I've been working on a decentralized message board for awhile, and I've finally got a working beta running.
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I'm looking to stress test it and get all the IPFS kinks worked out before attaching a domain to it, so for now it can be reached at: cloudflare-ipfs.com
Sorry if the gateway goes down, it's been a pretty buggy process so far.
This is fucking weird
Use infura you mong
bafybeic7ozq774kglrbanupyq7etwrvkdk4au5f6ss2ts7p5rp66yu4a74.ipfs.infura-ipfs.io
Your code is kinda shitty ngl
Is that a gateway or a new pin entirely? I'm pretty new with ipfs in general.
I'm pinning it with pinata but it's been in retrieval for a few hours.
Anyways, yeah it's spaghetti code, but I need help punching holes in it because I'm a midwit.
hey you should make it so users have to either
a) mine to post
b) pay to post
so that it's inefficient for bots. good posts could receive a credit back.
just an idea I'll check out your site
nvm looks like you need reth to pay, cool.
Thanks for the feedback man!
I do eventually want to implement some kind of reputation filter that users can choose to apply. If this ever gets on a mainnet, it will be something like polygon were the gas fees are low enough to enable bots. Low fees are kind of a double edged sword like that.
I'm also working on a decentralized social media. IMO you should use IPFS's pubsub feature to publish posts rather than Ropsten. DM on telegram @estebanabaroa or discord estebanabaroa#2853
Add a points system also, that way the good posts can get put to the top and the chuds get their posts moved to the bottom and have their comments hidden. Also a system for giving awards as well?
>pubsub
yeah sounds cool
hmm like a badge representing a precious metal? Like...you've won the internet for the day kind stranger?
Can you tell me more about pubsub? I'm trying to keep data on chain, so that ipfs pins don't have liability for what's posted. At the moment the IPFS node doesn't store anything it just serves a viewer to look at data onchain.
>Can you tell me more about pubsub? I'm trying to keep data on chain, so that ipfs pins don't have liability for what's posted. At the moment the IPFS node doesn't store anything it just serves a viewer to look at data onchain.
I wrote a whitepaper about the pubsub/IPNS design for use with community type applications like bulletin boards github.com
if you have any question about it, send a DM I will explain it.
Since data is being written to the chain in my implementation. The messages are essentially secured by the network of miners and nodes already.
Even if all of the ipfs infrastructure got taken offline, the content is still preserved, and can be viewed by anyone who wanted to do so. I'm working on eventually creating desktop clients that don't need any hosting what so ever, just a node key.
I think the distributed nature of your work is very interesting, but wouldn't each subreddit need to achieve a giant reach in order to enjoy similar security?
unironically i aint clickin that shit nigga but post a screencap
>Even if all of the ipfs infrastructure got taken offline, the content is still preserved, and can be viewed by anyone who wanted to do so. I'm working on eventually creating desktop clients that don't need any hosting what so ever, just a node key.
How scalable would you say using IPFS is? I'm also looking into it for building a website but how would it handle high traffic? Would I need to have a lot of IPFS nodes running myself or will content get cached by other nodes if my own nodes start struggling with traffic?
IPFS is infinitely scalable, it's like Bittorrent, you can have billions of users. In the plebbit design, each community owner stores their own content, just like each torrent creator seeds their own torrents. And every consumer of the content also seeds it for some time, so the initial seeder can distribute the content to an infinite amount of people, millions, from his own personal computer and internet connection.
But if you asked a single person to seed every single torrent in the world at the same time, that starts to resemble a blockchain/ledger, and that does not scale infinitely.
A blockchain/ledger is the wrong design for social media. Users will never pay to post, and even if they do, it will never scale to billions of users.
>pubsub
If no one cared about old posts, the archives wouldn't exist. But they themselves are still subject to legal notices and regulation.
It's okay that you have a different design, but your criticism is that crypto fundamentally can't scale to service every person in the world. That may be true at the current moment, but it's also the goal of most major projects to solve the trilemma and fix it.
>If no one cared about old posts, the archives wouldn't exist