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

Show HN: COMPOST – A DWeb-native magazine about the digital commons(one.compost.digital)

45 points by benhylau 5 years ago | 6 comments

dgellow 5 years ago |

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.

benhylau 5 years ago | |

Yes it is published to IPFS and Hypercore. The footer has the ipns:// and hyper:// links, and they "<a href>"-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...

leephillips 5 years ago | | |

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.

pmlnr 5 years ago |

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

benhylau 5 years ago | |

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 ;)

benhylau 5 years ago |

More about our project here that we wrote up for MozFest:

https://community.webmonetization.org/udit/an-artist-centric...