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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • Those are way more interesting than this single installation with -0.66%:

    “Another more recent study carried out by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on 1,700 American sites totaling 7.2 GW of power, showed a median degradation of around -0.75%/year. Moveover, another research focused on 4,300 residential installations in operation in Europe and used different data processing methodologies. Depending on the methods, a median loss of -0.36% to -0.67%/year was obtained.”

    Also the article doesn’t mention standard deviation or IQR of the drop, or what efficiency they originally had. Which is the minimum of information I would expect.


  • That’s the point of the repuation system.

    It’s a very hard problem, I’ll give you that.

    What you need is, each instance and community collects reputation in the federation. then users posting on those instances can collect reputation on those. basically by not being banned or massively downvoted. Your reputation is weighted by the reputation of each you collected it from instance.

    Each users identity is tied to some key that collects reputation, that you generate new identities from from for each instance/community/post. Like how some credit card services give you a new credit card number for each new website.

    Admins don’t know who you are, but they can see and verify your reputation.

    Then instance/community admins can decide if they want a different weighting. For example, to completely disregard the reputation by some instance or make one you like 10x more important.

    You could get an ordered list of posts or pseudonymous users based on the reputation. Untrustworthy users will glow like a christmas tree.

    That would be one way to do it. It’s hard to make it water tight, but any improvements would be better than the current fediworse.


  • It doesn’t have to be.

    You could keep the general structure and functioning while improving privacy.

    For example, by obfuscating post history, anonymous posting or assigning a user pseudonym per instance/community, auto-deleting old posts/comments. All optional features of course. Let instances/communites decide which of these features they want.

    Keep the structure of Lemmy with it’s Reddit-like-ness and instances, but give users, instances and communities more control over data privacy.

    Sure it’s harder to implement, you need some minimal-knowledge reputation system, but there is nothing fundamental preventing that from being possible.

    The nice thing about federation is that one instance/community can stay the same data-leaking privacy mess, if they so prefer. While others could operate analogous to 4-chan (or anything in between).