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So, what is stopping this to be the ultimate distributed social media platform? I mean, I should be able to publish a relatively simple sqlite database that co

So, what is stopping this to be the ultimate distributed social media platform? I mean, I should be able to publish a relatively simple sqlite database that contains: - my public posts - my public encryption key - list of my friends - my private posts encrypted with the friends' public keys Then I should seed at least my and my friends databases, so even if some of my friend is offline, his/hers database is still available.

niftich 10y ago
Network effects and lack of off-the-shelf implementations.
- beefield 10y ago
  Network effects are clearly a major issue, but wrapping the concept to a webpage and/or mobile app should not be a major hurdle. If I have not missed something. If I only had some more time on my hands...
  - niftich 10y ago
    Although the subject matter is different, GitTorrent [1] actually uses techniques you propose, by using BEP 44 to store Git revisions in the Bittorrent Mainline DHT, and Bitcoin to store cryptographically-signed usernames in the Bitcoin Blockchain. You can look at how that implementation was done and what issues they encountered to see what it would take to implement a distributed [something], where that [something] in your case is a social network. [1] https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
rakoo 10y ago
Twister (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_(software)) partly uses bittorrent, for long-term storage of posts and messages. It's not purely standard bittorrent, though.