whoever loves Digit

Nah, anyone that pretends BitTorrent is worse than their server-based thing is just foolish

They’d get to use the service in exchange for seeding it, not lose money

Fragmentation and echo chambering 📈

So basically all of Wikipedia’s errors plus new errors from grok? Amazing

But can we also increasingly let chat bots edit Wikipedia itself, please? Oh, we are? Great

I won’t pay Monero to support web apps that will always cost more and more money to run. The “web” is a scam standard. I’ll use it while everyone’s using it, but I encourage everyone to develop and move to decentralized P2P networks where we rely on something like BitTorrent seeders to support image hosting, not Monero being converted to dollars.

If the people running this are losing money to support the community, I absolutely give them my thanks. But I won’t join them.

I never put money into the game for many years until I could afford to support the creators because I was happy with the items I could find for free

Someone get ja rule on the phone

This is half true at least. It’s not just insane nonsense.

No, being able to find items for free and sell them is not the problem or what makes it gambling

I don’t see how this relates to free speech. The targets of bigotry don’t have to do anything or go anywhere because bigots are allowed to talk. If the place has free speech, that means whether you give the place to people who hate you is also a choice.

Free speech doesn’t mean free corporate executive positions. If your workplace will fire you for what you say, you don’t have free speech there.

Everyone has already suggested soulseek, so I will also add that on rare occasions I’ve been able to find downloads with Yandex that I couldn’t find on soulseek or anywhere else.

I feel like science denialist cultism is a form of psychosis the vast majority of people seem to have, so measuring it every week from a few hundred thousand people is surprisingly low

DaVinci notebooks style science work 🔥

Sounds hard to solve. Maybe we need hobbyist scientists who get their income in a different way and just publish studies wherever they feel like, or something

The link to “open science” doesn’t work for me - guessing it blocks VPNs which is hilarious for a supposed open discussion / decentralization thing

Are you familiar with nostr? It seems like a good place to publish scientific papers, but maybe there’s a reason no one has done so. Maybe the nostr protocol needs to add a new spec for scientific papers or something