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GitHub - mjovanc/awesome-decentralized: A curated list of awesome projects, books, articles, tutorials, courses and other useful resources regarding decentralized technologies. ๐
I found another list of decentralized projects like this.
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Alternative Internet
Related:
https://github.com/croqaz/awesome-decentralized
https://github.com/gdamdam/awesome-decentralized-web
https://github.com/decentropy/awesome-decentralized
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Critique of Crypto/Web3
> That's not a bad thing, but it isn't true anyway, you literally login with your wallet.
> Here's more geared towards your "genuine curiosity" of web3 apps
I get that you weren't addressing my particular interest in your original post. I've put in a decent amount of time digging through the links you've shared; I'd appreciate if you accepted my curiosity in good faith.
Thanks for sharing more links, though they are not terribly digestible. The first link in particular seems to have many decentralized applications that don't use a blockchain (see below).
> https://github.com/gdamdam/awesome-decentralized-web
These are all cool decentralized web applications (many with real value, including bittorrent, mastodon, etc) -- but how many are built on a decentralized ledger / blockchain? Eight include "blockchain" in their description, and only three I would consider "apps":
- BigchainDB [dev tool] - a 'database'
- storj [dev tool] - blockchain-based object storage
- dtube [application]- decentralized video platform built on a blockchain ("STEEM")
- opentimestamps [dev tool?] - blockhain timestamping (not sure what this is for?)
- namecoin [application] - dns on blockchain
- steemit [application] - blogging/social networking on top of a blockchain db
- arcblock [dev tool] - tool for building "dapps, blockchains and websites"
I'm specifically curious about useful applications for decentralized ledgers, if that wasn't clear. The web/internet already runs on many decentralized protocols.
## STEEM
Both dtube and steemit are built on "STEEM", which seems to function as a form of social credit. Basically, whuffie (for the Doctorow fans out there). That's kinda cool[1].
IIUC:
- new users get 15 STEEM (where does this come from? is this not a spam vector?)
- posting costs STEEM
- upvoting content yields STEEM for the producer (content creation)
- early upvoters earn STEEM (curation)
The crypto part is mostly managing relationships and influence, not attempting to decentralize the actual shuffling of bits. Reasonable. Influence being portable across social networks is a cool idea too.
But how does the _business_ of this work, and is it an improvement over centralized social networks? Steemit, Inc, funds itself via the STEEM digital currency. The STEEM digital currency can be bought -- i.e., influence on the networks can be bought. Is this better than buying likes/comments/subscribers? Abstractly, it might keep the actual social signals cleaner -- except that IIUC you have to like/comment/etc to actually have your STEEM influence people! It's not clear to me that having the network funded by selling influence is an improvement. In ahttps://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/05/20/steem-hard-fork-..., off-platform deals to leverage other people's influence will still be a reality.
So what are the benefits? Theoretically influence becomes decentralized, though the role that Steemit Inc plays is unclear to me. How are new participants funded? Who actually runs and pays for the social network infrastructure? And of course there are the usual risks like 51% attacks.
In practice: according to reddit.com/r/steemit, Steem has been forked because Steemit was acquired and the community didn't trust the new owners who had a majority share (STEEM used proof-of-stake, not proof-of-work). This was because of some drama involving "witnesses", presumably having to do with implementing the actual STEEM rewards/rate limiting. This happened in Apr 2020. The sticked post on r/steemit is from only six months ago (Aug 2021) for some reason. This explains why steemit.com seemed dead. https://hive.blog is apparently where all the action is now. Tthere are other UIs (or could be), so this is not centralized (does this mean the actual content is on the chain? Seems expensive and unscalable).
Detangling just this one "dapp" took >30 minutes. All the crypto stuff aside, hive.blog looks basically like a multireddit made of small subreddits (DTube shows up as the equivalent of a subreddit[2], btw).
## Namecoin
Once you have decentralized DNS the others can already rely on other decentralized parts of the internet (IP, etc).
DNS is not really centralized IMO, which the existence of Namecoin itself attests to. You can choose your nameservers; arbitrary levels of subdomains are supported; etc. If you are capable of opting into Namecoin, why not another root DNS?
Practically Namecoin acts like another root of trust. How well does it perform this function?
https://www.namecoin.org/docs/faq/#is-squatting-a-problem--w...
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U.S. bans imports from Chinaโs Xinjiang region, citing human rights abuses
Distributed networks & apps to work and share content off-grid https://github.com/gdamdam/awesome-decentralized-web
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Twitter Donates to RSS a week after modi threatens to block it
Start using the decentralized web, peer-to-peer networks, and their applications like diaspora and mastodon. https://github.com/gdamdam/awesome-decentralized-web
- With mass online censorship now prevalent, I propose a new form of communications: HAM and CB radio.
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Ask HN: Is it technically possible to evade big-tech censorship?
I think there are a lot of things that can be referred to as options to avoid your ISP from dropping you. But when your service is spending over $100k a month on an AWS bill like Parler claims to have been you are scaled up enough to need a lot of power, bandwidth, and storage to recreate that infrastructure. There are a lot of P2P and blockchain decentralized (or mostly) people could try to use. But the main issue with them is how tech savvy need to be to even access them. Most of the things in this example list require deeper understanding than most Parler users probably have.
https://github.com/gdamdam/awesome-decentralized-web
Even something as simple as DNS can be blocked or altered by the registrar or provider(s). So you need to have a top down solution to all the various potentialities.
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AI-generated content, other unfavorable practices get CNET on Wikipedia banlist
In the days before "google it" was a synonym for "find it", we had different curated link sites, and even pyhsical magazines with hand-curated lists of links that people interested in a certain topic might find interesting. This still exists today in some forms, for example the "awesome lists" that you see for some programming topics, for example https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome .
Just like there was a time when 90%-99% of all email traffic was viagra spam, I imagine in the future most of the internet by volume will be AI-generated trash, and those in the know will still circulate lists of where the other 1% can be found.
An even brighter scenario is that someone, maybe a kid tinkering in their garage, figures out how to make a search engine that finds the good stuff, doesn't immediately die to AI bot farms' SEO efforts, and is financially viable.
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Resources I wish I knew when I started my career
2. Awesome Lists
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The Top 10 GitHub Repositories Making Waves ๐๐
Software Engineering Blogs
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Kyutai AI research lab with a $330M budget that will make everything open source
He appears to be the original creator of the โAwesome Xโ repo: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
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โจ7 Github Repositories to Master React
Awesome React
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Do you know any books about programming worth reading?
I'm just going to leave this here: awesome git repo
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No More Problems With GitHub Issues
You don't need any particular requirement to consult issues section on GitHub. If you need a place to follow along this post, my chosen repository for today's blog post is Awesome.
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Artist for Hire?
I have an awesome list GitHub repository that needs a few icons & a banner made. I was wondering if any students in graphic design would be willing to commission a few for me? I'm willing to pay either hourly, or by the project and can pay cash or venmo. Note that the art will end up as CC0, so you'd essentially be waiving any right to the artwork.
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Pulling my site from Google over AI training
yah, come to think of it in the curated space, this reminds me of that awesome X family of github pages. Looks like someone compiled a bunch of them here https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome#databases. I have found those to be highly valuable treasure troves pregnant with rich and relevant information.
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Top 10 "Must Have" Repositories for Web Developers
10. Awesome
What are some alternatives?
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daisyui - ๐ผ ๐ผ ๐ผ ๐ผ ๐ผ โThe most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library
awesome-dapps - A curated list of awesome decentralized applications / resources
vitepress - Vite & Vue powered static site generator.
greenfield-whitepaper - Whitepaper for Greenfield, the decentralized data economy
MacType-Profile - Best mactype experience
awesome-crypto-critique - Making sense of web3 & crypto. Introduction to key concepts and ideas. Rigorous, constructive analysis of key claims pro and con. A look at the deeper hopes and aspirations. [Moved to: https://github.com/life-itself/web3]
TOAST UI Editor - ๐๐ Markdown WYSIWYG Editor. GFM Standard + Chart & UML Extensible.
awesome-solidity - โ A curated list of awesome Solidity resources, libraries, tools and more
developer-roadmap - Interactive roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help developers grow in their careers.