Synopsis

(trying to be neutral here)

Hazycora¹ was informally hired to work on Loops web UI. Then Daniel² posted about his idea to launch a video ads network for Loops (which he latter admitted was a joke), and Hazycora commented that such posts hurt people's trust in him.

This was followed by an avalanche of mutual accusations, which I shall not dwell, as a result Hazycora no longer works for Loops.

Consequences

• Accounts using "hazy.gay" email domain were banned on loops.video with a fake dubstep-posting Kamala Harris account as an excuse. This also breaks guest browsing on loops.gay.
• Hazycora's username on loops.video was forcibly changed from single-letter "h" to "hazellll".
• Disassemblies of the Loops client were published on GitHub.
• Hazycora says she has got more than $500 in donations in the past two days; Daniel says his following count is growing, and hers are going down; both claims need verification.

Footnotes

Two polls considering Gridcoin development were recently published by grctest, you can find their proposal here: https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Tasks/issues/268

Putting aside concerns about active use of LLMs in creating this proposal (I think Gentoo was right when they banned all contributions created with the assistance of generative AI), let's focus on economy.

First important thing thing to emphasize: cryptocurrency is not money or currency, it is a non-financial asset, like gold. This is consensus among mainstream and post-Keynesian economists, as far as I know.

Suppose there is a gridgold mine (the only in the world) that produces 37,600 units of gridgold daily. There is another unused mine nearby, where mining is less difficult, and because of that it can yield 5 times more gridgold than the current mine with same amount of work.

So what happens after the switch to the latter mine?

Economic actors (more precisely, a rational part of them) will act on their inflation expectations. This means selling their gridgold savings and not buying any gridgold until some normalization. The consequences will be decrease in demand for gridgold and falling market price.

Savings of those who haven't had a chance to sell their gridgold will be burnt by inflation.

I think it's the opposite of what the Gridcoin community would want.

кросс-пост из: https://lemmy.world/post/22588805

The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

Elia Ayoub's profile (on spore.social) was hidden by mastodon.social moderators just the day his post about the ICC arrest warrants on Netanyahu got into "Explore" page.

To check yourself, visit https://mastodon.social and type @[email protected] into search.

UPD (2024-11-26): mastodon.social has stopped hiding this profile.

sorry for poor image quality

A volunteer is ready to run a social media profile for Gridcoin on Mastodon, requests advice from the community.

stolen from https://lea.pet/notes/9s3y5dpdo6

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14155096

Admin team of LGBTQIA.Social Mastodon instance received abuse email from Russian censorship agency, where they demanded to remove an account. The account in question represented a small group that ran a collaborative blog for LGBTQIA youth and adults in Russia.

Shortly after refusal to comply with agency's demands, the instance was blocked and is now unreachable from Russia.

All previous blocks of Fediverse instaces in Russia were related to hosting CSAM.

Admin team of LGBTQIA.Social Mastodon instance received abuse email from Russian censorship agency, where they demanded to remove an account. The account in question represented a small group that ran a collaborative blog for LGBTQIA youth and adults in Russia.

Shortly after refusal to comply with agency's demands, the instance was blocked and is now unreachable from Russia.

All previous blocks of Fediverse instaces in Russia were related to hosting CSAM.