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Posted by remywang 18 hours ago

Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites(satproto.org)
393 points | 193 commentspage 4
komako 9 hours ago|
I wonder if the missing piece here is an agent layer.

A lot of decentralized/local-first social projects improve the protocol story, but the UX is still "please think about keys, storage, sync, exports, and trust boundaries yourself." That's fine for hackers, not for most users.

Something Claude Code-like, but local-first and protocol-aware, could make this much more approachable. The user says "post this to close friends" and the local agent handles signing, encryption, storage, syncing, and recovery.

That doesn't solve discovery, spam, or network effects, but it might solve a lot of the usability problem.

brunoborges 14 hours ago||
OctoTown: https://octotown.github.io/
MattCruikshank 15 hours ago||
Amazing. I'm building almost the exact same thing. I'll share mine when it's mature enough. :D
extraduder_ire 16 hours ago||
Seems like a missed opportunity to not put a /satellite/satproto.json file on that site.
konfuzio 13 hours ago||
I think: A new way of old school forum would bring real UGC rel="ugc" that brings value to human and agentic readers.

Let's crash the fediverse! https://wire.wise-relations.com/

mkfain 12 hours ago||
I'm curious why not use Nostr?
znpy 6 hours ago||
Interesting take but I think the work is, at very best, halfway through.

If authors want this to take off they need to work on user experience, particularly for non-technical users. Otherwise it might at best become some tech niche that will eventually die.

wordglyph 14 hours ago||
have you considered Replace X25519 with a post quantum cryptography key encapsulation mechanism like kyber or saber?
givemeethekeys 15 hours ago||
This needs a YouTube demo video.
James_K 14 hours ago|
Just use RSS at that point. I don't see the value of encrypting everything, like people are gonna be spying on your random static blog entries.
8organicbits 7 hours ago|
These days people are fearful of their work ending up in LLM training datasets. A private, but static hosted website is on a lot of people's minds. Most social networks have privacy setting these days, which feels like a missing feature of standard, static blogs.
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