This repo is a sample implementation of the protocol underlying the Gravity social network.

This is the main thing, the implementation of the system described in the paper. https://github.com/npfoss/gravity-protocol/

https: //github.com/npfoss/gravity.22

nodes will deliver real-time updates through peers and occasionally provideoffline-updates through the less performant IPNS and IPFS.

Currently, our system makes a strong assumption on the performance of IPNS

allowing third parties tocreate a wide variety of social media experiences.

Scaling to Billions of Users

Frustrated by the monopoly Facebook has, its practices regarding user privacy, and theimpunity it has enjoyed from transgressions like the Cambridge Analytica scandal, we feltdriven to seek an alternative that could truly replace it and provide an even better experi-ence.

support the gamut of social media as well. In addition tosocial networks, we can support personal blogs trivially but would also like to be able to sup-port social media like large forums(e.g Reddit), social gaming(e.g Twitch), video sharing(e.gYoutube), collaborative editing(e.g Wikipedia)

collaborative editing(e.g Wikipedia).

Network AnonymityISPs have the ability to use network activity to discover a user’s friends, whether throughIPFS or direct peer-to-peer. For some users who desire stronger anonymity, this wouldbe undesirable. We would like to investigate the effects of incorporating optional onionencryption(e.g Tor) in our system to mask a user’s network activity.20

ISPs have the ability to use network activity to discover a user’s friends, whether throughIPFS or direct peer-to-peer.

moderators are delegated their roles by the owner

multi-person groups seems to be smaller thanthe number of friends.

The average number of Facebook friends is under 400.

third parties can augment posts through meta.json to support reacts

Friend Discovery And RequestsA trade off between user privacy is user discovery.

user has no reliable way to know when someone else views their profile.

easy to set state andimplement arbitrary functionality because the method of sending messages is so

We also hide the groups, subscribersa user is a part of to guard against adversaries pinpointing the identity of a user from theidentity of their friends and groups

lackof a trusted third-party to help recover login information.

In a centralized model, users trust a third-party to safely secure their information,granting ownership to the third-party.

real-time updates with minimal latency.16

keychains

Finally,we store one copy of the master key pair encrypted with the new public IPNS key in the”device keys” section of the profile (see figure &).

Multi-Device

key management is hard.

We decided against implementing any form of traditional access control for groups, suchas having specific admins that may add and remove users. This is because achieving con-sensus and guaranteed access control in a distributed system of untrusted parties is a hardproblem.

friends can host all of thenecessary metadata to make sense of each others’ profiles and posts without having to storelarge images or videos.

posts and messages, which we treatthe same underneath and leave the UI to make a distinction given the context.

hash(salt||group-secret)

sharing content is the bio folder.

It is also desirable to only encrypt each post once, insteadof once per person that can see it.

allows for the system to use different parameter choices and remain compatible.

secure identity generation with a proof-of-work to make Sybil attacks expensive.

Akasha: Ethereum-Based Social Network. Clean UI, but requires a Chromeextension, Ethereum wallet, and their own cryptocurrency to use it.

sers are forced to take the extra step to grant permissionsfor applications to use data from other applications in order to stitch their social networkstogether.

We desire a system where users have

Peers all have an identity that’s permanent.

provide acompromised form of “decentralization”, or are hard to use.

Facebook provides decent service

Webauthn PRF extension support

The downside - developers need to know what they want to build ahead of time. It's like getting a box of LEGO but no directions.

or Passkeys, is a user authentication system that replaces passwords using cryptography. We'll dive more into passkeys, how they work, and how they differ from other passwordless options in this blog post, but first, let's review why developers should consider building passwordless apps.

WebAuthn API,

Introducing Passkey Support

WebAuthn API, or Passkeys, is a user authentication system that replaces passwords using cryptography. In this post, we dive into how passkeys work, how they differ from other passwordless options, and why developers should consider building passwordless apps in the first place.

Introducing Passkey Support

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A Decentralized Secure Social Network

the communitycatalyst is developing models for

Community Catalyst Sharing knowledge and building connections

Community Catalyst: Sharing knowledge and building connections

Terraso is part of the 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People initiative, a global collaboration between EcoAgriculture Partners, Rainforest Alliance, Commonland, Conservation International, the United Nations Development Programme, and Tech Matters encouraging a better way to pursue sustainable development.

Fission's Origin Story

BlueskyBuilding a Social Internet

Should We Build Our Own Wayback Machines?

Fully interoperable standards

The last login you'll ever need

Gravity is built on IPFS,

decouple the data itself from the service you use to view and host it, then there’s suddenly a market with near perfect competition

you are not a product. Your data is yours. We can’t see it. We can’t sell it. So we don’t.

Update (April 2020)

isn’t a perfect solution yet.

Status

long version of the benefits

Decentralized

Finding new people and content is harder when no central

Appeal: BLOCKCHAIN!

“ActivityPub” is not the name of any service you can join, it’s the convention

switching is still a pain

lot of options

No one controls the whole network!

So You Want to Leave FacebookA survey of social networks, from Signal to Scuttlebutt

The Case for a Decentralized Social Network

Today’s language models are more sophisticated than ever, but they still struggle with the concept of negation. That’s unlikely to change anytime soon.

Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t

Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse (betterwithout.ai) 85 points by pidge 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 120 comments

https://blog.solcial.io/english/one-chance-to-change-the-world/

The birth of a fair social network .t3_w2z5h0._2FCtq-QzlfuN-SwVMUZMM3 { --postTitle-VisitedLinkColor: #9b9b9b; --postTitleLink-VisitedLinkColor: #9b9b9b; --postBodyLink-VisitedLinkColor: #989898; } The road will be mastered by the walking one. Likewise, the u/Solcialofficial team was not afraid to start developing a fair social network at such a difficult time. How the idea of ​​Solcial came to be read in the blog. This is a very interesting story.

current social networks suck

we only get One Chance to Change the World.

the scaled-up servers are only for the other clients (web, mobile, streaming).

The architecture of Mastodon

The architecture of #Mastodon

So You Want to Leave Facebook. A survey of social networks, from… | by Nate Foss | Medium

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is typically ignored in the Web 3.0 space

ledgers can be blockchains, smart contract platforms or dApp platforms. This is the area that seeded the broader ‘web 3.0’ movement

use combinations of technologies to solve their customers’ problems.

The Convergence Alliance

vertically and horizontally integrate

OSI model to integrate these new protocols and networks in the broader technology industry

the task of evolving and simultaneously realising such a vision is simply too colossal to be done in isolation

think of our portfolio in terms of a literal stack of highly synergistic technologies now framed as ‘The Convergence Stack’.

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OSI model

The Convergence Stack

Plant-it Notes:

The Promised Land of Event Sourcing

It’s the Kraken that has been released!

The Promised Land of Event SourcingThe Honest Coderhttps://thehonestcoder.com › BlogThe Honest Coderhttps://thehonestcoder.com › BlogDec 5, 2022 — The guide you should read before starting with Event Sourcing. ... private readonly List<Event> _events = new List<Event>();.

Kraken

JSON structural diff

Emacs Has No Learning CurveEmacs and ESS

RCS - Revision Control System - First Generation

RCS chatbot using Node.jsGitHubhttps://github.com › rodrigokamada › chatbot-rcsGitHubhttps://github.com › rodrigokamada › chatbot-rcsApplication example using JavaScript and Node.js where a simple chatbot will be implemented using the ZENVIA platform to integrate with RCS (Rich ...

simple chatbot will be implemented using the ZENVIA platform

RCS chatbot using Node.js

A new economic engine for culture

writers were rewarded for building trust with readers rather than making viral content.

readers and writers, rather than the companies that want to sell them stuff, were the customers.

an important part of a new economic engine for culture.

Now live for all: Substack NotesA way to share posts and short-form content on Substack

help posts find a valuable audience of writers and readers

Notes can become a powerful driver of subscriptions

share links, images, quick thoughts, and snippets from Substack posts. As well as being lightweight and fun, we hope that Notes will help writers grow their audience and revenue.

Notes is a new space where you can publish short-form posts and share ideas with other writers and readers on Substack.

Restacks allow writers and readers to reshare posts, notes, and comments with their subscribers in Notes. You can restack someone else’s post on Substack with or without your own text. To restack, click the circle-arrow icon wherever you see a post, note, or comment worth sharing.

A guide to growth and collaboration on Substack NotesHow to engage with others and promote your publication

Live app: https://vitriol.coVitriol is an open source distributed publishing app which works in the browser without extensions or servers to set up, thanks to OrbitDB[1] and IPFS[2].

The DBin platform: A complete environment for Semantic Web Communities

"NOT EXISTS is a very expensive set operation" of course

alliance for a Portable Communities Protoco

How can online communities be persistent, composable, and application-independent?

Portable Communities

cryptographic webs of trust,

capture collective value at scale

Web of trust

enterprise virtualization

Abbreviation of crosspost.

Own a piece of SubstackHelp build a new economic engine for culture

Introducing Substack NotesUnlocking the power of the subscription network

Everything Ventured, Nothing Gained

The Rot Economy

decouples information navigation choices from presentation choices

layout, themes, language and cultural conventions (i.e., internationalization/ localization), widget selection and configuration, and more

presentation choices

avigating the graph is possible with a very small number of primitive actions

open-ended in both the information and capabilities

introduce new types of information and actions

self-organizing human agents

the design space is closed

User Interface (UI) vs. Human Interface (HI)

Application-centric vs. Human-Centric

DAHN's design concept is introduced in the following figure:

Dynamic, Adpative, Holon Navigator

dimensional beings with rich, highly textured lives. In keeping with the principles of Primacy-of-the-Individualand Technology Serves Life, the MAP

Google's Material.

Material DesignMaterial 3 is the latest version of Google’s open-source design system. Design and build beautiful, usable products with Material 3.

Material Design at I/O ‘23

Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology

implementing peer-to-peer social media.

Self-Describing

Omni-Centric

Every Relationship is Reciprocal

invert the dynamic of the attention economy

all notifications honor the preferences set by the individual.

individuals also determine whether, what and how others can share information with them.

Collaboration, cooperation, and co-creation rely on transparent sharing of information

The rights of an individual to their own identity

Individuals have limited control

If an individual interacts with multiple such applications

primacy of the application over the individual

When you post Contributions, you grant us a license (including use of your name, trademarks,and logos)

Terms of Use Template (PDF)

Terms of Use Examples

The Decentralized Internet Is Here, With Some Glitches

Introducing Graphite Pro

This attainment was understood as a kind of non-dual state in which one is neither limited to samsara nor nirvana. A being who has reached this kind of nirvana is not restricted from manifesting in the samsaric realms, and yet they remain fully detached from the defilements found in these realms (and thus they can help others).

bodhisatva is a person who is on the path towards bodhi ('awakening') or Buddhahood.

active bodhicitta (bodhiprasthanacitta) which consists of actually practicing the path in line with one's intent

bodhicitta as an immanent inner awakening

A negyedik út

Turán: Irántól északra, az Aral-tó, az Amu-darja, a Szir-darja és a Kaszpi-tenger mentén elterülő ázsiai sztyep. Ma sivatagos vidék, ősidők óta kulturális terület. 100–200

Removing context leads to reliance on“universally secure” identifiers based on clean/universal features like biometrics, which oftenraise at least as many concerns as the central-ized protocols they replace

principle of minimum disclosure and contextualintegrity.

Useful repu-tation requires a level of visibility and interop-erability—one must be able to see and use theinformation provided.

Collective Intelligence Project

ETHICS OF DECENTRALIZEDSOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES:

Intuition @0xIntuitionData monopolization erodes trust between individuals and corporations. It breeds power imbalances, perpetuates inequalities, and stifles innovation. It's time to prioritize transparency, accountability, and user-centric data management. It's time to level the playing field.

you consider yourself some kind of intentologist?

The danger is getting stuck with a sub-optimal business model six or nine months down the line that either doesn’t match your ambition or isn’t scalable.

Don't Rush Outside the BuildingWithout First Stress Testing Your Business Model

Deconstruct Your Business Model on a Lean Canvas