DEF CON 30 - John Midgley - OpenCola The AntiSocial Network (37:00) ~ DEFCONConference

submitted by JasonCarswellDAT Mod from (youtube.com)

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

This seems like so much more than a social network - it's also an archiving platform, with a socnet on top.

Would this be a good way to openly backup SaidIt and all the content it links to? I'd imagine it would need to have a several instances going: 1) current posts and archiving what's linked, 2) current comments and what's linked, and going back chronologically back to the dawn of SaidIt with 3) posts and linked, and 4) comments and linked. Importantly it would be good to know what content has since been censored, and figure out how to automatically or manually fill it in. For example I have a lot of Know More News archived but it's long since been censored off YouTube.

I think it might be good for other truth-seeking news sources and aggregation sites too - as well as being nice if you could rig it to scrape Facebook/Messenger, Internet Archive, and others too.

It would also be ideal if we could torrent/IPFS databases to share scraped sites' profiles/accounts with each other. This would likely require a standardization and verification system.

Also, build moar bridges!

/u/being-poisoned, /u/HongKongPhooey, /u/LarrySwinger2 - thoughts?

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It seems like a cool project. The UI looks ugly, though, I hope they'll work on that. Also, in order for it to get traction, a lot of people will have to install a browser extension and add each other's tokens manually, that seems really hard to bring about. And it lacks groups with permalinks. So the networking would still have to happen outside of OpenCola. I can only see this existing as a compliment to other communication platforms, not as something truly foundational. Maybe I overlooked something, though.

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

Good to know. Thanks.