Looking at these slides, I wonder if there would be a future for private territories.
Say I want to onboard my colleagues and use the Stacker News platform to have scientific interactions with them, I would not want outside people to join that territory. Maybe something that would work on invitation by the territory owner.
Of course, the other option would be to fork off stacker news and make my own myGroupName.news platform which is kept private from the rest of the world. But this would require maintenance and hosting efforts.
609 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 30 Oct
E2EE private territories are planned
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I presume this means end to end encrypted. Cool!
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 30 Oct
Yes!
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT 31 Oct
Would they pay for posts? Why?
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At a small scale: I could imagine a framework where I, as their PI, would reward proper work with small incentives. Or them, paying each other small amounts for daily tasks they help each other with. Some carry more burden in the group due to being native speakers, while others are not. The former need to do more admin stuff for the latter. It's kinda on a forced voluntary basis, so this could alleviate this without formalizing it. Also, not necessarily for the v2v aspect, stepping away from the Telegram communications within our group would make it easier to keep track of certain interactions between group members by having it like a forum here available for posterity when turn over happens in the group.
At a large scale: I could imagine larger private territories for all people working in a certain field. It would be like a stack exchange environment where value is rewarded. There might be reasons to consider these as private, such as less requirement for moderation due to outside spam, competition with other groups, IP conflicts when things require patents before being broadcasted, avoiding conflicts between pro and antivaxx people,...
My reference point is to have things always in the public, but I'm sure people will find reasons to require E2EE cases if the SN model reaches a certain critical point.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 31 Oct
I mean, why not a signal or simplex group?
The only difference I can think of is that the received zaps will be visible to the private group. In signal or simplex you'd need to get their LNURL/bolt12/npub address for payments.
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I probably haven't thought this true very carefully.
Another reason is that, as I am in academia, lots of colleagues are quite liberal (whatever that means) and have strong negative opinions on Bitcoin. Bringing them into SN directly where they'd have to face anti-science people (again, whatever that means) might not be the best first experience. Still, I would like them to experience the V2V model and this could be a stepping stone for it.
But you're right, lots of things I enumerated could be done in a telegram group with LNURL addresses. I probably have been spending too much time inside this little SN bubble recently.
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