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Entrepreneur and philosopher that codes the mind bending Accelsor. mark@accelsor.com
He said the move is to specifically reduce fragmentation in public conversation.
I'm in the decentralized (dWeb) community (we have 10M+ users monthly, in-production, running thru GUN) and admittedly, I think we all get distracted with the war cry of privacy, p2p-for-sake-of-p2p, etc. but is not many other people's end goals.
I can probably do up to 8 different subjects/thesis, but I also can imagine in: audio, touch, sound, color, space, abstract, visual, time, taste, smell, linguistic, and hyperdimensional. Couple of these things I had to practice though.
It says I completed a registration for a company I never signed up to.
I did visit that company's restaurant that day, but I did not purchase anything.
Are some companies auto-registering you?
DAT,SSB don't work in browser.
WebTorrent is the original better choice.
But I'm seeing most big projects move to GUN (mine, https://github.com/amark/gun). Internet Archive, HackerNoon others using it in production, with over 10M+ users, decentralized.
If IPFS team doesn't seriously fix their performance issue within 2 years, they're gonna see a lot of backlash. With $250M+ raised and 100+ employees this should be possible, I know they can do it, dWeb would be better for it.
Then once some big "used in production by NYT/x/y/z" hits, a premier conference talk, then things explode with everyone virtue-signaling how they use the modern/best stack, floods of article/blogs are posted about how they switched over before you did, and the FOMO cargo cult bandwagon rocketships.
Svelte does look legit, but it is better to not buy into the JS virtue culture.
- SapphireDB is truly Open Source, MIT!
- There demo worked like a charm!
We could really use more projects like this out there.
Here is a criticism though:
- It seems currently to only support Angular (?), which is gonna harm its adoption.
My recommendation would be to commit to Svelte, it seems like it will be the "next big thing" in the JS world, and could help drive adoption.
Obviously, this is something we're trying to do as well (https://gun.eco/docs/Svelte). If you're looking for a Firebase alternative, GUN is used in production with 11M+ downloads a month, but is NodeJS based so it won't work for the .NET audience that Sapphire is targeting.
What I think would be cool to add: (from my bias)
- Support graph data.
- Work offline / local-first.
Either way, thanks for building & posting about Sapphire, it is nice to see there is still big demand for Open Source Firebase alternatives!
@nmaro has some pretty good stuff.
The cartoon explainers gives an overview.
But you'd probably want to do RGA algorithm or one of the newer ones.
Martin Kleppmann has a pretty good talk with bunch of paper references:
1. An atomic Array
2. Fixed index Array
3. Linked list
Now rather than not knowing what magic is going to happen, app developers know what to expect in advance.
So atomic would choose one or the other, not a combined result.
Fixed array 2nd item to 1st which nulls 2nd and makes 1st b, simultaneously also makes 1st A. Cause lower case b is lexically larger than A, you'd get [b, null].
Linked list theoretically could handle it as you suggest.
They also like the math & science behind it, some investors do DD, some don't.
You're tone is pretty assuming, smug, and insulting.
It is running in production with millions of people, yes there are some hiccups, but surviving & we're improving it to scale even more.
I rebuild GUN from scratch in 30min on stage, that is how little/simple GUN is:
https://gun.eco/docs/Porting-GUN
Do I pay myself? Lol. Yes. No, I do not pay OSS, but yes people contribute regardless, strangers help me, my kids help me, investors help me, family & friends help me.
This cartoon explains it:
https://gun.eco/distributed/matters.html
It is a vector + timestamp + lexical sort.
A delete is changing a value to `null`, it would lose (I assume you are asking if/when these 2 changes happen at the exact same microsecond time, conflicting?) as is it has a lower lexical rank.
"Servers" act as WebRTC bootstrapping signals, storage backups, relay/routing, etc., and you can have as many of them as you want (no need to be centralized).
True. `gunDB` tag should help a little.
After 8 years of working on this, I have changed my thoughts:
- The correct algorithm is not always the correct user experience.
- End-to-end encryption is too important to not have.
- Offline support is great, but it behaving consistently is more important than it behaving "intently".
- Biggest pain points can most easily be solved at the editing layer, not data layer.
As a result, OT gets thrown out the door immediately.
I built the most popular CRDT powered database on the market (https://github.com/amark/gun, 11K+ stars, 11M+ monthly installs), but have some harsh words for CRDT obsessed people:
CRDTs are great, but if you create an infinitely complex one to handle "every word editing operation" it'll actually result in an inferior user experience.
As such, for example, GUN supports lock-free concurrent operations on any depth of data in a graph, but keeping text/strings behavior atomic is way more important than having built-in automatic string merges.
Why? It is much simpler to build a correct text/string CRDT on top of a predictable, stable, graph CRDT that is understandable.
Another example is, in our blog editing tools, despite having spent years researching & implementing (+ others in our community) precise character-by-character CRDT resolution schemes, I found I personally had a much better offline & local first user experience with a predictable per-paragraph sync scheme.
This is a stupid simple approach, but what it means is that I as a user, can easily predict whats going to happen, so if I'm offline I know I should just copy a new paragraph and fiddle with things there, cause it isn't gonna get "auto delete regrammar merged".
Generally speaking, me and colleagues don't "fight" over the same paragraph, we're usually concurrently writing different "sections" at the same time, it is pretty rare to grammar fix their edit same paragraph as they're typing it - that is also just kinda, rude looking.
Anyways, finally, is that the majority of text styling and DOM edge cases can be handled by having a deterministic canonical DOM hierarchy that always gets applied at the editing layer, BEFORE any CRDT operations even occur.
So for instance, re-arrange the DOM tree such that <i> is always inside <u> inside <b>, or something like that.
We built this into a library called normalize, and it instantly eliminated so much complexity, especially at the CRDT level. Ping me if you want a demo of this library.
Finally, for everyone else, we also built an INTERACTIVE CARTOON EXPLAINER of an extremely basic text CRDT to help others understand the more detailed concepts:
Everything we do is Open Source.
Get your facts straight.
Yes, the NSA really did use backdoor access to servers to spy on millions of people.
Snowden.
So use better security, like real cryptography.
This is about FEDERATED networks, not P2P.
Mastodon, Diaspora, etc.
Also, it is not comprehensive:
Matrix (9M users), SOLID, D.Tube, etc. not mentioned
Examples of P2P:
WebTorrent, GUN (11M+ users), SSB, etc.
Cartoon Cryptography
1min animated series that explains cryptography with cooking analogies
Vanilla JS! 0 Dependencies!
Let the 1995 revolution begin!
"Build features, not toolchains."
Impressive chops, I must say, but the DOD will want to hire you sooner than Uber for Barbers.
Twitter is fighting to stay relevant, they dropped to Top 35 website from Top 14 in last several months.
This is an opportunity for them to become a global standard, and that is worth it.
The most important piece is that they can scale when they pull it off. I've been working on decentralized tech for a while (I run https://github.com/amark/gun) and can say it takes a lot of attention that most projects (dare I say "blockchains") have no scaling abilities at all.
Anybody interested in parsers is gonna love it:
And even a mind-bending (or optic?) glimpse into the future.
Thank you for writing it.
Our project ( https://github.com/amark/gun ) gets 1M+ downloads a month and can be self-hosted easily with a 1-click deploy into production.
Will try to make a PR when I get to my laptop. :)
https://hackernoon.com/wealth-a-new-era-of-economics-ce8acd7...
The gist is that it redefines wealth from "how much people hoard" to "how much people give".
Would enable an ad-free web.
Federated systems, like email, have used these anti-spam techniques for a long time.
Federated systems always evolve into an Oligarchy, like Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo, etc. or like banks, JPMorganChase/GoldmanSachs/etc.
If you want decentralization, you should more go for something like https://notabug.io/ (P2P Reddit), which uses the GUN protocol (mine). Or any WebTorrent-based approach.
For those interested in creating something similar with NodeJS, but not having to write or manage any of the socket or socketio logic yourself, check out this 5min interactive tutorial of ours: https://gun.eco/docs/Todo-Dapp !