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Decentralized Software/Internet User 10/30/18 (Tue) 06:49:36 No.52596

What sort of decentralized software do you use? I'm familiar with tor, and I've played around a little with beaker, brave, auger, and ipfs. I want to transition to a decentralized net but I don't know which of these organizations I can trust/which of their systems has the most pros. Thoughts?

Also, I wonder if in the future there won't be a single unified decentralized net, but rather multiple decentralized nets that are all insulated from each other because their fundamentals are different. It would be interesting having to jump between them to access different things.

User 10/31/18 (Wed) 05:33:06 No.52612

>>52596

Have you looked at different web services that are part of The Federation or the Fediverse? (usually The Federation refers to Diaspora/Hubzilla/Friendica and other longer form posting systems, and Fediverse refers to the Twitter/microblogging systems like GNU Social/Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.)

https://the-federation.info/

User 11/01/18 (Thu) 09:23:51 No.52628

>>52612

I haven't, thanks for letting me know. I'm looking into them and it seems like out of all these Mastadon is the most successful rn. Is there a specific service you recommend?

User 11/03/18 (Sat) 17:16:59 No.52644

>>52628

No recommendations sorry. I'm not very social, so the tech is more what's interesting to me.

Maybe at some point I'll run my own server to get a better sense of how it works, but ATM, XMPP/email better fits my use.

Hubzilla is most interesting to me, since it's trying to be a decentralised socialnetwork/calendar/photosharingsystem/other. It's a far more interesting idea to me than most of the other fediverse stuff - and I personally can't stand the Mastodon UI.

User 11/04/18 (Sun) 00:15:17 No.52652

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>>52628

>Mastadon

Has done precisely what I assume you're trying to escape from; controlling who can and cannot speak on the platform.

Federated protocols typical regress to cabals that control information flow to all but the most obscure branches.

Beaker seems interesting, but I've yet to try out the browser itself. Looks like it solves decentralization, no word on privacy though, but that may be out of scope for the developers.

Paul has a great blog too.

User 11/04/18 (Sun) 01:38:51 No.52653

>>52612

there's nothing on that page but a blurred out background

User 11/04/18 (Sun) 03:22:18 No.52659

>>52653

Saw that too until I realized I had to turn of no script.

User 11/04/18 (Sun) 20:28:37 No.52669

zeronet but not 100% anon.

User 11/05/18 (Mon) 07:24:40 No.52681

>>52669

isn't zeronet anon if you route it thru tor and don't torrent anything?

User 11/06/18 (Tue) 06:32:52 No.52700

>>52669

zeronet seems interesting, although right now due to the low userbase the amount of sites is pretty limited.