Me: “After a long consideration, I’ve decided not to defederate Threads from my personal instance, because the benefits of being able to reach out to my friends and relatives using the open tools that I’m contributing to build and run outweigh the risks, but I’ll keep an eye on it, I may reserve the right to block Threads later, and I respect and understand those who prefer to block them instead“.
Easily triggered strangers: “You self-entitled privileged cis tech bro, you are not doing enough to protect vulnerable minorities from the fascist harassers in the world out there, I hope you die from a gut infection“.
So much for “the Fediverse is an open place that embraces diversity and mutual respect where everybody should feel safe”.
@fabio
They launched the Autonomi brand only a couple of weeks ago and things are still changing over, so you will find info searching for the previous name #SafeNetwork, and MaidSafe.
The forum at https://forum.autonomi.com is a great resource and the entry to trying out the beta test networks, and the code is at https://github.com/maidsafe/safe_network API documentation is partly on the rep and API detail is on https::/docs.rs as the project is written in Rust.
With a #DID derived from a secret key you can truly own your identity. Unfortunately, key rotation is not supported, and if you lose your key, you lose everything. This can be partially mitigated with distributed key generation techniques that make key recovery possible if only M of N shards are available, but they are complicated.
Servers can rotate keys, but they can also suddenly disappear, and again you lose everything.
Blockchain-based systems support key rotation and don't have a single point of failure (if done right). Sometimes they are called "servers with superpowers". However, popular ones are not suitable for the job because writing to them is very expensive and their clients need powerful computing devices and a lot of storage.
Is there a way around that? Yes. Blockchains can be very lightweight and they don't actually need a cryptocurrency, miners or stakers in order to work. There is a simple consensus algorithm known as Proof of authority, and one of the Fediverse competitors, Bluesky, seems to be planning to build such system:
>We are actively hoping to replace it with or evolve it into something less centralized - likely a permissioned DID consortium.
They are afraid to say the B-word, but "permissioned consortium" is exactly what it is. Of course, their identity #blockchain doesn't have to be the only one in existence. I think in the future we might see quite a lot of "identity cooperatives" of different shapes and sizes. Perhaps even a universal client, curl for identity, can be developed.
@silverpill
Maybe also look at how #SafeNetwork can provide this. It uses BLS keys (so M of N) to access encrypted account data stored on a permissionless (autonomous, p2p storage network) that stores data forever.
I'm investigating use of human readable decentralised identity for a DNS type system on this network, but these identities will be usable for anything of course. So details are up to anyone wanting to build an identity system on Safe Network, but it is going to be interesting.
Let's say you have a file you want people to be able to access for free on the internet in 2044.
The file is in the OpenDocument format and less than 10 MB in size uncompressed.
Where and how would you host it?
This is not a "test" or "experiment" - I'm genuinely asking! The only ideas I've had so far are dumb or obvious stuff like "puT iT oN gOoGle dRiVe" or host it on my website. But who can guarantee my hosting provider will be around in 20 years? Or even Google Drive, for that matter 🤔
In the Roadmap we promised to unveil a fresh white paper and new branding next week, and we will deliver. The white paper is all there bar the i-dotting and t-crossing, and we’re really looking forward to sharing our new public face with the world.
Good progress on folders and mnemonics this week too.
I'm looking again at static website builders now that Safe Network is happening (beta this month, launch in October).
I was set up to deploy my #dWeb blog simultaneously to web and Safe Network using #ReactStatic but sadly that is no longer maintained (but still works).
So I'm working on one using my favourite #Svelte. Also trying #Publii, a WYSIWYG site editor which looks interesting. Not the best UX but could help a lot of folks get online, on web and the #decentralised#p2p#SafeNetwork.
So here we have it folks. A path to guide us through the final turns of the journey and across what to some might feel like a finish-line, but is the start of a new future.
On top of what our expanding team is working on, you’ll have lots of opportunities to be involved directly in this roadmap—and be rewarded for getting stuck in.
This week has seen us working on the remaining tasks to be tidied up before beta and the next testnet. Plus there’s been lots going on with comms behind the scenes.
@freebliss
Great to see this. It's something I'd love to put on #autonomi (ex #SafeNetwork) but first we have to get some APIs and a browser app sorted! Hopefully they'll be there as your project matures.
Visiting the repo I'm curious why AGPL rather than GPL? Being static I'm assumming no server side code. I'm not sure it matters but still curious. I don't understand all these licensing options and just make all my code GPLv3, and never do anything on a server.
ICYMI: MaidSafe (remember them) have appointed a new CEO to take Safe Network from beta to launch and are starting communications today, with online events starting tomorrow (Xitter spaces), and new roadmap this week.
New CEO is @forthebux who helped take Gala Music and Gala Games to massive success in a few months.
Our new CEO Bux will be taking many of the partnership and commercial activities off David’s hands, leaving him free for some serious thinking and able to really get his hands dirty once again.
Bux has masses of experience in Web 3 projects, most recently Gala, and is a perfect fit for our project.
New staff members will join soon to help us with the AI aspects of the vision.
@boris
Very interesting thanks. I've been following/helping #SafeNetwork and was wondering about connecting with #IPFS (maybe as a way to host content permanently) so started following the hashtag today and reading up. But it's such a big project!
Your blog is very interesting, and seems similar to ideas for compute on SN. I'll be following your work. Good luck. @everywherecomputer
Will block bulk sale of biometric, financial, genomic, geolocation and health data to China and other "countries of concern." White House called it "the most significant executive action any President has ever taken to protect Americans’ data security"
@drewharwell a year from now governments will be looking for a solution like #SafeNetwork, and it will be there. But they won't want anyone else to use it, just like encryption.
Have been looking at #dat again, do you think we can build this:
The Open Media Network is a trust based, human moderated, #4opens project that builds a database shared across many peers (both #p2p and server). The project is more important for what it DOES NOT DO, than what it does do, using technology to build human networks. There are ONLY 5 main functions:
• Publish (object to a stream of objects) – to publish an object (text, image, link)
• Subscribe (to a stream of objects) – to a person or organization, a page, a group, a hashtag subject etc.
• Moderate (stream or object) – you can say I like/dislike (push/pull or yes/no) this etc you can comment.
• Rollback (stream) – you can remove from your flow (instance database) untrusted historical content by publishing flow/source/tag.
• Edit (meta data of object/stream) – you can edit the metadata in any site/instance/app you have a login on.
We would build in the moderation tools of the #Fediverse.
This is the back-end of the project to build a #DIY trust based, grassroots, semantic web. The front-end may be anything you like, for example regional-/city-/subject-based #indymedia sites to a distributed archiving project #makeinghistory
The data cauldron and the golden ladle. The technology we call the #WitchesCaldron.
@witchescauldron Another platform to consider is #SafeNetwork which is coming together right now. (For example, I'm looking into porting my earlier proof of concept for a an LDP interface (#LinkedData / #RDF) to the new API, and then some #Solid apps.)
I think what you propose would be feasible, certainly worth looking into because the platform has some unique characteristics and I think now would be the perfect time to start building for it. Fully autonomous #p2p#e2e#security.
@happyborg what is the difference between dat and #Safenetwork I am assuming some political difference dressed in tech assumptions. What is the politics of dat and safenetwork?
"If you want to scale, you have to design with scale in mind. #atproto makes several interesting choices in order to distribute the load of running the system more onto the actors that can handle load, and less on those that can’t. This way, applications running on top of atproto can scale up to large userbases without issue.
That’s the hope, at least. Earlier this week, #BlueSky hit five million users, and is far more stable than Twitter was in the early days."
@josemurilo
The #SafeNetwork is non-VC backed, autonomous and #p2p (no servers, gatekeepers, intermediaries or walled gardens) and is designed to scale without developers having to add infrastructure - so any individual can create a killer app and have it scale. This levels the playing field for both developers and users.
Oh, and it isn't a social network but a platform on which apps like that can be built, along with all manner of other apps and services.
Today I've had a few remainders of how much I dislike how the software industry is funded. Its mostly ads, or stepping in as unnecessary middlemen. Sometimes we coerce users to pay, but that's negligible. Or we push the problem off by telling a good story to venture capitalists.
Really we need to rework our economic system. We need systemic change.
But until then: Pay for the things you benefit from online, especially when you're not coerced to!
@alcinnz #SafeNetwork aims to help this. It is autonomous #p2p, so no gatekeepers or walled gardens that meditate between developers and users of software and services.
Built-in (non-Blockchain) token economy that everyone uses to pay to store on the network and rewards those providing resources such as apps or storage.
Crucially also:
a level playing field for developers because apps scale without the need to pay for extra infrastructure. So no need for VCs, anyone can participate.