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1. Open source StackExchange :- ) There's Talkyard, which looks a bit like StackExchange. ... Minus the single-sign-on part though. I'm developing it. Here's an

1. Open source StackExchange :- ) There's Talkyard, which looks a bit like StackExchange. ... Minus the single-sign-on part though. I'm developing it. Here's an example StackExchange discussion, copied to Talkyard: (CC-By-SA license) https://insightful.demo.talkyard.io/-7/how-do-i-get-myself-out-of-bed-in-the-morning https://insightful.demo.talkyard.io/-7/how-do-i-get-myself-o... 2. Single sign-on, and (as you wrote), "using the credentials of the original forum": What about using Scuttlebut's identities? Everyone has his/her own ed25519 key pair. "The public key is used as the identifier", see: http://scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/secure-scuttlebutt.html http://scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/secure-scuttlebutt.html. These can be created in a decentralized manner. The keys are really long, but maybe, in a specific forum, one wouldn't need to show the whole key. One could instead show a forum-local-@username + the shortest unique key prefix (unique in that forum).

jen729w 9y ago
And now that guy on the fishing charter can’t use it because he has no idea what that means.
- KajMagnus 9y ago
  Actually when one installs Scuttlebutt, one doesn't need to know about ed25519 key pairs. Instead one just downloads the software, picks a username and starts reading & posting. (As far as i remember.) The user interface makes everything fairly simple. Distributed community discussion/chat clients, with universal single-sign-on, could maybe be equally simple? Two tricky tech things could be 1) how to share one's key, between all one's devices. And 2) how can all one's browser tabs, and discussion apps, get access to the key, once it's installed on localhost? without being able to steal the private key. (If one is a Scuttlebut developer, though, then one might need to know about ed25519 identities.)
- ILikeConemowk 9y ago
  He learned to sail and fish, he can learn to use a key pair. I despise cynics who in the process of underestimating others crash the party, our party. If the man wants his damn forum back give him his forum, in as many possible flavours and sizes as we possibly can. Then let him deliverate, hopefully learn and ultimately adapt.

jen729w 9y ago

And now that guy on the fishing charter can’t use it because he has no idea what that means.

KajMagnus 9y ago
Actually when one installs Scuttlebutt, one doesn't need to know about ed25519 key pairs. Instead one just downloads the software, picks a username and starts reading & posting. (As far as i remember.) The user interface makes everything fairly simple. Distributed community discussion/chat clients, with universal single-sign-on, could maybe be equally simple? Two tricky tech things could be 1) how to share one's key, between all one's devices. And 2) how can all one's browser tabs, and discussion apps, get access to the key, once it's installed on localhost? without being able to steal the private key. (If one is a Scuttlebut developer, though, then one might need to know about ed25519 identities.)
ILikeConemowk 9y ago
He learned to sail and fish, he can learn to use a key pair. I despise cynics who in the process of underestimating others crash the party, our party. If the man wants his damn forum back give him his forum, in as many possible flavours and sizes as we possibly can. Then let him deliverate, hopefully learn and ultimately adapt.