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I want to read a comic book about a superhero who's power is the ability to smell things FROM THE FUTURE!

I look forward to the day when gmail.com e-mail addresses are an embarrassing relic of a naive era... kind of like how aol.com addresses are these days.

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Thanks, @JustMatthew!

I just learned about "POSSE" (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere). I've been half-assedly doing this forever. This wiki has some great tips! https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started

I was just to someone about "peeping" and realized that I shouldn't be bragging about "peeping" without context, haha. "I was peeping all morning, it was awesome."

That'd work. Any idea how to do that? I recall needing a non-zero balance to save a new account too, so that'd have to be changed. Need to make all fees optional, and have a checkbox in profile for donation. If the Peep faucet runs out, the peeps stop flowing until people donate.

WiFi isn't free, but I have an open network that anyone can use without notifying or paying me. It would be nice if more blockchain tech was like that. Could I theoretically run a zero-gas Ethereum node or something? I (and others) will pay for the system so that it can be free.

I'm just beginning to teach myself modular synthesis with https://vcvrack.com/. You got any favorite artists? I haven't found many... I like https://soundcloud.com/colinbenders alright.

Thanks @tonyherrera!

Thanks! Yeah, I was just about to post that we're all paying to be on the permanent record here. Good conversation, but not really a good conversational interface yet.

Yeah, that's why I suggested a lottery system. Disposable groups of strangers are probably less corruptible? But also probably more likely to troll or abstain from voting... We could add a reputation system to incentivize participation, but then Orwellian spiral...

Haha! That's awesome. I wish I could.

But that still doesn't solve the GDPR issue. There has to be a way to permanently delete things for the purpose of privacy without succumbing to political censorship. Maybe a moderation group picked by lottery that validates that it's embarrasing, not political.

I would love to see voluntary censorship, where, for example, if I got drunk and uploaded picture of my butt as my background image, I could flag it as "embarrasing". Another member who chooses to respect personal privacy could opt not to see anything "embarrasing".

Yeah, something... I think government is the wrong direction. A non-profit would be better, but still probably too centralized. It needs to be run by a smart contract that accepts donations and auto-scales the donation cap based on the actual gas cost...

One last thing: if any of you is curious about decentralization or blockchain stuff, contact me and I'll happily talk to you about it. I can help you take your first steps too: buy a few dollars worth of ETH, setup Metamask, etc. It's not hard, but it is different.

The last few posts were all auto-tweeted to Twitter because I connected my accounts, but that's just enabling you folks to stay on Twitter. Goodbye for real this time. All my future posts will be found https://peepeth.com/evanstucker.

I don't have a problem with the cost either, but even one penny effectively makes this service pay-walled. "Free" is critical to mass adoption. I wish there was a way for me to run a node that could charge 0 gas, and put stuff on the blockchain for other people for free.

Haha, I think the phrase "it's a feature, not a bug" is a bug. And I'd argue that flagging things to censor them is also a bug. I guess since it's all in IPFS, it's never really deleted... and that's gonna pose some challenges for public acceptance and GDPR compliance.

I guess the cost of imitating a centralized app is speed and indexing. We'd need a bunch of Golem jobs scraping all the IPFS content to create meta-tags for topics like "portland", "bmx", or "gardening". I'm just rambling, because I can submit up to 15 posts for a penny, heh.

IPFS is free. Seems like we should be able to create a name like peepeth.evanstucker.com, point it at IPFS where we have a file like peepeth.json, and then register our name at peepeth.com. Then peepeth.com could just load content from IPFS sites of people you follow...

Full disclosure: this new, exciting future isn't 100% free, which irks me. A post on Peepeth costs about one penny, can take a couple hours to propagate, and can't be deleted. I feel like blockchain isn't quite the right solution for a Twitter clone, but it's still better...

I'm actively moving to decentralized services, because I only want to see content posted by my friends - no more ads! Not many people are on these new services yet, but if we all take a step in the right direction, we'll get there. Goodbye Twitter, hello Peepeth.