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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > >
