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olivernycon I learned 1500 Chinese Characters in a Month

Shameless self promotion: I made an app for learning Chinese characters, Noodle Chinese [0]. It uses handwriting recognition and spaced repetition to focus on the words you need most help with. If anyone has feedback please feel free to reach out! hello@noodlechinese.com

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noodle-chinese/id1375293467

olivernycon Blueprint of a distributed social network on IPFS, and its problems

I made something similar to what's described in the article: https://static.network (https://github.com/olivernyc/static)

It's an IPFS based social network, running entirely in the browser. Posts are JSON objects of content and metadata, with links to the previous post and the author's profile. Currently updates are propagated over a single pubsub channel, so it only works for real time communication. I plan to replace this with IPNS once it is implemented in js-ipfs.

Long term, I want to implement a web of trust to facilitate search, discovery and spam control. Here's some good reading about how this might be done without central authorities: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/stories/using-trust-in-open-netwo...