Maybe it would be cool to have an interactive version where you could click on any two nodes and it would tell you the actual distance

No, the key fragment is just a bit of text you can send to them by whatever secure side channel you want down to handing them a flash drive. Then when you need to recover the key you ask for it back

Why would you need a password if you already have a private key?

Also, one possible way to manage private keys is to split the key (and the risk/burden) using shamir’s secret sharing and use that process for key recovery if you ever lose it. For example you split it among 6 people you trust and to recover the key, 4 of them need to give you a fragment of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_secret_sharing

well, sometimes people on the internet are women or gay. Also, I don’t think that’s true, Russian internet culture is just really misogynistic (more overtly than the “western” internet) so women sometimes use male pronouns. I’m Russian too and know a few women who do this.

Assuming everyone is male is actually part of the misogyny, please try not to do that

did you just assume my gender partner preference

jk jk, tho I do have medical (mental) problems which make me more or less completely unwilling to engage in those sorts of things with anyone

How can a man with over 10 children be more of an incel than me a literal involuntary celibate

Shout-out to the original homeworld manual

People who emigrated from the Soviet Union often disagreed with its social policy and general way of life. They were more fans of capitalism/individualism as they imagined it, over the Soviet system. This is reflected not just in lifestyle but in politics too, they are a Republican stalwart in a deeply democratic area. I wouldn’t count on them “maintaining Soviet culture”.

Tildes is many years old, founded by a former mod who did a lot of good work to clean up and grow /r/games like 12 years ago and eventually got hired by reddit, then left to start tildes.

Are there any that have a skip annoying laughter feature (/s)

Seriously tho that sort of thing seems like it would mess with the use of pauses for narrative effect

they’re just moving the tumblr backend into the WordPress software. No cause for WordPress.com to be involved

somebody link that avenue q song please

John green sends his regards

That’s weird. The dollar signs come from the community do they not?

This thread is very nice great idea op

Do you mean manipulation from the admins? Because from the spammers perspective not being able to see if your votes went through is pretty inconvenient

It’s like a milder form of how git is open source but GitHub is a centralized service. And all the nice non-git social features such as stars and issues and discussions are proprietary.

For the bsky protcol the extra stuff is (mostly) open source too but it’d still be very expensive to build a reliable full featured alternative so 95% of people just default to GitHub/bsky.app

Strictly speaking it’s not a walled garden for not being compatible with activitypub, it’s just a different protocol. The infrastructure is open source, but some critical parts (the relay) are still run only by bsky pbc with no clear way to switch to a competitor. But anyone can host an account on their own server and connect to the network

It’s not proprietary, the vast majority of their code is open source on their github, and they accept prs

How are they awful? I’ve had one bad and cringy interaction with them but nothing too out of the ordinary