demo website : http://decensormedia.org/
click below image to watch video on youtube. English : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4mHdDqV3T2ui7iklza2Lby5vEd8p9jF8 Chinese : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4mHdDqV3T2sWViQXYEoOxr_0GffWlZfn if only Chinese people had the option to overcome the Great Fire Wall,and talked to eachother freely, people all over the world could have the chance to know the outbreak of the COVID-19 in WuHan China at the very begining,and many many people would not suffer the lose of their families and friends, and many many more would not suffer the physical pain from this virus. It is the CCP(Chinese Communist Party)'s information censorship Virus, that is more deadly than the virus itself! same mistake happened in 2003,now in 2019, NO doubt, it will repeat if people all over the world can't get the immediate information from China freely! So it is very important to change how the world connect to each other, so as to change China to be the same as TaiWan, hopefull in peaceful way ! let's pray ! that is the importance of free flow of information !
have tried to learn web development for several months starting from 2020. the source code I updated here is just a very rough prototype demo of the idea that how we can connect to each other via our own website.
I use vue as the frontend, Hapi nodejs as the backend.
- password protection, token based authentication, database for public get/post/... access .
- add authentication to websocket
- add database connecting to backend via websocket as client ...
it has a special meaning for China. the ultimate GOAL of this project behind decentralization is trying to achieve the freedom of network in the mechanism of "helping others helps yourself",so that people without techincal background can freely get access to information outside the wall.
technology is only part of human civilization,there are many people have done their contribution to this field, but there are many more other civilization should flow freely into Chiina, a freedom network is critical to carry the human civilization to any corner of the world, I was raised up in side a network wall with censorship,and used to be a typical nationalist,I know exactly how a freedom network can change a people, not just techincal skills but many other that are more valuable in one's life.
My personal experience and observation tells me that I should agree with Elon Musk's view on AI thread. but Mars is over a hunder miles away,democracy is just outside my door!
AI is a threat to us when it is in the evil men's hands, for instance centralized social comunication system that use AI to spy or sensors users' messages or articles.
I agree with a lot of people's opinion that decentralization is an effective way to defense ourselves from the AI's threat.
I believe I am not the first person who have realized that we should build a decentralized social networking software system in the near future, which is a point to point comunication system without some company's centralized datacenter, which is more democratic , which means we the users have more options to choose the software APP providers, this social netwroking APPs are compatible to each other, because they are using the same standard protocol
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anyone in China can get access to any good website like Gxxgle and yxxtube without any technical background.
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it is impossible to block a user,it can reach to anyone in any place,it is more secure.
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more and more people have VPS for various purposes. a lot of those people are deep learning / AI guys,they know best what AI can do. like I mention before, owning a VPS of your own will be a trend,imagine 20 years ago not every one has a laptop, now more and more people has many computers. it will be very convenient for one to have a VPS on the cloud for multiple purposes .
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free meal VS privacy. indeed most user will have to pay for extra money for the VPS. but with the developing of technologies like docker, the price will going down and will finally become ignorable. for most people privacy is worth the very little amount of money.
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will those who don't want a VPS be abandoned ? no ! because we use standard protocol, there are a lot of companies who are willing to support these users who don't want to pay for extra money to buy a VPS, for them users means money ! but those users still have the options to migrate their datas to his own VPS once they decide to buy their own VPS.
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is it difficult for a user to get start? no ! because the whole system has been standardised,and been divided into several parts, these can provide many opportunities for start-up companies to provide such services, so that it will be very easy for the user to use,just like today’s social networking APP. more providers and more competition,user has more options,evil companies use AI to probe users’ privacy and restrict user’s freedom of speech will be abandoned by the user.
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it is your own self-media platform. if you got skills, you can attract more views on your platform,which brings extra business opportunities to you.