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- OrbitDB reaches version 1.0 after 8 years of development
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Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS
OrbitDB is not well-funded, but there's fresh work happening recently by some dedicated volunteers: https://github.com/orbitdb/orbitdb/commits/main
- Current Progress of IPFS
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orbit-db VS db3 - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 15 Jan 2023
- Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk (March 26, 2022)
- Decentralised public immutable database
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Ask HN: Is there a descentralized DB with a simple social conflict resolution?
I've been thinking it might be practical to build a simple decentralized database, where agents just know each other, so conflict resolution does not need to be so strong and can rely on the social layer.
I think this applies to most databases, but I'm particularly thinking of internal enterprise databases, some social networks, any federated database system, and different devices of a single user
I'm thinking of this features:
1- Append-only?, full history of operations. Deletes / edits do not remove data, they only modify the "active state"
2- Agents are public keys or similar (DIDs?)
3- Operations are signed, and receivers verify if operation is valid, and sender is allowed
4- Operations form a Merkel-DAG (similar to git, they link to the tips of current "active state", like a commit/merge in git)
So far I think I've basically described [OrbitDB](https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db)
Consensus is where things get real hard, [OrbitDb seems to use a last-write-wins CRDT](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22920204), and although I don't know the details of orbitDb, I think for many simple use-cases, conflicts can just be resolved on the social layer. But I think we need to provide agents with good tools to resolve conflicts
I'll try my best here with some ideas:
- When merging, we can order operations by their timestamp, if operations enter conflict, raise it to the conflicting agents, or someone with permission to solve them.
If an agent makes public an operation that forks its own history, mark agent as malicious or compromised, alert other agents, this needs resolution on the social layer, you have proof of misconduct, an agent has signed diverging operations
Any operation becomes fully settled if you have proof that all agents of your system have referenced it directly or indirectly through newer operations.
Timestamps can be upgraded by using @opentimestamps to get proof that an operation existed at time X (prevents creation of operations in hindsight). Though this does not prove operation has been made public
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How to make a crowdsourced distributed metadata database?
Both use OrbitDB: Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web. JavaScript. MIT license. repo
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Release: New features for Nalli
I think a wallet-agnostic memo solution is definitely the way. Having wallets that end up (partly) incompatible is only gonna hurt the UX. Maybe a decentralised DB solution like OrbitDB or GunDB can be the best way forward, although I haven't dove deeply into the docs yet.
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Building a decentralized database
Checkout this https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db peer-to-peer database for the decentralized Web.
What are some alternatives?
ipfs-cluster - Pinset orchestration for IPFS
ipfs - Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
IDMChat - Chat App for sending and receiving IDMs on Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum and Fantom
web3.storage - DEPRECATED ⁂ The simple file storage service for IPFS & Filecoin
org-anki - Sync org notes to Anki via AnkiConnect
js-libp2p - The JavaScript Implementation of libp2p networking stack.
faunadb-js - Javascript driver for FaunaDB v4
berty - Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network
sandstorm-earthstar-foyer - Experimenting with earthstar foyer inside sandstorm
solid - Solid - Re-decentralizing the web (project directory)
pacman-backup - :floppy_disk: Pacman Backup tool for off-the-grid updates via portable USB sticks or (mesh) LAN networks.
ipfs-chat - Real-time P2P messenger using go-ipfs pubsub. TUI. End-to-end encrypted texting & file-sharing. NAT traversal.