0 sats \ 1 reply \ @iampigman 8 Apr 2022 freebie \ on: When decentralized/open-source internet browser built on lightning? bitcoin
@k00b the sn readme states a desire to migrate to a decentralized platform. Do you have any thoughts on how you'd achieve this?
I'm bullish on Impervious even with the non-FOSS browser so that would be my choice, but interested to hear current/in-progress viable alternatives.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 8 Apr 2022
Hard to explain without being on my computer but why is a centralized Stacker News bad?
  1. We could be forced to censor
  2. We can disappear
  3. We might get blocked by a local ISP
There are probably others. Anyway the basic idea that I have around this is to have a mempool like relay system (a newspool), where entry to the newspool is dependent on making a payment to configurable federation of Lightning nodes.
The lightning nodes won’t be able to see what your “news” is (only the hash of it) so they can’t censor. If the federation disappears (or you simply want to use another) you can soft fork to another without losing any of the history from your past federation.
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