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Re:Skynet – Build a Free Internet by phreack on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:59AM (#25716660)
I had zero knowledge of what any of this was (Sia, Skynet, etc), tried looking it up on the page but the technical terms were too many and there was no glossary I could find. So I started searching, read the Readme on Sia's project on Gitlab, and then came upon this website [1] which harshly demonizes both Sia and Skynet due to maintainers banning a critic, and allegedly being generally toxic.

This is very much not a good look at all for the whole thing, and I suggest the developers should both solve this problem amicably ASAP, and also add very clear 'WHAT THIS IS AND HOW IT WORKS' links on every page related to the project, with many real world examples of how/why use this and with nearly no use of specific jargon that's not introduced clearly during explanations.

[1] https://siasetup.info/guides/using-skynet

Re:Skynet – Build a Free Internet by dghelm on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:05PM (#25716718)
For a more accessible description of what sia & skynet do, https://siastats.info/sia101 is a good starting place.
Re:Skynet – Build a Free Internet by Esiason on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:09PM (#25716762)
https://siastats.info/sia101 is a nice newbie guide to Sia and Skynet but the more technical guides and troubleshooting knowledge exists at https://siasetup.info