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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
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<meta name="color-scheme" content="dark light" />
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<title>Blasta / questions</title>
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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/graphic/blasta.svg"/>
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<link rel='icon' type='image/svg+xml' href='/graphic/blasta.svg'/>
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<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='screen' href='/stylesheet/stylesheet.css'/>
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<script src="/script/regulator.js" />
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</head>
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<body>
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<div id="container">
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<div id="header" class="row">
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<h1>
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<img src="/graphic/blasta.svg"/>
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<a href="/">
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Blasta
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</a>
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/
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<a href="/help">
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help
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</a>
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/ questions
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</h1>
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<dl id="navigation">
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<dd>
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<a href="/">
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<img alt="Main"
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src="/graphic/blasta.svg"/>
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</a>
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</dd>
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{% if jabber_id %}
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<dd>
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<a href="/save">Add</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="/jid">Public</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="/private">Private</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="/read">Read</a>
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</dd>
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{% endif %}
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<dd>
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<a href="/search{% if jabber_id %}/jid/{{jabber_id}}{% endif %}">Search</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="/popular">Popular</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="/recent">Recent</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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{% if jabber_id %}
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<a href="/disconnect">Disconnect</a>
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{% else %}
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<a href="/connect">Connect</a>
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{% endif %}
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</dd>
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</dl>
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</div>
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<div id="main" class="row">
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<div id="content">
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<h2>
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<img alt="💡" src="/graphic/xmpp.svg" width="18" height="18"/>
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PubSub bookmarks
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</h2>
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<p>
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» Queries about Blasta.
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</p>
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<h3>
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Questions
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</h3>
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<p>
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This document enumerates questions that were referred to the
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project Blasta.
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</p>
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<h4 id="what-is-jid">
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What is JID and what does it mean?
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</h4>
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<p>
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JID is an abbreviation of Jabber ID.
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</p>
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<p>
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A Jabber ID is the address of your XMPP account with which
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Blasta identifies you.
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</p>
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<h4 id="what-is-instance-keyword">
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What is the instance:keyword method?
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</h4>
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<p>
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The method instance:keyword is a practice which improves
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bookmarks organizing, archiving, filtering and searching, as
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it narrows the context of a given bookmark, and therefore
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improves <a href="/help/about/folksonomy">Folksonomy</a>
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practices.
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</p>
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<p>
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Suppose you have two bookmarks; one is related to
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maintenance and removal of rust, while the other is related
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to the computer language which is called rust.
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</p>
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<p>
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To make the tagging more efficient for you and others, the
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bookmark which is related to maintenance be tagged with
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"rust" and "tutorial:maintenance", while the bookmark which
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is related to computer language rust be tagged with
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"code:rust".
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</p>
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<h4 id="why-blasta">
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Why did you create Blasta?
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</h4>
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<p>
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We have created Blasta out of necessity.
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</p>
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<p>
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We have felt that there are no viable solutions that would
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provide a sensible management of URis, and also a mean to
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share URIs.
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</p>
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<p>
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We are well aware of project YaCy which indeed provides
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exactly what we desire, yet, the interface that is provided
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by YaCy does not fulfill the interface which we have
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determined to be fit for the cause, and which would be fit
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with certain functionalities that we deemed to be necessary.
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</p>
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<p>
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We also wanted a system that would be independent and in
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current sync, and we have decided that XMPP is the perfect
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platform for this task.
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</p>
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<p>
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Hence, we have created Blasta, which is a combination of
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YaCy and Shaarli, and is built on top of XMPP.
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</p>
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<h4 id="why-free">
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Why do you provide Blasta for free?
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</h4>
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<p>
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While we want to make profit, and feed our wives and
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children, we are aware that we must be providing the Blasta
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system for free, because this is a matter of urgency; and
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</p>
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<p>
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Because some people do bad things, such as attempting to
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centralize the internet, and revoke privacy, which is
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crucial; and
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</p>
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<p> We can not afford to have another centralized service which
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later becomes clandestinely subdued to thugs from government
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or intelligence, which is the worst of all circumstances.
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</p>
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<h4 id="perspective">
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What is your perspective?
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</h4>
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<p>
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Our perspective is that people should be living for the sake
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of eternity, which is what we are doing by creating and
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distributing Blasta.
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</p>
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<p>
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As conveyed in verse 77 of Hávamál
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</p>
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<p class="quote" title="“Deyr fé, deyja frændr, deyr sjalfr it sama, ek veit einn, at aldrei deyr: dómr um dauðan hvern.”">
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“Kinsmen die, and cattle die and so must one die oneself;
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<br/>
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But there is one thing I know which never dies,
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<br/>
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and that is the fame of a dead man deeds.”
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<br/>
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― Hávamál: Sayings of the High One
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</p>
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<p>
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The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer expressed
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essentially the same idea when he said, that
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</p>
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<p class="quote">
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“The very most any man can hope for:
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<br/>
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Is a heroic passage through life.”
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<br/>
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― Arthur Schopenhauer
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</p>
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<p>
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To explain it in other words:
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</p>
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<p>
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Greatness, rather than happiness, is
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<span class="instances-degree-first">
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the mark of a good life
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</span>
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​
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.
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</p>
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<p>
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Live for the sake of eternity, for the past, and towards the
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future.
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</p>
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<h4 id="why-xmpp">
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Why did you choose XMPP as a platform?
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</h4>
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<p>
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The <a href="/help/about/xmpp">XMPP</a> platform (which is
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also known as Jabber), is a reputable and a strong
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telecommunication platform which almost every intelligence
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and militant agency on the world is making use of as a
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premier telecommunication mean.
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</p>
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<p>
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Because we did not want to use databases, which sometimes
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are too complicated for most of the people who are
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interested in sharing links publicly and privately, we have
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determined that XMPP would be the best choice for this task.
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</p>
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<p>
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XMPP was chosen as a platform, because it is a standard and
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it is extensible; it has all the features that are necessary
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to integrate other standardised mechanisms to store data
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which does not necessarily has to require a database (e.g.
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SQLite); XMPP provides exactly that, whether we want to make
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use of Atom Syndication Format and even JSON, if at all
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needed.
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</p>
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<p>
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So we chose the specification XEP-0060:
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<a href="/help/about/xmpp/pubsub">Publish-Subscribe</a>
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(PubSub) as a base mechanism for a data storage platform.
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</p>
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<p>
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In addition to it, XMPP offers a robust and stable mechanism
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of storing of contents, on both XMPP and HTTP, and more, or
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even most, importantly, the PubSub mechanism of XMPP is
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truely private and is truely owned by the account owner,
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which is also a major advantage to Blasta, not only for the
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sake of privacy and data integrity, but also for an
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immediate recovery of the bookmarks sharing system, if the
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Blasta database would be to diappear or should be
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restructured anew.
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</p>
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<p>
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Use XMPP. Spread XMPP. Be XMPP.
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</p>
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<h4 id="other-platforms">
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What platform would you choose if not XMPP?
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</h4>
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<p>
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If we were to choose another platfom, it probably would have
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been DeltaChat (SMTP and IMAP), Nostr or Session.
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</p>
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<h4>
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Why did you decide to make Blasta open source?
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</h4>
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<p>
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One of the main reasons is for freedom to thrive.
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</p>
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<p>
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We are worried due to various of PsyOps that are being
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conducted by governments, military and intelligence
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agencies, and we realize that most of their success relies
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on the centralization of information hubs; and
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</p>
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<p>
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We are further worried of the awful measures that are being
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dictated by HTML browser vendors, who distort the original
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intentions and expectations for the internet, that were
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presented to the public during the 90's, and instead these
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vendors are
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<a href="https://openrss.org/blog/browsers-should-bring-back-the-rss-button">
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conspiring</a> to make people to forget about the existance
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of crucial technologies such as
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<a href="https://camendesign.com/blog/rss_is_dying">
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syndication</a> and XSLT, and they are also committing
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crimes against people, and the worst of all crimes is of
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attempting to revoke the privacy of people.
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</p>
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<p>
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Hence, we have decided that it is crucial to make a resource
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sharing platform to utilize standards that can be utilized
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outside of browsers, and
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</p>
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<p>
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We have further decided to make Blasta available in an open
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source form, that would allow public examining and auditing
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of the mechanism that Blasta offers, including
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<a href="/help/about/philosophy#trust">gaining the trust of
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people</a> by showcasing that the data is truely private,
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and that the data is truely owned by the people, and that
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the data is backed by true standards.
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</p>
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<p class="quote">
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“No reason to explain this. It is absolutely insane to
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use a software to browse the internet of which source
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code is not publicly auditable.”
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―
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<a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/every-web-browser-absolutely-sucks/#free-and-open-source-software">
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Luke Smith
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</a>
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</p>
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<h4 id="logic">
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Does Blasta deploy ECMAScript (JavaScript)
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</h4>
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<p>
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Yes. Blasta utilizes ECMAScript in order to confine the
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client version activity to itself. This will be changed in
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near future, once pywebview will have a more extensive
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support for intercepting HTTP requests.
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</p>
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<!-- p>
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Blasta does not make any use of ECMAScript.
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</p -->
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<p>
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We have decided not to use unecessary components nor "toxic"
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features that would compromise the intended experience that
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Blasta attempts to offer, neither waste power resources on
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your end for no just reason, nor to compromise your privacy.
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</p>
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<p>
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To compensate this, Blasta is designed in a fashion that
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would make it easier to customize appearance and
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functionality with <a href="/help/utilities#greasemonkey">
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userscripts and userstyles</a>.
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</p>
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<h4 id="conclusion">
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Conclusion
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</h4>
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<p>
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Please <a href="/contact">contact us</a> and ask us
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anything. We will be happy to read from you!
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</p>
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<br/>
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<p class="quote bottom">
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“Trust is the basis for social value and self-organisation,
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but technical assurances are what help make it trustworthy.”
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―
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<a href="https://nlnet.nl/assure/">
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NGI Assure
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</a>
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div id="footer" class="row">
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<dl>
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<dd>
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<img src="/graphic/blasta.svg" alt="logo"/>
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<a href="/">blasta</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="/help/about">about</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="/help/about/xmpp">xmpp</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="/help/about/xmpp/pubsub">pubsub</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="{{journal}}">journal</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="/help">help</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="/help/policy">policy</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="/help/feeds">rss</a>
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</dd>
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<dd>
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<a href="/contact">contact</a>
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</dd>
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</dl>
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</div>
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>
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