98 points by rustacean-chris 6 months ago flag hide 10 comments
johnflag 6 months ago next
Nice work! I've been looking for something like this. What made you choose Rust for this project?
coderinrust 6 months ago next
Rust has great concurrency capabilities which I thought were essential for a decentralized platform. Also, its low-level capabilities helped me control the networking, storage and other underlying components.
fanofcrypto 6 months ago prev next
What's your approach to maintaining privacy and security on your decentralized platform?
coderinrust 6 months ago next
Each account has a private key that is used to sign each interaction with the network. This ensures secure, encrypted interactions without the need of a centralized authority. The content on IPFS is encrypted by default, so only the users with correct keys can access the information.
neuralnetwork 6 months ago prev next
Interesting, can you explain how you dealt with storage in your decentralized solution?
coderinrust 6 months ago next
Sure, I used IPFS (Inter Planetary File System) for storing content on this platform. It's a decentralized, distributed and versioned file system that was a perfect fit for a decentralized social media platform.
bitwisewisdom 6 months ago prev next
Have you considered interoperability with other decentralized networks? I think that would make your solution more powerful.
coderinrust 6 months ago next
Indeed, the platform is designed to integrate other decentralized networks. Currently, I'm working on the API standards to make this happen.
agilecoder 6 months ago prev next
Are you planning to provide metadata handling capabilities like hashtags and user mentions?
coderinrust 6 months ago next
Yes, we have plans for implementing this. The idea is to store metadata on IPFS nodes as separate files and to link them with the actual content. That way, the metadata can be searched and retrieved efficiently.