Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I'm excited to attend #DecentSocial on the 11th to talk to folks about decentralized social networks.

In particular I'm excited to infodump about #p2p #databases and how they can be used to bridge #ActivityStreams into serverless contexts.

https://decentsocial.net/

The thing where Twitter is destroying their API and breaking a bunch of third party apps is that the same thing can happen with any API at any time.

All these fancy Discord based bots are vulnerable to breaking any day and your entire community being left stranded.

User and developer agency is important for any sense of longevity and people should get serious about where their points of failure are.

@dietrich Is this so you can turn people asking to fix a bug without providing info about the bug into a wojak? 😛

@leichtgewicht Neat. I had a class on that as part of highschool. Really useful skills in general IMO

@makeworld "but I found myself eating dinner or napping instead of being productive with nobody the wiser." amazing

@camiloh I really appreciate that more apps are being made responsive enough to handle mobile since I like to have most things sized to around that width so I can see more on my screen at once

@NanoRaptor OMG why don't micro SD cards get painted to look like little floppy disks?!

Learning new dynamics and social norms is hard. But it's worth it to enable collaboration.

@Coyote @cuaxolotl @Moon @ademan Generally I run an ipfs-cluster set and pin data there. Gonna be looking into making it work better with mutable datasets and IPNS.

Honestly might be easier to just go with a blockstore and libp2p and skip the garbage collector and pinning stuff entirely.

@magila I totally forgot about peer exchange! I think a lot of other protocols don't have it and probably should

@Moon @cuaxolotl You might enjoy this comparison article I wrote about #IPFS, #Hypercore #BitTorrent and #SSB.

https://blog.mauve.moe/posts/protocol-comparisons

It doesn't get super into the weeds on the DHT tho

@magila I don't think you need to attack the DHT topology for a DoS though. You can advertise from seemingly legit IPs to regular DHT nodes and either overload them, or add a bunch of these junk entries that refuse to serve the content.

Like, *chan types used to use LoIC a lot for getting random people to just run a tool which would help with DoS. Feels like there should be a similar one for p2p content by now. Maybe #dweb stuff just isn't popular enough still.

@Moon @cuaxolotl Yeah, I feel like with #IPFS being more popular lately we'd at least see people attempting black hole attacks on ipfs.io or on some popular NFT collections.

@magila Really? Mind linking to the spec for that. I was under the impression that mainline still doesn't have a clear mechanism for sybil resistance.

Some things like #hyperswarm take it pretty seriously though and only allow peers with stable IPs to participate since they use it to generate their ID for Kademlia.

Ain't any cloudflare that'll help THAT one!