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Webmesh: An Attempt at distributed, zero-trust Federated Networks (github.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by tinyzimmer@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social
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Hey there!

I have this project "Webmesh" that I've been working on for the last month. It is yet another solution providing a zero-configuration WireGuard mesh/VPN solution. Mostly similar to projects like NetZero or TailScale. More infoz is on the project website https://webmeshproj.github.io/.

The difference with this project is I am building it on top of a distributed architecture where state is maintained on each node via Raft consensus. Requests to mutate network state are automatically fielded to the leader node as necessary - and if that node goes away - the network can continue on without them.

Most recently I released a new feature that allows independent meshes to be bridged with each other. An example of what this looks like can be found here https://github.com/webmeshproj/webmesh/tree/main/examples/mesh-to-mesh. It got me realizing that this is becoming a sort of "federated networking" solution. And that immediately made me want to turn to a Fediverse related community to get some feedback.

Excited to hear what you think!

Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges in c/tech@kbin.social
[–] tinyzimmer@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Except it is encrypted, and pretty secure. That's not really related to the issue. Facebook complied with a subpoena as they are legally required to do so. Signal would have to do the same. The only difference there is that Signal doesn't retain decryption keys for your data so subpoenaing them would be pretty pointless except to prove that some conversation happened.

can we not name magazines like reddit and make them better? examples: foodporn => goodfood earthporn => BreathtakingLandscapes trees => weed .... in c/kbin@kbin.social
[–] tinyzimmer@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you are over conflating "reddit-isms" and "internet-isms". Reddit is where stuff like this has been most prominent for a while - but the whole funny naming thing has been around since the birth of the internet.

WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Navy Detected Titan Sub Implosion Days Ago in c/news@kbin.social
Reddit is Removing Mods Whose Teams Let Their Subreddits Post NSFW Content in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] tinyzimmer@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I respectfully disagree. A sub like AskHistorians generates tons of traffic for the site via google searches alone. It's also got 2 million subscribers that happily remain subscribed for the quality content with all the spam filtered out.

Reddit is Removing Mods Whose Teams Let Their Subreddits Post NSFW Content in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] tinyzimmer@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

How far is he willing to take this? I mean AskHistorians hasn't gone full NSFW yet - but they are in a protest mode. Albeit one that still will end up producing decent content, just less frequently.

Finally made an account in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] tinyzimmer@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are a lot of customizations out in the wild provided as CSS scripts to install with Stylus or JS scripts to install with a monkey plugin.

I'm using this plugin for collapsible comments everywhere right now. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468923-kbin-improved-collapsible-comments

I was wondering when they'd get round to the smaller subreddits in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social