There are ways around that. See my other comment replying to the same parent as your comment.

Another option could be to have the originating Mastodon server provide the preview image in content-adressable way, and have a standard allowing websites to provide the same: if the hash of the file(s) provided by the first / a Mastodon server to another matches the one from the target website, no need to download from the target website. Only if they differ then you’d actual download the data from the target website.

Each Mastodon server from the federation could quickly decide whether to trust that preview data from the peer it gets the rest of the post from or not.

This is basically taking ideas from IPFS but applying it to just the preview data that ends up being downloaded over and over again. You could also make that part a blob of data stored directly in IPFS. But IPFS was pretty slow to resolve content, when I last tested.

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of these aspects!

Reproducible builds are hard to do and require thought being put in the original build. Even something like setting the time and date string to a different one will produce a different binary, so to get all the variables that went into the original compilation just right to be able to land on the same binary from the same code sounds very impractical. Imagine using that as a strategy to check another version of the whole source code…

OK, you’re barely making sense, sorry.

The days are long but the years are short.

They are such a parody, it’s incredible.

Except it’s not, because it’s about loyalty to the leader, not any kind of efficiency or sense.

This is quite literally the stuff that results in revolutions. People can tolerate inequality only up to a certain level. Even some ultra rich can see the situation can’t remain stable.

People have literately been killed by “police” in the USA while trying to protest and do something.

I’m with you, it’s not a fucking competition, we’ve got to fight to unite. And I say this a someone who’s French.

Either I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, or you don’t understand how politics and organising works.