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Hi Mark, Thanks for your feedback. We do hope to use shamir secret sharing among your friends to allow password recovery in the future, but that's strictly le

Hi Mark, Thanks for your feedback. We do hope to use shamir secret sharing among your friends to allow password recovery in the future, but that's strictly less secure (your friend's can collude against you) and would be optional. There is a centralised pki to ensure unique usernames (eventually it could be made into a blockchain - it's already an append only merkle-tree in ipfs, but this is an alpha). This is a UX tradeoff. Peergos is designed to be used by people who can use facebook - they should never need to see a hash or manage their keys. Once you have signed up and claimed your username you only need to interact with your storage node (and those of your friends for social stuff) unless you need to lookup a new friend who's recently signed up. Some things are slow yes, we have a lot of optimisation to do, but wanted to start getting feedback.

zaroth 7y ago
The idea of enforcing unique usernames kinda sucks, and so does trying to add people to a contact list by searching for and entering usernames. This is, of course, how it’s always been done. But need it be? If you’re bootstrapping off of your existing Twitter/Facebook/Whatever I would assume Oauth could get you the ability to discover friends on the network without ever having a “username” to enter. If you’re making a new friend on the spot it’s a QR code or Bluetooth or Ultrasonic handshake between the devices? If you’re making a new friend online I’d rather send them a peergos://<base56>/invite via SMS or Email or whatever other chat program we’re using. Tap and it should app switch right over to a screen showing their contact info with the “Friend” or “Add” button right there. iOS will convert a webpage link into a preview of the page. I wonder if you could use that functionality to make sharing an invite link via SMS on iOS preview the actual contact page. I don’t know if iOS will let installed third party apps provide a preview bubble for link/protocols they’ve registered to handle. OT: Shouldn’t the name just be PeerGo? Or really, Peer.

zaroth 7y ago

The idea of enforcing unique usernames kinda sucks, and so does trying to add people to a contact list by searching for and entering usernames. This is, of course, how it’s always been done. But need it be? If you’re bootstrapping off of your existing Twitter/Facebook/Whatever I would assume Oauth could get you the ability to discover friends on the network without ever having a “username” to enter. If you’re making a new friend on the spot it’s a QR code or Bluetooth or Ultrasonic handshake between the devices? If you’re making a new friend online I’d rather send them a peergos://<base56>/invite via SMS or Email or whatever other chat program we’re using. Tap and it should app switch right over to a screen showing their contact info with the “Friend” or “Add” button right there. iOS will convert a webpage link into a preview of the page. I wonder if you could use that functionality to make sharing an invite link via SMS on iOS preview the actual contact page. I don’t know if iOS will let installed third party apps provide a preview bubble for link/protocols they’ve registered to handle. OT: Shouldn’t the name just be PeerGo? Or really, Peer.