Decentralised Zotero

What Logos is doing needs a foundation of education, to make people understand that there are alternatives to democracy and historical examples of parallel societies.

Books and other material on those subjects need to be easily accessible to educate people. Censorship-resistance is important to ensure access to the literature.
So is privacy.

BitTorrent is not good enough for this purpose. While it enables access to literature, the cataloging still needs to be done out-of-band (aka, finding magnet links or torrent files). The DHT search helps in this matter, but one can only look for individual files and collections. Mutability is not an option here.

Solution

A concept of library, where one, or several, users can curate a “library” of documents. The link to the library can still happen out-of-band, but the library itself should be mutable.
So that owners can add to the library, or even accept suggestions from users. Meaning once a “link” to a library is shared, it remains valid forever.

A function to “search” library, similar to DHT search, could be useful, but not a day one blocker.

Ideally, the application to use is a one-click-install, probably using Logos Core. So that a user can just install one app, use a library link and get the files from Codex. Coordination most likely can happen over Waku. No web page + installer script should be needed.

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@fryorcraken, I cannot tell you how much I love this idea. I would pay good money for such an application, even for a personal use case. For Logos, this would be amazing.

I use Zotero regularly. Having an app built on Codex with Waku coordination would be legit. However, the app would need solid UI and UX and have all the same and/or better features, especially all of the citation capability.