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Show HN: Seedling – A Decentralised Medium

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Post by dnpotter1 »

Initial version of my decentralised publishing platform for articles and blog posts - like a Web3 Medium. It's open source and [almost] fully decentralised. Runs on the Polygon network.

Current version lets authors publish markdown content from their GitHub account and lets users tip articles. No wallet or GitHub account is needed to browse content.

Authors link their GitHub account or organisation to their wallet address via oauth and an on-chain user registry, after which they can submit article URLs directly to the on-chain content registry. The content registry ensures only registered users can publish, and only from their registered GitHub account.

By adding different hosting options and expanding the feature set, the ultimate goal is to create a platform for independent journalists to publish without fear of censorship or repression, and to fund their journalism through direct tipping, subscriptions and profit sharing models.

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Post by dfox »

If there is requirement to link a github account, then there isn't any kind of decentralization, as github is then the one centralized point.

And well, the original idea of blogs was completely decentralized (“there is this thing accessible through HTTP”) with bunch of ad-hoc API surfaces for metadata and “pingbacks” (ie. back references). Then in the last few years there is Medium.

Bottom line: You are solving solved problem and have some kind of path-dependent view of that problem space that does not really make sense.

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Post by cmeacham98 »

vagab0nd wrote: post #5

It's an interesting project. I think you should mention that your contract takes a 10% cut of the tips. Also, why not let any wallet publish? Why the dependency on GitHub?

From my understanding, they're relying on GitHub for the hosting of the blog posts themselves.

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Post by TylerE »

cmeacham98 wrote: post #6
vagab0nd wrote: post #5

It's an interesting project. I think you should mention that your contract takes a 10% cut of the tips. Also, why not let any wallet publish? Why the dependency on GitHub?

From my understanding, they're relying on GitHub for the hosting of the blog posts themselves.

So the opposite of decentralized then. Why do crypto people love inventing new middlemen to take a cut? Oh right, they’re the middleman. That’s why.

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dfox wrote: post #3

If there is requirement to link a github account, then there isn't any kind of decentralization, as github is then the one centralized point. And well, the original idea of blogs was completely decentralized (“there is this thing accessible through HTTP”) with bunch of ad-hoc API surfaces for metadata and “pingbacks” (ie. back references). Then in the last few years there is Medium. Bottom line: You are solving solve…

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Post by dnpotter1 »

vagab0nd wrote: post #5

It's an interesting project. I think you should mention that your contract takes a 10% cut of the tips. Also, why not let any wallet publish? Why the dependency on GitHub?

It was an easy way to get the app up and running without needing to worry about hosting, editing features and user profiles. I.e. release minimal functionality then expand if people like the app. Intention is to add other hosting options, like IPFS, at which point it will remove the dependency on GitHub and decentralise hosting.
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