Hacker News with Generative AI: Decentralized Networks

The Rise of Bluesky (cacm.acm.org)
The Internet has been hosting social conversations around discussion topics and common interests since at least the inception of Usenet News.

Social Media, Decentralized Networks, Internet History

46 points by g0xA52A2A 51 days ago | 77 comments

Yggdrasil Network (yggdrasil-network.github.io)

Networking, Decentralized Networks

324 points by BSDobelix 63 days ago | 106 comments

The Fediverse Desperately Needs Sustainable File Hosting (evergreenfiles.com)
The fediverse has a file hosting problem.

File Hosting, Decentralized Networks, Social Media

4 points by sosodev 74 days ago | 0 comments

Matrix 2.0 Is Here (matrix.org)

Software, New Releases, Decentralized Networks

61 points by Arathorn 81 days ago | 9 comments

Possible futures for the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge (eth.limo)
At the beginning, Ethereum had two scaling strategies in its roadmap. One (eg. see this early paper from 2015) was "sharding": instead of verifying and storing all of the transactions in the chain, each node would only need to verify and store a small fraction of the transactions. This is how any other peer-to-peer network (eg. BitTorrent) works too, so surely we could make blockchains work the same way.

Ethereum, Blockchain, Scaling, Decentralized Networks, Cryptocurrency

95 points by bpierre 93 days ago | 52 comments

Digging into Bluesky DMs (anderegg.ca)
Yesterday, the Bluesky team announced that direct messages (DMs) were now available in first-party clients. I thought I’d dig into this to see if I could figure out how this worked.

Social Media, Decentralized Networks, Technology

5 points by luu 112 days ago | 0 comments

Reticulum Is Unstoppable Networks for the People (reticulum.network)

Decentralized Networks, Blockchain, Technology

72 points by vyrotek 155 days ago | 42 comments

Private, Secure and Uncensorable Messaging over a LoRa Mesh (2022) (unsigned.io)

Messaging, Security, LoRa, Decentralized Networks, Privacy

99 points by Bluestein 156 days ago | 42 comments

Flipboard Users Can Now Follow Anyone in the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)

Social Media, Decentralized Networks, Fediverse

25 points by ZacnyLos 158 days ago | 2 comments

Ian Clarke explains the next generation of Freenet [video] (2023) (youtube.com)