info_tfgrid/collections/earthhub/intro.md
2024-03-19 20:07:50 +02:00

1.9 KiB

Earth Hub

Earthhub is a novel way how to re-invent how the social networks work based on existing protocols and apps.

There are very good protocols out there like

  • matrix
  • activitypub
  • nostr

Each have their own speciality and the app support by now is marvelous.

more than 280,000,000 users are now on decentralized platforms based on the 3 above chosen protocols.

There are still some elements slowing it down:

  • no monetization of the hosters of the servers
  • complexity to install, maintain a server
  • different protocols, not being interlinked (need more bridges)
  • hard to find users and define your interest groups
  • redundancy: how do we know my data is safe?

How do we resolve these issues

Monetization

  • Thanks to EarthWallet micropayments are done to automatically reward the relays, nodes, bandwidth points for utilization.
  • Cost: having full blown sovereign social network app capabilities doesn't have to be expensive, a couple of USD per month should be enough. There is not something as a free lunch.
  • Customers will not feel it, they will only pay for what they use which will be super small.

Complexity

EarthHub adds the following:

  • Single Sign On
  • Unified Naming System
  • No need to maintain/install nodes.
  • Mycelium as network interconnects all nodes over all protocols and provides an ultra safe connectivity for all.
  • All is done with full self healing capabilities.

Find Users (user experience)

  • at each Hub we do single sign on and make it super easy for people to find each other.

Redundancy

  • thanks to EarthHub all data is stored on a storage system (quantum safe) which makes sure data can never be corrupted nor lost.

What extra will we add

  • personal e-book + website publishing platform with support for CDN in Mycelium
  • personal S3 server which serves as backend for all above (also the backup of your social media exposure)