Re: gnu:net and IPFS: integration possible or desirable for social networking app development?

2020-02-12 Thread Marcos Marado
Hi t3sserakt, The documentation you linked at says that we groupchat needs nim >= 0.19, but the project's README says >= 0.18... I guess one of them should be fixed :-) Best regards, On Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 09:42 t3sserakt wrote: > Hi Brendan, > > do you already know secushare.org? > > We are

Re: gnu:net and IPFS: integration possible or desirable for social networking app development?

2020-02-12 Thread t3sserakt
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

Re: gnu:net and IPFS: integration possible or desirable for social networking app development?

2020-02-11 Thread Brendan Miller
Thanks for the great summaries and links, Martin. Looking forward to future developments with TNG, etc. And based on your comments on uPort, which make a lot of sense to me, I am going to take a closer look at Reclaim:ID. Best, Brendan On 2/11/20 1:46 AM, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote: Hi,

Re: gnu:net and IPFS: integration possible or desirable for social networking app development?

2020-02-11 Thread Schanzenbach, Martin
Hi, > On 11. Feb 2020, at 05:59, Brendan Miller > wrote: > > Thank you for your answers and encouragement, Martin. > > As a follow up, could you summarize your key thoughts on the shortcomings of > IPFS relative to gnu:net? The most obvious shortcoming is that IPFS only does file-sharing

Re: gnu:net and IPFS: integration possible or desirable for social networking app development?

2020-02-10 Thread Brendan Miller
Thank you for your answers and encouragement, Martin. As a follow up, could you summarize your key thoughts on the shortcomings of IPFS relative to gnu:net? And what are your concerns/reservations about uPort? How would you contrast their approach with that of Reclaim:ID? Much appreciated!

Re: gnu:net and IPFS: integration possible or desirable for social networking app development?

2020-02-10 Thread Schanzenbach, Martin
Hi Brendan! thank you for your interest in GNUnet. In general I think you have the right ideas :) One thing to node in general is that most of the technologies you are significantly more mature from a users perspective _because_ they do not address the whole stack. IPFS otoh does a lot of

gnu:net and IPFS: integration possible or desirable for social networking app development?

2020-02-09 Thread Brendan Miller
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