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Crypto being the solution to the bot problem is the most techbro take I have seen so far. (lemm.ee)
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[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

@Soyweiser @Irelephant you definitely can't solve *anything* with PGP

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago

not true! if I want to be really fucking angry, pgp is a great solution to getting that done quickly!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

It was an attempt to solve a problem at the time (which partially still exists now) it had some use then (as it does now). It just didn't work as something that would be adopted by the general public for various reasons. Stuff like, you need to go to an open source conference.