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<div>It doesn't matter how good these systems are if you can't persuade every person and organization to switch to them, so you still have to maintain a presence on FB, Twitter, etc. because that is where most people are. The result is you end up having to follow more social media systems rather than just switching.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><div>Gary Walsh<br></div><div>Sent with Tutanota, the secure & ad-free mailbox. <br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jun 18, 2022, 08:04 by doug@moens.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Matrix and IRC are decentralized chat rooms.<br></div><div>Mastodon is decentralized Twitter.<br></div><div>Diaspora is decentralized Facebook.<br></div><div>Peertube is decentralized YouTube.<br></div><div>There are a bunch more.<br></div><div><br></div><div>All the programs I just mentioned use a type of decentralization called Federation. There is a client-server architecture, but you can choose a server, or run your own. For example, in Matrix or IRC, multiple servers can participate in a single chat room. In Mastodon, you can follow people on your own server, or on other servers.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The universe of federated social media services is called the Fediverse.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Other architectures for decentralization: peer to peer, and Blockchain.<br></div><div><br></div><div>IPFS is a peer to peer alternative to HTTP. Internally, it's like a mashup of BitTorrent and git. Files are identified by hashes and are downloaded from the nearest peer rather than a centralized server.<br></div><div><br></div><div>A Merkle Tree is a data structure used by many decentralized systems, including Blockchain, Git, IPFS, Matrix. It is essentially a tree of hashes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>A Blockchain is a decentralized, publicly viewable, append-only database or ledger. It doesn't have to be used for cryptocurrency, you can store anything in a blockchain. Like NFTs. NFTs were originally intended to be decentralized Patreon, where you can donate to an artist and have a Blockchain record of your donation. Then NFTs were co-opted by grifters, who created a market for NFTs, based on the false claim that you were "buying" an artwork. Actually you are buying a character string containing a URL that points to an art work. If the URL stops working, maybe your NFT becomes worthless.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, Jun 18, 2022, at 1:10 AM, Chris Frey wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 10:41:25PM -0400, Doug Moen wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Matrix is real time chat, like a modern version of IRC. Conversations take<br></div><div>place in specific "rooms".<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mastodon is decentralized twitter. You are broadcasting short messages to all<br></div><div>of the people who follow your message stream.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think Matrix is also supposed to be decentralized too, if<br></div><div>I understand correctly.<br></div><div><br></div><div>- Chris<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div>kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br></div><div>https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div>kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br></div><div>https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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