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- Scaling Farcaster
- Farcaster is a protocol for building decentralized social apps
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Centralization Possibilities
We have already have a clear stack. there's Gitcoin Passport for sybil resistance, git (and wrappers like Radicle) for version control, Lit PKPs & Gelato for account abstraction, Farcaster/Orbis/Lens for social architecture, OpenStreetMaps for geographic markets, OPStack, etc.
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Nostr.how – A Complete Guide to Nostr
These services exist outside of the protocol and depend on a few centralized and trusted authorities.
Another solution that is arguably more resistant to capture and censorship would be to use a blockchain to manage user name aliases - like Farcaster is doing with fnames.[1]
[1] https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol#22-farcaster-names
- Thoughts on building Web3 social platforms?
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Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
one XMPP server gets big and usernames get squatted and dealt with at the discretion of the server admin.
Only solution is something like how Farcaster does it
https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol#3-identity
- Farcaster Protocol
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Mastodon.technology Is Shutting Down
That's sad to hear, but it makes total sense to shut down the server given its sensitive data, rather than hand it off to another person.
Mastodon/ActivityPub is a poor fit for a social network IMHO.
- Accounts should not be tied a single server and their continued maintenance.
- Private data and DMs should be end-to-end encrypted rather than entrusted with a single administrator.
- People don't want to self-host.
The core problem of a lot of social networks comes down to name aliasing, and who controls the name registry. In the case of nostr[1] this is not a problem because everything is using public keys. Another protocol is Farcaster[2] which plans to use a smart contract to maintain a name registry without requiring a single controller.
[1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
[2] https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol
- Farcaster: A sufficiently decentralized social network
fedbox
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How far did my post go on the Fediverse?
If you're interested in an ActivityPub that works like that, I work on one called FedBOX[1]. It doesn't have clients at the moment, but that's how I planned to have it used.
https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox
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I Wrote an Activitypub Server in OCaml: Lessons Learnt, Weekends Lost
Well, there is one already as the reference implementation for a suite of libraries I wrote. You can find it at https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox. (Contributions welcome)
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We need a textodon (text-only Fediverse hub)
Also my project, mentioned elsewhere in the thread: https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox, supports filesystem storage directly.
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Go-Fed: ActivityPub in Go
Hi, I'm the developer of go-ap. Which parts of it are giving you trouble? I'm always open to answer questions to the project's mailing list: https://lists.sr.ht/~mariusor/activitypub-go
There is a rather hidden wiki that has some more information than strictly the comments in the code: https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/
If you are looking for examples, there is a reference server at https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox
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Gophers on Mastodon
There is a Go implementation of a generic ActivityPub service. I am actively working on it as we speak: https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox. (You can see a demo instance of it at https://federated.id)
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First release of LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board written in Rust
That's pretty cool actually. I've been tossing around the idea of a federating forum style UX that uses ActivityPub, and I figured it would be easy using something like this https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox
I don't know how many generic AP backend servers are out there, but it looks like Lemmy is becoming one. I hope they keep with the AP spec and allow any functionality in addition to it to be modular.
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Mastodon.technology Is Shutting Down
> What we really need in this landscape is dead simple services.
I'm working on exactly that: a service that acts as an ActivityPub server (code[1], example[2], example application running on top of it[3]) for users in the form of a static binary. It supports multiple storage backends that can be selected individually or all together at build time and it can be extended to many more.
[1] https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox
[2] https://federated.id
[3] https://littr.me
What are some alternatives?
rpmsg-lite - RPMsg implementation for small MCUs
lablgtk - LablGTK 2 and 3: an interface to the GIMP Tool Kit
soapbox - Software for the next generation of social media.
twtxt - Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers.
matrix-spec - The Matrix protocol specification
lemmyBB - A federated bulletin board
multihash-serialise - Haskell libraries for interacting with IPFS
misskey_ynh - Misskey package for YunoHost
freebird - matrix based twitter clone
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working