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A protocol for peer-to-peer data stores. The best parts? Fine-grained permissions, a keen approach to privacy, destructive edits, and a dainty bandwidth and memory footprint.
- Dr. Wesker ( @wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ) English14•9 months ago
What are some general usecases?
- swordsmanluke ( @swordsmanluke@programming.dev ) 4•8 months ago
Once upon a time, I built a proof of concept distributed social network that ran entirely on cell phones.
I eventually ran into enough complications that I abandoned the project. But the tech did work. I could create posts, add friends, etc. (It just wasn’t reliable in its sync mechanism and I gave up trying to fix it.)
So… Imagine Lemmy, but a community’s data is stored collaboratively on mobile devices, the load shared by all its subscribers.
We all walk around with goddamn supercomputers in our pockets. We should put them to work.
- Starfighter ( @Starfighter@discuss.tchncs.de ) 10•9 months ago
Are there any implementations of this out there or is this purely theoretical (at this point in time)?
- hallettj ( @hallettj@beehaw.org ) English4•8 months ago
It looks like there is at least one work-in-pprogress implementation. I found a Hacker News comment that points to github.com/n0-computer/iroh
- swordsmanluke ( @swordsmanluke@programming.dev ) 2•8 months ago
Interesting. I thought Iroh was implementing the IPFS protocol.
Maybe IPFS can be described by one of Willow’s parameterized forms.
I haven’t found any projects using this protocol yet, so looks like it’s in an early stage of adoption for now.
- v_krishna ( @v_krishna@lemmy.ml ) English1•8 months ago
In addition to iroh there is https://github.com/earthstar-project/meadowcap-js and other projects under https://github.com/earthstar-project. See https://willowprotocol.org/more/projects-and-communities/index.html#projects_and_communities
- ExperimentalGuy ( @ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev ) 6•9 months ago
It kinda seems like if AWS permissions management and torrenting had a baby. Edit: in all seriousness tho, I like the data model. Are there any libraries that support this yet?