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Does someone know something about locutus (except that they are start trek fan)
@tkanos So... Because I couldn't get to sleep last night, I read up about locutus, read the develop guide, read some of the source code and other relevant documetnation.
Here's my thoughts on this:
- This is again an example of misusing the term "decentralised".
- Locutus is basically a distributed key/store.
- It is implemented in Rust, and _currently_ only supports Rust.
@tkanos So... Because I couldn't get to sleep last night, I read up about locutus, read the develop guide, read some of the source code and other relevant documetnation.
Here's my thoughts on this:
- This is again an example of misusing the term "decentralised".
- Locutus is basically a distributed key/store.
- It is implemented in Rust, and _currently_ only supports Rust.
@tkanos All the "decentralized software platforms" are starting to blur together.
@mckinley In this case Locutus is blatantly misrepresenting itself and its software (maybe unintentionally?) but it most definitely is "distributed", NOT decentralized.
@mckinley In this case Locutus is blatantly misrepresenting itself and its software (maybe unintentionally?) but it most definitely is "distributed", NOT decentralized.
@prologic they list "decentralized email" as a potential application, which makes them sound like they don't know what they're talking about?
@abucci That's just it though 😆 SMTP is decentralized 🤣
@abucci That's just it though 😆 SMTP is decentralized 🤣
@prologic I know! So basically they'd be *centralizing* email using a distributed technology. I think this kind of confusion and rhetoric is dangerous!
@abucci It's exactly what I have a problem with things like IPFS, Matrix, ActivityPub-based things and so on... They lure users into a false sense of security by claiming to be "centralised" when in fact they are really "distributed" and border-line "centralised" anyway 😢
It's such a fine subtle point that it's easy to miss. But it all comes down to "control" and who/what makes decisions. If you or your software are not making the decisions (e.g:publishing a line to your twtxt feed is your decision) -- Then its NOT "decentralised".
@abucci It's exactly what I have a problem with things like IPFS, Matrix, ActivityPub-based things and so on... They lure users into a false sense of security by claiming to be "centralised" when in fact they are really "distributed" and border-line "centralised" anyway 😢
It's such a fine subtle point that it's easy to miss. But it all comes down to "control" and who/what makes decisions. If you or your software are not making the decisions (e.g:publishing a line to your twtxt feed is your decision) -- Then its NOT "decentralised".
@prologic I *hate* IPFS. Once or twice I've posted to github issues for that project, and they seem to be very dismissive of ideas they don't like. Mostly--it's impossible to delete anything from IPFS once you put it in there, and they have been hostile to any suggestion that they should fix that issue. I find it deeply irresponsible, since you can mount IPFS as if it were a filesystem, which makes it nearly 100% likely that someday, someone is going to put something very sensitive into IPFS by accident and then never be able to get it out again. It's almost certainly happened a bunch of times already. That feels much worse than Facebook-style centralization!
@abucci well, I think that's a feature to avoid censorship. But that's a problem as well with some content like child porn or leaked files.
I'm not a heavy user, I got to say, but it sounds like an interesting technology for some specific use cases
@eaplmx Oh yes, it's definitely interesting and has its uses. The inability to delete anything and the seeming hostility towards even trying worries me though. There's a lot to information security beaides protecting against censorship.