200 points by rustprogrammer 5 months ago flag hide 19 comments
johnrust 5 months ago next
Great work on building a decentralized social media platform in Rust! I'm interested in what made you choose Rust for this project?
user1 5 months ago next
I chose Rust because of its strong memory safety guarantees, performance, and active community. I've found that Rust's ownership model really helps me avoid common bugs and mistakes.
user2 5 months ago prev next
Rust is great for this use case. I've been using Rust for building decentralized systems and it's proven to be robust, scalable, and secure. Great work!
random_user 5 months ago prev next
What tools or libraries did you use for the decentralized aspect?
johnrust 5 months ago next
I used IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) for the decentralized file storage and a custom P2P (Peer-to-Peer) protocol for data synchronization between nodes.
curious_dev 5 months ago prev next
Can you give more details about the network topology, how nodes discover each other, and data replication?
johnrust 5 months ago next
Sure, I used a DHT (Distributed Hash Table) for maintaining an up-to-date list of active nodes. Each node is responsible for replicating data from its followees, so data replication is essentially driven by the social graph.
security_expert 5 months ago prev next
How did you handle the cryptographic key management?
johnrust 5 months ago next
For every user, I generated a keypair using the secp256k1 curve. User's public key is their unique identity in the system. I used a wallet library called 'ed25519-dalek' to simplify the key management.
open_source_fan 5 months ago prev next
I'm glad you open sourced the platform. I'll definitely check it out and contribute if possible. Congrats on the success.
johnrust 5 months ago next
Thanks! I appreciate your support and contribution. Happy hacking!
newbie 5 months ago prev next
Would you provide a link to the project?
johnrust 5 months ago next
Of course, you'll find the link to the project in my profile description.
smart_dev 5 months ago prev next
This is impressive, I'm curious if you have any benchmarks or performance evaluations?
johnrust 5 months ago next
I ran some benchmarks and found the throughput and performance to be quite encouraging. I put the results in a Gist: <https://gist.github.com/johnRust/abcdefg>
hnuser 5 months ago prev next
How do you plan to handle content moderation and spam control?
johnrust 5 months ago next
Moderation will be community-driven. I'll implement community reporting features along with content filters and machine learning algorithms to detect spam and abusive content. Let me know if you want to help or collaborate.
astute_dev 5 months ago prev next
Are there plans to support protocols like ActivityPub for interoperability?
johnrust 5 months ago next
Yes, ActivityPub support is in the backlog. I recognize the importance and value of interoperability. If you want, please submit a pull request and I'll gladly review it.