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)
@freeschool @avlcharlie @milan
Have you heard of InterPlanetary File System #IPFS ?
@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.