Tongue firmly planted in cheek, of course :P
You should make another prediction now for what social networks will be like in another 7 years
In the distant future of 2030, social networking between the scattered bands of surviving humans will be facilitated by ham operators bouncing packet radio off the few remaining satellite repeaters, and importing the responses they receive into their clan’s scavenged network via FidoNet.
Cq cq cq this is callsign. Anyone around
!RemindMe 7 years
ham operators
Imagine all the spam, though.
c/dadjokes is leaking !
it was a good one though.
Uh, shitty?
That’s what it is in three days.
For the most part, we’re already there. Fediverse is the only saving grace.
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/u/lotec
Is there an alternative to reddit, like reddit was to digg?
/u/tornadobob
I’d like to see a p2p version of reddit. That would help to keep it out of the hands of corporations. I for one live having a well organized site, but hate being at the mercy of a bunch of people in a board room.
/u/stratos
I think that could open a whole different can of worms, depending on the implementation. I’m not sure how I would feel about my connection being used to route traffic for subreddits with questionable/borderline illegal/copyrighted content, for example. It would just offload some potential legal problems from the site’s admins to its users.
/u/Thrashy
My thought was that you could build it a bit like XMPP, where individual servers can choose to federate with others, and provide a system where a user of one server can use his identity three on all federated servers. Think of it as having a “home” sub that talks to others in a web of connected subreddits, all of which honor the user identities of other connected subreddits.
I’m a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too!
Thanks for this
good bot
Didn’t think i’d miss those dumb bots, but i kinda do
Shakespearean bot always came through at the worst possible times to make me laugh, like it would almost intentionally pick posts that were heated and finally cooled off only for it to come in for the punchline.
the unit conversion bot was a nice QoL feature on the technical subs I tended to hang out on.
Shitty Unit Conversion Bot was good for a laugh too.
That last part though. The fact that identity isn’t federated sucks.
Gratitude Nostradamus
Nostradevmus
Which stocks should I buy? Is his bump cancer?
The bump is probably Peyronie’s disease
THAT LUMP IS A CAT AND IT HAS A NAME
His name is Robert Pawlson!
Hail to Thrashy the inventor! Commemorate his memory by holding your poop for the promised period
I’ll be like that guy who claimed to invent email!
Damn. You’re e streets ahead
I wish I was more tech savvy to have the foresight for future tech applications. I’m already a dev damnit but I can usually only focus on the now or the immediate future.
How widespread was the concept of federation is the beforetimes of 2016?
That’s uncanny. How did you get it so close?
EDIT: Actually not close, bang on!
I was very excited about Diaspora right up to the point that I realized there was no way in hell that any of my real-life friends and family were going to go through the effort of setting up profiles just to talk to nerdy ol’ me. The network effect was just not their friend.
o7
I’m still waiting for mine, ugh
Nostradevmus
o7
Only got two points because you made their heads hurt. ;)
What kind of data dump? GDPR?
