Post
Replies:
5
@hamishcampbell @hipsterelectron
Haha, i wish it would go faster.
So many details that need to be figured out.
If you want to follow progress, you can check:
https://github.com/trulynotafan/p2p-news-app
This is the preview. Its as basic and raw as it gets and it does only work when you git clone the project and run it on your device, which includes running a relay on localhost, because we have not yet hosted a relay node in the cloud.
@hamishcampbell @hipsterelectron
Relay nodes or "servers" are interchangeable and can be used in parallel - as long as a single relay node is reachable, including one on localhost, you have access to the p2p network.
They are proxies to do p2p on behalf of your browser
Here is the preview
https://trulynotafan.github.io/p2p-news-app/
...not much to see yet - and while it might not seem like it, we are getting quite close to completion馃檪
Of course - we'll "make it pretty" at some later point maybe, but yeah....
A few questions:
This is very similar to #nostr what is the difference?
Without a user facing front end, it's just tech, and too complex tech at that.
What is the use case as media is public, how would this bridge to #AP and #At etc?
How are external flows of news brought in (almost all news will be reported outside the native network?)
Can it run as a phone app?
@hamishcampbell @hipsterelectron
AT or Bluesky - even though the community marketing attracted to join and use "bsky" is great - it is not decentralized. It is centralized and its design will ensure it stays that way.
Mastodon is fediverse and i love it too - which is why i am here - again for the community.
Mastodon is way more decentralized, but still - users are not sovereign. Any journalist on mastodon has to choose their overlord and switch if they dont like them. Self hosting is hard
@hamishcampbell @hipsterelectron
plenty of questions.
nostr needs relays to work and the nostr stack is a very simple toy stack built on unreliably propagating json data around.
dat is older and more mature, but can do heavy lifting. keet for example does video/audio live conferencing and arbitrary sized filesharing with ease.
...but more importantly - dat is high performance and works p2p between end user decvices directly.
