Decentralizing SaidIt

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Approaches:

  • blockchain and etherium-like approach (and some non-blockchain storage) - people run bits of infrastructure or miners to improve overall saidit network health
  • mastodon/federated approach - people run independent instances which share content
  • it's all hype and will slow down the site - saidit offers an export of all public data so anyone can pop up a copy of the site and that's enough

Unsolved:

  • private messages
  • private subs
  • moderation / rule enforcement

Giving it a go:

[–]OldManCorley 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm a fan of federation and envision a future forum form where I can host /x/Norway@myserver.no and sync and federate with others who also want to host /x/Norway.

My favouritism might very well be due to a lot of experience with federation and none with blockchain.

But in any case, I believe it is a hype for now and populated federated or blockchain based social news aggregators are at least five years out if we look at comparable projects, the fediverse, matrix, Nextcloud etc.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is Norse pron as good as Swede pron?

What is "matrix"?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nextcloud - interesting

What do you think of Holochain?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=holochain

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

A SaidIt user, /u/happysmash27 , is setting up a VPN which may have his mining pool integrated: https://minilaro.computer-pig.net/ Read more about it here: /s/SaidIt/comments/a08/saidit_is_not_currently_blocked_in_china/ It's all Greek to me.

I'm confused by your approaches. 1) Different people run different bits of infrastructure? 2) This makes sense sort of but I don't know how as I've never actually seen it. 3) Hype? Slow? Export public data?

I guess what would really help is to see an example with more than a YouTube talking head. I wanna see the app in action and have someone tell my how it's working and why it's revolutionary.

Reminds me of one thing I saw that you might be interested in. I think it was the bottom video on the right: https://infogalactic.com/info/InterPlanetary_File_System (This article is longer and not censored like the Wikipedia article, but I haven't updated it since April researching for the latest news, etc.) If it wasn't that video then it might have been a demo of the Orbit Chat a real-time web 3.0 chat app over IPFS.

I don't know what your problems are with the private messaging and subs are.

Have you reached out to Notabug? I forget if I asked that before or not.

Another one to watch is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everipedia It sounds promising but I also wonder if the deepstate is capturing it because it has potential to free many aspects and problems on Wikipedia. I am extremely hopeful but have my skepticism cocked and aimed directly at it. My first pass over it raised more specified questions than answers.

This SaidIt almost seems like a simplified wiki - in that I each comment is like an editable article - but without the history, etc. and some things are immutable or limited by permissions, etc. Or maybe they are entirely different beasts. All I know is MediaWiki is hella easy to set up with XAMPP.

Also, did you find the SaidIt font?