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Upcoming AMA with Lemmy's Developers: Friday, Jan 26, 1500 CEDT (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This will take place ~24 hours from now. Feel free to post and upvote questions beforehand in this post, as it will turn into the AMA tomorrow.

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This is a chance for any users, admins, or developers to ask anything they'd like to myself, @[email protected] , SleeplessOne , or @[email protected] about Lemmy, its future, and wider issues about the social media landscape today.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is there any new p2p/decentral technology that is trying to advance beyond federation?

It would be cool to have a generic framework to make web resources that are inherently decentralized without the need for sponsor and hosting.

Like IPFS but as a social site. Everyone helps partially host content in exchange for access to all the content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There are different software that could help this happen but I'm not sure how they'd handle all of lemmy's content

There is Gun.js and OrbitDB (OrbitDB runs on IPFS using Helia)

and there is FreeNet which allows hosting of freesites on their network if you have something downloaded to your computer.

Some of the problems could be mitigated by volunteers running relay nodes hosting the kind of content they want to stay up (this would work with Gun.js and OrbitDB since it allows subscribing to specific data) or just general relay nodes that gives the network more capacity (this would be the method if you are working with FreeNet)

Again not sure how easy or hard this would be so I hope the developers share their thoughts.

Edit: When I say relay nodes hosting I don't mean they have control over the data but instead keeps the data online. The data is still stored on the users own device and is shared between users if both are online at the same time.