This week we’ve all hands on deck, filling holes, bashing in nails and replacing rotten timbers in the previous testnet so we can launch the thing of beauty that is the ReduceConnectionsNet, which thus far seems to be sailing along pretty nicely.
"We need to seize the means of computation, and that means ejecting all of these interlopers, and relocating it back into the personal domain we control." Danny O'Brien, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
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If we're waking up from the apoplexy that threw all the decentralised projects out because of the problems of bitcoin et al, take a look at #SafeNetwork which is working with others to create a truly decentralised alternative to #BigTech monopolies and increasingly extreme surveillance of everything we do. @mmasnick
This week we’ve been further considering the economic on and off ramps to the Network—particularly in the early stages after genesis.
We’ve also been looking at the underlying cause of excessive open connections. Having stopped FloodSub the current testnet is better than the last in that regard, but heaptracking still reveals far more connections than we need.
The most important news this week is the winding down of the Bittrex exchange. Anyone who has MAID on #Bittrex needs to take it off the exchange sooner rather than later.
Other news is that the latest testnet seems to have solved some problems and unearthed others in a one-step-forward-one-step-back kinda style.
Right now I'm all in on #vdash but that will mature before long so today I wondered what next.
I wondered, how can we stop small businesses and self hosters shutting down services like #Mastodon, unable to meet unrealistic moderation requirements of UK law.
I think we can do this with #SafeNetwork or another #p2p platform.
My ideas are very raw and won't fit in a few toots, so not for now.
It prompted me to make a topic for #socket on the #SafeNetwork forum and #MaidSafe's founder has made a few comments there so you might want to take a look:
Quick note to say I have spent a whole year now on mastodon, having loads of rewarding conversations with so many lovely and interesting people. Thanks for reading ❤️
Those are VC funded platforms is all they should need to know: great to start while sucking in users but eventually harmful and abusive if it makes them money.
Anyway, glad you decided to try this and hopefully will stay.
I believe though it is temporary and that fediverse, if it grows big enough will become a target for centralising exploitative capital. I look forward to peer-to-peer solutions, once they offer superior UX, eg #SafeNetwork
Well, it was bound to happen some time. After a run of successes, the RoyaltiesPaymentNet was cursed by high mem which killed off many nodes and left the rest pretty much zombified.
Spookily all was fine on our internal testnets (albeit with some slightly raised memory levels). Could poor RoyaltiesPaymentNet have been struck down by dark forces beyond our ken? 👻
Well, perhaps there's a scientific explanation... Read on
#fedi is a big step in the right direction for now, but self hosting will always be vulnerable to centralisation because it is hassle.
In addition, putting your data in hands you don't control is risky, but by joining the #fediverse we've just ended up with more hands rather than solving that problem.
Compare self hosting every service you use with peer-to-peer: all your data, apps and services available anywhere on any device with no hassle.
@matthew_d_green pre GitHub so we'll probably never know, which is probably a good thing because I bet a few coding idols would be exposed.
Imagine if GitHub disappeared overnight.. 😱
I mean, how could that possibly happen. No corporation has ever suddenly turned on its creators and users and pulled a plug or sabotaged is own service... have they 🤔
We’ve often sympathised with Sisyphus in the Greek legend. Sisyphus had to push a boulder up a hill for eternity only for it to go rolling back down again as soon as he neared the summit.
Not wishing to tempt the notoriously vengeful Greek gods, but we’re increasingly certain that this time we’ve finally cracked it, and we’re sitting pretty on the plateau. Why the confidence?
I think you will find #SafeNetwork more than interesting (if you aren't already familiar), and it will explain why I'm pushing for tech that has privacy baked in, and also see the need for that tech to be more attractive than what people use now. @thenewoil@protonmail
#OCapN is an effort to standardise programming across networks through Object Capabilities (I think). I haven’t dug down but it sounds relevant to Safe Network at least conceptually.
I've released a major update to #vdash (v0.11.0) adding new dash screens and statistics.
vdash is a terminal based GUI for monitoring Safe Network nodes. It now opens with a new Summary screen of statistics for all monitored nodes and a one line summary for each node, plus a new help screen.
Install or update from crates.io with 'cargo install vdash'.
We’ve had two testnets on the go in the last week, aiming to clarify issues in replication and at the client, as well as investigating the mem increases we’ve seen across nodes.
So far, while we’re still seeing client issues, we’ve been able to clarify what’s going on there and so fixes to failed CashNote reads, and other upload issues, are in the works.
I just started looking at it because MaidSafe are implementing support for it in #SafeNetwork and I'm wondering if it would be possible to implement support for #ActivityPub on top of #gossipsub.
It would be amazing if this potentially widely used library were a way to link Safe and other #p2p networks to the #fediverse
We're an independent, community-focused organization that wants to figure out how to keep #Flickr around for 100 years, preserving our shared visual #commons for future generations.