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Introducing Hypermind: A fully decentralized, P2P, high-availability solution to a problem that doesn't exist. (www.reddit.com)
submitted 2 days ago by yodeljunkmanenvy@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm not the creator of this program, but its too fun not to share! The comments from the developer and users joining the swarms on the reddit thread are hilarious.

It's basically a decentralized swarm of docker users. It does nothing except tell you how many other users you are connected to. Some are in the tens of thousands, haha!

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https://github.com/lklynet/hypermind

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[–] jogai_san@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The perfect vector for a nefarious experiment...

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Yes, especially if people use the “latest” tag, trusting whatever the container might be updated to do in the future.

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is awesome! I'm now using the swarm to control my living room lights.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 52 points 2 days ago

Q: Why did you make this? A: The homelab must grow. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Nice.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And here I am making a "useful" p2p decentralised network that has no users, so this is how you get people onboard 😁

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wish I could find the developer meme of “hey I’m making a neat thing” “a neat thing or critical infrastructure?” “defeated tone critical infrastructure”

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

*crying emoji*

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are you creating?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The tenfingers sharing protocol, in a nutshell it's free websites / a decentralised file system (FOSS, encrypted, censor resilient, no DNS, no crypto, ...).

Forwart a port to your PC and install a node with a script/simple manual commands/docker image and you're ready to go. But no one does...

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Nice - but it's a pretty crowded space between Zeronet and IPFS and possibly others. And even these well-known ones barely see any serious use. And these projects have been promoted pretty heavily. You need fanatical users ;)

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago

Yeah for sure (Fanatic users come to me!) and I don't have the promotional skill or funds, but Zeronet is a bitcoin horror (IMO) and IPFS is like the grandpa of decentralised sharing, cumbersome and lacking simple things like the ability to update a file.

One day it'll take off because of its ease of use and elegance, that's what I keep telling myself anyways 😅!

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I left it running for like 2 hrs and it's used up 150GB of ICMP????? 

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Working perfectly then

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 2 points 1 day ago

I left it running for like 2 hrs and it's used up 150GB of ICMP????? 

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It does nothing except tell you how many other users you are connected to.

.......but why?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fun :(

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's cool. I can tell you there are 700+/- different entities traversing the edge router of my network or at least vying for a slot. I'm not sure about adding 41,840 more. LOL

[–] kmoney@lemmy.kmoneyserver.com 18 points 2 days ago

The cheekiness of the github page had me smirking, chuckling, and nodding along the whole way. I of course spun this up immediately along with the Home Assistant integration...the number must go up after all.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There goes my RAM

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 12 points 1 day ago

I love the description.

Hey everyone, so you just finished setting up the *Arr stack and your dashboards lookin crisp. But you look at your htop and see... unused RAM. It’s disgusting, isn't it?

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

I don't run any containers and this made me consider trying to get the whole infrastructure setup 😁

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Installed, still have free RAM... I think I did something wrong...

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Launch multiple?

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 1 day ago

Surely when number goes up far enough, it magically gains sentience and godlike powers

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Autobots, assemble!

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Sounds like it's time to fire up another dedicated VM

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Based