Comment on Request for Feedback/Collaboration - Bytescape, an Iroh based identity layer for the open web

lavember@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• robert.meyer86@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sure. Iroh facilitates local storage and direct device to device encrypted connections. So basically, it allows you to store your online data on your own devices, encrypted with a secure key, that can be sent to a variety of different end points.

  So for example, you import your mastodon profile, it downloads that data to a local vault, and the vault can then be viewed on any other platform that is able to visit your profile. So if a user signs up to the proposed Bytescape platform using a bluesky account, they could search for your mastodon handle, view your posts, and even be updated of your content, thanks to the Iroh syncing of the users local master vault and the cloud storage for their social accounts. This could be shared either through cloud relays for reliability, or you could retrieve it directly from the users local vault via direct p2p connections.

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  • lavember@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is interesting and I def. hope this gets traction. Thanks for sharing!

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