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Paypal has stopped processing payments for Voat, a donation-supported open-source clone of Reddit. A moderator of Reddit's SRS community has taken credit for convincing Paypal to take action against Voat.
Additionally: This is what happens when you create an online community without any rules, part 2
PayPal Cuts Off Reddit Clone Voat Over 'Obscenity'
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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday June 25 2015, @11:26AM
Whenever you have a point of failure that is such narrow that any adversaries have the ability to screw you. Be it by denying money, connectivity or sending bad 1s and 0s. There's going to be trouble keeping it up. So learn and make it distributed!
(Score: 3, Touché) by JeanCroix on Thursday June 25 2015, @02:08PM
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday June 25 2015, @03:20PM
Yeah, but that concept may be above their visionary capability. Anyhow the problem with Usenet is that the servers involved are too easy to attack because they are all known and users can be too easy to track because all messages contain a full list of visited servers and user account that posted it. Now that capacity is so much cheaper and faster it might pay to skip the uuencode/base64 multipart images and just have it inline. At least so one can show others a solution to an integral or how the latest circuit board looks.
Seen any serious effort to get anything like this running?
(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Thursday June 25 2015, @11:25PM
Seen any serious effort to get anything like this running?
If you mean a fundamental shift to distributed networking as a step in getting this running, then there's the Named Data Networking group [named-data.net]. Funneling traffic into an endpoint (websites) was always a bad idea, that's why caches were built. Once you can query surrounding caches and pull from your neighbor or whomever has the data rather than from a specific IP address (decouple content from location), then many such distributed systems will be the norm. We've already kludged together something like this with etags, expires headers and caches, but it's time to do things right.
Usenet was nice, but it dosen't quite fit the bill as more efficient distributed systems are now possible.