Has anyone discussed with admins of the notabug and saidit and the others, getting them federated with lemmy?

Their users get access to more content, which makes them stronger. They get access to more users. Each one can control whether its culture gets diluted or preserved.

All the services become more vibrant and sustainable. It sounds like a win-win.

Are they interested? Is it technically possible?

  • nromdotcom
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    4 years ago

    From a technical standpoint, sure someone could make a “votechain” link aggregator. Which I assume is what you mean by proof of work voting.

    Heck, I’m certain there’s already one out there given how many misapplications of blockchain there are out there.

    They couldn’t federate with “Fediverse” (colloquial name for ActivityPub) software, though, since the whole point of blockchain is that it can’t get input from outside of the network as it is not cryptographically secure.

    Anonymous posting would, generally speaking, be possible with ActivityPub. I don’t know about the Lemmy-centric activities that are currently implemented and if something would get weird. But speaking about general Fediverse software it would work. But given that Lemmy currently works by opt-in federation, it’s possible that major instances would not opt to federate with such instances.

    • roastpotatothiefOP
      1·
      4 years ago

      What I mean is that I like notabug.io. It has two features which attract a certain, slightly obnoxious but interesting and well-informed, userbase.

      1. Proof of work voting. To post or vote, the site makes your computer run a CPU intensive job. It takes a couple of seconds to run. You can vote on the same post many times, if you’re willing to spend the time and battery power.
      2. Anonymous posting and voting. This means people post odd things. There is lots of empty racism and spam, but also unique perspectives and ideas.

      But there is no future in notabug IMO, or in any of these very niche but valuable forums. It will keep losing users and turn into a spambot. But it could be revived as a Lemmy instance.

      Many other instances won’t want to federate with it but I don’t think that’s a problem.

      And other instances could be created to try out other kinds of voting, to see what kind of cultures develop and what works well.