> The EIT Urban Mobility report also refers to the bigger picture: moving commuters out of private cars and into public transport, cycling, or walking can achieve up to five times more reduction in non-exhaust emissions than individual electrification.
And this is just one the many nuisances produce by cars.
Electric cars do not massively reduce almost any of the pollution produced by cars.
We have to reduce the automobile fleet by at least 95% to solve all the nuisances produces by cars.
You're right, when I tried again the field was hidden behind a link. Last time I checked (sometime last month) it was a field that defaulted to bsky.social (maybe within the account name?). Or I could be misremembering.
Yeah - technically the same button, but with a slightly more subtle treatment. People were getting confused by it and bouncing. IMO, since it's only really useful if you already know what you're doing and already have a PDS ready to go, there's no harm making the first-time experience smoother.
This is all totally going to change when OAuth rolls out, so hopefully we can find a better compromise then.
Can you prove to us that it is possible to interact with someone on Bluesky without being registered on Bluesky?
Threads use e ActivityPub but we know it's bullshit and that they will shut down the network as soon as possible. Bluesky is the same shit. AT protocol is just a honey pot.
I did not use Bluesky a lot, and just set it up to try self-hosting.
From what I know :
- Right now you can self-host your PDS (Personal Data Server) that hosts your user account basically, and all of your user content (posts, images, etc...)
- The easiest way to register is to use bluesky's frontend, and specifying your PDS address, I didn't try to self-host it too but I would assume if you self-host the bluesky web app, or just do the api calls to your PDS by hand or in another application, registration would work too.
- From what I understood, when you post, it is completely stored on your PDS, and then there are kinds of "mega nodes", (I think they are called Firehoses ?) That aggregate from a bunch of PDS, (and the official bsky.social PDS) and present it to end users. I don't think you can self-host theses just yet.
So, in the end, I think you can absolutely interact on Bluesky without being registered, by installing your own PDS and only making calls to create an account on it and post on it, without having an account elsewhere. However, the "end user" part is still closed off for now, since the Blue Sky Frontend uses *official* aggregators that could theoretically refuse your posts.
Won't your content be deprioritized if you do that though? Or won't it be further down the road? I fail to see any reason for Bluesky to be honest once the user base is big enough and people are silo'ed into it.
Looks like past events had deep technical talks on libp2p's DHT (https://p2p.paris/en/talks/libp2p-dht/), and a novel gossip based pubsub protocol (https://p2p.paris/en/talks/gossipub/). Pretending that there is zero overlap between "crypto and blockchain bullshit" and p2p work is detrimental to everyone involved, there is serious p2p research and work being done both from crypto projects and from more traditional projects.
Yes there's also some crypto stuff there (both crypto-currency stuff like bitcoin security, but also general cryptography stuff like zk proofs and post-quantum cryptography), but I struggle to understand why people react so negatively to legitimately interesting research because it happens to be coming from the cryptocurrency space.
"Kraken was initially built with a BitTorrent driver, however, we ended up implementing our P2P driver based on BitTorrent protocol to allow for tighter integration with storage solutions and more control over performance optimizations.
Kraken's problem space is slightly different than what BitTorrent was designed for. Kraken's goal is to reduce global max download time and communication overhead in a stable environment, while BitTorrent was designed for an unpredictable and adversarial environment, so it needs to preserve more copies of scarce data and defend against malicious or bad behaving peers.
Despite the differences, we re-examine Kraken's protocol from time to time, and if it's feasible, we hope to make it compatible with BitTorrent again."
Ever since I learned of bittorrent V2, I've been hoping for some per-file index to show up online. I'd love to be able to tag most or all of the bulk media files on my drives with how many copies exist in bittorrent swarms at any time. That way, I could more easily pick out big files for deletion knowing I could easily get another identical copy back later.
I tried doing something like this in the past using ipfs, but I wasn't very successful and didn't find any duplicates.
And this is just one the many nuisances produce by cars.
Electric cars do not massively reduce almost any of the pollution produced by cars.
We have to reduce the automobile fleet by at least 95% to solve all the nuisances produces by cars.