@simping4xmrchan

>Instead, he points out the ease of creating incentives for individuals to voluntarily register for an Internet ID by making life significantly easier \[2\] for those who do so (similar to how a driver’s license is not required, but life is difficult without one).

This is also called "nudging". It is an important mass-control tool the modern techno-industrial-media state has.

http://ybgg2evrcdz37y2qes23ff3wjqjdn33tthgoagi76vhxytu4mpxiz5qd.onion/wiki/Nudge_theory?lang=en

@opal @ShadowRebel I agree. Do the tabulations. List the pros and cons, and see if you want to use matrix dendrite.

@shortwavesurfer unbelievable that some corpos turn to subpar solutions like LN. Many people can't get that working (re: SethforPrivacy's recent tweet).

Monero could've easily supplanted bitcoin for use in paying kagi, or to ivpn for that matter. Ivpn has recently announced a small-time vpn subscription service, and they also announced they will take LN payments for it. Good luck getting it working.

@shortwavesurfer

>Plus they now accept crypto as payment

They aren't accepting Monero yet, I guess.

@shortwavesurfer @rar any advantage in using kagi instead of various searxNG/whoogle instances that are free to use? Also, brave's search engine is getting better.

@shortwavesurfer why did dgoon stop making the developer segment?

@Saki

>Tor network relies on a relatively small number of “centralized” node operators.

Here's a recent talk that argues to the contrary: https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57172-a_guided_tour_through_tor_network_health_and_performance

@Saki I like I2P. I use it for my torrenting activities, it is great---no need for VPNs for torrenting anymore.

However, Tor has its own advantages, being more reachable by a greater number of people who might not be as tech savvy as us, is one of them. Like it or not, Tor's abundant exit nodes is one other advantage that it has over I2P. In the case of something like mitra.social microblogging service, if one hosts a onion-only instance of it, Tor allows him to federate with clearnet peers over the exit nodes, and thus allow the onion-only instances of mitra/pleroma to be also in connect with the greater fediverse.

>the Tor network relies on a relatively small number of “centralized” node operators.

Any sources that makes you say that?

@simping4xmrchan don't mind me just trying posting to lemmy from my mitra instance. Let's see how will activitypub behave.