fedi 4chan?
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needing to store everything on and transmit everything from user devices is kind of crazy for a social media. fine for messaging and file sharing, but social media works better when there's a place for the content to actually be stored and accessed from (preferably multiple communicative places!)
Well, plebbit being text-only means exactly that any media content is being stored remotely on CDNs
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is there a federated platform similar to 4chan ie. topic boards with ephemeral linear message threads? i dunno how else to describe it but I like the 4chan format, it's just got the worst people in the world on there (which I figure could be mitigated by the federated server type thing)
I think there is quite some overlap with Lemmy. You can do images and threads here. And they even show up in a tree-like structure. I'm not sure about ephermal, I don't think Lemmy is as advanced. But other Fedi software have ephemeral posts.
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is there a federated platform similar to 4chan ie. topic boards with ephemeral linear message threads? i dunno how else to describe it but I like the 4chan format, it's just got the worst people in the world on there (which I figure could be mitigated by the federated server type thing)
If they are anonymous, they would get defederated extremely quickly.
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I'll check it out but based on the name im guessing it'll be dogshit
Its like bittorrent for social media.
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You can make anonymous accounts, but there's a difference between 'breadguy' and 'anon'. Who is literally everyone posting on the board. In the chan world so called namefags are shunned and not thought of as true channers. By having an identifiable name it gives you some measure of reputation, a name that you may hold some regard for, or at least that others could decide if they want to listen to or block.
What if we pgp sign all of our messages
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How would you federate something ephemeral? I'll admit I don't understand the specific techinals of federation but what stops another platform from hosting your content locally after it has supposed to have been deleted? It seems like the two goals of the platforms are diametrically opposed
There is lots of 4chan archivers.
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Can't someone just make a lemmy frontend that does this?
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Too modern
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Its like bittorrent for social media.
yeah i just mean the name "plebchan" doesnt inspire a lot of confidence
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Can't someone just make a lemmy frontend that does this?
yeah could probably get something close. main differences would be chronological comments, ephemeral threads, and anonymous posting
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yeah could probably get something close. main differences would be chronological comments, ephemeral threads, and anonymous posting
What's ephemeral about 4chan?
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yeah i just mean the name "plebchan" doesnt inspire a lot of confidence
I mean, I'm familiar with plebbit and while I think its neat, its very clunky.
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easily circumvented with temp accounts per thread (ie. [random string]@ instance.domain)
Sure, but what would be the purpose of using activitypub then if it isn't publishing someone's activity.
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Any place with anonymous/ephermal account and posts as the default is going to attract the worst people in the world....
Wow that changed too politics quickly, why drag Trump and the GOP into this ?
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Anyplace that allows, or in the case of 4chan, encourages purely Anon posting is going to be a cesspit. When there's no accountability, no ID of any sort (even a screen name) to tie actions against then there's no reputation to protect. It might be pleasant at first, but you can bet it won't stay that way for long.
even a screen name
/. been around for awhile.
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even a screen name
/. been around for awhile.
Yeah, was kind of clunky worded way to say 'no ID', /. Has screen names but in chan world everyone is the same 'anonymous'. When everyone is faceless and nameless people tend to let the ugly out with ease.
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