𝙻𝙴𝚅𝙸 :v_bi: :tux: (@levi@mementomori.social)
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It's really unfortunate to see that @simplex@mastodon.social go the Tokenization/NFTs route to fund the project, and also choose Ethereum (which was 70% pre-mined by it's developers), inventing your own coin doesn't suddenly give it value (no matter what restrictions you place on it) not trusting the operators means you don't want to let go of control, you want a Token that only YOU can control, I'm not saying it's easy.. And I'm not saying I have the solution, but this ain't it.
#privacy #crypocurrency #ethereum #NFTs #tech #tokenization #blockchain #encyption #messaging #technology
It’s really sad to see SimpleX goes the shitcoin route to try and fund their project, Ethereum is not ethical as I briefly explained in this post
Now is a perfect opportunity to fork the project with I2P and add Monero as the payment option both for people to transact and fund the developers and I2P operators
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Sure, maybe. But you’re making it clear you’re in the bad camp too when you’re announcing this with NFTs.
Why do NFTs make then inherently bad? AFAIK they are not trying to pivot into selling monkey pictures but rather selling prepaid phone cards to cover server costs for large communities. Why is this bad?
The problem is that they’re basing their new infrastructure on a token that they control, that is also based on a blockchain that isn’t neutral as they claim (Ethereum was 70% pre-mined by it’s developers, how is that neutral!)
also NFTs aren’t even Crypto in my view, they never took off, they never gained momentum, no one looked at them… well… some NPCs did… whenever someone mentions NFT just know they’re trying to sell you something that they can make out of thin air, that’s not how value works…
BUT GARY VEE SAID THEY WOULD MAKE ME RICH
Sounds like stocks 🤔
Wait a tick. I thought Simplex was the gods gift messenger to the masses? I mean we just did a big dust up about it a couple weeks ago. People were banned, feelings were hurt.
It was and has been thus far. Has a lot of great features, but this might be a good reason to fork the project.
Don’t they also have far-right leanings of some sort? If so, it’s not surprising.
Yes, one look in bis X is enough. Altough maybe not THAT far.
Not really. I think what you’re on about (not in the british cunty sense), is that they’re part of a venture capitalist company, or got bought up by them and are thus for-profit. Such practices are, in reality, often connected to right-wing politics. Big tech being the best example.
The good thing about SimpleX is that they stayed away from politics, which is really rare in the FOSS world nowadays (looking at you ProtonAG)
I’m really sorry to have to tell you this but they very much have not. Check out the founder’s Xitter account.
No, fuck that, no crypto integration. I want a basic simple fucking messenger that’s open source, let’s you own your own data without owning the server, allows for new easy anonymous identities, and can be handed to your grandma.
SimpleX was the only thing that fulfilled this. This aggression will not stand, man. Like that was the one thing that ticked the boxes.
There was some comment I read a month or two ago about not trusting it because it was VC funded. I knew they where right, but it was nice while it lasted…
What’s wrong with Briar?
Fork?
Ig im worse than a grandma. I think its complicated but maybe I tried to snoop around the Settings too much
Honestly I don’t think it’s too bad. Compensating server operators will expand the network. It’s all a matter of what can be done with the coin a.k.a what will give it value.
It’s not total enshitification, but enshitification nonetheless
Womp womp.
Noooooo
i thought simplex was completely decentralized p2p. can’t it simply be forked?
Forking isnt a solution, unless you are committed to patching all future security vulnerabilities and adding feature updates on you own. Cryptography is complicated, designing a secure messenger is very complicated. Forking isnt a magic bullet.
you are speaking about hard forking. soft forking is an option
With soft forks you still need to merge upstream changes and figure out what to do when they’re incompatible with your changes, do your own testing of your fork once you’ve merged the changes, etc.
that’s right, but it’s still less work
You said forking twice
if I count the words, that’s true, but the 2 fork strategies have meaningful difference
No, but good projects have come from forking away from bad decisions.
The interesting thing about simplex is that (IIRC) the chat protocol is unencrypted and sits atop an encrypted transport protocol call SMP.
That is to say the encryption is divorced from the rest of the stack, and a lot of the hardwork of making it is done.
Of course its going to need lots of maintenance, but the open source community has proven itself capable of maintaining secure implementations of encryption alogrythms.
This is especially true if we continue to take upstream upgrades from SimpleX and strip the crypto VC bullshit out of the codebase.
It’s not p2p but it is decentralized. It can be forked. Who will do it?
This was bound to happen.