Ciao RichardWS IPFS interests me as part-and-parcel of the broad issue of TW deliberately not being server dependent. I think its suffered, not because of any of its limitations, but because the dominance of server dependent models in software design on networking & communications, and poor protocols, made it much harder to get steps.
So ANY initiatives that show how to assert non-server dominated steps that can help TW better interact are worthy of full examination IMO. What is doable is I think a very OPEN question. Best wishes Josiah On Sunday, 26 June 2016 04:17:18 UTC+2, RichardWilliamSmith wrote: > > And as for using ipfs for a distributed node-like implementation online, >> that would be awesome. There would unfortunately be problems with >> read-write privileges and the like. I imagine it would be easiest to make >> something that could dynamically build a wiki from a set of distributed tid >> files on page load, but you could do the same thing using http. >> Fundamentally http(s) is also a way to access a distributed file system so >> that aspect of it doesn't necessarily allow any novel applications. >> > > The novel applications come (imo) from the fact that ipfs is > content-addressable - you ask for tiddlers by their hash, not a location. > It also has signed namespaces that you can use as a pub location for > pub/sub and built-in versioning. As far as I understand it, the best way to > explain ipfs is something like "bit-torrent, with git on top, with the web > on top of that" and there are no servers, only peers in a swarm. If you > publish something, then I view it and then you go offline, other people can > still get what you published from me, and yet there's no way I can tamper > with it. There are also proposals for an incentivisation layer (filecoin) > that would let you pay a small amount to guarantee your content to remain > hosted, though in practise anything of interest to more than a few people > will remain live anyway. All of this, of course, is far from ready for > widespread adoption and, as I say, I have a lot to learn about it all. > > RR > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3530d83f-a20a-4c2d-88d3-bfe31df25749%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
