A protocol for peer-to-peer data stores. The best parts? Fine-grained permissions, a keen approach to privacy, destructive edits, and a dainty bandwidth and memory footprint.
Once upon a time, I built a proof of concept distributed social network that ran entirely on cell phones.
I eventually ran into enough complications that I abandoned the project. But the tech did work. I could create posts, add friends, etc. (It just wasn't reliable in its sync mechanism and I gave up trying to fix it.)
So... Imagine Lemmy, but a community's data is stored collaboratively on mobile devices, the load shared by all its subscribers.
We all walk around with goddamn supercomputers in our pockets. We should put them to work.
Are there any implementations of this out there or is this purely theoretical (at this point in time)?
I haven't found any projects using this protocol yet, so looks like it's in an early stage of adoption for now.
In addition to iroh there is https://github.com/earthstar-project/meadowcap-js and other projects under https://github.com/earthstar-project. See https://willowprotocol.org/more/projects-and-communities/index.html#projects_and_communities
It kinda seems like if AWS permissions management and torrenting had a baby. Edit: in all seriousness tho, I like the data model. Are there any libraries that support this yet?
