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  • sub.club Emerges to Offer Paid Fediverse Subscriptions

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  • @deadsuperhero @fediverse You cite an abandoned project and withdrawn WebMonetization FEP and then say "most efforts have not advanced beyond the planning stages". This statement is misleading because those planning stages are far behind us. Mitra had subscriptions since 2022 and there are other projects that provide monetization options, like PeerTube Lightning plugin and PeerTube Premium Users plugin. FEP-0ea0 and FEP-0837 were published and implemented. Your co-author @quillmatiq should be well aware of these developments because we talked about it

  • sub.club Emerges to Offer Paid Fediverse Subscriptions

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  • @deadsuperhero @fediverse

    Why did't you mention Mitra, the open source and fully decentralized Fediverse service that also offers paid subscriptions, and which has been around for several years?

  • Is there any real or serious conversation or work around the idea of a feature-full social media browser?

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  • @maegul @fediverse Some ActivityPub implementations already work as social media browsers. For example, my server can interact with microblogs, but also forums, blogs, events etc. The more activity / object types are supported, the closer software is to a browser.

  • Hack Liberty's Lemmy Instance is now available over Tor!

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  • Haveno Decentralised Exchange Dispute resolution (Fiat -> XMR)

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  • @nihilist @monero Consider the following situations:

    Bob and Arbitrator are colluding against Alice Bob and Arbitrator are the same person

    I think this system needs a higher authority to function properly. And there's a simple non-technical solution to this problem. If you don't agree with Arbitrator's ruling, you make the case public and provide proofs. As a result, Arbitrator's reputation is destroyed.

    Someone can even create a rating service similar to @kycnotme that will list arbitrators with good reputation

  • Idea/Help: P2P Monero Marketplace Over Nostr

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  • @monero @rafaelxmr I know how Nostr works, I just don't think it is better. However, if it still be around in a year or two, I might consider using Nostr relays for storing AP data. Why not, if this infrastructure already exists

  • Idea/Help: P2P Monero Marketplace Over Nostr

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  • Idea/Help: P2P Monero Marketplace Over Nostr

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  • @mistermonster @monero Yes, this is me. I'm choosing fediverse for several reasons 1) almost everyone I care about is here 2) I think it's actually very important to be in contact with people who maintain infrastructure (admins) 3) ActivityPub is an open protocol which is not controlled by anyone 4) better protocol design overall

    Many existing implementations suffer from the lack of data portability but I figured out how to fix that.

  • Idea/Help: P2P Monero Marketplace Over Nostr

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  • @treetrnk @monero I recommend building on ActivityPub instead.

    You'll be able to connect to monero.town and to everything else in Fediverse. See https://codeberg.org/grindhold/flohmarkt for example. It is a bit unfinished but people are already using it. If you're python dev you can even fork it.

  • Idea: fediverse of ecommerce. Time to dethrone amazon and ebay. What do you think?

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  • @Ferminho @maegul This proposal describes a very simple marketplace, and some things were intentionally left out. However, it is based on Valueflows system which can be used to describe many different economic processes, including planning, production and transportation:

    https://www.valueflo.ws/introduction/core/

    So developers may use object types and properties defined there if they want to build something more complicated. And social interactions can be represented as standard ActivityPub activities. I think Valueflows and ActivityPub nicely complement each other.

  • [CCS] Alternative Monero node written in Rust has moved to Funding Required

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  • @kowalabearhugs Currently, some parts of Cuprate are licensed under AGPL-3. This means anyone using this code should keep their derivative works as open source and use the same license. The license protects the project from hostile forks and generally serves as a deterrent against privatization of public goods. Lemmy, Mastodon and many other Fediverse servers use AGPL-3 license and it is totally reasonable choice for Cuprate too.

    However, when this CCS proposal was discussed some people started to push aggressively against AGPL (going as far as calling it "legal nightmare") and the developer agreed to change the license and even agreed to re-write AGPL-licensed parts of the application if needed.

    As I said, this is a mistake, and makes Monero weaker. I think Cuprate may eventually become a dominant implementation because Rust provides a better security and developer experience, and a big chunk of modern cryptographic libraries is being written in Rust (especially in zero-knowledge cryptography). But now any company can safely use Cuprate as part of their infrastructure because it has business-friendly license, create a closed-source fork and hire developers who were previously working on open-source version.

    The change of license is basically a signal that corporate interests are more important than interests of ordinary users. As for examples of where this attitude leads, see any cryptocurrency project where companies or "foundations" pay developers for their work and therefore shape the product. Exceptions are rare, and Monero is one of few that relies on donations and crowdfunding.

  • [CCS] Alternative Monero node written in Rust has moved to Funding Required

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  • @Rucknium

    All code produced for this CCS will be licensed under MIT.

    The decision to change license from AGPL to MIT was a mistake. And what is particularly concerning, apparently a lot of people are okay with that.

    Such attitude led to demise of many other communities where independence was sacrificed for "adoption" and corporate takeover was perceived as a good thing.