Cassy Catch Up, 2021-05-17

submitted by JasonCarswell from self.Cassy

Cassy Catch Up, 2021-05-17

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Music to rally behind:
Då Som Nu För Alltid

 

"We obviously have problems, but we're working on solutions."

 

Unfortunately we've lost some interest and momentum without updates nor providing much hope to our SaidIt community after all that drama a while back. Without speaking for the others, from now on I'll just take the liberty of posting my own perspectives to share with SaidIt, and everyone may contribute and/or correct me as they see fit. (Share with me privately if you wish to remain anon.) I'll try to do these updates more frequently.

I have a 13+ old PC now named "Cassandra" as our first Lubuntu server to start with.

Larry, Optimus, and I have spent a few weeks getting it up and running, learning about different Linux distros (see below for other options for old PCs) and experimenting with several things (I may outline these later). Due to my immediate personal needs and to restoke the passion for a better forum we're shifting gears from "Tests + Experiments" to "Simple + Stable" and we'll focus on getting the new forums and other platforms available as soon as we can. Importantly the simple and stable idea is to allow everyone to participate - from Basic Beginners to Advanced Users to Experts.

If I can do it as a basic beginner, anyone can. Everyone must participate if they can! We're seeking solutions for anonymous users to be able to also co-host decentralized servers and backup/share databases.

I have other old PCs that may or may not be of use and I may soon fund-raise here to purchase a refurbished robust workhorse (or few) to become our seed-anchor(s) and stable solid "strong-server(s)". After that old Cassandra will just become a backup/sharing "junior-server" and template for other old-PCs to emulate - or Cassandra may be used to experiment on remotely by Larry, who will soon also have a dedicated strong-server to experiment on as well.

We're working on not just decentralizing SaidIt but much more. In addition to a Reddit-like forum I'll host other platforms, ideally decentralized and federated, and we aim to develop bridging between them. With different priorities and time frames our wish list of platforms include:

● MediaWiki - like Wikipedia and WikiSpooks, not decentralized
● TiddlyWiki - simpler, diverse potential uses beyond encyclopedias
● Lenny - an uncensored Reddit-like forum, decentralized and federated
● PhpBB - a different (better?) forum style, not decentralized
● PeerTube - video hosting, decentralized and federated
● Internet alternative protocols - IPFS, TOR, ZeroNet, I2P, BitTorrent, WebTorrent, etc.
● open archival systems - to be determined - web scraping of all forum links and more, including articles, images, media, video, etc. Should also include methods to mirror and distribute.
● project management software - to be determined
● anonymous user profile system - to be determined, to use across different platforms
● /s/cryptocurrency - to be determined
● market / store - to be determined

 

Linux Options For Old PCs

I/we will be documenting and drafting up proper simple tutorials without the distractions, designed for Basic Beginners. This is just to inform you about some of what we've explored. Don't let this confuse you.

Download the ISOs and use Rufus-3.14.exe to write the ISO to a thumbdrive for booting up from and installing (if your computer is not too old to do so). You may need to check or tweak your BIOS.

● AlmaLinux - Buggy installer, thus needs more expertise than I have.
● antiX - Limited features.
● Lubuntu - Lite Ubuntu, smaller without all the features like ZFS drives - but will maintain support for years to come.
● Xubuntu - Also good, with ZFS (I think), but less support.

 

Plan To Participate

If you don't participate in building this community then you'll just get what you get.

Feedback and suggestions are very welcome - more now than ever. After it's all developed it will be more difficult bring bigger changes as your influence will be very limited to what exists.

 

 

The resistance evolution starts now on SaidIt.net.

 

SaidIt Projects

Many projects coming soon
Much feedback wanted
Many positions available
Prepare to do something
Watch this space

 

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[–]LarrySwinger2 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Just a few notes. Most of this isn't exactly 'basic beginner' stuff. It takes time to install GNU/Linux, and takes hours of work for me to set up these softwares despite even though I've done things like this before. This went under the radar, but I linked to Freedombox the other day and I recommend people check it out. It tries to make things like this really easy. TiddlyWiki is also actually basic beginner stuff, but it's single-user and not federated in any way. The rest is more difficult, and one would have to find a computer literate person to set it up.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I forgot to make a Freedombox post, but you remembered: /s/DecentralizeAllThings/comments/7v05/freedombox_makes_servers_accessible_to_everyone/

At present it's not so simple, but the goal is to have participation options for all 4 of these (anonymous or not):

  1. Plug-And-Play
  2. Basic Beginners
  3. Advanced Users
  4. Experts

Tutorials and assistance may be posted and addressed in /s/Decentralize4Dummies.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sending crypto is simple, we could allow users to simply post their public wallet addresses. But one of the incentives for tipping on sites is seeing it. That I'm not sure how to do. I'm doing a little looking rn.

Edit: just stuff I'm browsing thru

https://bitcoinafrica.io/2018/11/02/best-cryptocurrency-tipping-bots-guide/