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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.

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What are some general usecases?

[–] swordsmanluke@programming.dev 4 points 9 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@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Are there any implementations of this out there or is this purely theoretical (at this point in time)?

[–] hallettj 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

Interesting. I thought Iroh was implementing the IPFS protocol.

Maybe IPFS can be described by one of Willow's parameterized forms.

[–] starman@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

I haven't found any projects using this protocol yet, so looks like it's in an early stage of adoption for now.

[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 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?