@kepano
Same with #SafeNetwork: non-VC, your data forever and a level playing field for developers and creatives of all kinds at scale at zero cost to them. @obsidian
As we venture into the realm of decentralised systems, it’s crucial to heed the lessons that nature offers. Our planet has spent over 4 billion years perfecting systems that are both efficient and resilient, without the need for unnatural constructs like network-wide consensus or total order. By embracing these principles, the...
With Google already dominating web browsers with #Chrome and now attempting to lock it down to access only approved websites using #DRM...
...before long secure open internet will mean not only hosting your own services like Mastodon, email etc, but hand rolling your own apps and web browser.
Unless...unless somebody can build a truly open peer-to-peer storage and communications platform that has no gatekeepers.
The next testnet, which should be launched any day now, will look at variable store costs. As a quick refresher, when nodes get full, the price of data storage increases in order to attract more nodes onto the network; conversely, when there is plenty of space on the network, the store cost falls.
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.
Yesterday we launched our latest testnet to analyse the effect of encryption on node memory performance. This builds on the previous QuicNet, which saw a move from TCP to QUIC, and drew a rapturous response.
QUIC is evidently the future. Nevertheless, this being cutting-edge engineering, for every step forward the law says there has to be half a step back ...
We have a suspicion that the high-mem nodes are those that subscribed to gossip for royalties. This testnet is aiming to probe that hypothesis by removing gossip royalties!
The aim here is largely to see if we have avoided such high memory nodes.
ValentinesNet is still going strong, so all being well we’ll keep it alive til we run out of space or release a breaking change.
We are moving ahead with updates on the fly, and hope to put it to the test on the current testnet. Basically what will happen is that node IDs and data will be seamlessly retained even as the sn_node software is updated.
The Anti-Capitalist Software License (#ACSL) can be adapted but as it stands does not require disclosure of derived code, instead limits use to individuals and organisations which do not exploit labour, but are either non-profit / educational, or employee owned.
Seeing a lot of how to save Firefox toots today, well two in a few minutes 🤷♂️ and another yesterday!
I know a way.
One said #Mozilla are suffering from a mature market, which is not the whole story but a good point, and a pointer to a way to put #Firefox on top.
If @mozilla Firefox were to build a Browser for #SafeNetwork they would have first mover advantage on a network that will not attract big tech, because it is user focused with privacy and security from the ground up. #p2p
@dentangle I made a proof of concept decentralised git hub for use with the #SafeNetwork, a #p2p storage and comms system (currently in testing).
Taking it further was more than I could handle but I showed how it could be done using a SvelteKit web UI, and git in the browser on a decentralised filesystem, also hosting issues in the git repo (using git-bug as a library compiled to WASM).
so we have been batting around the idea of some kinda paper bot for awhile re: the question "how do we track discussions around scholarly work" and I am starting to think this paper-feeds project is the way to do it.
So say it is an AP instance and it has one primary bot user, you follow it and it follows you back. When you make a post with something that resolves to a DOI, then that post is linked to that work. Any hashtags used in that post are added to that papers keywords (assuming some basic moderation and word ban lists). Then keyword feeds are also represented as AP actors that can be followed and make a post per paper. I wonder if we can spoof the "in reply to" field to present all those posts as being replies to that paper.
So say the bot also has some simple microsyntax for linking your account to an ORCID - either directly in a profile field, or by @'ing the bot and checking a rel=me, or hell even oauth. Then you could also relate when the authors of given works talk about other works and use that as another proximity measure. Then you could make an author RSS feed/AP actor that is just the works someone publishes and optionally that they talk mention - so eg I could make an aggregate feed for the papers my friends are reading.
Then you could have instances of this feed generator follow one another and broadcast aggregated similarity information at a paper level not linked to personal information, and also opt-in info like the fedi account <-> ORCID link. Since youre on AP already you basically get that for free.
Thinking about what would be useful for social discovery of scholarly works, and there are a lot of really interesting ideas once you start actually yno doing it starting from a place of not having a product to sell or a platform to run so you avoid some of the scale and liability probs.
@jonny
FYI I worked with the help of the #Solid community including Timbl, to demonstrate that the Solid protocol, or at least a useful subset could be implemented and used on a #p2p data and comms network.
I believe the issues with centralised DNS and server based hosting (self hosting included) are not sufficient to meet the goals of Solid which include decentralization and self ownership of data.
I was able to run existing Solid apps running on p2p #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.
So the British Library has been hacked and it is at a standstill for months, and it is not expected to recover any time soon.
Not even the physical copies can be borrowed, or even consulted in their premises, or even be located if they wanted to. The catalogue is electronic, and so unexisting for now.
What if something similar happens to the arxiv? Will we be able to carry on doing research in the way we are used to?
@MartinEscardo This is the kind of thing that cannot happen when using #SafeNetwork for storage. Coming in 2024, it will be a way to end ransomware and data-loss.
Test network announcements (safenetforum.org)
List of past and active test networks
The SAFE Network: A Deep Dive into the Wisdom of Natural Systems (metaquestions.me)
As we venture into the realm of decentralised systems, it’s crucial to heed the lessons that nature offers. Our planet has spent over 4 billion years perfecting systems that are both efficient and resilient, without the need for unnatural constructs like network-wide consensus or total order. By embracing these principles, the...