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"We Need To Rewild The Internet" (twit.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"We Need To Rewild The Internet"
An absolutely excellent read (and great analogy) by @mariafarrell and @robin Probably the best piece I've read all year.

I often struggle to think of a term for "appearing messy from a distance is often, on a human scale, healthy actually." Comparing the social web to an ecosystem is exactly it.

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I'm building a sort of new internet protocol, so that we can do away with registrars and dns servers (so everyone can have their "web site"). But I'm quite abysmal when it comes to get people interested :-p

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

You're doing what again?! Insert obligatory 15 standards XKCD (edited because you can't link images directly?)

Jokes aside, tell us more!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Ha ha yeah if there were only more competition :-D

The idea is people run nodes (the hard part: routing incoming internet traffic to your PC) and nodes chit chat (any new nodes? Hey I just changed IP address!, ... etc) so that there is a lots if known nodes. Identities rely on RSA keys (like ssh does).

Then on top of that (thus making it useful) you can propose a deal for another node: you share my data and I'll share yours.

Which means people can access your data from your PC or from that other node sharing it for you.

Share it with several nodes (you obviously are sharing theirs) and there will be a very high probability your data is accessible all the time.

The sharing is completely trust-less, if a node stops sharing your data, you just stops sharing theirs and gets a new partner, no hard feelings.

Added bonus is that it might be shared all over the world, so hard to take down.

All traffic and data is encrypted, so no node even knows what they are sharing.

You can change IP:port address, and update your data easily (that was the big work to be fair).

That's about it, the implementation is written in python3 + cryptodome and uses RSA & AES-CTR.

The basic use could be to host a website, or a chat for example.

What do you think?

[–] Kolossos 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You should check out https://solidproject.org/ and see how much overlap you have?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Interesting!

I poked around in the (slightly verbose) documentation and stumbled onto this:

Servers should not re-use URIs, regardless of the mechanism by which resources are created. Certain specific cases exist where URIs may be reinstated when it identifies the same resource,

So I wonder if it has the same inbuilt limitation that IPFS has, which means you cannot just update the data you are sharing, without also having to create a whole new link (I know IPFS are trying to work around that, but have seen no decentralised solution yet).

I'll poke around some more!

Thanks for the link, I hadn't heard of them before.

Cheers

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