You should change the name. This term is severely hash collided already.
Thanks for informing I will see into it. Which is a hard thing to do, naming stuff is that one thing devs can't do well... mostly me or just skill issue again
Show HN: Lambda – The first-ever open-source privacy based social media app
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Re: Show HN: Lambda – The first-ever open-source privacy based social media app
#12That sounds like a nice exercise for yourself, but I don't really see it competing with other privacy-focused or open source social media (which there are already many, you might want to drop the clickbaity "first-ever" bit from the title). As already mentioned, you can provision a Mastodon server and either disable federation or even have it enabled and you instantly can see posts/comments from other servers as well…
I didn't know there already existed any. I will remove that first-ever part. Thanks for informing me.
Re: Show HN: Lambda – The first-ever open-source privacy based social media app
#13What is the difference to hosting a mastodon/misskey/etc... instance without federation?
Another thing: have you considered how your content moderation works? ActivityPub based software makes it work mostly through their distributed nature and established commercial social media has armies of moderators and ML tools. And not having content moderation is not really an option. People will post things that are illigal to even store on the server.
Lambda is still under development, the current version is more all for public feedback and testing if it can make a MVP. I would be seeing into all of that content moderation thing. Just that it will take time... or well a lot to be more precise, mainly because I am the only one working on it. Which is hard... really hard, especially if you use Typescript with Nextjs, or maybe again I just have skill issues.
Re: Show HN: Lambda – The first-ever open-source privacy based social media app
#14Definitely privacy centric tech is becoming an industry. I am very interesting in distopic world avoidance. How do you plan to monetize or fund the project?
For now I don't really tend to focus on that. But I have a bad habit of thinking 5, 10 years in advance. I have planned to add a biding feature in which advertisers will bid, and the highest biders, which would be top 20 biders or maybe more, will need to focus on that part, there ads would be displayed on the site, and of course for good measures, it would be 80% content and 20% ads, like this it's a win-win situation, where advertisers and users both are winning, except me and my company because advertisers will probably find an exploit to this idea. But that's for another month, not this month.