Nope, that could still be done with a regular database. Blockchain has no practical use case.

Just public key cryptography. All your actual posts and comment history are already shared. What is missing is a way to authenticate yourself to anyone but your home server. If the protocol included every profile having a public key, you could then use that to authenticate to any server. And managing that private key is no more complicated than managing your private key in a block chain context.

Non public info like subscriptions is a bit more complicated, because there is an actual policy question of who you share it with. You would either need to make it publicly available, keep a copy yourself, or have your home instance give it to you/the other server at the time you want to migrate.

Nah, There’s other ways to store data while preserving confidentiality, integrity and availability that isn’t on the blockchain. Besides A public ledger connected to a specific profile could make it easier for the profile to be doxxed/fingerprinted.

Spitballing here but a service using simple key-pairs might be a better way to do this.

• Users generate a key pair client-side.

• Public key is stored on the server, acting as the user’s identity.

• To update their profile, users sign the request with their private key. (Data is signed/verified client side before submission)

• The server verifies the signature using the stored public key before edits can be made.

Because data signature/verification are done client side theoretically you don’t need a ledger, your client can enforce profile state. (Maybe an HMAC is sent with the verified data and there reverted periodically by the client)

Yeah it’s nice to be able to import your list of subscriptions at least. But for comment history, I guess it depends what you’re getting out of a place like this. On Reddit, I liked going back sometimes and seeing what I was posting a couple of years ago. Especially if it’s personal shit, or even old review posts for movies or whatever. I like having a stable online presence or identity with a history to refer to.

A pretty normal one?

Historically, people have made babies under much more dire circumstances and some of them made it through so we’re here today. I don’t feel like having kids either, I know, but I think this sentiment comes from a luxurious position.

After they destroyed any sense of community? Pushing individualism might be what has led to this

Now? That shit has been going on since the 90s. My native population has plateaued since 1990. The only reason the population grew was due to immigrants.

Same goes for America where a LOT of the populations got fewer and fewer kids since the 90s.

hah ! amazing. Pieces of shit generation after generation

Lol I’ve been here awhile, but, yes.

or my current favorite" you shouldnt call everyone a nazi, if you dont agree with them" thats exactly what you should be doing if your spouting pro-nazi statements. i had to block someone on lemmy for saying that, had enough of that on reddit already

I’m just being politically neutral when I say the trans are making eggs unaffordable.

You might want to check to make sure they didnt undelete it. They did that to me

i had one for 11-12 years for sole purpose for a nintendo game, then i forgot i made various throwaways and sub specific accts, to avoid invasive bans, personally thier bans are way to harsh for the slightest mishapp, it all started with trump the first time around, he just made every site too overly sensitive on what they can ban. not only were they targeting “conservative trolls” but now you cant even imply “something should happen” to said gop, conservative. my funniest response i got was, your not allowed to use “black, or demographic, because that sounds racist” also if you accidentally use the wrong word like “her or him on a transgendered person”. while when trolls imply violence on "left leaning " people they almost never get removed or dont eradicate that behaviour.

I have definetely made a few typos though.

Yeah why not. I sure hope they have OCR enabled

He is ripping out U.S government parts, laying off workers without any regard to consequence, and fiddling with parts of the government which shouldn’t be fiddled with.

Yep, date of birth is 71 so it’s very unlikely to be an automatic initials+random number username.

And why not? You forget there is beauty in brevity.

A breach is a breach is a breach is a breach. You’d be criticizing his choice whether it was 5 simple characters or 500. When you K.I.S.S. it makes it easier to remember AND quicker to enter, access. I had to choose a password for work once, and I made it a little complex…work constantly logged me out 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄…I had to enter that stupid fucking password so many fucking times, yes, it was secure. It was also DUMB and FRUSTRATING. Next 3 passwords were far simpler to repeatedly type in; I learned my lesson.

Same with Apple always auto-generating stupid passwords, I hope you never have to type them in! It’s just dumb, as illustrated by XKCD.

XKCD also has a suggestion for strong, memorable, easy passwords.

Be smart. Make life simple. Don’t do stupid things. 🫡

I’m sure that is exactly what it means. The point was to hide it a little bit, it’s not the standard first.last of everyone else but to make it still uniquely identifiable as musk. It’s not a completely unheard of practice to hide potential high spam targets. The goal isn’t to completely hide, just make it slightly harder to find