A magical notebook being built by Chris Joel, carrying on the tradition of Subconscious and Noosphere.
- A user-sovereign public key infrastructure
- A self-verifying capability scheme
- Content addressable, versioned user data
- An efficient partial replication strategy
- A petname scheme for building connections with other users
- A native content type with petname-aware hyperlinks
Familiar Emails
Familiar #2
Dialog is designed for the user-origin web. A Dialog database is content addressed, forkable, mergeable and efficiently syncable. It is local-first, runs in a web browser tab, and works just fine when the user's device is completely offline. It assumes a user-centered authority model; no external authority is required to enable any of its features. It is even agnostic to the transport used when syncing across forks and replicas (sneakernets welcome).
Dialog will sound familiar to those of you who followed along when I was building Noosphere. Noosphere was remarkably effective for what it was. But, Noosphere made different trade-offs. I am hopeful that the trade-offs we have chosen for Dialog will make it a worthy successor and more generalized to boot.