Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

@bgtlover To be honest, the DNS stuff is there to help pave a path from folks that are used to nice website URLs they can type in. For a more decentralized approach I think we should be using web of trust networks to discover people. Like, I send you a link or you scan my QR code and then you start seeing me and anyone I follow. Kinda like how the fediverse works now, but without needing a central instance. Check out https://cblgh.org/trustnet/ if you haven't yet.

@bgtlover This does mean relying on DNS infrastructure to do the name resolving. One thing I was thinking of is reaching out to Handshake to have an easy way to register domains on their chain and point them at a Distributed Press instance which can then resolve any DNS queries.

@bgtlover For example you can check out `ipns://example2.mauve.moe` in Agregore and see it resolve to the raw file contents.

@bgtlover So, distributed.press embeds a go-ipfs node into itself and provides an HTTP API for uploading tarballs to publish.

For naming we use a combination of IPFS+IPNS+DNSLink. DP has a custom DNS server which you can point your domain at with `NS` records, then when a users tries to resolve your domain DP will serve DNSLink records which point to an IPNS pub key. That then resolves to an IPFS CID. With this updates happen at the IPNS key layer, but links stay the same.

@joe Yoooo. So glad to see this is on the fediverse now. One of my fave videos on Youtube back in the day.

It'd be neat if there was a front end for #PeerTube that looked like Tiktok but with the algorithm being on the client side with more control over how it finds content.

@bgtlover @agregore You can publish static assets only so if you want a DB you'll need to use sqlite with some JavaScript. We're working with sutty.ml for this grant which is a sort of Wordpress alternative which generates static websites and is going to have a toggle to enable publishing to Distributed Press directly. Docs are gonna come later this month. :)

@fabrice Whoa. I wasn't aware they did more than texy documents. This is awesome, ty.

Also now I wanna see how hard it'd be to replace their collaborative message passing thing with libp2p pubsub in Agregore 🥰

Are there any #foss alternatives to Google's spreadsheets that folks liked using? Specifically interested in self hosting, live collaboration, amd access control.

Hobestly wish HackMD had something for spreadsheets built in so I could write text instead of fiddling with a mouse :P

@fabianhjr Ty! I'll defs be posting about it. I think we're aiming to release the next issue in March along with the docs for the new version of DP. cc @mai who's leading the project.

If you're excited to try stuff right away before we actually have docs out, we've got our latest code in the `v1-staging` branch which contains some Ansible scripts to deploy to your own VM.

If you've got 5 bucks a month to spare, you can get it running on a digital ocean droplet and start hosting your sites.

https://github.com/hyphacoop/api.distributed.press/tree/v1-staging

I'll be making a demo video of how this works next week to share around.

Our next steps are going to be integrating #webmentions so that blogs published to the #dweb can have a way to have comments left of them while sticking to static site generation!

Maybe soon we'll also have #activitypub and #RSS support via microservices that build on top of Distributed Press.

Just loaded my first #p2p site published to the new version of https://distributed.press with proper #ipfs #hypercore and #dnslink support!

The DNSLink stuff is a bit iffy for hypercore, but I'll be fixing that up tomorrow.

Now stuff can be published via Distributed Press, and viewed via @agregore

What's cool is that in addition to keeping your content online, you can easily configure it to set up DNS keys for you by delegating with an NS DNS entry for the `_dnslink` subdomain on your domain.

Honestly very excited for this first round of #p2p #web apps and tutorials to be released for this @agregore grant. :O

One of them is going to be a small series on bootstrapping your own dev environment from scratch.

At least one of the tutorials is aiming at absolute beginners and using stuff like jsfiddle instead of full fledged IDEs for tinkering with the code.