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will this sure is gonna go well :sarcmark:

it almost feels like when Google+ got shoved into every google product because someone had a bee in their bonnet

flipside, I guess, is that we'll soon (at scale!) get to start seeing just how far those ideas can and can't scale

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[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I might give gittorrent a closer look as soon as some of my time frees up. packaging complex node stuff for Nix is always a bit of a pain, but it’s a pain I’m now very familiar with

e:

A method for registering friendly usernames on Bitcoin's blockchain, so that a written username can be used to find a user instead of an ugly hex string.

ugh I hate this part, but hopefully there’s a way to do something like what Mastodon and Lemmy do for external identity verification

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

isn't that literally the Ethereum Name Service but bitcoin

[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

unfortunately yes