What would they compensate for?
Readit NewsIdea to solve the crypto energy problem - sell space heaters as dual purpose crypto miners. People need space heaters. They buy them, but they also mine crypto (as a free byproduct of the space heating). The number of crypto mining space heaters out there dilute the value of dedicated mining so much that people don't bother with it anymore. Even buying the space heater to make money from mining crypto doesn't make that much money - due to the fact that so many space heaters are crypto miners. Problem solved?
Edit/Multi-Reply: Heat pumps are efficient, but they don't replace all practical use cases for a space heater.
This can't work because it just raises the efficiency of mining. That means mining will become cheaper. That means your reward is higher. That means you can mine more for the same money. That means every miner does that, increasing the part of the heat that's wasted.
In the end, the exact same amount will be 'wasted' as before.
lainsoykaf commented on Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server pleroma.social/... · Posted by u/ve55
Are you with Mastodon or Pieroma?
ah, sorry, pleroma :)
lainsoykaf commented on Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server pleroma.social/... · Posted by u/ve55
Any easy to follow along guide where you implement your own compatible ActivityPub server?
Gargron wrote one: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-bas...
/rant
For those that dont agree (downvoters), feel free to self host mozilla sync server and for added fun, try to do it on freebsd - then you will understand my point. For developers on mastadon - I hope you did get my point and will improve this as it might considerably increase your usage base.
My biggest problem with all "those" platforms is that I want to have it self hosted. I expect one directory/executable (no, not docker) with everything I need to run it, instead of fishing for different parts all over package managers etc. I will exclude database from this. Or nginx/apache proxy configuration.
Same issue as matrix - i would love to run it but what is too much is too much. Maybe once the golang engine is finished, if they dont blew it and make a huge dependency tree for nodejs.
I am so sorry but if I proceed with the philosophy that projects have for the deployment, I will run out of storage and spend my whole life just updating packages. Not to mention if I decide to not use it.
I think that all complex projects are doing the same mistake for last 20 years: they always ignore the "packing" or the end distribution form that their project will have at the end - a huge number of different blobs with 3rd party dependencies are created and it is just expected that this is trivial for end user to set up and maintain.
/rant off
We started doing OTP releases in Pleroma for this reason: https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/otp...
It certainly is a valid use-case, but if you want something that is simpler to manage, look at pleroma and the Soapbox frontend. Pleroma takes way less resources and you'd be able to run on a Raspberry PI.
Another thing to consider, though, is to not run something like a social network and instead just get matrix and create group rooms for your family? Everyone would still be able to share updates and even call each other. Not only you eliminate the need of Facebook, but also WhatsApp/Messenger.
I run a matrix server myself and can not really recommend doing so. It takes a lot of resources and the way e2ee is done is at least questionable.
lainsoykaf commented on Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server pleroma.social/... · Posted by u/ve55
Isn't one of the advantages of Mastodon that it has much better moderation tools? It's kinda hard to tell by the homepage.
We have more fine grained moderation tools, but they are more complicated. We're making it easier in our admin frontend all the time, though.
lainsoykaf commented on Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server pleroma.social/... · Posted by u/ve55
>It does seem that Mastodon was the first one and has more functionality
Pleroma has rich text support, emoji reacts, polls with more than 4 answers... It never struck me as having less features than Mastodon, except maybe when it hadn't gotten polls yet at all some months back.
Don't forget the chat system, soon to be released :)
I love open source software as much as the next HN reader, but there's something so unappealing about not just Mastodon, but Matrix, and all the other social software out there today.