[zahlman]

> decentralized local-first social network that is based on git and plain text files.

Nice! This sounds just like what I'd been thinking the system should be like.

But how do you manage identity/authentication , or discovery of other users?

[dharmatech]

> how do you manage discovery of other users

Here's my personal profile on 9social:

https://github.com/dharmatech/9social-user-dharmatech

Each profile has a `following` file which shows who they're following:

https://github.com/dharmatech/9social-user-dharmatech/blob/m...

So, once you know someone on the network (now you know me!) you can see who they follow. And who each of them follow... And so on.

[dharmatech]

> how do you manage identity/authentication

Well, each user's profile is just a git repository (possibly on github). So I'd think about identity/authentication in the same way users think about it for their code projects.

If you have specific scenarios you're wondering about, feel free to ask.

[dharmatech]

> Nice! This sounds just like what I'd been thinking the system should be like.

Cool! Thanks for checking it out!