Here's my Nightweb link for anyone interested in experimenting with me: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=5avfzwgkdzgddsv3...
gw: It would be great to have multiple personas available to me, like an inverse of google+ circles.
Yeah I've thought about allowing multiple users on a single device, so I'll look into that in the near future.
EDIT: I fixed the issue with clicking links in browsers. I will issue version 0.0.5 with this fix because I think it's pretty important.
I think it would provide a window into the social network, kind of "Oscar is using this, join him now by downloading the app!"
The implication I see is privacy of people clicking a user link, but the problem already exists now.
The third party would be running their own Nightweb client, then visitors to the website would trigger content downloads on the client, rendered out as a webpage.
This would provide the "public view" without sacrificing the decentralized nature.
In fact, this type of functionality is hopefuly becoming an Internet Standard: http://www.internetsociety.org/articles/moving-toward-censor...
However, Bittorrent is not up to the task, due to NAT issues. UDP NAT puncturing is not present in this stack, right? Thus how is it going through carrier-grade NATs which block all these smartphones?
Disclaimer: working on a similar thing for years Tribler Mobile.
That's mine ... awww feels like the beginnings of ICQ ;)
But ... we can hack on it ... finally a good reason to learn Clojure.
So here's mine http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=dtvjjjuk7eai42xx...
Although tying these identities to our hacker news IDs basically means throwing anonymity out the window.
On the other hand, I didn't actually learn Java. Knowing C++ and reading documentation seems to be sufficient for using Java libraries with Clojure.