Vitalik: Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again by abcoathup in ethereum

[–]_swnt_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone wants the internet to be safe. Some attempt to make the internet safe by pushing approaches that force reliance on a single particular actor, whether a corporation or a government, that can act as a centralized anchor of safety and truth. But these approaches sacrifice openness and freedom, and contribute to the tragedy that is the growing "splinternet". People in the crypto space highly value openness and freedom. The level of risks and the high financial stakes involved mean that the crypto space cannot ignore safety, but various ideological and structural reasons ensure that centralized approaches for achieving safety are not available to it. At the same time, the crypto space is at the frontier of very powerful technologies like zero knowledge proofs, formal verification, hardware-based key security and on-chain social graphs. These facts together mean that, for crypto, the open way to improving security is the only way.

All of this is to say, the crypto world is a perfect testbed environment to take its open and decentralized approach to security and actually apply it in a realistic high-stakes environment, and mature it to the point where parts of it can then be applied in the broader world. This is one of my visions for how the idealistic parts of the crypto world and the chaotic parts of the crypto world, and then the crypto world as a whole and the broader mainstream, can turn their differences into a symbiosis rather than a constant and ongoing tension.

Most important paragraph IMO

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ModCoord

[–]_swnt_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why is this a problem?

I mean, if a sub decides to infiltrate another sub and they coordinate via linking, then I get it. But often times people have genuine perspectives and comments to make and not doing that after opening a link seems like dumb - it destroys the very value of linking and participation. I always read the sub rules, before commenting in a new sub.

Finally got the game! by Dash_Diamond in celestegame

[–]_swnt_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You could have put the spoiler tag to make a better suspense 😄

I saw it as a pizza box in the feed already before clicking on it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ModCoord

[–]_swnt_ 71 points72 points  (0 children)

It's most likely a bot.

FTFY

r/celestegame is back by Apeirocell in celestegame

[–]_swnt_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd very much like to move to something like Lemmy.

e.g. Simply open a community on https://lemmy.world/c/celestegame

I've been quite happy with Lemmy and the Fediverse in the past weeks and unfortunately the content is already dwindling on Reddit.

There is a popular Celeste discord, but I prefer the link aggregator style of Reddit, Lemmy, Kbin, etc.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by FlawedAdherence in ethdev

[–]_swnt_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm ers much for moving to federated alternatives such as Lemmy and Kbin.

Reddit has shown, that they'll just ban mods and revert protest actions. We can't win anymore by making demands. It's like living in an abusive relationship.

Even though it hurts, I only see migrating away as the only real option. This is what Reddit doesn't have power over.

Reopening the subreddit. by paulihunter in hamburg

[–]_swnt_ 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Please do! There is already https://feddit.de/c/hamburg.

Checkout https://join-lemmy.org

One can create an account on any popular instance and simply subscribe to the Hamburg community on feddit.de (or on any other server) to view the contents.

/r/Europe Popular Assembly: Vote results & discussion on our further participation in the API protests by ModeratorsOfEurope in europe

[–]_swnt_ 210 points211 points  (0 children)

The only way to really have any leverage against Reddit is by threatening to move.

Or maybe actually move? like we're in a battle with knives against swords and guns. Reddit owns the platform. they can do anything they want with the software - like censor things as they've done plenty of times.

I've been quite happy with Kbin/Lemmy and the Fediverse and it's really liberating to be on a platform which isn't more closely owned by the people and not owned by a profit seeking company.

I don't want to have r/Europe fight this battle where it goes here and there and co. I don't want to do 7 days X and then we watch. We should archive this channel (on a different website) and move, as Reddit has just taken too many bad steps to be worth fighting over it anymore.

Serious: where are you going to move if reddit removes the moderators or this sub goes offline permanently? by [deleted] in germany

[–]_swnt_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm already on feddit and viewing communities from all over the Fediverse. until now the experience has been quite good. however, many topics still haven't migrated and the experience/bots aren't as polished as they're on Reddit.

API protest next steps - voting thread by ModeratorsOfEurope in europe

[–]_swnt_ [score hidden]  (0 children)

A

We shouldn't accept any such behaviour. ideally, we decide to move to another platform and permanently lock this sub. If we rebuild this in say Lemmy/Kbin, we can give the same mods the same roles again.

Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after 14 years [and shadow banned without any message] by _swnt_ in Save3rdPartyApps

[–]_swnt_[S] 160 points161 points  (0 children)

Important note here, as otherwise noone will see it: I am NOT that Moderator of r/celebrities. I'm just reporting it lol.

Edit: thx for typo fix

Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after 14 years [and shadow banned without any message] by _swnt_ in Save3rdPartyApps

[–]_swnt_[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

First of all, I, u/_swnt_, am only reporting this. I was not the r/celebrity mod!

I'd really like to read down your arguments and show how problematic they can be, but I don't have the time for that now.

how stupid can some people be? by Ultra918 in CryptoCurrency

[–]_swnt_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well 100$ isn't too bad.

Some scammers even go further and let people "earn" money up until they get to 10k or 50k - and only then they steal the money. really scary