Newsletter
https://worksinprogress.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-particles
@ademan read the wiki link.
(Yes I know they're all imported school buses; that's the first one I've seen where they hadn't painted over which school system it was from)
Neat: that bus has travelled 4000km from a Kentucky school system to serve as a chicken bus in Guatemala.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_transport_in_Central_America
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