Right, I was thinking about using fs initially. I'm thinking of probably using Markdown, or something really simple as the markup language. Nevertheless, I think it would also be useful for posting very small messages. Look at twitter. But once people are going to use it for a twitter-like experience, you might get many files with, what, 200 characters?
Using messenger for comments and notifications, is not a bad idea actually. On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 14:12 +0100, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote: > Sounds a bit like you want to build something on top of messenger and > fs actually. > > Storing blog posts (e.g. html pages) in fs seems reasonable to me. > And using > the messenger feature for propagation/notifications of updates and > possibly comments would allow you to > build a content platform around it. > > Br > Martin > > > On 17. Feb 2021, at 14:09, Danny <danny.de.j...@protonmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Hmmm, that's definitally interresting. > > > > I was actually more concerned with a blog-like situation where > > messages > > can be considered to be posts and are available to the public, > > preferably indefinetally. My objective in this case is freedom of > > speech, not so much confidentiality. > > > > I don't know how long the messages in a chat-room remain available, > > but > > I'm guessing the messages are encrypted for the other participants > > that > > were in the room at the moment the message was sent? > > > > But anyway, good to see such a system is being integrated as well. > > :) > > > > Danny. > > > > On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 13:19 +0100, TheJackiMonster wrote: > > > Hey Danny, > > > > > > if you want to share small content as text messages inside of a > > > group > > > of people, you could take a look at the messenger service, I am > > > working > > > on. > > > > > > It could be possible that it already fills your needs. You can > > > open > > > something like a chat-room on peers to exchange messages in a > > > decentralized way. These messages get signed and can even be > > > requested > > > from other members when the original author is offline. > > > > > > It's not completely finished but some tests for message exchange > > > between peers are already succeeding. (Just notice that there is > > > only > > > doxygen as documentation at the moment. I'm still working on a > > > proper > > > manual and such. ^^') > > > > > > Happy hacking, > > > Jacki > > > > > > On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 12:01 +0000, Danny wrote: > > > > Hey Christian, > > > > > > > > First of all thank you for the answer. > > > > > > > > Actually, I'm thinking of creating a `social blog` application > > > > in > > > > which > > > > friends connect to friends. > > > > I was hoping for some way of ensuring persistence of content > > > > across > > > > a > > > > (social) network. The friend peers could best be providing for > > > > the > > > > storage of the content, doing away with the need of random > > > > unrelated > > > > peers providing the storage. > > > > The thing is, I'm expecting the content to be small text > > > > messages a > > > > lot > > > > of the time. > > > > I think the filesharing subsystem might be a little bit to much > > > > overhead for this, considering that file blocks are 1024 bytes, > > > > and > > > > there is a lot of functionality that I don't need for this. > > > > > > > > Any ideas? Otherwise, I will probably have to create my own > > > > subsystem > > > > for this I guess. I was just looking at DHT and hoping it would > > > > fit > > > > my > > > > use case. If I had the ability to have the friend peers store > > > > the > > > > content without the need of the originator of the content to be > > > > online, > > > > I would have been there. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > Danny > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 12:29 +0100, Christian Grothoff wrote: > > > > > Nope, datastore is _only_ for the file-sharing subsystem, > > > > > datacache > > > > > is > > > > > for the DHT (alas DATACACHE does not have such an API, you > > > > > must > > > > > use > > > > > the > > > > > GNUNET_DHT_put-API). > > > > > > > > > > Happy hacking! > > > > > > > > > > Christian > > > > > > > > > > On 2/17/21 11:57 AM, Danny wrote: > > > > > > Hey guys, > > > > > > > > > > > > Quick question. > > > > > > Can I use GNUNET_DATASTORE_put for manually storing content > > > > > > that > > > > > > would > > > > > > be available by DHT GET requests from others nodes? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Danny > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
