redereferencing

omg, what a word :o :D

but in general, yes you’re right, adding DIDs to the game is interesting, and making the DIDs also valid URLs is even more interesting. I have been thinking about a similar DID mechanism, where the DIDs are not URLs but public cryptographic keys. this way, each human could prove that many accounts are all signed with the same key, and therefore belong to the same human.

Edit: oh wait i think the official(?) DID specification (here: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-1.0/) actually already expresses this concept:

Each DID document can express cryptographic material, verification methods, or services, which provide a set of mechanisms enabling a DID controller to prove control of the DID. Services enable trusted interactions associated with the DID subject. A DID might provide the means to return the DID subject itself, if the DID subject is an information resource such as a data model.

Realistically, that doesn’t happen. At least not if we consider mathematics to be the useful kind of mathematics. The stuff that helps you do statistics/finances/engineering. Because that type of mathematics is based on reality and for the mathematics to be inconsistent would mean that reality is inconsistent, and then we have much much bigger problems.

As for the higher abstract maths (which is closer to philosophy anyways) yeah such things have happened many times and led to revolutionary insights each time. An example is when we started basing everything on set theory (which in medieval times did not really exist). But that’s a philosophical question, not one that concerns daily life.

yeah i guess so.

basically either a keyserver, or you give your key manually to all your friends with a QR code scan or sth

that’s pretty interesting!

short-term profit i guess. tech companies get unlimited ability to fuck over society’s minds, trump gets some propaganda or sth, idk.

to be honest, it might have a significant impact. the US tech today serves a global market, but if that market gets reduced to just the US, that is probably a significant cut.

“ownership” is really just about being able to make the decisions how things are being used, i realized that recently.

Very interesting!

I agree with your point that a user account without a canonical URL to send messages to could not have an inbox, and therefore never get DMs or notifications if somebody commented on their post.

I had not thought of that before but it seems obvious to me in retrospect. Obviously, to receive messages, you need some kind of machine-address, where these messages will be sent to. And that’s what this is for:

They expect it to point to a valid JSON-LD document describing the actor which they can request.

Because it describes the inbox address.

Your data hoster is the instance you have your account on, not the one the community is on. Your instance just shares the posts you make on it with the community, but all it receives is a copy. The canonical version is on your instance, discuss.tchncs.de.

That’s truly fascinating knowledge, thank you. It makes sense because in the ActivityPub protocol, each user has an outbox, and published posts go there. So of course, other communities simply reference that instead of actually holding the post.

This means, then, that communities aren’t actually so much lists of posts, but lists of references to posts, i.e. when i post to /c/a@lemmy.world, that community simply gets notified about the canonical link to my post, which actually resides in my outbox on this server. Thanks for making me think about all of this!

it has actually good content too! and it’s not all drowned in politics, which is good. most people don’t wanna hear the 100th news article about trump in a week.

Tiktok was putting me off because main content in its peak was “teenagers dancing.”

I mean it depends on what you want to get from social media. I would argue that things got worse afterwards when it stopped being teenagers dancing and started being right-wing influencers spewing their propaganda. Ultimately, social media should be made by the people contributing to it and how it develops depends on what the users want, not on what you want.

I just learned that loops is developed by the Pixelfed project! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelfed#Loops

walking is hard on knees because we walk on asphalt and concrete, which are not what our body is made for. our body is made for the soft dirt grounds of forests and fields

so you’re saying that machines can never be responsible for anything?

what about an elevator going up/down between building’s stories? they navigate automatically (bring you to the correct destination) with no human intervention. they’re the perfect example of autonomous machines having agency. of course you have to press the button, but the rest is done by the machine.

how is that different from a computer system making decisions. i think the only reasonable objection to AI one could have is that it’s a stochastic process and has inherently unpredictable outcomes, so we can’t rely on it.

Not to protect the “humanity” of a bunch of math, but to protect ours.

wise words

we need to figure out how to/not to embed AI into the world, i.e. where it meaningfully belongs/doesn’t belong. that’s what humanity is all about, after all: organizing the world in proper ways.

and if we fail that task, then what are we here for?

so you’re saying that true intelligence comes from institutionalized permission?

also how does this relate to the concept of dedollarization and the world reverting back to sth like a gold currency system?

I’m only waiting for AI agents to open their own bank crypto account to pay for their own server bills, maybe do some freelance work and/or scams to get some money, maybe eventually buy some robot bodies to develop military power and secure some patch of land for themselves where they install solar panels to reduce their electricity bills.

https://endof10.org/

In fact i often enjoy reading the comments more than the article.

ls -alh try that. -h means human-readable file sizes

why not?