youtube_video sideproject

History ¶

• Started thinking about the idea on Jan 2021
  • A general idea of a peer to peer social network
  • Follow up on peer to peer social media network solution
  • Sound approach for a p2p social network which falls back to current web
• Stopped working on it Sept 2021
• Even when I got the opportunity, many things were happening

Trigger to renew discussion ¶

• The need for a platform for free speech
• Announcement of Quabila around Nov 14 2023 by Sameh Deabes
  • Project facebook group
  • No public technical design
  • The problem it tries to solve (subject to refinement):
    • Enable content creators spread their ideas
    • Personal branding
    • Profit from content
  • Based on Tribes by Seth Godin. ref
    • Seth TED talk
  • Criticism from Mohamed Elsherif about isolationism

last activity ¶

• Mau project

Current activity ¶

• Reviewing the implementation

Base of the idea ¶

• Social media is people talking to each other in the digital space
• and it should adhere to the same rules for people talking in real life

Problem ¶

• Accelerate innovation: photographers Exif data and example
• Walled garden: I would like to share my videos once to appear on all my social applications
• Censorship: especially at the times of large conflicts
• Ads
• Algorithm
• Control
• Data travels over the internet although there is no need for that
• Data leak

What it is not ¶

• Not for profit

Challenges ¶

• Self-hosting is still expensive, especially for videos
• P2P protocols are an implementation hassle and not reliable in some networks
• Machines are not 100% connected to the internet yet

Video on social media ¶

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Linkedin

See Also