What are some general usecases?
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
18 points (100.0% liked)
Programming
17270 readers
39 users here now
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Rules
Rules
- Follow the programming.dev instance rules
- Keep content related to programming in some way
- If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos
Wormhole
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Once upon a time, I built a proof of concept distributed social network that ran entirely on cell phones.
I eventually ran into enough complications that I abandoned the project. But the tech did work. I could create posts, add friends, etc. (It just wasn't reliable in its sync mechanism and I gave up trying to fix it.)
So... Imagine Lemmy, but a community's data is stored collaboratively on mobile devices, the load shared by all its subscribers.
We all walk around with goddamn supercomputers in our pockets. We should put them to work.
Are there any implementations of this out there or is this purely theoretical (at this point in time)?
I haven't found any projects using this protocol yet, so looks like it's in an early stage of adoption for now.
It looks like there is at least one work-in-pprogress implementation. I found a Hacker News comment that points to github.com/n0-computer/iroh
Interesting. I thought Iroh was implementing the IPFS protocol.
Maybe IPFS can be described by one of Willow's parameterized forms.
In addition to iroh there is https://github.com/earthstar-project/meadowcap-js and other projects under https://github.com/earthstar-project. See https://willowprotocol.org/more/projects-and-communities/index.html#projects_and_communities
It kinda seems like if AWS permissions management and torrenting had a baby. Edit: in all seriousness tho, I like the data model. Are there any libraries that support this yet?