Platform

loper, a businessperson, or just want to learn about the latest technologies moving the Free Open Source Web forward, this platform can help empower you to build and engage a community around yourself and your projects.

it. https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Use it — as 1 of hundreds of features, you can have your own analytics on your own database on your own community site. The other features are here: https://qbix.com/features.pdf PS: Don’t get me wrong. Keep using YouTube to host your content, etc. But relegate it to hosting short form teasers and highlights and testimonials all of which link to your site. People can discover you on the big sites but if they are serious about your long-form content and community they should buy a membership on YOUR site and have a direct relationship — then deplatforming or coersion will be the last of your worries.

s coroutines, etc. etc. Then I realized... we would have to go through the entire code and redo how it all works. We'd also no longer benefit from PHP's process isolation. If one process crapped out or had a memory leak, it could take down everything else. There's a reason PHP still runs 80% of all web servers in the world (https://kinsta.com/blog/is-php-dead/) ... and one of the biggest is that commodity servers can host terrible PHP code and it's mostly isolated in little processes that finish "quickly" before they can wreak havoc on other processes or on long-running stuff. So now back to postgres. It's been praised for its rock-solid reliability and security. It's got so many features and the MVCC is very flexible. It seems to use a lot of global variables. They can spend their time on many other things, like making it byzantine-fault-tolerant, or something. The clincher for me was when I learned that php-fpm (which spins up processes which sleep when waiting for I/O) is only 50% slower than all those fancy things above. Sure, PHP with Swoole can outperform even Node.js, and can handle twice as many requests. But we'd rather focus on soo many other things we need to do :)

ly got that done after many years, they still complain it “doesn’t look as good as Twitter”. Every time I shipped half-baked stuff, it didn’t actually take off. Now, I believe it WOULD have taken off if it had a low demand surface area (eg Bitcoin just stores value and transfers it, period). But I tend to build stuff that is similar to what people use EVERY DAY, and that kind of stuff accrued lots of features. Oh yeah my other project https://intercoin.org blockchain platform took 5 years to create. During that time we went from a crypto winter to a super bull market in crypto to another winter with super bear skepticism on HN. On HN we knee-jerk get lumped in with stuff that isn’t even blockchain, like FTX or Binance, or ridiculous shitcoins that have no utility at all. Imagine if I shipped https://intercoin.app and announced it on HN lol. At best it would be crickets, at worst I would be berated for somejow being a scammer by… working 5 years and putting all my money into making these blockchain solutions for the world. Most people wouldn’t even bother looking past the title. Our stuff is FREE AND OPEN SOURCE and you use it if you want, or don’t. Before complaining that it even exists to help people for free, or calling it a scam, at least click the link to https://github.com/Intercoin A word about regulations, because you shouldn’t “just ship” in violation of laws (unless you’re Uber or AirBNB lol). Even though we raised money in an ICO pursuant to Reg D and Reg S exemotions, filed Form D with the SEC, got people who worked at the SEC as active advisors, complied with laws in multiple other jurisdictions, innovated in many areas of securities law, and carefully developed tokens to fit the No-Action letters grantsd to projects like PocketFullOfQuarters, people on HN just assume that we are like most of the others who didn’t treat their tokens as securities. Which is understandable. (I am not admitting the token ARE securities, this is a matter of opinion that a judge would determine, merely that we didn’t want to take the chance that the original transactions weren’t securities transactions.) Btw besides securities there is also this FATCA, FINCEN and other stuff that many startups here should read even if they aren’t making web3 or crypto projects, but ARE dealing with money and payouts to people on their platform: https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/FinCEN%20... Not to mention that if you make your software available in Europe, you have to comply with GDPR and soon might be forced to comply with the draconian new CYBER RESILIENCE ACT. If it passes then we will have to honestly change our OPEN SOURCE license to no longer allow Europeans to legally access our software: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/in-letter-to-european-comm... So yeah. Shipping at scale is complicated !!

like we have stream.testPermission(permission) but for participant extra, so we don't need to do heavy calculateAccess, inheritAccess, etc. https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/commit/014857005b7d52470262f52105f90b584083b907 Serving Files and CDN 4. Added support for signing URLs that we want proxies and CDNs to serve (although they can just check the HTTP "Origin" header to know what domain requested them) https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/commit/2ef28abbfe4dc41b1e94ff4a8db244f8822f43f3 5. Implemented gating files in Q/uploads/Streams when served with NGinX, now unauthorized users won't be able to see those files unless testReadLevel("content") is true https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/commit/d2a4be2874b54c4eaab08b63d2fe806d7541714a ... but this requires web/file.php and NGinX configuration like we have now in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/intercoin.app on live server 6. Implemented Q_Text::setLanguageFromRequest() so it can be called from file.php https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/commit/c06441d7bcee8d591cf41fd36e0762b118f20df1 Miscellaneous Fixes 7. Fixed terms page, it used echo but should have used return https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/commit/bd513cf0c677557224d7962dca9371a14452eac5 8. Fixed Q/options default handler of HTTP OPTIONS verb 9. Fixed bug that was still getting streams from other publishers when relationsOnly was true https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/commit/587c526ff02d878ab11d39f87b64f1a7ecfb683b ... Oh, and tested everything as much as I could, finally. This builds on https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

email me. Here is the philosophy behind why we built it: https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/ And if you like what we do and you’re thinking of supporting us with $100 or more, feel free to do it here… November 5 we are launching, until then you can voluntarily put a “no-obligation” contribution: https://wefunder.com/Qbix

osting your business logic using open source software on servers you control.) Why do so many people trust Big Tech? Simple. We have no other choice! Where are the VIABLE AND USER FRIENDLY open source alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, Telegram backends? No one seems to have built anything better or more efficient than, say, Mastodon. Except us. It was a labor of love and cost me a million dollars to date: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform PS: If you play with it for a afternoon, post your experience or email me. I would be thrilled to hear about your experience, good or bad. And of course use it for anything you want. I would be very happy to be proven wrong and see some more competitors being mentioned here, but if you do, make an honest assessment of how they compare! People need alternatives to the closed walled gardens, but having all these features working and up-to-date with browser tech is extremely hard: https://qbix.com/features.pdf

x Platform, which is supposed to be an open-source Social Operating System that takes what Big Tech has (but will never give you) and give it to the people. You can play around with it now. But you might want to wait until version 2.0 is released, with all the documentation, in 15 languages. Anyway it's free and open source at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Somewhere around 2017 I wrote a vision of where we were and how we can go further: https://qbix.com/blog/2017/12/18/power-to-the-people/ We went further, spinning off a separate new company called Intercoin to build Web3 smart contracts, so that communities can do all the following things without trusting any middlemen, not even their own corporate directors: https://intercoin.org/applications One target market for instance is a fund for refugees: https://community.intercoin.app/t/fund-for-refugees But most implementations are designed to be local. Smart contracts are optional, but once the community gets large enough that a few people start being in charge of securing a lot of money, votes, or whatever, that's when they become useful. In my experience, talking to VCs and other capitalists, most of them feel we are doing "too much". But I feel the rest of the liberty-loving world isn't doing enough*. At least I put my own money where my mouth is, and built it, and now we're giving it away. Use it ... if you want.