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Show HN: COMPOST – A DWeb-native magazine about the digital commons

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Re: Show HN: COMPOST – A DWeb-native magazine about the digital commons

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Post by dgellow »

Ok, I will ask. What is "DWeb-native"? Is it distributed through IPFS or similar? Given that I access the website through HTTP does that mean the content is accessed through a gateway of some sort? Is it blockchain related? I'm at loss here.

Please don't assume that people know what you're talking about when you use some new-ish terminology like this.

Edit: for info I looked at https://getdweb.net/ for a few minutes and I'm still not sure what DWeb is supposed to be.

Re: Show HN: COMPOST – A DWeb-native magazine about the digital commons

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Post by benhylau »

pmlnr wrote: post #3

This should be a link to https://distributed.press/ which is the actual project.

Thanks! I was planning to post another Show HN when Distributed Press is more ready for people to play with. Right now the API key is manually generated, but hey hit us up if anyone wants to play with alpha software ;)

Re: Show HN: COMPOST – A DWeb-native magazine about the digital commons

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Post by benhylau »

dgellow wrote: post #2

Ok, I will ask. What is "DWeb-native"? Is it distributed through IPFS or similar? Given that I access the website through HTTP does that mean the content is accessed through a gateway of some sort? Is it blockchain related? I'm at loss here. Please don't assume that people know what you're talking about when you use some new-ish terminology like this. Edit: for info I looked at https://getdweb.net/ for a few minutes…

Yes it is published to IPFS and Hypercore. The footer has the ipns:// and hyper:// links, and they ""-linked to IPFS and Hypercore gateways. You can access them directly on the DWeb networks with browsers like Brave (for IPFS), more on that here:

https://one.compost.digital/about/#a-distributed-press

On Beaker you'll have to use the hyperdrive key until DNS support is added:

hyper://dcbc7c15c1682caf55a9ea6287d13a36b064164aa5b1e86f0961f89eb18e1d5f

Apologies for the missing context. We also wrote a bit here about why we are publishing to the Decentralized Web:

https://github.com/hyphacoop/distributed-press-organizing/wi...

Re: Show HN: COMPOST – A DWeb-native magazine about the digital commons

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Post by leephillips »

benhylau wrote: post #5
dgellow wrote: post #2

Ok, I will ask. What is "DWeb-native"? Is it distributed through IPFS or similar? Given that I access the website through HTTP does that mean the content is accessed through a gateway of some sort? Is it blockchain related? I'm at loss here. Please don't assume that people know what you're talking about when you use some new-ish terminology like this. Edit: for info I looked at https://getdweb.net/ for a few minutes…

Yes it is published to IPFS and Hypercore. The footer has the ipns:// and hyper:// links, and they " "-linked to IPFS and Hypercore gateways. You can access them directly on the DWeb networks with browsers like Brave (for IPFS), more on that here: https://one.compost.digital/about/#a-distributed-press On Beaker you'll have to use the hyperdrive key until DNS support is added: hyper://dcbc7c15c1682caf55a9ea6287d13a36b…

Interesting initiative. I must say, I find it a bit amusing that a project that seeks to “reduce or eliminate central points of control on the web” uses GitHub, even to tell me this. The entire point of GitHub (which I use when I have to) is to take an utterly decentralized and distributed tool, Git, and turn it into a (largely inferior) central point of control.
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