Iroh & Willow interop

[erlend-sh]

Related: #366, #418

Willow presents a private, local-first alternative to the ‘middle (and muddled) way’ of ActivityPub’s ‘federated towns’ and Bluesky’s ‘big network’.

Iroh is implementing Willow: n0-computer/iroh#2231

It could facilitate this sort of thing: https://hypha.coop/dripline/social-reader-is-out/

[aumetra]

Tbh, looking at the spec, this seems more like something fit for IPFS or, of course, iroh, where the main goal is to store data (like, for example, a data storage layer).

While I don't think that this is actionable as a federation protocol, I think we can at least in the future leverage iroh as a storage layer. But that also has to be evaluated whether it gives a big advantage.

I haven't read too much into iroh, but if it ensures that files with the same hashes are deduplicated across the network, it could result in nice savings for admins.