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There is a group of people in our Open Source community that is getting together to build a Facebook replacement, and mentioned this $100K prize. Open invite to
by marknadal 8y ago
There is a group of people in our Open Source community that is getting together to build a Facebook replacement, and mentioned this $100K prize. Open invite to anybody interested in wanting to join their team :) I myself am too busy working on the underlying libraries for it.
None-the-less, here is our progress:
https://d.tube/#!/v/marknadal/lanz4e6z https://d.tube/#!/v/marknadal/lanz4e6z (update 1, idea)
https://d.tube/#!/v/marknadal/gfqglxvd https://d.tube/#!/v/marknadal/gfqglxvd (update 2, accounts)
https://d.tube/#!/v/marknadal/ganoayt8 https://d.tube/#!/v/marknadal/ganoayt8 (update 3, private messages)
Here is the docs for the End-to-End Encryption library (a wrapper around the Browser's Native WebCrypto API)
https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/SEA https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/SEA
- sosborn 8y agoI think that approaching this as a technical problem isn't the best approach. Unless the business questions are answered (how does one make a billion user social network that makes enough money to keep the servers running without the mess facebook created), the code doesn't really matter that much. Making a social network is easy. Making one that sticks and satisfies this criteria is much harder.
- marknadal 8y agoVery true, and is kinda a sad reflection of us/me/people-in-general. I still use Facebook, because its easy conveniences outweigh my frustration. :/ So what do we do? SSB is pretty good, and I think the Beaker guys are working on one too. They require you to download/install to your desktop though, which I'm fine with, but I don't think consumers will bother with.
- egypturnash 8y agoThey'll probably bother with downloading an app to their phones and tablets, though. Beaker's desktop-only. So's Scuttlebutt. Half the world doesn't even own a desktop. Get this stuff running on phones. Figure out how to cram a server into a single iOS/Android app along with the client.
- leppr 8y agoThe challenge here seems to be making a decentralized social network, where users truly own their data. This is a very hard tech and UX design problem, and hasn't been satisfactorily implemented yet.