Half baked idea time
Distributed, decentralized, social media.
The problem, imho, is servers. You can set up a mess of servers, but that still centralizes on them.
My uncooked idea is to completely decentralize to the device and build the network friend to friend up, each acting like a small dns for all its connections and so on.
Yes, storage issues. Yes connection issues, but.. for real decentralized
@avlcharlie @Amgine Milan @milan Hi,
Is the "#Distributed, #decentralized, #socialmedia" #networking compatible with a kind of "Social FTP" ?
#SocialFTP = Direct access to each person's hard drive space for socially sharing, so it's direct like FTP (etc)
There are also a number of communications networks which fit your device-level organizing, such as Jami and Tox.
I really think the key to decentralization is eventually at the device level. Very interesting stuff.
Maybe… How many of your devices connect directly to the internet backbone, instead of an ISP router, or a cellular network?
I think self-healing mesh networks, such as OpenWrt, with multiple redundant LoRa routers (or better yet, high density bandwidths licenses?) tying LANs together are possible. But I do not know if that can work to build an ad hoc alternative Internet. And I expect it would be orders of magnitude slower than optical.
@Amgine @avlcharlie @milan Yes heard about it but not used, in what way is useful (does it answer everything ? / What doesn't it answer ?)
thanks
@freeschool @avlcharlie @milan
IPFS shares a portion of your storage system with the universe. Files are encrypted in transmission and at rest. Files are broken into a random number of random-sized fragments, with each fragment stored redundantly across multiple hosts.
You will have the 'address' of the file, and you can choose to share this. The address allows normal network file system access to the file.
Files are resiliently available, with strong anti-censoring effects.
@Amgine @avlcharlie @milan Easy to setup on all platforms?
(if you know / have experience as quick answer and gauge?)
@freeschool @avlcharlie @milan
It is on my list of things to test install/use before Winter holidays. I do not have any experience with setting it up, or use. I do not endorse its use, I just am aware of it as a method of accomplishing some of the goals.
IPFS has innate risks, including the potential for your node to be used in botnet command-and-control, among other risks. Please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System and make your own decisions.
IPFS is about as user-friendly as a rabid skunk.
@octade @avlcharlie @milan How / in which way ?
The output is simple / standard / FTP like...
See it working on my site (only joking not me!):
@freeschool @avlcharlie @milan
Have you heard of InterPlanetary File System #IPFS ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System