Peeps by @boris
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Fun fact: I'm currently locked out of the bird site, because I'm in the US and don't have access to my Canadian phone number.
And so, it encourages me to switch to other systems :)
Michael Sena from uPort: "We totally overbuilt because we were so early -- we built so many things because we were trying to fix things across the market & ecosystem" #tachyon18
We are seizing the memes of production!
— @expede
Replying to @joonian (0x990109670056e7645d295fcbaf41e2505bd69ea7)
Hey peeple I have a q about how peepeth works. The data is stored on the ipfs blockchain right? So how come we’re paying gas and doing transactions on the ethereum chain?
As I understand it, the transaction "Joonian posted post X", "Joonian followed boris" is what you are signing and paying. I think the data is a link to the IPFS hash in that transaction.
Replying to @jvck (0x49f7729c66b66cbf0a2e174ff4487be22027177c)
Would be glad to own some too.
Go forth and BORIS, it should be arriving shortly.
Replying to @bob (0xed3c6bcaaee02ed5ed572f87d36c4cc7d2f2bdef)
Welcome @boris! The cool thing about peeps is in their permanence versus the fleeting nature of tweets. It takes some getting used to, but the lack of a delete and edit button may be incentive to craft more thoughtful content rather than the mindless splatter seen other places.
Thx Bob -- I used Leeroy before and ran my own Mastodon instance for several months.
Most interesting question is if this can grow beyond one site / interface / set of users, and how will data & social graph get re-used / built upon.
Replying to @CallMeGwei (0x285bc660aa42b8effc6c60357cd4d8ca072be625)
The smart contracts will be open source. The goal is multiple front ends sharing users, content, etc. (and logins - since controlled by wallets). Check out Peepeth.com/front_end There has already been alt POC front end written: https://txn.me/iFfE6R
Great! Multiple front ends is not quite the same thing as federation (like Mastodon). We'll have to see what evolves where there is "centralization" of data on the central Ethereum chain where federation isn't needed.
Replying to @CallMeGwei (0x285bc660aa42b8effc6c60357cd4d8ca072be625)
The barrier to entry is not zero - ask @Bevan how many hours it takes on the backend. Opportunity cost alone for solidity devs is high. He is lowering the cost of building out future clones - and in so doing providing some strong incentives to share backends between projects.
Same opp cost for scalable web app devs in the early 2000s.
I am not saying Peepeth is bad -- I am saying the way forward as a single site with lots of users is unlikely, so what can be done to federate, like Mastodon.
Lowering the cost - it's open source?
Replying to @flygoing (0xec3281124d4c2fca8a88e3076c1e7749cfecb7f2)
I'll take some!
Sent!
Congrats, you are the first peep to ask, and the second person ever to receive BORIS.
Replying to @CallMeGwei (0x285bc660aa42b8effc6c60357cd4d8ca072be625)
I'd like to hear it, too, @boris The app I had to install/run to use Akasha kinda turned me off. I, personally, have great optimism for a network of Twitter clones sharing an open data store.
Building one instance is not the same as building a network.
So -- how do we build the Mastodon https://joinmastodon.org/ of Ethereum identity + content + social graph apps?
Needs to be easy to re-use my login / identity / wallet (+data). And easy for devs to federate.
I finally got around to creating BorisCoin, using Hexel. Here's the "home page" for the coin https://www.onhexel.com/token/d79faad8-cdad-44a9-ae6d-7b1f6b6af784
Want some BORIS? Just ask!
Replying to @pluma (0xd9fb1d684627a890347a4f6a7fe32e993617b6d8)
i had read about akasha some months ago but never joined the beta (there was tons of noise about, well, just about anything and everything back then and i was merely stumbling around trying to make sense of it). can you expand on why you think *this* platform may not last?
Zero barrier to entry to someone building yet-another-twitter clone. What reason other than "it's on the blockchain" and early adopter usage?
Tweet length content tends to be very ephemeral, so it has less reason to be on a blockchain than other systems
My first peep.
Don’t think these Twitter clones on the blockchain will last.
I kind of want the blogging on blockchain to last, like Akasha.