WildYorkies
Where to start with a distributed/decentralized social network concept?
I’m thinking of implementing a decentralized/distributed social network like secure-scuttlebutt with Elixir.
The key is that, each user is running their own network on their machine. So I would want to create an Elixir executable that that could be a long-running daemon/service on desktops and ideally on mobile (maybe with lumen?).
In order to update their local network, users connect to servers that basically blindly connect you directly to other users (like a switchboard operator with earplugs).
And it could actually store your “rolodex” of known users in ETS 
I’ll take any / all thoughts on this. Where to start? This is a bad idea for elixir?
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bodgix
There was a job offer on ElixirJobs in April from a company called moodle who were looking for an Elixir dev to help them with their project which was some kind of a social network implementing the ActivityPub protocol.
Apparently that project is open source: MoodleNet / MoodleNet Backend · GitLab
That ActivityPub spec looks rather complicated not sure if this is something you’d want to start with but it might help you or inspire.
MrDoops
Elixir is pretty good at federation and similar distributed problems. Check out what the guys at Pleroma are doing: https://pleroma.social/.
dimitarvp
Corollary: make sure you understand CRDTs as well. It’s an extremely important concept in decentralised storage.
(However, maybe the storage library you choose will handle decentralised data reading and writing already.)
There’s also an Elixir CRDT library.
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