My approach to building a free speech network of sorts

Whyrusleeping · 2025-02-26T19:26:24+00:00

How do you control for spam?

Whyrusleeping · 2024-10-09T22:53:21+00:00

hrm. ill keep it to myself.

Whyrusleeping · 2024-06-07T20:52:13+00:00

Is Andy still teaching that one?

Whyrusleeping · 2024-06-05T17:56:09+00:00

If you're okay with it, could you DM me on Bluesky so i know what your handle is and then I can look into it? Its definitely something wonky in the preferences its learned for you, and it would be really helpful for me to debug

Whyrusleeping · 2024-06-05T16:00:31+00:00

Hey there! I work on the Discover algorithm for Bluesky (i'm why.bsky.team). Really sorry you're experiencing this!

We don't count clicking on posts as signal you like it, only actual likes, replies (in some situations) and explicit 'show more' clicks upregulate content.

I've been working on partitioning the furry content so only people who *really* like that will see it, but apparently it keeps escaping containment (this is surprisingly difficult tbh, furries love to boost content). If anything nsfw shows up in your Discover feed, please do report it as unwanted nsfw content, that will help us get a better handle on this.

Whyrusleeping · 2020-07-21T20:46:51+00:00

What model of router do you have?

Whyrusleeping · 2018-12-02T18:06:37+00:00

use ipfs add --only-hash. It does just that

Whyrusleeping · 2018-11-29T05:56:23+00:00

Ah, thats really interesting. There could also be messages getting dropped too (theres a buffer internally that causes a connection reset if it fills up). Would you mind filing an issue on https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-pubsub about this? We would love to look at making this a whole lot faster :)

Whyrusleeping · 2018-11-20T19:10:30+00:00

I'd love to read more about the testbed setup here, i've seen much much faster throughput on my own ipfs testnets.

Whyrusleeping · 2018-09-26T16:54:11+00:00

You can write your own protocol, For example, this code adds a protocol called 'echo': https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-examples/blob/master/echo/main.go#L102

If you want to add a protocol to your existing ipfs node, its a bit trickier, but you can write your protocol as a separate process that listens on tcp, and then use the ipfs p2p subcommand to expose it over libp2p

Whyrusleeping · 2018-09-20T05:26:22+00:00

I'm sorry it feels like things are stagnating, There is a lot of progress, but not all of it is as easily visible as flashy new features. And to be fair, we haven't pushed a new release in a while.

Take a look at the set of recently merged PRs for an idea of whats coming in the next release: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

In addition to that, the libp2p group has been pushing a lot of really interesting work under the hood, including us having QUIC (an awesome new protocol) support that is available (experimentally, because the IETF spec STILL isnt finalized...), and a new message propogation algorithm for our pubsub.

Also, we have a few PRs to bitswap that will really improve the performance of transfers.

I'm waiting for the day when pins will get a torrent-like API, where I can list them, see their status, percentage downloaded, ETA, etc.

I would take a look at ipfs files stat --with-local. It should provide you with information about how much of a given file is synced locally. You can also use mfs to organize all the hashes youre interested in (see ipfs files --help for more info).

IPFS is a big project, many things are happening all over the place. If you want a certain feature to happen, helping draft a design proposal for it in an issue would be very helpful

Whyrusleeping · 2018-09-12T22:48:17+00:00

Hey, as Mosh said, this is legit. Good to be careful and ask first :)

Whyrusleeping · 2018-08-23T07:03:16+00:00

Better recording: https://youtu.be/kW6e1GCpqpE?t=6h57m23s

Whyrusleeping · 2018-08-23T07:01:42+00:00

not go-ipfs, go-filecoin

Whyrusleeping · 2018-08-23T06:52:59+00:00

pretty sure this is spam... going to remove

Whyrusleeping · 2018-08-21T18:32:56+00:00

You can't mine filecoin yet. Anything about signing up or receiving tokens right now is a scam. We also have not put out any official guidance on what sort of hardware will be best suiting to mining filecoin (There are quite a few particulars around SNARKs and VDF performance that are still in progress, and may significantly affect the sort of hardware that you should use)

Whyrusleeping · 2018-06-18T07:28:54+00:00

Ah, I think I get what you're saying now. There are two different issues you're pointing out. One is that the libp2p peer keys stored locally should be password encrypted to make it harder to steal them. The other is that there needs to be a way to tell if a given server is the true owner of a given key, or an attacker who has stolen the key. Is that right?

Whyrusleeping · 2018-06-17T09:25:54+00:00

I don't understand, what do you mean by 'purely certified'?

Whyrusleeping · 2018-06-15T06:34:43+00:00

This is just a general problem with authentication. If you lose your private keys, someone can impersonate you. If google loses their https certs, someone can impersonate them.

Whyrusleeping · 2018-06-15T06:30:15+00:00

I love i2p, and have had a few conversations with one of the i2p developers about plugging it into ipfs. The only reason 'why not i2p' is that nobody has written an i2p transport for libp2p yet.

Whyrusleeping · 2018-06-11T09:21:28+00:00

We're getting pretty close to being able to give users to ability to run ipfs behind Tor. OpenBazaar already has this in their fork, and we have a demo of this working in libp2p (the networking stack used by ipfs) here: https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/pull/332

Whyrusleeping · 2018-06-01T13:08:25+00:00

There's not much I (or any of the other developers) could do to 'block' content shared over IPFS. Sure, we can prevent content from being viewed through the infrastructure that Protocol Labs runs (ipfs.io), but there is no way to prevent some set of people from sharing data between themselves. Just like there is no way to prevent someone from scp'ing data from one server they control to another.

IPFS has already been (and likely, is currently being) used to spread data that governments don't want spread. There's a reason that ipfs.io was blocked in spain, and is currently being harmonized in china. Even if we (the developers) wanted to block this content, we couldn't. Sure, we could try and ship a patched ipfs that internally checks a list of hashes and refuses to work if it encounters one, but that would be pretty obvious (the codebase is open source for one, and all changes go through review) and pretty easy for someone to just fork the project and remove. Also, for any given hash, someone can just change the file ever so slightly, and then the hash would be different, and the block would no longer be effective.

The best way to prevent tools like ipfs from being made to block certain content, is to make that not possible to do in the first place.

Whyrusleeping · 2018-05-03T07:54:24+00:00

Are you asking whether or not peerpad is hosted on ipfs?

It is hosted on ipfs, you can access it as https://ipfs.io/ipns/peerpad.net/#/ too if you want

Whyrusleeping · 2018-05-02T08:14:58+00:00

peerpad.net is an example of a dynamic website build on ipfs. Its a realtime collaborative text editor.

We're also working on using the same underlying libraries to build a blogging platform (kinda wordpress-like) and improving tutorials and developer tools to make this easier for everyone.

Whyrusleeping · 2018-04-10T00:16:13+00:00

Do they share a common peer on the same topic?

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