Re-decentralizing the web
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Global economy, structural changes in society, populism, growing gap between rich and poor, climate change, to name a few
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Depends how one defines "winning". Generally, in the grand scheme of things, I'd say absolutely "winning", hands down, but also many same problems and challenges as globally.
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We've tried to provide developer flexibility in terms of underlying systems and ac/identity components within @orbit_db. If you hit a wall, let us know and there may be ways around it or add features to support your use case.
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That said, prolly a good starting point are the @3boxdb plugins that @oedth linked to. If you want to discuss more, best place would be the community chat gitter.im/orbitdb/Lobby (feel free to reach out in PM too).
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11) So, if you're building the decentralized web, I invite you to come join us at github.com/ambientsprotocol and participate in the development of the Ambients protocol, its research and community! ✌️
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9) All this together gives Ambients the potential to make a huge impact on how we approach building (web) infrastructure and services, how the web works and ultimately what our relationship is to it, because...
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8) Ambients is open-source: everyone's free to use it and participate in its development and research.
Ambients is also free in that it doesn't use a crypto-currency, so you don't have to purchase anything to use it or build on it.
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7) Ambients enables developers to build programs (eg. databases) in a way that allows them to *give* users the control over their data. This isn't automatic but as developers we now have the choice to empower the users.
This is the key to decouple users and data from platforms.
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6) Ambients is not tied to a particular programming language, platform or technologies. Developers are free to choose their stack eg. what to use for storage. It's not a full-stack solution.
This is key to not have our applications and infrastructure be vendor locked-in.
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5) Ambients is based on the formalism of Ambient Calculus process algebra which means we can model and execute distributed programs / data as mathematical expressions, a higher level of abstraction.
This is key to enable programs to interoperate between networks and platforms.
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4) In Ambients, the computation moves where the data is.
For example, a database query (program) is sent to the database as opposed to downloading the database to where the query is run.
This is key to realize the full potential of "cloud computing" and the decentralized web.
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3) Ambients allows to build distributed data structures, databases, applications, services, etc. with just functions and values. The developer can smoothly move between different levels of abstractions, build anything from microscopic things to large systems using the same tools.
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2) Ambients is a distributed, decentralized computation protocol.
Think: Functions (as a service) but without AWS, and peer-to-peer. Apache Spark but trustless. Smart Contracts without a Blockchain.
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1) Being able to do deterministic, verifiable, decentralized computation is really, really cool! 🤯😍🤓 You can read the full Ambients protocol whitepaper here ipfs.io/ipfs/QmPhPJE55GvqSz7…. tldr👇
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Recently, we at @hajanetworks published the Ambients protocol medium.com/@hajanetworks/re-….
For me, this has been exciting times because it's a continuation of the work that @orbit_db has pioneered over the years and the logical, needed next step for the decentralized web AND...
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@martinkl wrote an excellent book dataintensive.net that has a lot of good stuff about eventual consistency
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