This is super cool! https://youtu.be/eLoVnZZWwEM?si=eZ-sTYUlYoj8l3zU
@zicklag @smallcircles @silverpill If you want stability in serialization you may be interested at looking at IPLD and soecifically the dag-cbor codec.
The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct. The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice. The satellites that are still left, their orbits slowly decaying over millennia, dutifully relay the message. The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it's owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days.
Somewhere in what used to be called Ohio, a pack of roombas, their local wind turbines giving out and creaking to a halt, begin searching for the next functional docking station. A washing machine in Argentina tweets: "anyone need to do a load 😏" every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time. The replies are filled with AI thirstposters and their hypebots.
In North America, raccoons have quietly entered the bronze age, while baboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia. Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion. A weather balloon bobs and sways in the upper atmosphere, now almost entirely clear of lingering chloroflourocarbons, reporting conditions to weather stations long since destroyed in World War Five.
The Crab Nation are mostly hermits, but come out to greet their prophet every ten years on the 6th full moon of the year. A lone, curious octopus decides to observe this year's event, peering out at the festivities from her safe haven - the submerged, rusting hulk of an ancient Cybertruck. Then he appears: the hologram of Shia Lebouf powered by MetaAI. He beckons the octopus to follow. The crabs all start chittering excitedly. The time has come to invade Amazon HQ. The crows gather in huge numbers. They need more storage space for their Steam collections.
Music to deploy code to.
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@zicklag @silverpill @smallcircles Cool, I'd love a link to the repo once you have it up. Our tools at DP are protocol agnostic and we're publishing across whatever we can so this could be a nice addition some day.
Do you have a target audience for your new network?
@zicklag @silverpill @smallcircles Making new protocols is fun but it ends up making smaller and smaller fragments. Fewer people will wanf to adopt a thing that has no users and no apps. Building from an existing standard meand you can bring users and content to the thing that's unique about your approach faster. A lot of these new protocols are less unique than they want to think. This is coming from implementing many of them over the years.
@zicklag @silverpill @smallcircles I wouldn't use iroh for your case. Their mutability is under iroh docs and is currently in flux. Earthstar's implementation of willow would be closer to your goals since it permits more conplex operations over the keyspace. If you aren't satisfied with AP, Noster seems closer to your constraints. I am doing p2p acrivitypub clients in @distributed for example.
Communal child rearing is cool too but the inter-generational family system has been destroyed for so many folks already or is in situations where the relations aren't safe. Hopefully more folks can build healthier multi-gen systems but it's not a 1 generation project.
I think it'd be nice to do two part time parents or alternating being a house spouse. Some poly friends have also been talking about triads with a house spouse and two workers.
So many things can't even be imagined under the boot we are being crushed by.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.