Steele Blog

• The shift from centralization to decentralization

• Content-Addresable Storage

• P2P DB in Javascript using CRDT: Name | GunDB | graph | CRDT-type Orbit | feeds or key value stores |

  • Gun is a graph database. I don't think Orbit uses a graph system, but instead uses feeds or KV stores. So that's a another difference. But Gun can use IPFS as a storage adapter if you wanted.

• IPFS:

  • RUST Implementation
  • Supports Publish Subscribe

• Orbit:
  • append-only, immutable log CRDT
  • feeds or KV stores
  • Backed by IPFS
  • Seems more mainstream
  • Simplified interface with auth and identty using 3Box

• GUN:
  • graph-based
  • Hard to read/understand source code - https://github.com/amark/gun/tree/master/src
    • https://github.com/amark/gun/tree/master/src
  • Possible to use with a IPFS backend???
  • Supports Publish Subscribe
• Hoodie - offline PouchDB/CouchDB

Reading:

• https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html
• https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
• https://www.zerotier.com/

Tenants:

• Own your own data.
  • Even if it is stored/replicated somewhere else, software should always have a means of syncing that data locally - in a standard format (files, sqlite, ipfs node)
  • Content addressable storage
• Fast
  • https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html
• VisioSpatial UI
  • Xanadu
  • Muse are useful.
• Context is important

Does information have to be public? Wikipedia made it public? Why can't a notes application be universal?