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Research IPFS #6

Closed meeDamian closed 6 years ago

meeDamian commented 6 years ago

ppl interested: Corvin, Stan, Barry

Desc: Spend time learning what's possible, what are the limitations, maybe try to write simple programs interacting with it in some ways.

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meeDamian commented 6 years ago

Okay. IPFS looks really interesting, can't believe it took me so long to get to it 🤔

https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs

meeDamian commented 6 years ago

I was thinking how difficult would it be to create a Mastodon instance that would just work as a proxy for IPFS. Imagine, your identity and all toots (together with their cryptographic signatures and opentimestamps) stored on the IPFS, and the instance just merely translates it to the protocol Mastodon speaks. Then, if something happens to the instance (it gets shutdown, they choose to censor you, etc), you just either spawn your own or ask another instance to work as a proxy for your stuff.

That also might act as a Trojan horse. Easy to migrate for Mastodon users to a new model, where your stuff truly belongs to you. And Mastodon has a pretty long history of changes.

lukechilds commented 6 years ago

IPFS backend for Mastodon is an awesome idea.

meeDamian commented 6 years ago

No progress on it, closing for now