I wonder if anybody has thought about building a fully #distributed #socialNetwork based on a #DHT such as #kademlia. I'm guessing adding support for a protocol based on this (I2P, IPFS or whatever) on any other distributed SN might do it?

Another #article from our weekly meetings at #C4DT_EPFL / #Factory (we have some backlog :). This time it is a short introduction to #Kademlia. And an interpretation that seems more logical to me.

https://www.c4dt.org/article/revisiting-kademlia/

Currently I'm working on an implementation of this in #Rust for my #fledger project. And I'm learning even more Rust, which is great!

Oh my - I'm looking at the Kademlia paper http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~petar/papers/maymounkov-kademlia-lncs.pdf and got confused by the "unbalanced tree optimization" in section 2.4.

And who would've thought that Wikipedia's entry on #Kademlia made it clear?

Also, I finally understood how the XOR distance is used.

Now off to some more implementation for #fledger! DHT-storage, here I come :)

#decentralized #p2p #web3