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Jan 26, 2021Liked by Slava Akhmechet

Myrmecology is the study of ants which I think is coincidentally fitting for a social network

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Jan 26, 2021Liked by Slava Akhmechet

When you get around to messing with smart contracts, I highly recommend checking out the Pact smart contract language (https://github.com/kadena-io/pact). It's based on lisp, is more expressive than solidity, and is maintained by an incredible engineering team (I have no affiliation with them btw). I've messed around with a few other "smart contract languages" as well, and Pact has been by far my best experience. That being said, if the primary goal in learning solidity is just to get a feel for smart contracts, then its probably not a terrible place to start due to the massive amounts of documentation

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The approach to not care about decentralisation at first is the right one, imo. Who cares if it's decentralised if you can't use it in the first place?

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Can I be a part of the app's early-user group?

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Do you have any plans to use handshake (handshake.org) in conjunction with IPFS? Have you considered sia.tech instead of IPFS?

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Please don't waste time with Solidity, "smart contracts" and other hocus-pocus that doesn't work. Unless you are looking to raise money - then sure, VCs love the jargon.

For decentralization I would advise you to look into https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr - very simple approach that should scale without any problems.

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Shouldn't the decentralized infrastructure be built in parallel with the UX? First, "decentralized" itself is a big magnet for new users these days. Second, if The Cloud wants to ban you, it'll be a race against them.

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