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dharmatech

I definitely think we should be exploring decentralized approaches to services we use.

I also would like to see an emphasis on local-first approaches.

This experiment, in the spirit of UNIX, composes git and text files to form a social network:

https://github.com/dharmatech/9social

Video demo: https://youtu.be/q6qVnlCjcAI

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Interesting, we've also experimented with hosting git repos on Freenet, see: https://github.com/freenet/freenet-git

This is cool!

OK, time for inception... 9social on freenet-git

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Consider in your presentations leading with this as a demo to motivate the technical infrastructure you've put in place.

It is hard to grok what Contracts, etc. etc. allow you to do in the abstract so working through how it allows us to build a decentralized GitHub might be a good anchor in a tangible use case.

Appreciate the suggestion. It's often difficult to know where to start when explaining a project like this.

The freenet-git work is quite recent but we do feature River, our group chat app, fairly prominently on our installation page[1] so that people can quickly try out something useful. River is by-far the most fully developed app so far.

[1] https://freenet.org/quickstart/

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