the opinions are part of a larger landscape.
what do you think about morlonpoke's crusade against people running their own servers?
maybe moxie is beating around the bush about harsh political situations so that the article gets heard, and telling others to do the same so that their work will get used. it makes it harder to read for me, which keeps me efficiently focused on my decentralised preferences with others with similar preferences. every approach to solve problems is a helpful one. try them all, some of them end up working, then you can solve the problems that remain. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: Idea: Owning Artworks On GNUnet using Non-Fungible Hashes To: gnunet-developers@gnu.org As much as I notoriously doubt that the end-to-end encryption Whatsapp actually stops agencies from having any insight, I appreciate Moxie's recent dive into the world of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html I heard similar doubts from CCC people last summer, but it is good for someone to put it in strong and clear terms, combining it with the critique against federation and open standards which the secushare.org website has been carrying for a decade now. The following implies you read that blog post first. It's an interesting worthwhile read. The "Web3" is a joke, as much as the people that claim to be into "crypto", then even fail to put a hash of a piece of art into the blockchain rather than just somebody else's URL. Obviously while I read all of that, I thought how on the basis of GNUnet instead it could all work out for real. 1. GNUnet is *meant* to run on all devices, including smartphones. The phone companies may have to adapt! There must not arise any "platform" web services that run the GNUnet node for you. We switched to AGPL license because of this and should pressure any alternative implementation of GNUnet to also be released under Affero GPL or stricter! As soon as we allow nodes to be run elsewhere than on the device of the owner, several of our design goals are gone - and the article illustrates how people do not care. 2. We already have consensus protocols on top of GNUnet. If we add a ledger we can store the ownership of hashes of artworks which AFAIR also happen to be the handles for retrieval on gnunet-fs. 3. If we implement the social graph in secushare.org we can avoid using dirty proof-of-work but rather provide a blockchain by proof-of-having-a-life. The proof that you exist and have a life is the fact that you have a social surrounding which isn't just avatars you created yourself. So, whoopa, we have a new Internet with a new distributed Facebook/Skype replacement, a way to do blockchain apps without ruining the environment and a way to prove ownership of digital artworks.