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I wouldn't say the innovation has stopped, but I will agree that the average person who uses the internet is far less likely to care about p2p tooling. It's also pretty hard to find people willing to construct exceptionally complex networks that cannot be monetized by their very nature.

A proper all-in-one library or binary for NAT Traversal (state of the art will only hit 95%) and next generation high-performance secure DHTs (secure in terms of privacy, anonymity, and resistance to attack) with multi-segmented transmission of data (bonding is critical for slow tunnels, bad peering, and maximizing the value of swarms), mutable content-addressable storage, baked-in obfuscated tunneling, and revokable + intelligent multi-device logical accounts (it's necessary to have our own devices and our friends proxy for us to solve some kinds of problems) is the missing foundation. Ideally, you'd be able to have lots of p2p applications sit on top of one network orchestration tool, otherwise you'll blow the average person's resources just trying to stay alive on multiple networks.

In applying the "decentralize until it hurts, then centralize until it works" mantra, I find we've still not attempted to decentralize as much as we should. Plenty of the experts I respect disagree with me there, so take my opinion with an extra grain of salt.

You can use links, webrings, and word of mouth. You can crawl (for non-web this may require quite specialized tooling), scrape, and compile a database for search (which can be done locally using whatever tools you prefer or even a full-blown webserver like gigablast or YaCy); and, to some degree, these practices themselves can be further decentralized and shared. Scaling is hard, especially if users expect immediate results or there are adversarial nodes to contend with.

Ideally, we could programmatically share feeds of curated and tagged information with each other that can be nested, mixed, or further shaped. Leveraging our trust in others (and their trust in others by proxy), which can be similar to some problems in distributed governance, is a p2p holy grail, imho.

I hope you didn't cast any random spells scrawled in your Advanced Potion-Making book. Sectumsempra is a nono, I hear.

If you do want another hiki-type friend, HMU.

`/salute`. Anyone know if he's doing alright?

This can be done on Aether, especially if one is willing to maintain their own records. Hard to find enough of the right people to agree to use such a tool, I suppose. Not sure what else we can do besides try to make them.

Hey there. I think you'll find this worth your time: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1552Gu7F2cJV5Bgw93ZGgCONX...

Here's mine, nomad: https://philosopher.life/.

Stunning. It looks straightforward, and it is an improvement over a PDF in almost all cases. I'm wondering if there are other specific features that may be eventually added. For wikis intended to not have much content, this is a delightful tool.

Came to hear to say the same. https://tiddlywiki.com/

At some places, you get to choose when to use sick days but not vacation days. All else being equal, in that case, I'd sometimes prefer to burn vacation.

I don't think raTox receives nearly enough attention: https://github.com/pranomostro/ratox

If any, what is your advice for poor and middle class Americans?

I have a similar question, but not for the wealthy: https://philosopher.life/#Unorthodox%20Savings

Hello. It's a pleasure to meet you. Do you have any other such places that you suspect to be a psyop?

Sir Bimlas' TW5-Locator tool is worth checking out: https://github.com/bimlas/tw5-locator.

I'm looking forward to it!

I use your tool often. Thank you for your service to Humanity!

In case your account could be banned (and, looking through your history, it seems a possibility), I wanted to reach out while I still have the chance and say I'd be happy to speak with you longer term. https://philosopher.life/#Contact%20h0p3. No matter what, I wish you luck, nomad.

Protip: fondly remember your dial-up modem days for a few moments while your browser downloads and computes it:

   https://philosopher.life/#:[tag[Link%20Log]!tag[Log%20Audit]]

This is about half of my links to the web in the ℍ𝕪𝕡𝕖𝕣𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱. Sometimes a different context is better for linking. I can't say I know how to do it well enough.

https://philosopher.life/ - single html file. Keep an offline copy.

My TW: https://philosopher.life/

I've found having it all in a single html file tends to makes it easy to survive on a lot of different kinds of networks, and I like that the larger context of the site is automatically attached to any particular part of it (which is invaluable for my work). To my eyes, it's what a PDF dreams it could be.

You love to see it! I think this is a reasonable tool for a large set of usecases. Though many will be served just as well with file synchronization and other local saving tools, I like the simplicity in that single binary.

I use my TW every day like a madman (https://philosopher.life/#⧖). I'd like to submit https://github.com/OokTech/TW5-Bob as a powerful (though perhaps not as simple) alternative. That's what most of my household uses (one is aiming to switch over soon).

Hello. =). Besides this account, what are some places where I could see how you more systematically think? I'd like to add to your list the claim that there's more to be said for owning the means of production (including distribution) and the types of autonomy that arise in constructing (and reconstructing) the limits of the medium in which one engages in signaling.

Many of these tools and centralized platforms automate most of the process (encouraging even structural uniformity), and that's quite convenient in many cases. I think most people would be surprised what kinds of communities can arise from humble links and by-hand human convention even on a read-only network (where we can only write to our own node).

You are exceptionally polite speaking with lunatics like me (I've seen that multiple times from you). I'm [[grateful]] for your candid responses. In case it may be useful, I will continue thinking about it here: https://philosopher.life/#2021.11.17%20-%20HN%20Log%3A%20Ara.... You already know, but it is my duty to acknowledge that you work on behalf of Humanity and quite a bit may ride on your success. You have a difficult ship to steer without enough resources, and I wish you had military-level funding for what is ideally a military-grade project. If you ever directly need something from me, please let me know. Thank you again for your time and willingness to listen to me, sir.

Thank you! Those are extremely important points, and I'm glad to hear it. Rambling from a madman in the desert, so please feel free to ignore me or tell me buzz off (and, if so, it was an honor speaking with you!):

* This might be a worthy tool for simulating aspects of scale: http://imunes.net/

* I assume power usage is a non-trivial concern (looks like yall have been worried about this too). I've tried my fairshare of P2P apps on mobile, and this can be a dealbreaker for many folks. I assume this will be something that has to be dialed in on mobile clients (and probably provides options to the user). I'm sure there are many trade-offs to consider, and I'm hoping logical accounts will provide significant advantages here. Are you feeling confident this will succeed?

* The Store-and-Forward problem looks like a really big deal. Defaulting to friends (for those folks who are lucky to have them) or a chosen subset to proxy seems reasonable. Having the clear ability to pick out who we trust here (including volunteer networks) seems solid (I'm a huge fan of Retroshare's F2F concept). I take it that, ideally, with logical accounts and excellent NAT traversal (also a sore spot usually), one's own cloud of machines will obviate some of the desire to run anything in a datacenter (and even perhaps make friends a fallback). I'm excited to see Dendrite and Conduit grow!

* As part of that portability, at least to my ideal, I'd be able to join my network from scratch using a password hashing algorithm for the private key, as otherwise I may be reliant upon secondary networks to move keys. This is often one of the first applications I want to install on a system to bootstrap myself in.

* Pinecone's Topology looks like a good idea (Yggdrasil is dope too). That metadata problem may still raise its ugly head here. Do you predict the use of onion routing, at least with Tor and i2p, will be relatively easy to integrate in addition? Do you foresee Matrix enabling its own onion routing some day?

* If you had to take a wild guess at the first stable moon landing, when do you think that might occur? Do you think 5-years may be acceptable?

Amazing work. Bravo. I'm very much hoping to see P2P Matrix arise. That is no small task, I realize (and I'm grateful to those who have contributed to this). What are you thoughts on that aspect of the ecosystem?

Hello! I wrote a letter for you on my personal site: https://philosopher.life/#2021.11.14%20-%20hopesthoughts%3A%...

Please let me know if you can't access it.

Thank you. I'll be checking it out. Please feel free to ignore me (I am a stranger and a nobody, of course). If you don't mind me asking, what accessibility purposes are you concerned with? You got a place I can read about you, btw? You might call me a linkslut. I could imagine you might have strong opinions about bookmarks (I'd like to know them) and perhaps a library of them you might share.