On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:50:00AM +0800, Kenneth Fields wrote: > hello gnuS,
disclaimer: i'm from the opposing faction, those who are working on distributed social networking rather than federated. because. > I’m wondering if there is any work on a gnusocial blockchain plugin? > I know about gnu projects like taler and hyperledger, but > I was thinking about gnuSocial specifically. > > I don’t use the private message plugin much in our instance (artsmesh.io > <http://artsmesh.io/>), > so that function could be replaced with send/receive ethereum based tokens. > > Other todo’s for blockchain plugin: > 1. Replace the private messaging function with blockchain wallet: > send/receive. federated social networks by design do not protect metadata. a reason to use blockchain and thus cause inappropriate amounts of environmental damage only makes sense to me if metadata protection is an objective (by using Tor or bitmessage). since that is already a lost case by design of gnu social, it makes sense to use pgp-mail or other encrypted trivial messaging. there is no gain in employing environment-killing tech. > 2. Extend user/group profiles with token info: ethereum address, > 3. Other Personal tokens to watch in your wallet: contract address, name of > token, token symbol, decimals). > - including your own personal token (for example jondoe.eth). > - so you can exchange tokens with people > 4. So in your side bar, your avatar becomes your eth address colored icon > 5. when you subscribe to users/groups, you have their eth address right there > in their profile. blockchain people need to start learning about the rest of distributed systems design. block- chain is but a minor tool in the larger toolset of distributed computing, and the answers to questions like how to do messaging and social networking in a distributed way akin to the blockchain are not going to be answered by last century server-based federation technology. also they may find out that other people already got rid of proof-of-work instead of just talking about it for years. -- E-mail is public! Talk to me in private using encryption: http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/LynX/ irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/lynX https://psyced.org:34443/LynX/
