So often what admins put into their server's short description is neither short nor description :tiredcat:
@voorhees I sent that user the first strike earlier today, removing the offending posts. I've now been made aware they have continued their behaviour, the user is now suspended.
This is one of the most spectacular sunsets I ever saw while working at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.
The Atacama Desert is extremely dry, but clouds do show up sometimes. That day there were several dark clouds releasing very light rain that vaporised before reaching the ground. These wispy veils (called "virga") were lit by the golden sunset light, creating a lovely contrast with the blue sky above.
@clay@quanta.wiki I quite seriously doubt the performance of IPFS libraries reading/writing to a merkle tree compared to any relational database. I imagine in practice, relational databases would still need to be used for most everything, with the merkle tree format as an outside compatibility layer. But what does it offer that a paginable ActivityPub outbox collection doesn't? Not a lot, as far as I can tell.
@clay@quanta.wiki Signature verification uses public keys (otherwise it wouldn't work). Private key can sign, public key can be used to verify.
@clay@quanta.wiki The difference is that a fediverse indexing service refusing to 'forget' something would be holding on to a piece of JSON that contains references to a resource hosted somewhere else, and if that place refuses to serve the same JSON, there is little to prove that it wasn't fabricated in the first place. That is plausible deniability. Though the fediverse has self-authenticating data too (Linked Data Signatures) they are optional and we use them for public posts only.
