#p2p #peer2peer #i2p @i2p #bittorrent #socialmedia #codingthefuture #nightweb

No, Wired, #activitypub won't "save" the internet,, but it _IS_ a transition to a safer internet. Federation is a step away from centraised, corporate ivory tower services but, like forums of old, they can still be affected by "madmins." A safe place can become an unsafe place.

The future is (and there are already teams working on this, they don't all rely on bogus crypto) peer-to-peer. You, your device and an app at are the centre of your friends and fam. Pick one of those friends at random, they and their app are at the center of their network. And so, on...

This decentralised model is as simple as an instant messaging app, but that instant messaging app has a timeline, uses bittorrent to share posts and DMs, along with attached media, and does it all via the invisible internet protocol, I2P. So, don't get too cozy. The death of the central server is coming, even Masto is going to go the way of extinct, hairy pachyderms.

And the new model is as simple to use as your address book. One even existed in 2014 and still works. It's crude, requires you to open a port on your broadband router and requires a tab in your browser for the user interface, but it works and runs on all major platforms but iOS. It's called Nightweb. You can find the Android APK or the desktop Java apps here...

https://github.com/oakes/Nightweb

...under "Releases" on the right-hand side of your browser.

** -> If you often need tech help, you're not going to find it works for you. <- ** That's a promise at this stage.

If you're a bit of a coding player, maybe you could take over the project and modernise it. It's no longer maintained. Use it as a framework. I'm trying to do that, you real hackers out there will probably beat me. Go ahead, give it a red-hot go, we have to. One problem, the flag button generates a URL that has been taken over by another, unrelated website. It's nothing a bit of copy-paste-edit-recopy-paste won't fix to try the app out, and the app generally works, it's just primitive.

This kind of app is how we break capitalism's back. This kind of app is how black lives can organise and not fear the cops. This app kills Elon Musk's and Mark Zuckerberg's business models stone dead. This kind of up gives every user control over their communications and timeline. No madmins, no Musk. (I love that "musk" can be euphemism for "stink.")

The backend protocols are I2P and bitTorrent, this means any app can be made to work with anybody else's app if we work together to standardise the sharing model.

The security is encryption (GPG), scrambled (I2P) and untraceable. (BT) Onboarding as simple as a URL https://<your.public.ip>:<chosen port*>/<your hash and @handle> (*4407 for Nightweb as it stands) This link could be hidden behind a button and abstracted. You can block anybody, anybody can block you, we are all safe.

What more could we ask for?!