Tongue firmly planted in cheek, of course :P

  • l4sgc@beehaw.orgEnglish
    64·
    2 years ago

    You should make another prediction now for what social networks will be like in another 7 years

  • cyberic@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    Image Transcription: Reddit Comments

    /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!

        • MoonRocketeer@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.

        • Thrashy@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.

  • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    Hail to Thrashy the inventor! Commemorate his memory by holding your poop for the promised period

  • Scorch@kbin.social
    9·
    2 years ago

    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?

    • Thrashy@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.