Re: Manually storing DHT content

[Danny]

Right,
I was thinking about using fs initially. I'm thinking of probably using
Markdown, or something really simple as the markup language.
Nevertheless, I think it would also be useful for posting very small
messages. Look at twitter.
But once people are going to use it for a twitter-like experience, you
might get many files with, what, 200 characters?

Using messenger for comments and notifications, is not a bad idea
actually.

On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 14:12 +0100, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote:
> Sounds a bit like you want to build something on top of messenger and
> fs actually.
> 
> Storing blog posts (e.g. html pages) in fs seems reasonable to me.
> And using
> the messenger feature for propagation/notifications of updates and
> possibly comments would allow you to
> build a content platform around it.
> 
> Br
> Martin
> 
> > On 17. Feb 2021, at 14:09, Danny <danny.de.jong@protonmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Hmmm, that's definitally interresting.
> > 
> > I was actually more concerned with a blog-like situation where
> > messages
> > can be considered to be posts and are available to the public,
> > preferably indefinetally. My objective in this case is freedom of
> > speech, not so much confidentiality.
> > 
> > I don't know how long the messages in a chat-room remain available,
> > but
> > I'm guessing the messages are encrypted for the other participants
> > that
> > were in the room at the moment the message was sent?
> > 
> > But anyway, good to see such a system is being integrated as well.
> > :)
> > 
> > Danny.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 13:19 +0100, TheJackiMonster wrote:
> > > Hey Danny,
> > > 
> > > if you want to share small content as text messages inside of a
> > > group
> > > of people, you could take a look at the messenger service, I am
> > > working
> > > on.
> > > 
> > > It could be possible that it already fills your needs. You can
> > > open
> > > something like a chat-room on peers to exchange messages in a
> > > decentralized way. These messages get signed and can even be
> > > requested
> > > from other members when the original author is offline.
> > > 
> > > It's not completely finished but some tests for message exchange
> > > between peers are already succeeding. (Just notice that there is
> > > only
> > > doxygen as documentation at the moment. I'm still working on a
> > > proper
> > > manual and such. ^^')
> > > 
> > > Happy hacking,
> > > Jacki
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 12:01 +0000, Danny wrote:
> > > > Hey Christian,
> > > > 
> > > > First of all thank you for the answer.
> > > > 
> > > > Actually, I'm thinking of creating a `social blog` application
> > > > in
> > > > which
> > > > friends connect to friends.
> > > > I was hoping for some way of ensuring persistence of content
> > > > across
> > > > a
> > > > (social) network. The friend peers could best be providing for
> > > > the
> > > > storage of the content, doing away with the need of random
> > > > unrelated
> > > > peers providing the storage.
> > > > The thing is, I'm expecting the content to be small text
> > > > messages a
> > > > lot
> > > > of the time.
> > > > I think the filesharing subsystem might be a little bit to much
> > > > overhead for this, considering that file blocks are 1024 bytes,
> > > > and
> > > > there is a lot of functionality that I don't need for this.
> > > > 
> > > > Any ideas? Otherwise, I will probably have to create my own
> > > > subsystem
> > > > for this I guess. I was just looking at DHT and hoping it would
> > > > fit
> > > > my
> > > > use case. If I had the ability to have the friend peers store
> > > > the
> > > > content without the need of the originator of the content to be
> > > > online,
> > > > I would have been there.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > Danny
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 12:29 +0100, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> > > > > Nope, datastore is _only_ for the file-sharing subsystem,
> > > > > datacache
> > > > > is
> > > > > for the DHT (alas DATACACHE does not have such an API, you
> > > > > must
> > > > > use
> > > > > the
> > > > > GNUNET_DHT_put-API).
> > > > > 
> > > > > Happy hacking!
> > > > > 
> > > > > Christian
> > > > > 
> > > > > On 2/17/21 11:57 AM, Danny wrote:
> > > > > > Hey guys,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Quick question.
> > > > > > Can I use GNUNET_DATASTORE_put for manually storing content
> > > > > > that
> > > > > > would
> > > > > > be available by DHT GET requests from others nodes?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > > Danny
> > > > > > 
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