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Mid 50s, first went online on a 70s BBS, JANET user in the 80s.

  • Its strength was in running the same operation on large sets of data rather than general purpose computing. So specialist hardware would need to be developed for real time input and a graphical display (which would need to be able to draw the screen from the data the Cray produced. )

    I think a better comparison would be a modern GPU.

    A Cray 1 could do approx 160,000,000 floating point operations per second. A modern GPU can do 1,600,000,000,000 per second.

  • And that’s were moderation (the act of moderation) comes in as a first step rather than instant defederation.

  • I haven’t mentioned anything about Trans people at all ? There’s nothing to negotiate and I don’t disagree that trans people have a right to be treated with respect and have their rights respected.

  • I get what you’re saying. There’s a mindset in the fediverse that everyone on an instance is responsible for it. Even if the bad actors join later. The instance gets defederated but as a user it can be really hard to know if your instance is defederated.

    It’s a deeply unpopular opinion and anyone who suggests that federation is simultaneously a huge advance and a big problem seems to get downvoted.

    You’re right, ultimately instead of being exposed to a range of views some of which are challenging we’ll end up in little echo chambers.

    We need more moderation and less defederation.