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Nathan A. Stine@Sempf when I hear the word blockchain, I reach for my gun.
@stinerman Mine is in my lap. I'm right with you.
David August ❌👑@Sempf @stinerman please forgive my ignorance, it strikes me that the “public ledger” element of any blockchain inherently means what people do isn’t so private in the fullest sense, unless someone goes out of their way to totally shield their interactions with it from their real identity, right?
Isn’t that a dicey foundation for a social network that real people want to interact on without big brother extraordinary renditioning them?
I may well be missing how this works.
@davidaugust @stinerman Woo, time shift. This was a while ago.
Blockchain is just a fancy, encrypted, linked list. The list can be public, like BTC, or private if it meets the use case. An entity that transacts with the list is referenced by a unique id, and they can choose to make the link between the id and their identity is up to them.
Did that help or make it worse?
@Sempf @stinerman that helps, thank you. And by and large fits with what I broadly thought.
And yes, I realized right after I replied that my searching for things had landed me on a many months ago thread.
Thanks for replying so fast!
@davidaugust @stinerman Yeah, caught me doom scrolling I'll admit.
@Sempf @stinerman doomscrolling is so popular recently. I can't imagine why 😉
I am hoping to be able to doomscroll, and post, with my social graph being portable, my control of my data being real and big brother not coming to take me away over it. Thus my line of inquiry.
Freedom to Doomscroll. 😆