How is this different from Mirror.xyz?
Show HN: Seedling – A Decentralised Medium
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Re: Show HN: Seedling – A Decentralised Medium
#42How is this different from Mirror.xyz?
Other than no funding and a team size of 1? ;-)
Slightly different vision and approach but both are publishing platforms. There’s plenty of room for competition in this space, I think.
Monetisation: Seedling uses direct tipping instead of NFTs. Plans for paid subscriptions to private content. Crowdsourcing will offer share of tips for investment.
Architecture: Seedling is primarily a discovery service and will allow content to be hosted on different platforms. Seedling has no backend server to deliver content.
Re: Show HN: Seedling – A Decentralised Medium
#43How is this different from Mirror.xyz?
Other than no funding and a team size of 1? ;-) Slightly different vision and approach but both are publishing platforms. There’s plenty of room for competition in this space, I think. Monetisation: Seedling uses direct tipping instead of NFTs. Plans for paid subscriptions to private content. Crowdsourcing will offer share of tips for investment. Architecture: Seedling is primarily a discovery service and will allow…
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Any plan on integrating other chains? This would be great on Solana
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Yes, that I need to solve
So the decentralised system relies on you as a SPOF dealing with abuse and paying the bills?
Only in the short term. TheGraph is migrating from a centralised service to a decentralised network and the community can run alternative oauth servers to help mitigate attacks. I'm no cybersecurity specialist though.
Also, the data is always available on-chain and the protocol is open so other people can write an alternative ui with their own blockchain query capabilities. Like Bress.xyz does with Mirror.xyz.
Payments can be automated on-chain.
Re: Show HN: Seedling – A Decentralised Medium
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Other than no funding and a team size of 1? ;-) Slightly different vision and approach but both are publishing platforms. There’s plenty of room for competition in this space, I think. Monetisation: Seedling uses direct tipping instead of NFTs. Plans for paid subscriptions to private content. Crowdsourcing will offer share of tips for investment. Architecture: Seedling is primarily a discovery service and will allow…
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Any plan on integrating other chains? This would be great on Solana
I considered Solana. Lower fees allows for micro tipping. Polygon is pretty cheap though, less that 0.3 cents at current prices. Its the sort of app that really needs to stick to one chain to save confusion and complexity, I think.
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But why specifically GitHub, instead of just git? Every git hosting provider could work with this model
That’s true but I am trying to discourage people publishing other people’s work. Hence users need to link their account through oauth. Other hosts can be added.
> I am trying to discourage people publishing...
A common motivating concept for decentralized is no authoritarian oversight to deplatform you.
You're seeking editorial influence (control) from the start.
Setting aside what users want versus what you want, as a platform technology you need to be careful here.
You way want to brush up on the safe harbor laws for Internet infrastructure/pipes/hosting firms and technologies versus the lack of safe harbor for platforms with desire or ability to exercise editorial influence or control on a user or content basis.
You can navigate this, by having reasons such as "I'm not editing, but by associating users with a non-anonymous identity they will self moderate", as you've noted. You can, with such reasons, still have a bit of cake after eating it. But be careful not to veer into actual editorial control unless you're prepared for full liability.
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That’s true but I am trying to discourage people publishing other people’s work. Hence users need to link their account through oauth. Other hosts can be added.
> I am trying to discourage people publishing... A common motivating concept for decentralized is no authoritarian oversight to deplatform you. You're seeking editorial influence (control) from the start. Setting aside what users want versus what you want, as a platform technology you need to be careful here. You way want to brush up on the safe harbor laws for Internet infrastructure/pipes/hosting firms and technolo…
Useful. Thanks
Re: Show HN: Seedling – A Decentralised Medium
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Interesting, thanks for sharing. Any plan on integrating other chains? This would be great on Solana
I considered Solana. Lower fees allows for micro tipping. Polygon is pretty cheap though, less that 0.3 cents at current prices. Its the sort of app that really needs to stick to one chain to save confusion and complexity, I think.
The problem is Polygon's general unreliability and lack of end users. Almost no one I know ever has any cash on Polygon. It's either Solana, ETH, or something like Arbitrum
Re: Show HN: Seedling – A Decentralised Medium
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I considered Solana. Lower fees allows for micro tipping. Polygon is pretty cheap though, less that 0.3 cents at current prices. Its the sort of app that really needs to stick to one chain to save confusion and complexity, I think.
The problem is Polygon's general unreliability and lack of end users. Almost no one I know ever has any cash on Polygon. It's either Solana, ETH, or something like Arbitrum
That's interesting. Sites like DappRadar show far more Polygon apps than Solana apps (https://dappradar.com/rankings/chains, https://www.alchemy.com/dapps). I don't know how representative that is though.
I've noticed occasional issues with Polygon, which is frustrating, and some intermittent viem/Metamask errors that I only seem to get with Polygon. I've put it down to the immaturity of the web3 stack for now but it needs to get better.