Willow Specifications - Willow
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A protocol for peer-to-peer data stores. The best parts? Fine-grained permissions, a keen approach to privacy, destructive edits, and a dainty bandwidth and memory footprint.

A protocol for peer-to-peer data stores. The best parts? Fine-grained permissions, a keen approach to privacy, destructive edits, and a dainty bandwidth and memory footprint.

    • swordsmanluke@programming.dev
      4·
      10 months ago

      Once upon a time, I built a proof of concept distributed social network that ran entirely on cell phones.

      I eventually ran into enough complications that I abandoned the project. But the tech did work. I could create posts, add friends, etc. (It just wasn’t reliable in its sync mechanism and I gave up trying to fix it.)

      So… Imagine Lemmy, but a community’s data is stored collaboratively on mobile devices, the load shared by all its subscribers.

      We all walk around with goddamn supercomputers in our pockets. We should put them to work.

  • ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev
    6·
    10 months ago

    It kinda seems like if AWS permissions management and torrenting had a baby. Edit: in all seriousness tho, I like the data model. Are there any libraries that support this yet?

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    Could this replace SyncThing? I use and like SyncThing but I also really want peer-to-peer copies and ST gets a bit messy when you try it (seems like a hub and spoke approach works better).

    • agilob@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      So while I’m myself struggling to fully understand what this is, it conceptually like it’s a blockchain on syncthing, where even if you subscribe to a read only share, you can locally delete what you don’t want to keep. So technically you could make bitorrent to behave like syncthing with search function for contacts you already know.