It's very much not mesh networked, self-hosted*, or subscription-free, but there is the tin can phone which seems a really good solution for kids. To anyone looking for a project, please make an open version of this!
* the service couldn't cope with demand over Christmas, for instance.
The duplicate content thing is kinda impossible to solve perfectly. Some people will tell you it's a feature, and it can be interesting to see the different instances' comment sections (especially after moderation), but yeah it can be annoying to have your feed dominated by a few stories.
The default web front-end will merge crossposts, but won't if they're multiple posts to the same URL. I think some of the apps do have that deduplication as a feature, but I couldn't tell you which.
I remember the same problem from my Reddit days, but there wasn't generally so many similar, overlapping communities.
What about proxies and the like? It might be less relevant in a world where most communication happens under TLS.
First time playing and today's seemed very easy. We'll see if they throw in more difficult puzzles, since I'm curious what happens if you're wrong (I assume there's only one valid route and you have to guess each step until you match).
It's definitely a problem with the grid, since too much supply is at least as big a problem as too much. Hopefully we'll get things like molten salt batteries so we can soak up this excess and decarbonise heavy industry.
I think at the end he forgot he was meant to get a person round (dead or alive). I guess you could cremate the person before beginning and maglev the remains round, as long as you can argue that it's still a person (minus all the water, anyway).
When I saw this I thought this was an old one, but not at all. Was there a similar one before? Or has someone else done this joke already?
I've finally read this article that's been open in a mobile browser tab since it was posted. It's a great read, and I love all the twists and buts.
I wasn't expecting that QUIC would show up at the end as a possible saviour.
Sometimes the stream stops and I have to go back to the page and hit play again - will this fix this?
ok, thanks for that, I think I just misunderstood which instance you were talking about when you said "the instance".
A related question you might be able to answer: if I search from the recipient's end and pull over a post that way, is it then federated out by that recipient instance? Or is it better to just delete and repost?
That argument only works if you're expecting Google to move youtube.com to youtube.google, which I can't see happening. If a brand's a household name and can be found at brand.com, then it stands to reason that they'd leave it like that.
For Google/Microsoft budgets, domain name registration is irrelevant as a cost. Besides, even if they did move the domains, they'd still keep the old ones alive for forwarding and to stop anyone else taking them. For example, Google still has googleplus.com, despite that that was never the official address (they used a subdomain: plus.google.com).