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demure  ·  4018 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Aether: reddit + bittorrent

More like Hubski + Tincan, no?





insomniasexx  ·  4017 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Distribution Model

    The basic idea is quite simple: if Alice likes a post written by Bob, Alice will upvote it, and thus will start to distribute that post, too, increasing Carol’s chances of coming across Bob’s post. This means voting is important. There is only one way to moderate, and it’s the collective one. This is essentially direct democracy.

This sound a lot more like Hubski than reddit, but apparently there are subreddits, etc which probably make it more like reddit. From a martketing standpoint, it's probably smarter to brand it as bittorrent + reddit than hubski.

user-inactivated  ·  4018 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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user-inactivated  ·  4018 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, Tin-Can (or is it Tincan or Tin Can...?) doesn't use the Internet, it uses radiowaves/WiFi without going through any actual wires, as far as I can tell. Aether is still using the Internet. And definitely more reddit than hubski, here.

akkartik  ·  4018 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Though to be fair, it's using the hubski-like model that you only broadcast what you upvote. I'm not sure that's a good idea..

(And it looks like there's no space or hyphen: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hubski.com...)

user-inactivated  ·  4018 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, true about the broadcasting, I didn't think of that... but why do you not think that's a good idea?

akkartik  ·  4018 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just that I don't know enough about how clients discover each other over the network. It seems worrisome that every failure to upvote can cause a story to be lost.