agree. but it will take a while to get to the next manifest. That’s why I wanted to keep my gnuS instance a while longer but still have some useful functions for the blockchain. I’ve been using statusNet/gnuS forever.
eventually, the functions of the microblog (and more) will be decentralized: you’ll store your profile/user data (social graph) on blockchain, not a service (like uport), You’ll have !groups on a colony/district0x/aragon chain, #tags will be part of an ever moving meme market (hashtag market), ipfs/swarm/storj will hold the content, livepeer will broadcast live streams, basic income might come from Proof of Presence, being online, being a node, creating the network, Local bandwidth (mesh networks) and grid+ electricity protocols will take care of some infrastructure. I guess the activity stream also works decentralized: instead of the list of posts/activity living on server, every single post would be chained to a previous post as a meta-data crypto-pair. So looking at your feed would look like etherscan, that lists the contract's entire transaction history. ken http://artsmesh.com <http://artsmesh.com/> > On Jan 16, 2018, at 7:50 PM, carlo von lynX <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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/ >
