The link goes to a related post on another community so I don't have to duplicate it here.
Basically, I'd like to discuss tech options for a Reddit/Lemmy alternative. Here's what I've found:
- Iroh - early days alternative to IPFS promising improved performance and application control
- Appleseed - old-ish proposal for a distributed trust system - I'm thinking of using it for moderation (i.e. if you block/report similarly to someone else, that will get automated; you could also explicitly trust someone else [e.g. a CP-detector bot])
- TrustNet - builds on Appleseed - still reading through the paper to know what it adds over Appleseed, if anything
Goals:
- distributed storage - worried the fediverse will scale poorly (become too expensive)
- distributed moderation - power-hungry mods suck
- local-first - cache/host stuff you care about, reserve some space for preservation
Non-goals:
- make money - it's a hobby for now, everything would be FOSS
- image/video hosting - legal issues if you get random CP or something
- preserve all data - I'd rather sacrifice older/less popular content than lose users - community can run caching servers
- fediverse compat - P2P makes that difficult, but a bridge should be feasible
Thoughts? What am I missing?
Also, would anyone like me to post updates? It'll mostly be stuff from my research, if I post code, it won't be for a while (I have limited time).