As others have said, lack of privacy is what makes BitTorrent not the best tool.

Other things may be inconvenient (like good old XDCC or using Google Disk for piracy), or “invisible Joe” (like ed2k, gnutella and Usenet, due to all of these just not being sufficiently monitored by law enforcement or neighbors interested in your porn taste) cases.

And Freenet, I2P (with iMule and what else there is, there was some sharing thing similar to ed2k in experience), RetroShare are not sufficiently popular.

In general good things are not popular.

My point is, let’s wait for Locutus and whether it succeeds in transforming the Web.

XMPP would be better, but this is something, yes.

Just a different walled garden.

My Russian friends are all in VK, my Russian relatives are all in Telegram, my Armenian relatives are all in Facebook Messenger, and my American relatives are all in WhatsApp and Skype.

I’m so tired of this shit TBF. Is it so hard to just install Conversations once for Android and whatever for iOS?

I mean, that’s the way trademark laws in theory should work. Who got there first gets the logo. And the other side gets Jobs’ mummified dick with some salt.

I’ve met people saying that animals are property and thus something like this is not a crime.

Dunno why it came to my mind now.

Ah. That it’s a good test showing that rights and responsibilities can’t, in fact, be completely symmetric. An animal may not have responsibilities, but it shouldn’t be abused.

Ah, student loans are, in fact, a problem. One-time relief of student debts is a good thing - provided there are no new debts on such a scale and the mechanism changes after that.

Charity sponsorship of students is a good thing without doubt. Private stipends are a good thing. But when loans which are not going to be returned in a normal way are becoming that common, then something is wrong and should be fixed, not poured more money into.

They are a cause of inflation in education (which, of course, harms the students as well), of people like AOC talking and being listened about economics, because on paper they would be qualified, and so on.

I agree with this.

My point was that the way “first world” eats isn’t scalable, be it the old way or the vegan way, which you said too.

Well, yes, this requires production of similar scale at every stage of the chain. With animals it’s animal food, drugs, various machinery in production, etc, which also cost less due to scale on which they are produced.

Green alternatives in this case have a potential be honestly (without subsidies or anything) cheaper in the end.

How much more expensive would such a diet be? Some plant-based foods can cost a lot depending on place and logistics.

That’s the question, and it’s an important one - it’s the same reason as why, say, WWW which started decentralized has become what it is now for most people. People do what’s easier and cheaper for them.

I’m not calling people “soy boys”, but people for whom you have to make such a diet not even plausible, but cheaper or as cheap as the existing ones, do not live in developed countries. Talk about the environment is not worth anything else for them.

Humans need some meat in their ration, and lab grown replacements etc are now too expensive for most of the planet.

However, “some” doesn’t mean a burger or two every day, so yes, there’s space for improvement. Meat is really expensive in terms of carbon emissions.

Frankly I’m not sure how one would notably reduce emissions of anything without actual control (like by force) over most of the world, where green stuff is less relevant than hunger and illiteracy.

But maybe it’s best that USA and EU and similar developed countries don’t have that control. I mean, green energy etc sometimes seem more important than actual lives being saved for many.

Possible if they respect your opinion, not really if you are a weird guy with a disorder whom they like, but are not going to take as a tech authority or something.

I already had this with recommending Linux (and other Unix-like OSes). All my attempts to even talk about it were taken with zero understanding, but once another person tried Fedora and liked it, this started spreading like a virus.

Well, there’s a question of how exactly are they going to do this.

XMPP? Everybody who had XMPP has dropped it. It’s not at all obsolete, but the fact is that companies don’t like it.

Closed federation between friends with some proprietary protocol (possible with XMPP too, though)? Well, so I’ll be able to write to WhatsApp users from Facebook Messenger or Viber. Doesn’t change much, TBF.

I mean, I can imagine them setting something up for identities and private messages from them going back and forth. But practically important features would likely still be locked.

Well, at least after this crisis ends with some decentralized solution (I hope for Locutus despite its authors’ communicative problems), we’ll leave such mistakes in the past for like 50 years, or so I hope.

Same age here. However the problem is not only that, but also our (as in “people enthusiastic and understanding of it”) failure to communicate to “normies” (yes, it’s a derogatory term, but a deserved one) what the Web is and how it should function, and what are the threats.

I’m very optimistic about Locutus (Freenet 2023), looks quite similar to things I dreamed about for a long time, only this time it’s real. Imagine dreaming about spaceships and then seeing one built for the same general goal, but for bloody real.

It may really be a changing point (provided it doesn’t get banned and regulated, which is unironically a risk ; remember how BTC ban was being considered in many countries until it became clear that it doesn’t have the potential to be a daily currency due to well-known downsides).

Oh, I remember this from my childhood. Actually it was a very special feeling - physically getting a VHS with a movie, watching it and then returning it.

There’s such a word - ergonomics. This has sunk very low in our days. Maybe the lowest since WWII (well, I think I’ve read somewhere that WWII was what made industrial engineers realize that interfaces should be intuitively understandable).

This is a chicken and egg problem, today’s Web is so horrible exactly because most of the boors in it treat it with disgust from the very first moment and try to avoid choices, thus make the worst choices possible.

I mean, it’s a golden rule - if you don’t know what to do, do something. They don’t out of fear, just consume what they are being given, which is the very thing they should fear.

Same, only maybe that point for me is a bit later, ICQ and old Skype were nice as well ; I would rather fancy these, only replaced with more decentralized things like XMPP and something instead of Skype.