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Yes.
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-activity-pub
It is currently being tested at SocialHub (though only selected topics are federated, @feps@socialhub.activitypub.rocks
and a couple of others)
Developer of ActivityPub-based micro-blogging and content subscription platform Mitra. Admin of mitra.social instance.
Yes.
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-activity-pub
It is currently being tested at SocialHub (though only selected topics are federated, @feps@socialhub.activitypub.rocks
and a couple of others)
@OrangeFren @monero Activity in Lemmy network might have subsided since the Reddit Migration, but it is certainly not dying. Today there are 768 instances with the largest one having 18469 MAUs.
The important thing about federation is that there is no downside. You get a regular forum with all benefits of a self-hosting, but now people don’t have to register on it in order to participate. For example, monero.town currently has 83 MAUs, and you can access that audience for free simply by using a different software.
I previously mentioned Discourse, which has a federation plugin, but it is not the only forum engine to choose from. NodeBB is working on federation (almost finished), and Flarum too. These engines will be fully interoperable with Lemmy, and partially with micro-blogging apps like Mastodon and Threads.
So, yeah, you’re right about this being an uncharted territory, but I see a lot of potential here
@OrangeFren @monero Why make a non-federated forum? You can run a Lemmy or a Discourse instance, and let people from monero.town and beyond participate in discussions. Otherwise there won’t be much activity
>There is no social media using tipping as piconeros
There is, I’m using it right now. Try to click on the “fediverse” icon near my comment, and on my site you’ll see a donation button.
>looking for opinions and discussion of this could be done in Monero.town
The easiest way is to convince Lemmy devs to implement profile fields: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2411
After that you can add a machine readable XMR address to your profile
@DisgracedDoctor @monero @monerobull I think this is because monero today is a boring tool that just works. The community calmed down and many activists/shills moved to greener pastures. This is probably a good thing
If you want more activity in fediverse, you can try to get micro-blogging sector going. There are many people who are interested in monero but no organization. I’ve seen a couple of accounts run by projects which mostly cross-post from twitter and do not engage with audience. No follow lists. We had a xmrposter Pleroma instance, but it was shut down.
@tusker @monero Chain growth is a real problem that is often dismissed because storage prices are falling. This makes sense when you’re small and there is not much activity, but that could change in the future.
However, I don’t think you can simply drop old blocks without burning someone’s savings? One probably should look into what Ethereum people are doing with their state expiry proposals.
@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.
@Eggroley I have no time for shitcoin research. If there are other CHIP sites, it shouldn’t be difficult for you to present them.
>Decision making being done by multiple unaffiliated people from multiple different teams on different node software and, CHIPs taking multiple years and iterations to achieve consensus seems to fit the definition of decentralized governance pretty well.
If 10 guys talking on a forum and deciding what’s best for all users of a network counts as “decentralized”, then yeah, maybe it is.
@Eggroley We were talking about CHIPs at https://bch.info/en/chips. There’s a website and a github repo, likely controlled by the same person. Looks very official to me, and very centralized. More generally, there’s no such thing as “decentralized governance”. You can have anarchy / free market, or you can have a centralized decision making process, but not both.
@japananon @monero I talked with some devs and learned about plans to add GUI for mutlisig to Feather wallet. But it is not clear when this will happen because Monero multisig still has experimental status (its security is not proven).
I could try to build an alternative wallet app, but there’s a risk that Feather will add it first and my effort would be wasted.
Also, this just popped up in my feed: https://monero.im/post/3925
@japananon @monero I could build one, sounds like an interesting project.
There was an old system based on BitMessage, but it is unusable and unmaintainted: https://www.getmonero.org/resources/user-guides/multisig-messaging-system.html.
Someone is trying to build I2P-based version with an integrated marketplace: https://github.com/creating2morrow/neveko. It doesn’t look very usable either, and developer is trying to do everything at once, which is usually a bad idea.
I would make it as a standalone tool that can work on clearnet and can connect to other software
@japananon @monero Apparently it was never attempted. What is so great about Nunchuk, integrated chat?
Given that monero-wallet-rpc provides CLI interface, GUI shouldn’t be difficult to build. I think it can be even built by integrating multisig into an existing chat or social application.
@japananon @monero monero-wallet-rpc can manage multisig wallets, but I’ve never tried it: https://monerodocs.org/interacting/monero-wallet-rpc-reference/#make_multisig
This functionality doesn’t seem to be available in Monero GUI.
@tusker There seems to be an overlap in functionality between Kuno and my project Mitra, which also provides a way to support individuals with XMR.
Have you looked at it? The software is well-maintained, and has federation capabilities (I’m posting to monero.town from my own server right now). If any feature is missing (e.g. the ability to set goals), I could add it.
@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