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There's tons of stuff like this popping up every month. Last thing I remember is the "Beaker Browser" which lets you edit your page in realtime while sharing it in a decentralized network: https://beakerbrowser.com/
Every one wants to reinvent the internet but it seems every solution just doesn't get enough traction nor is it practical enough to be a good replacement.
> federated
WHY? Even if you are sharing credentials and redundant databases and so on the content is still hosted on one or more big servers under jurisdiction. With peer to peer setups akin to zeronet, THERE ARE NO SERVERS, because everyone is a server of the content they are interested in.
https://www.bitchute.com/faq/ <- uses webtorrent. Everyone watching a video is hosting a video. Nothing can be removed... technically, but they can delist things as they are centralized.
Some random puts a server up practically anywhere- some random webspace (or several) all over the place, in any country, and advertises it. Anyone who ACCESSES that page is now serving it too. Peers get chunks from the closest peer rather than the original server(s). At that point, the HOST can go down and the service lives on on user's computers. The creator uses his private key to push an update to the site, and everyone sees that update and distributes it. (this is where blockchain comes in) It's flawless and much better than federated services that require governing bodies, because once it's out there it can never be deleted, much like blockchains. The updates are done via an ever living peercloud. It astounds me that nobody has cobbled this together besides zeronet yet - because there are some parts of zeronet that could be made better, like ip obfuscation.
Freenet seems to have all of this but it's been shown in the past to be slightly flawed in terms of anonymity. https://beakerbrowser.com/ is another, I2P is another, https://safenetwork.tech ... the point is all we need is a layer network with peered hosting and we don't need servers.
Hey, I'm the author.
What we have is the Dat APIs: you can read/write files to other P2P sites. Imagine having a global eventually-consistent database, and that's what the Dat APIs give you. We're going to standardize an architecture for large-scale services around that. The advantage is, the P2P sites work offline, sync between devices, and are controlled by the user; so, they can switch between applications and keep their data.
Some additional reading, if you're interested: http://pfrazee.github.io/blog/what-is-the-p2p-web
There is an experimental browser called beaker which does p2p decentralized sites.
I’m not sure if there is much development happing there but if you check out some of their talks on YouTube it’s interesting to learn how they pulled it off.
Also, more recently the brave browser has integrated with IPFS. https://brave.com/ipfs-support/
I mean, if you're trying out recent true distributed-web dev (beaker etc.), it's more like all you have is the augmented client side. And so then you're kind of stuck with some javascript, for now. I do dislike javascript as a language, but webasm is a hope for being able to use other languages with reasonable performance in the browser client, and seems to be doing okay.
I'm interested in siacoin for its promise in helping to create an uncensored, anonymous, user-driven, decentralized internet. Perhaps you could reach out to some of the other projects with similar goals (OpenBazaar, Steemit/Bitshares, Tor/I2P, etc) and see what they would like?
Speaking for myself, I'd like to be able to
- host images for Steemit (and other decentralized apps) on siacoin
- integrate image hosting for OpenBazaar using Siacoin
- use Siacoin for storage for the Beaker Browser: https://beakerbrowser.com/
Perhaps you could sponsor a Bounty Source (https://www.bountysource.com/) for one of those things? It could then be used as a model for how Sia can be used in other applications.
They do not even realize that archive links are just the beginning.
These sites & companies are going to completely loose their shit when p2p websites & services finish destroying their ad-revenue structure.
Best part is, their censorship bullshit is helping to fuel development and pushing the rest of us in that direction.
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- IPFS
- Hypercore Protocol
- Beaker Browser - An experimental peer-to-peer Web browser
I don't think the tech is as easy as it sounds to be honest. breaking the be where your friends are part seems to be relatively possible because a lot of people are willing to just completely not be where their friends are at all from the looks of things. a mass migration would require reasonably good interop, but if you could make it easy enough to post to Facebook with a read more link to see things on another platform...
some links for interesting alternatives to check out tech wise, found these open in my tabs today:
https://getaether.net/
https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
https://beakerbrowser.com/
I'm not sure which if any of these are good or if there are better options available, but I do have the technical knowledge to say they all look plausibly pretty solid. if someone were to write an appropriate interop toolkit to make it easy to post to Facebook from one of those UIs while also broadcasting things to whatever your friend group is in this other system that would be really interesting, and it would be doubly interesting if you could import your friends list from Facebook or import your posts or whatever.
I know 2 peer-to-peer 'platform' that have the potential.
Galacteek does have a blog system. You can subscribe to others from the 'Peers' section. You can also use with regular RSS Feed Reader clients with the IPFS gateway address.
BeakerBrowser pretty much same as Galacteek. However, Beaker blog stays in the BeakerBrowser (Blahbity-blog). You can find the other users in the 'user directory' section . Beaker blog cant be used with regular RSS Feed Reader clients, yet. Although, theres more users in Beaker than Galacteek, as for now.
My IPFS Blog Add to RSS Reader or read in Galacteek
I think not. Beaker switched in the 1.0 Beta from Dats to Hyperdrives at its backend, and Hashbase only seems to allow pinning Dat content at the moment: https://beakerbrowser.com/2020/05/14/beaker-1-0-beta.html#a-new-protocol
google bad:
you can install a faster internet browser (that actually gives a fuck about privacy) here:
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Beaker Browser is private, more secure & faster.
Peer-to-peer internet is an interesting development in recent times. You can check out Beaker Browser and this half an hour presentation on YouTube.
There's also quantum computing which has seen extensive development from a CS perspective (although it still remains research-focused until durable hardware is made). Big names like Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Alibaba are foraying into the field. IBM is particularly proactive with qiskit framework. There are startups like Rigetti which are making significant progress. See this qubit counter at quantumcomputingreport. QC is also going to affect cryptography (read about Shor's algorithm). NIST has declared that any data which is to be encrypted post-2023 is at risk.
bumped into this project recently. it looks more flexible than ipfs and has that "mutability" feature that i'd like to have been built into ipfs.
there's also a browser beta https://beakerbrowser.com/
showing how you can create sites "on the fly" something i wish was easier on ipfs
There are a few communities creating decentralized platforms without blockchains. I'd recommend checking out Beaker Browser and the Dat protocol.
The it's time for you to look closer and embrace the other side of the world wide web.
The decentralized web is where the people take back the power over their data and no corporations can control this.
Think of it like this: The corporations are not stealing your data from you and using it to control you. You're giving away your data by using their products to promote technological progress and the future really depends who we're giving our data too.
Users of Google for example can just switch to something else, if they don't like what Google is doing. Whereas citizens of countries like China can't easily switch what government is spying on them.
We still have the liberty to choose to not be spied on, or at least choose who will spy on our data, while other people can't escape the eyes of their own government.
~~Solved it!~~ not solved. Just got to the next step. More clues posted
Should I share or let others do it? I gave most of the hints below
This thread goes through most of the steps to solve http://www.reddit.com/r/ARG/comments/8dgs46/-/dxob53k
The long code thing is a dat protocol address. You need to use the beaker browser to connect https://beakerbrowser.com
Edit: OK it looks like there will be more to come so I'll fill in the blanks
Using the beaker browser you go to the address listed and will find a link to a tif image. That image is black with a 1 pixel bar at the bottom. There are 18 pixels with different colors. The hex value of those pixels translates to this url: ~~discord.gg/qXgYF7v~~ <-- this channel was deleted. Use this link for the new channel https://discord.gg/zQrVkyp
Come hang out with us over there while we wait for more!
Yep, it would definitely be a huge paradigm shift, but it is within the realm of possibility. Take a look at Beaker Browser (https://beakerbrowser.com/) and the Rotonde project (https://louis.center/p2p-social-networking/) in particular.