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Application: Social Networks on IPFS #45

Open flyingzumwalt opened 7 years ago

flyingzumwalt commented 7 years ago

Work in progress - please contribute. See ipfs/apps#40.

creatinglake commented 7 years ago

I am interested to see where this goes and am keen to understand how IPFS can enable decentralized social networks. How will identity be managed?

flyingzumwalt commented 7 years ago

@creatinglake this issue should become a good reference point for you. To be clear, we are gathering all the dominant use cases for "Things that people could do on IPFS" and gathering info about the many different companies, groups and projects who are using IPFS, libp2p, IPLD, etc. to build solutions in those spaces. Our priority is to make sure that the protocols, specs, and library implementations support those many projects.

For example, the Akasha team are putting a huge a amount of work into building a social network on IPFS. We want to make sure that our work supports theirs and others like them.

Specifically to your question about handling identity, We're not picking a preferred method. We think it's healthy for everyone to experiment in that space, to choose the option that fits their engineering constraints, and to publish their work so we can push the whole field forward.

MichaelMure commented 7 years ago

I'm working on that usecase here: https://github.com/MichaelMure/Arbore Presentation website: http://arbo.re/

singpolyma-shopify commented 6 years ago

ipfs object diff is a great resource for being able to get something WebSub-alike (as well as initially a bridge to WebSub itself) going with minimal effort. Probably pubsub publish old hash + new hash (maybe ipns updates will work something like this eventually?) and then can easily diff to find what files have updates, etc.

flyingzumwalt commented 6 years ago

@singpolyma-shopify IPFS already has a pubsub implementation. These blog posts give an overview:

and there's lots of discussion about using it in the ipfs forums

singpolyma-shopify commented 6 years ago

@flyingzumwalt I know, that's what I meant when I said "probably pubsub" :)

flyingzumwalt commented 6 years ago

ah. i see.

ianopolous commented 6 years ago

We are working a secure social network in Peergos See also our book or our main site or our demo

bertrandfalguiere commented 5 years ago

A very interesting thread can be found here: https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/social-media-architecture-with-ipfs/4625 👍

Clay-Ferguson commented 5 years ago

I have a little platform of my own I'm developing "SubNode.org" which is not really ready to start accepting users, but is fairly powerful in certain ways. I do intend for it to be usable in a way where there's multiple 'instances' of it running to form a kind of distributed loosely coupled network. For identity management, and digital signatures, I was just going to allow users to upload a public key as their identity, and have a way of digitally signing content (encrypting it using their public key).

Whitepaper laying out my ideas in detail is on the way soon. I've been developing this for years long before IPFS even existed, and this is really like version 5.0 of it. Uses Java, TypeScript, MongoDB, springboot, ReactJS, and soon, an ability to post and read arbitrary nodes to/from IPFS.

Contact me! Help out! I'm looking for other contributors and would love to find funding and quit my day job to work on it full-time!

jessicaschilling commented 4 years ago

Note: Discussion on applications of IPFS are happening over in the IPFS Forums now ... please continue the discussion there!

This issue is being moved over to the archived repo https://github.com/ipfs/apps/ for reference.