Numa

A federated social network, built on Ethereum and IPFS.

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A federated social network, built on Ethereum and IPFS.

3 followers

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Open source, on Ethereum, with built-in support for federation. No walled gardens here.

Launch tags:Open Source•Web3

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Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentGive every agent its own machine. Starts in under a second

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Corilla

Might be worth thinking about the product name given the trademarks for NUMA are taken out by the global startup accelerator (which partners with Google amongst others). https://www.numa.co/

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8yr ago

Have I Been Sold?

Let's team up in some way. I'm doing Ethereum tutorials and dapps over at Bitfalls, redesinging soon with a focus on technical tutorials and would like to take the app apart there and demonstrate what makes it tick. I'll also be publishing a lot of tutorials on building similar but more simple things, and there'll be explorations of Loom's dappchains. If you'd like to talk, collab, or whatever else, don't hesitate to get in touch via contact @ bitfalls.com - congrats on the launch!

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8yr ago

It's an interesting concept, but to be perfectly honest, I won't be trying this any time soon, mostly because of the awful design. Don't make a website fully in monospaced font, it makes it really hard to read. Monospaced fonts are made for terminal and code, so all the text remains vertically aligned.

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8yr ago

Interesting product. I have signed up immediately for its novelty value. But pay to post doesn't make much sense. Your key benefit is "you own your data". Bit hard to enjoy that benefit when I have to pay to even post my data! The amount involved may be negligible but, this is not very different from typing an update on my laptop and saving it to my hard disk. Yes, I own my data. But it hasn't left my hard disk! Nobody can see it!! May have a bright future if VC fund raise will allow you absorb this cost and keep posting free for users.

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8yr ago

OneUp

Awesome work Hank :) What are the biggest differences between Numa and Leeroy or Peepeth?

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8yr ago

Kanstack

Maker

@daviswbaer I love peepeth! I think the UX is really smooth and clean. Here are some of the differences between Numa and peepeth (and leeroy) - numa is fully open source, which I think goes a long way when building a distributed product (easier for others to run their own 'gateway' on top of Numa data - I intend to support all different types of posts, whereas peepeth is strictly microblogging. Right now I only built support for microblogging and articles, but I also plan to add stuff like polls, image albums, calendar events, and whatever else people want - we both support batched transactions, which is crucial for ease of use. On peepeth, you can't batch your sign up transactions, so you have to pay with Ethereum before getting started. On Numa, your sign up can be batched with all other actions, so you never have to pay anything until you want to. Numa also lets you batch unlimited items, whereas peepeth maxes out at 15. I think that's just an arbitrary number that they can change, though. - Numa support federated standards. This means you can follow and be followed by people on Mastodon, and other federated networks. My hope is that every new social network these days supports federation, it goes a long way towards a more open social web. It would be awesome if peepeth built support for federation, but I haven't heard anything from that front. Even if they don't, I might build a way for you to be able to follow peepeth accounts from Numa. They are on Ethereum after all, so it's super easy to fetch their timeline.

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8yr ago