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From YouTube: Alpress, a self-governing ENS+IPFS publication platform

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Krzysztof Lewosz and Muhammed Tanrıkulu of Almonit, joined us during our May community meetup to present Alpress, a self-governing ENS+IPFS publication platform.

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So welcome to everyone to almonds, um I'm going to just gonna quickly tell you what it does and what we do, who we are and the presentation is divided into into two parts: one I'm gonna talk, I'm gonna be talking about the uh non-technical parts of it and um the the second part which will be covered uh will be by muhammad. He will talk about more technical details, but as well give you a demo of the alphas platform itself um so who we are.

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We are a group of people, a group of friends working together, developing projects that plan to change the internet for better. So we so what we mean by that it means we we're trying to decentralize a piece of internet, uh bringing a little bit more value in the censorship, resistant areas and privacies, as well as the robot robustness of the of the technologies that lays behind the ipfs or ens um yep. So you can see that my name is christopher levos and I am a co-founder as well as our lead operation.

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Mohammed is another co-founder as well and he is a technical lead.

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So what exactly is harmony almond is a project for developing decentralized web applications and web services as an alternative to traditional tools functioning today.

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um So now, let me give you um a quick brief in terms of what sort of projects we have already uh developed on the harmony. So at the moment we have uh ens resolver uh it's a extension that is fully um decentralized. It's censorship resistant, it is anonymous, uh it doesn't have a central authority and supports all modern browsers on chromium-based.

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So basically it is just a link to the uh decentralized web.

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The other tool that we also thought it's um important for us once we created the extension. It was if we didn't, if we create a decentralized, um a search engine, a search engine that will help discover all the decentralized webs. uh Sorry websites, as you can see, there is a if you go to harmony.eth.link the first thing. What you see is actually a decentralized website itself and it's our search engine. It is just the basic version of the search engine.

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It works quite okay, but we haven't spent, spend so much time on it only because we realize how important for us actually is to create another tool that actually will will help all users across the globe to easily access uh the decentralized web, but also help them create decentralized websites.

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So we thought the next step, for us really is to create a decentralized platform, and here it is um I'll press. We decided to call it alvarez. Alprez is a self-governing decentralized platform for publishing articles.

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What what actually the the the outputs to is gives you a possibility to uh you know to use the built-in reach text editor play with the text. um You know implement. Add some pictures and just just work exactly the same as the any other block platform um there is a. There is a couple of examples here. You can see that how it looks like in on the left side, but it also shows how the how the published article can look like.

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So in a in a nutshell, there is a couple of things that can be described by by the artists. Address is self-governed, and that means contributors are the members who decide what exactly is happening with the content that is being created within the outpost community.

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It is also decentralized. So that means there is no single point involved. It is also censorship. Resistant. No one can sense that the content apart from its members and what most important there's no technical, uh no technic, no technicality needed um in order to use it. So no developer skills and anyone can go in and just create a decentralized website in a few and easy steps.

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um Now let me dive in a couple of more details in terms of those four four points, so self-government organization. What exactly it means it means it's um alternative to the today's commercial control mechanism.

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So what exactly um alpres is offering operas is offering uh uh you know um it combines three different technologies. One technology behind it is ipfs for storage services, but also ens for the domains, but also as well. The dow and the dao in this case is actually presented as a str.

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um So ens and ipfs technologies are the core technologies behind the um behind the the opera's project.

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uh Censorship resistance is, is actually another powerful tool that is being utilized um and alphas is decentralized to the extent ens and ipfs technologies are decentralized. So no one can really censor the content of all press. Apart from their members.

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Voting by a tower and now can be voted within two different models: either voted by the community or by the appointed members.

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um What most important as well is that anyone can use it, and it's really so easy to to create an account within the hours. All you need is just quick access to the metamask via the metamask wallet, in order to complete couple of simple transactions, and the registration process is really really easy.

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I would like to ask my fellow friends mohammed, to give you a demo how actually the output looks like and how it feels.

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uh Let me let me uh again express what is all press one more time as as uh my friend chris did so I'll press, the decentralized self governing publication platform. uh Anyone can be an author and publish their articles in the system, and users can be anonymous while doing that and.

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The reader can reach.

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Those articles and read them without having an account oppresses, consists of two main parts. uh The first one is a distance like web application based on uns, pns and ipfs. As you see in here, it actually comes from ipfs gateway and, uh and the second part is the dao.

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It stands for the centralized autonomous organization, so it's like a sort of a decentralized business model and let's use also users of all press to govern any idea assets or decisions by giving them a voting power, and this is the part which transforms outpress to self-governing organizations simply with built-in self-moderation mechanism, and today I will only double you.

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The web application parts from the point of regular web user just looks like a traditional web application, as you can see, but the main difference is nothing belong to the all press runs on any centralized server means the application. Request goes only to ipfs and ethereum nodes, no analytics, no tracking trackings involved with it uh to interact with the application. uh Each users needs uh just a wallet and currently- uh and unfortunately, we only support metamask at this stage and uh the user needs some test. Ethereum uh uh tester um ether.

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Simply for uh account purchase and if anyone wants to try it trade out, I can. I can try to be helpful about that. uh Login and registration is done over a simple button. If you already have an account, the application will take you to your account and if not, you will be welcomed with registration, wizard and currently in here I created a one account for ipfs and I have to test it in here and when I click the connect, because I don't have any account, it will just take me.

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uh Each user has a username as we call it handle the handles. Are the subdomains and the usernames in the platform it's unique for each user and every account can have only one handle users uh can reach their profile via handle, that's uh I'll press that t-e-t-h or e-t-h or e-d-h-dot link for future. Currently we are just using ens on the rinke by test nets, so it's not available for public.

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Yet um so um so you can see the uh like, you can see if you, uh the handle you want to take, is already taken by someone or not like this by simply querying the blockchain, and if, if it's not, you can go and buy it, and for this demo I will buy ipfs21.

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Here you fill your auto information. Those information doesn't have to be correct, we'll leave it for your needs or to your imagination. I will just call it ipfs and I will pick your logo.

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Let's get this community look call it like that.

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And after filling it uh we are just signing up and metamask pops up. We just confirm the transaction, it may say it may take some time and when it's done, we will be signed into our.

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Accounts yeah, uh we're already, you know account now, uh but because we don't have any published articles, uh we we just see one one single button to create a new blog post, and uh now I'm going. I just want to copy one of the ipf's blog post into this into the editor, and I have one in here.

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This is a built-in rich text editor. So you can do uh the similar things as you do in any uh modern like documentation, editor simply it lets. You do pretty much everything.

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And let's copy an image.

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And the contents.

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So you have like both inline tool and uh separated tool. You can use pretty much anywhere and now we are ready to publish- and this is our first publication or the press.

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Soon we want to eliminate this multiple transactions via ipns, so we don't have to update the our ens content hash each time, because the the how it works is simply uh whenever we publish something we generate a new content hash and update the ens uh with the transactions. We don't want to do that after the registration and as you can see, this is our first first block and when I go inside, it's just a regular block- and uh this is our profile simply ipfs21 I'll press, the th.

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It may take some time for the first scionic.

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Yes, interestingly, so.

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So that's yeah. Actually I don't wanna, I don't wanna take uh more time.

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I can. I can share the image later when when the profile is sent, so it's pretty much this.

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Anybody hear me.

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Yes, so would you like to share it later sorry.

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Yeah I was, I was expecting that it's going to be uh fast sideways, but it seems like it's somehow stuck or I can. I can simply while just sharing my screen I can. I can show uh like this.

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For another testing account from today, I can just jump in and open the profile, and at least you can see how it looks like.