BEbeckman466·Sep 29, 2021
hey thanks for your question. so transitioning people over to a world of distributed apps is difficult because it essentially asks people to run the distributed apps completely on their own devices. that is a big shift (and responsibility) that we are not used to in the client server reality of today.
so for all the people who might struggle with this (like my mom), but who still want to enjoy these new apps, Holo (again, stupid name, but this time it's the org who stewards the open source holochain library [1]) came up with a strategy that allows people to rent out some spare processing power on their computer/home-server, to host holochain applications for the above-mentioned people (so sort of like an Airbnb for AWS). they even ran a successful crowdfund that sold a million dollars worth of hardware for committed early adopters (plug-a
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nd-play home servers) [2].
so essentially the Holo hosting network is IPFS (and Holofuel is like Filecoin), but instead of hosting someone's files, you are running encrypted app code for them so that they can take part in the app/network, without having the required technical chops (the holofuel currency measures/represents processing power). the FAQ does a good job of explaining it a bit more: https://holo.host/faq/
i'm not super interested in the whole holo thing (they did a filecoin-type crowdfund to pre-sell hosting credits), yet i am glad they did it because it meant the team could ramp up development. they are already alpha-testing now.
about marx and engels. i am personally most excited about the potential for http://valueflo.ws on top of holochain (library called hREA) [3], because it will allow us to move away from today's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, into a new paradigm of Network Resource Planning (NRP) software. i hope it will have a big impact and enable the growth of the democratic and transparent supply chains of the next (socialist) economy.
> How does it relate or differentiate with the GNU/Net project? What naming schemes does Holochain support and could it theoretically interop with the GNU Name System? [0]
i'll take a look at it, i'm not too familiar with GNU/Net.
[1] https://github.com/holochain/holochain
[2] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/holo-take-back-the-intern...
[3] https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea