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In SSB, pubs seem like an essential (and flawed) part of the network, and this may be true at the present time, but not forever. I'm working on a few alternativ

by staltz 8y ago

In SSB, pubs seem like an essential (and flawed) part of the network, and this may be true at the present time, but not forever. I'm working on a few alternatives to pub servers, one of them is a server that has no storage of data, it just acts as a meeting point for clients, and sets up tunnels between them. The other is a 1-feed pub, where the idea is to setup a mirror for your data in case you are a feed that has many thousands of followers. In both cases I want to make it easy (as in Heroku one click installer button) to start a server. The idea is that the easier it is to start a server, the more servers there will be in quantity. Off from the internet, SSB already has good mechanisms for sharing data (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth), which other protocols don't seem to have. Its hard to grok how good this is unless you're living in poor internet environments. SSB on the internet is not as well designed as SSB off the internet.

stdcli 8y ago
Despite working with another protocol in the decentralized space, I have to say Andrew Staltz, who I assume is the person who made this comment based on the username, is doing such a great job with manyverse: https://www.manyver.se/ https://www.manyver.se/ and I recommend downloading it to try it out. It is one of the first breakout apps (in my opinion) in the space that feels user friendly and really makes it seem like theres a viable decentralized alternative to facebook. The bluetooth/wifi option helps alot with making it user friendly when it comes to pub servers, etc. I actually found out about manyverse last year when it was trending front page on hacker news and I'm glad I looked into it. He is being humble by not bringing up is app here despite it being a beautiful one that feels seemless, and being extremely responsive to his users (you can even submit issues to gitlab via by clicking a button in app) but listening to his podcasts on solarpunk, and in general, he seems like a humble guy so I'm not surprised. I am very interested to see how the features manyverse plans to roll out help push the user friendly aspects needed is the SB protocol space.

by staltz 8y ago

stdcli 8y ago

Despite working with another protocol in the decentralized space, I have to say Andrew Staltz, who I assume is the person who made this comment based on the username, is doing such a great job with manyverse: https://www.manyver.se/ https://www.manyver.se/ and I recommend downloading it to try it out. It is one of the first breakout apps (in my opinion) in the space that feels user friendly and really makes it seem like theres a viable decentralized alternative to facebook. The bluetooth/wifi option helps alot with making it user friendly when it comes to pub servers, etc. I actually found out about manyverse last year when it was trending front page on hacker news and I'm glad I looked into it. He is being humble by not bringing up is app here despite it being a beautiful one that feels seemless, and being extremely responsive to his users (you can even submit issues to gitlab via by clicking a button in app) but listening to his podcasts on solarpunk, and in general, he seems like a humble guy so I'm not surprised. I am very interested to see how the features manyverse plans to roll out help push the user friendly aspects needed is the SB protocol space.