God damnit do not run this guy, he is a snake

More than the Brits? I don’t think so, but maybe in certain regions.

No, definitely not

Change that, it’s the only way there projects will survive.

I think growing/expanding your experience in life is good, but ya, I definitely don’t agree with that definition, that’s intense.

Thank you for your dedication to the cause

some of them, especially in cryptography, are definitely just straight up mathematicians

I just wanted to say, y’all are my people, we don’t agree on everything, but I’m glad to have moved to lemmy. The few channels mentioned here that I’m not subbed to, I’ll be checking out.

This is definitely in my top 2 YT channels, contending with Technology connections.

his poster has been on my wall for like 10 years, appreciate that dude

Very much agree, liked his old content a lot, don’t care to hear about his politics or opinion outside of tools.

Totally makes sense.

Ahh ya so I try to browse all communities, because who knows some new community might be interesting and I don’t want to miss it

Ya I get that, I just would prefer to see some content over others by a lot, like I don’t care that bdsm stuff is on the internet, but I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to see furry art, zero problem with it existing, just don’t want it in my feed that’s all.

largely agree with this

• good faith arguments or just good quality comments or posts get upvoted
• lazy comments or posts get nothing
• bad faith or unnecessarily combative or ill intensioned comments get downvoted.

I almost never downvote a post, I’ll either block the instance, community, or person instead - I want a good feed

Right, I understand that perspective, but there is a way to do this with multi-party computation and some other cryptography where no one would have the actual power/be able to see the data/have control. The main issue is it’s expensive to run and no one would be incentivized to run it.

Not true, there are ways to do this privately with cryptography

If anyone is doing actual work trying to solve this please DM me, I’m interested in helping.

How?

Ya you could definitely do this way too. There is a standard that google came up with called private state tokens that would allow you to do this in a pretty clean way, if you were cool with using your governments portal.

Essentially you would login to the govt portal, they would issue you some limited set of tokens (let’s say 5) that would expire after 30 days. You would go to an age restricted website and sign up and that would “burn” a token.

You could use ZK on top of this to make sure that the same email address or some other “nullifier” piece of information was used, to prevent an 18 yo kid from selling their tokens to 17 yos.