Re:An off-grid social network
by someone7x on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:01AM
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This excites me. I'm probably naive, but I always imagine that one day I'll retire and spend my days trying to work on an open source mesh network (or something similar).
I want future generations to live in a world where 'the internet' isn't a thing that authorities can grant/deny. A headless social network is a promising omen of a headless internet.
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> I want future generations to live in a world where 'the internet' isn't a thing that authorities can grant/deny.
_THIS_ is very much the spirit of SSB. :)
Re:An off-grid social network
by johanneskanybal on Thursday April 06, 2017 @12:19PM
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Did I misunderstand the article or is this only for social feeds? I want headless internet in general, guess it's a common idea these days.
https://docs.meshwith.me
The technology is here, the only thing left is to make people actually use it…
Re:An off-grid social network
by dangerousbeans on Thursday April 06, 2017 @06:02PM
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It's kinda like a database which is chill with being incomplete, but you only get bits of this shared database from your friends (and their friends)
But unto this database you can build whatever, like there's a github thing and a soundcloud thing and a facebook thing
I think the InterPlanetary File System is what you're looking for: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs