• Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    There needs to be a widespread p2p solution for opensource projects before its too late. I have lost count of all the amazing stuff that has been gravity bombed from orbit.

    There also needs to be a way for authors to submit things anonymously too and maybe sign their things with cryptographic keys to ID it. How many times has a company had a court order someone to cease and desist or simply acquire somebody’s work?

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      3 months ago

      p2p solution for opensource projects

      That’s called Git and it’s been around longer than GitHub. There is also Usenet which by now is mostly dead. People fell for centralized alternatives. Oops :)

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        Git is, but it has no process of discovery or hosting by itself. Those are needed to efficiently share open source software to large numbers of people.

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      All you need for this is a global overlay network and a global DNS untied from physical infrastructure. Cryptographic identities (hash of pubkey will do) instead of IP addresses (because NATs are PITA and too many people use mobile devices behind big bad NATs), and finding (in something like Kademlia) records signed by authority you yourself chose to trust instead of asking DNS.

      Then come encryption and dynamic routing and synchronization of published states.

      One can have some kind of Kademlia for discovery of projects too, but on the next level.

      I2P comes close, but it’s more focused on anonymity.

      OK, I’m not sure what I wrote makes sense. These things are easy to grasp somehow, but hard to understand well.

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        OK, I’m not sure what I wrote makes sense. These things are easy to grasp somehow, but hard to understand well.

        yeah it seems you forgot what you wanted to say midway.

        to extend on it, I2P, Tor and other mixnets provide the only safe way currently to host projects that others don’t like, because such sites cannot be taken down. that’s both a blessing and a curse

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          3 months ago

          I wanted to say something about easily hosting searchable repositories, and solving a few of the problems because of which the Web as it exists still has users.

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      3 months ago

      Open-source projects are quiet safe on Github. Maybe don’t push illegal code? Seems pretty obvious to me.