In that regard, they already have representation by their parents’ votes.

But that vote only counts as much as one person, so it doesn’t give any more representation to the child if you ask me. My whole point is that a parent should have outsized voting power because they represent two persons, not one (okay actually each parent would get 1.5 votes as the child’s vote would be split on each parent but my point is the same).

Until they reach that point, it’s essentially their parents or guardians getting an extra vote.

Honestly I’ve sometimes thought that parents ought to be able to vote for their kids. At least that gives some form of representation to children.

I know you’re being sarcastic but if we actually look on the bright side, then tools like this could make indie games easier to produce. More and better indie games could in theory bring more competition to companies like EA and that could actually pressure them to make games cheaper.

Jokes on you, I love the clumps of chocolate in milk with cocoa powder.

Yes. Describe it as best as you can and let the developer reach out to you if you want. A good maintainer will ask follow up questions for more specific stuff that you may not have provided at the start.

a bit of text you can send to them by whatever secure side channel you want down to handing them a flash drive

Normal non-technical people are never going to do this. It needs to be easy as clicking a button, otherwise it will never happen for them. Again, this is a neat technical solution but it completely forgets the human.

Yea in theory you wouldn’t need the password if you have the private key but here the key is only used for signing, maybe not for login. If it also needs to be backwards compatible. In any case, I don’t think user-held private keys is viable.

Sharing with trusted parties… I dunno, I think again it’s too technical and complicated to do it. And you’d need people on the platform you trust to already be there.

Highly illegal in the EU.

Source? I’ve signed contracts before that includes clauses saying they can basically read my work email whenever they want.

Screen and web history sounds pretty illegal though, but would love to hear what law that is.

Seems very technically oriented haha. But sounds like a cool project.

How does Hubzilla work? I haven’t really heard much about it, just heard the name.

New fetch just dropped

Really? You can Google this and find plenty of sources online super easily.

Well long story short sweden has had quite relaxed immigration law for a long time and is now dealing with major crime problems as violent gangs cause shootings in the cities.

Check Swedens problems recently with unchecked immigration.

I’m curious just because I never use ropes or knots - what kind of work or activity do you do where you use that regularly?

That’s hardly low tech, especially not the newer ones.

Because anyone can grab the same name, on a different platform.

That’s always the case, even for centralized platforms. Usernames are just usernames. Same thing with email. This is a fundamental problem with the internet and the solution is that celebrities and such host their own ActivityPub server (just like their own email server) or make it clear on their personal website what their own official account is somewhere else.

I don’t know why it wasn’t the solution people jumped on when Reddit admins started fucking up instead of leaving to go on Lemmy where admins are still a thing…

One reason is that Nostr is filled with crypto-bros who think cryptocurrencies is the future. The whole Nostr space is filled with bitcoin news and deranged people yelling “HODL”. Not surprising coming from a social media that makes it harder to ban you and encourages more absolute free speech.

I think the UX on Nostr is also just worse. You need to keep a private key for yourself I believe and that’s just a technical hurdle and annoyance that most people don’t want to deal with.

Another reason is that people like having admins. People want moderated places. People don’t want to bother moderating stuff themselves. People don’t want douchebags calling them stuff all the time and having to block stuff. Admins and moderators provide that service and users like that.

I get that you’re frustrated that the admins at Reddit were mistreating you. The answer to that is not “abolish all admins” but rather “choose better admins”, if you ask me at least. The good thing on the fediverse is that you can go to another place if you feel the current place isn’t run by reasonable people.

automated solution

On the other hand, any automated solution will be possible to work around. Such a system would be open source like the rest of Lemmy and you’d know exactly the criteria you need to live up to to avoid getting hit by the filter.

Email verification is super easy to get around. It’s practically not a barrier at all.