Hi Brendan, do you already know secushare.org?
We are working on a distributed private social network. Right now we have a prototype implemented in nim-lang.org. For trying it out have look here: https://gnunet.org/en/use.html#groupchat We could start to expose a REST API that can be used by a web interface. If you are interested in helping with such a web interface or in learning nim let me know! Happy hacking! t3sserakt On 10.02.20 03:03, Brendan Miller wrote: > > Hi, all. I am a web/web3 developer interested in helping to build open > source, private, decentralized alternatives to social platforms like > Facebook, WeChat, etc. I am coming from a technical starting point of > IPFS, Ethereum blockchain and secret contract platforms like Enigma > and Oasis, but I am not yet committed to a certain tech stack, and I > certainly don't want to reinvent any wheels. > > I am starting to recognize that some of the privacy protecting > architecture I was envisioning layering on top of IPFS, for example, > was not really at the right networking layer - it should be handled at > a lower layer. As a part of that realization, I have recently found > gnu:net, reclaim:id and related projects and am excited about the > attention you give these layers. > > I was imagining that the apps I would like to build would be mobile > apps so that they could be accessible to the majority of users, be > able to protect the user's private keys, and also be able to run in a > fully decentralized/mesh situation when needed/desired. > > Textile (https://textile.io/) on top of IPFS interests me because they > are open source, and provide useful functionalities that I would need. > And they are set up for mobile apps. As an example of what can be done > with Textile, you can take a look at this functional photo > sharing/messaging React Native mobile app: > https://github.com/textileio/photos > > I have also been looking at open source decentralized identity systems > like https://github.com/uport-project/uport-connect, > https://github.com/iden3 and https://github.com/jonnycrunch/ipid. > > Fundamentally, I am an app developer, but one who cares about ensuring > decentralization and privacy by default, with the ability to safely > share identity claims, user groups and content/media/files when > desired. My goal is to build on top of as much existing, reliable, > maintained open source code as possible so we can show users the full > functionality they expect from existing social networking apps to make > it attractive to switch over. > > My questions are these: > > * Does anything similar to Textile exist in the gnu:net ecosystem? > * Can gnu:net practically operate in a battery-sane manner on > Android and iOS devices? Is there a guide for how to do this? What > tradeoffs are necessary to operate on mobile? > * IPFS uses a modular infrastructure. Would it be possible to swap > out some lower-level networking layers of IPFS with gnu:net > modules for greater privacy? (Reference: > https://github.com/ipfs/specs/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE.md) > * Would it be possible to somehow make the gnu:net and IPFS > ecosystems operationally compatible, perhaps using > gateways/bridges, so that their content/data can be shared? If so, > how hard would that be? > > Thanks for any insights into these questions, and for your work on > gnu:net. > > Best, > > Brendan > > https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanmiller/ >
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