Akshhhally a lot of what’s now associated just with Nazis was a typical “worker party” symbols set in 20s.

Torches - because workers would assemble outside of their work hours, and it would be dark, it’s not your soy modernity with labor protections.

This particular thing called “Roman salute” - apparently wasn’t too popular outside of Nazis and Italian fascists, but there are archive photos of Communists in Russia in early 20s using that.

The raised fist symbol - well, everybody used it, and again, Nazis too.

Hammer and sickle - that one was in symbolic of Dolfuss’ Austria, and it’s not a coincidence, it was there because of socdems.

OK, all that isn’t necessary. It’s clear what gesture Elon intended. It may not be entirely clear what he meant, I think this is not Nazi endorsement, but rather a “f-ck you” to all parties he dislikes, who also happen to be keen on bringing up Nazis. But that wouldn’t be controversial too, just weird for a grown up man.

In general the use of “controversial” in modern English triggers my autistic anxiety.

Elon’s wide gesture was not only not controversial, it was also very expressive.

Instance A goes down, you can’t post as your user registered on instance A.

With cryptographic identities it’s possible that instance A should be up only when you are registering your user. It’s even possible with some delegated rights to another A user that only that user should be up when you are registering your user, the instance itself - not required.

I’m against the whole idea of federation like in XMPP or like in ActivityPub. It’s stone age. It requires people to set up servers. It ties users to those servers. And communities are unnecessarily ties to servers. And their moderators.

Ideologically Retroshare looks nicer, for example.

You need to have messages, containing all the data I’ve described (who messages whom or who messages which communities and time of a message should be used to reduce the amount of data, ahem, stored and transferred by nodes, and also messages should list their dependencies, like - if you are giving some user some mod rights and taking them away a few times in a row, you need to know what the previous message was and the one before it), and shared storage. Shared storage here kinda breaks the beauty, because storage is finite and in fact probably those machines contributing it would function a lot like instances, replicating only communities they want.

Above that messages layer there’d be the imagined social network itself. I suppose it comes down to CRUD signed by user, user signed by an instance root or better a user delegated that right by an instance root. So everyone can send CRUD messages on anything, but what of all this the client considers depends on what they trust and the logic of processing rights. DoS protection and space conservation here are a case of dependency management, kinda similar to garbage collection.

Then entity types - I guess it’s instance (people like that crap), community (I think this can be many-to-many with instances, instances are used for moderating users, communities for moderating posts), user (probably a derived user, from what I’ve heard but not understood about blind keys), public post (rich text with hyperlinks to entities by hash, everything is addressable by hash), blob (obvious), personal message (like public post, but probably encrypted and all that).

OK, dreams again

Good. Let people learn in all parts of the planet, resurrect some of those market laws everybody forgot seeing in the wild, and kill the Windows\Apple swamp.

Bad. China’s still doing concentration camps and social ratings.

Distributed (and zero configuration needed), but with centralized development. Federated is not good enough - separate instances may lag behind in versions, or their admins do something wrong, and user identities and posts are tied to them.

Ideally when an instance goes down, all its posts and comments and users are replicated in the network and possible to get.

A distributed Usenet with rich text, hyperlinks, file attachments, cryptographic identities, pluggable naming\spam-checking\hatespeech-checking services (themselves part of that system).

It was a good system for its time, first large global thing for asynchronous electronic communication.

OK, if you are, you don’t pretend, and if you pretend, you aren’t. And if you talk about someone somewhere probably designing something, then you are not making that something closer. I’m tired of typing things in the interwebs people either already know and agree with, or won’t take seriously.