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Discreetly https://github.com/discreetly/
It’s a federated anonymous chat system.
In alpha now. We will be pushing some big updates over the next few weeks.
We broke a bunch of endpoints last night but it should be back up by the end of the week. If you want to try it out DM me for an invite code.
It will still have some state, things like merkle roots will still be verifiable, and any derived/state that isn’t kept from the main chain will have some form of proof that links it to the main chain.
Most actual transactions/normal user stuff is moving to layer 2 chains, which commit a hash or proof of their state to the main chain. So they will still carry their state, but rely on the security of Ethereum main net.
There will still be archive nodes that store everything that’s ever happened, but being a full archive node won’t be required to run a normal node as a validator or as a user. This allows the network to be more decentralized without every node needing 2-4TB of fast nvme to even do anything.
This is why Ethereum is moving to statelessness. Where only a rolling state is saved but the diffs are broadcast and accessible for a certain period of time before they are dropped. So any system listening to an Ethereum node can just follow the root and listen for just changes they care about.
Right, there is a potential path here that could be awesome, non transferable tokens that represent voting rights/karma, and points you can sell that could later be use as “gold” used to be used. But I don’t think that’s what they are doing
Ya exactly, which… I’m curious how they will transition moons and that whole community. There’s a lot of people heavily invested in moons.
They have been working on it and experimenting with it in /r/cryptocurrency for a few years now.
They have been experimenting with this on /r/cryptocurrency for a long time. I was a moderator in that ecosystem and am good friends with some of the mods there. I’ve always been weary of moons, but I didn’t think they would actually bring it to the whole platform.
This is definitely a paradigm shift that’ll be an interesting dumpster fire to watch.
I work on Ethereum related things full time (and love the core parts of it), but I also, like you, think most crypto stuff is a slimy scam. Stuff like this is exactly why. It’s a way for reddit to encourage bots to farm karma for real/fake money on garbage repost content.
I know crypto/blockchain in general is mostly hated in this community, and stuff like this absolutely does not help.
In some ways yes, but current solutions arent always the best solutions. They aren’t always the most secure, or the fastest, or the most private, or the most trustworthy. With almost all main stream solutions, you have to trust some company, and then they have their fees, and sell your personal information to data brokers, and they try to get you in debt, etc. It’s not a solution looking for a problem, it’s a solution that isnt nearly as easy to use as current systems (yet), but all the hype has let scammers ride the wave.
Crypto is far from perfect, we have plenty of work to do, but don’t discount it entirely. There is a lot of smart people with good intentions working on the core technologies, that want to see a better world, me included. Definitely continue to be skeptical, but don’t write it off.
I believe it’s the future and I 100% understand how it works. There are a ton of bad ideas, scams, and money grabs… But at the core the fundamental technologies have a lot of potential.
Edit: to those that downvote, I’m willing to be civil and discuss if you want. If you want to down vote and move on that’s cool too, I definitely get the skepticism.
We all want a free and better Internet, that’s why we are on lemmy. The core principals of bitcoin, Ethereum, monero (and a few others) are that. I don’t want scams, or a bunch of “digital collectible”/nft cash grabs either.
Crypto would actually be a good idea, if we did it on a smart contract platform we could have part of the money go to the user and part go to the platform, but the platform wouldn’t be in control of how that worked, it would be up to the user to decide what % the platform got.
If this has any serious interest I will shepherd this.
This is how gold started on reddit back in the day and devolved into this.
Why nostr?
Lol I used like to promote lemmy
Well I just spent the rest of my coins (7k) on promoting lemmy in that thread lol. I was done with reddit before, but now I know reddit is really done.
Gold was introduced as a way to help sustain server costs, then it was a money grab.
For smaller communities it probably matters less, but as soon as you break a certain point it becomes a fair bit of work, even with bots.
I like the idea of voting mods out, but I think the bar should be rather high. If 2/3 of the other mods want a top mod out, definitely out them. With the community it’s a bit harder because for smaller communities that can be gamed with bots.
I think we are still figuring out sophisticated mod tools, but the community is nice, the admins are awesome, and everyone seems to be pretty much on the same page about an open and cooperative internet.
That, and when switching from reddit to Lemmy I realized how toxic the relationship there was, and I just use all social media way less now.