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  • Relative to other Fediverse software it is expensive due to how much community federation and vote traffic drives up compute and storage needs.

    The exact costs really depend on your location and if you are renting a server or run it on your own hardware. But I doubt you can run a well federated Lemmy instance for much less than 30€/month. Of course it initially runs on a much cheaper VPS, but once you start subscribing to remote communities it quickly needs more power and storage.


  • GDP grow figures say little about how modern an economy is and in general Mao’s policies did more harm than good.

    “Malicious misinterpretation of statistics” my ass.

    Thanks for proving my point with sharing this graphic. See that “Mao slump” there in the 1950-1960? No other similar country had that, including other nominally socialist countries. The increase of life expectancy was a recovery after WW2 and a global phenomenon brought through by the broad availability of antibiotics and other modern medicine. Again, Mao did more harm than good and his policies certainly didn’t cause a doubling of life-expectancy.






  • Indeed, no one is really interested in using fake money (aka crypto currencies). But that doesn’t mean Taler depends on banking APIs. Taler is a complete digital bank software package and some unofficial regional currencies (most notably a bigger one in Italy) have started using it fully independent of the officially recognized fiat banks or their APIs.

    Again, according to the Taler website, the exchange tracks every transaction in order to prevent double spends. If it has a full view of the network, it can employ statistical analysis.

    Again, you spend max. 5 minutes browsing the website and now claim you are the expert on Taler 🙄 Just because you track if a token has been spend or not, doesn’t mean you can track who spend it, or what on. This is all well explained in the Taler documentation and it has been explicitly designed to be resistant against such statistical analysis.



  • It depends on the banking system with its proprietary APIs and centralized money issuance.

    It does not. That is as optional as fiat exchanges with cryptocurrencies.

    In order to spend money, you need to receive it first. I don’t know if it makes you a “seller” in Taler, but in any case, this partial protection probably makes de-anonymization of all transactions via statistical analysis much easier.

    No, you get it from an exchange. And the resulting tokens are like physical cash and can not be de-anonymized by the exchange or anyone else in the chain. That’s like the entire point of Taler. I think you should really inform yourself better before making yourself look really stupid by confidently spreading such non-sense.