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Written by Filene Taylor on 2024-09-08 at 05:14

@nextgraph I'm reading your documentation right now and I feel like I'm gratefully seeing you are a package deal; the two-tier system that is Local-First, cognizant of difficulties regarding "servers" being an end-user necessity versus just a choice of broker, and a way of storing documents and more with multiple access grants. Fyi, this is incredible, not just because of the logistics underpinning your work, but because I find your documentation reads so well thanks to the clarity of the existing ecosystems and their gaps. Not only do I understand you're all aware of Holochain, I understand that your E2EE network construction circumvent possible kinds of data locality issues tackled in networks such as Holochain's basic DHT broadcasts.

Let me try to unearth a fair comparison to other networks that your comparison chart will someday receive as additions:

• Fileverse does store data using a user's cryptographic wallet, but requires IPFS and Ethereum integrations, meaning at some point your work may need Gas OR possibly be unlocated on IPFS/GUN net,
• Skiff (bought out) does have an E2EE encrypted document sharing system IIRC, but also relies upon servers as points of failure for the overlay net (I. E. I serve my own skiff domain), and
• Freenet (old Freenet named Hyphanet) has no guarantee that data a user will seek will be accessible if it is not publicly sought or fresh enough for a peer to have a copy.

You aren't responsible for whether or not I'm right since I'll be researching all these again to be certain myself. Yet, you remind me of something else.

Does the overlay net lose all public served data if all brokers go offline/defunct/corrupt? Ouisync tried to solve no-online-peer access by holding an encrypted copy of data (a "pull server" Ouisync calls a Blind share) for users when peers weren't online. I think users in NextGraph are the ones responsible for storing the backups of their wallets and data, as if all personal waller devices are offline and a new device tries to access a copy of their wallet's content, they'd need to have an existing device reconnect. (This is great!! I think?) I think I'm mistaken, though, because there will be a public list of files NextGraph would allow other users to see, so the overlay must store all posted public datas.. How does the overlay network backup and maintain public state for users without any repo wallets online and connected? 🙂 Do brokers start fresh until a user with a wallet connects and renews public repos?

This sounds really, really great. Thank you. 🙇‍♀️

(I bet this is in the documentation, of course! :3)

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