whimful

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by whimful 9y ago
If you want to check out the deep end, here's some writing which captures some of the _vibe_ of the community building this sociotechnical space https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical...
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by whimful 9y ago
There are many apps built on Scuttlebutt (the p2p database/ protocol Patchwork is built on) Check them out here : https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/applications.html That site also has a good FAQ and other background info.
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by whimful 9y ago
good idea, #somebodyshould implement it! If you're familiar with terminal, you can start the app, connect to a pub, have a play, and when you want to reset _everything_ including your identity, run : ``` rm -rf ~/.ssb ``` (this as
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by whimful 9y ago
Some of the code you might be interested is _in_ scuttlebutt, as in there's a git implementation that lives in this p2p database / network. It's called git-ssb, and it has a github like interface. https://github.co
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by whimful 9y ago
it's like federation, but at the level of a user. Much easier to set up, much easier to curate / moderate what you want to see. There's still emergent community in the space, it's just not tied to the politics of hardwar
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by whimful 9y ago
scuttlebutt is my main social media these days... oh and in case you're looking for git that's not wedded to github via your comments and issues, scuttlebutt plays really well with git - you push comments and code into your gossip
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by whimful 9y ago
horcrux! also found here : https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssb-horcrux The part which splits your key is now automated and part of Patchbay. I'll build the resurrection part when someone needs it
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by whimful 10y ago
that's pretty much it. You store a copy of your world of content out to 2 degrees of connection. Messages are gossiped along lines of trust (friendship)... technically it doesn't even need the internet, just computers periodically
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by whimful 11y ago
you might like to check out secure-scuttlebutt : http://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebot/ it's a gossip based network / database. Check out our first active app : http://github.com/ssbc/patchwor
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by whimful 12y ago
apologies, DNS hickup, try www.loomio.org
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by whimful 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Rails / AngularJS, Full Team, New Zealand (remote) Approach: Agile + strong Design/UX focus Experience: - open-source: https://loom.io , http://cobudget.co - commercial: range from large
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by whimful 12y ago
groups can set their own threshold for entry. one option is manual approval where the applicants email is visible to coordinators and the applicant supplies an introduction. simple but quite effective
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by whimful 12y ago
for auth at the moment we have (in no particular order): google, facebook, persona
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by whimful 12y ago
it's an interesting approach. I would be interested to see whether world-politics is capable of generating and addressing a range of diverse perspectives. in my experience, without a focus on dialogue this isn't easy.
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by whimful 12y ago
good to know, we're on cloudflare, and do have caching in place. were there any pages in particular that were slow?
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by whimful 12y ago
appreciate your skepticism, thanks for sharing that. for some context, Loomio is a bootstrapped startup that, though unlike many startups we're not selling equity nor selling advertising, because we believe these investments compromise
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by whimful 13y ago
I work on we've got amazing feedback from a huge range of collaborative projects, from community bookstores to linux distros. happy to answer questions if anyone has any
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by whimful 13y ago
if anyone wants to pick our brains, let us know