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Good day @HODL

Global Data storage:
I am using Arweave. I would like to scale it to other storage layer, such as BTTC.
I have a long term plan to integrate it with external cloud providers, such as Google Drive, DropBox - which would allow users to have their own private Library extension with their private collection. But that’s down the line probably next year.

User data:

Currently, it uses a basic solidity contract that is still running on btCORE - I am currently in the process to rewrite it which will allow me to build a community leaderboard, and community traffic analytics.
I am planning to then integrate this new contract with the TRON Link Wallet , and start designing a multi crypto book club soon after.
So for example, I would have the TRON book club: all users using the TRON network
And the btCORE book club: All user using the btCORE network.

I understand it can seem a lot. I either need to hire someone full time who has multi skills in community development, design and capable to initiate partnerships with governments and private corporation sponsors and teachers for early adoption, and pilot programs.
Or maybe 3 part time people who only have one skill.
I also believe that cheap doesn’t necessarily means bad - but being realistic, the best people are not cheap, and I need the best to succeed.
I have done some marketing study on facebook on my own last year, and I found that there is some potential with targeted advertising on social media to bring traffic and followers. The conversion rate was about 2x more than the average. And I am really not that great at doing marketing campaign & design.

I also need to live, I have been doing this full time for the last 5 years, and I do live under the poverty threshold - when I used to have a FANG like salary few years ago. No Complain - I prefer to wake up in the morning with the feeling I am doing the right thing . And no money on earth can buy this feeling. But I still need to eat and pay rent.

Please be patient, right now, 100% of my attention is on this really complex solidity contract - I am learning assembly right now to save gaz… I hope to get the first iteration of that document done for you by the end of next week.

Thank you!
It is a lifetime project, which I am planning to do it until the end - whatever the cost.

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Reading your whole reply sounds fictional in every sense of the word, and to cap it all off, the photo with the monk in the garden is giving futuristic vibes, now I’ve to take my time to check out the website again.

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Please take your time and keep building. We are here to look into the details when ready.

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Ahah, and that one might not be fiction in a few months time. I believe I have the right as a monk to work on a computer - when the goal is to spread Buddhism. Which can align with the cult version of the Library. But first I have to finalize the common trunk.

I see the cult version of the LIbrary as

  • A separate domain name & branding
  • Maybe some centralization ( crypto is still seen by many communities as being too linked with gambling - which might turn off spiritual leaders)
  • A place for monks to add new theological content, and maybe integrate some AI for auto-translation of sacred text
  • May the monks need an extra functionality for their community, I will implement it.
  • I am also thinking to add a requirement for a cult to join: They must provide valid non-spiritual content into the common trunk to qualify.

Then, once done well for one cult, I can roll it out for all the other cults. I might have to convert to several religion to be successful in this endeavor - which sounds exciting.

Anyone willing to be part of it is very welcome. I don’t mind becoming muslim, buddhist, christian, hindu or Jew - and live as a monk in each of those cults. But I believe there is an order to respect - because one of them is not that easy to depart from.

It will take some time, and when the universe allows it, I will have access to a university class later on where I can get students to participate in an university pilot of the Library. because they know better than me what they really need.

Not much a fiction, more of a personal journey. Although financially hard, the journey that lead me here has been rich in adventure and adrenaline.

TRON could benefits from being a support of this initiative, and get feedback from spiritual leaders later down the road.

Also for @HODL, may I get lucky to become monk by the end of the year, and get a TBL grant at the same time, I won’t have the right as a monk to touch money. ( which aligns with the D-Licence philosophy). I won’t have the spiritual right to be on a board of director, or be part of any business - therefor I believe that if D Library secure that Grant, nobody better than the donors themself should manage the allocation of funds, and the accounting. In that case, it would be the TRON foundation - or maybe a custom made business structure that fits with the vision of D Library.

Nobody did it before because it is both technically and legally hard.

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I see you’re quite focused on the spirituality that comes your religious preference, which in this case is Buddhism, what do you think of the Dalai Lama?
I read about him in high school, himself, Gandhi and Desmond Tutu of South Africa.

I read this to mean different forks and in such a situation, will each cult fork have its own on-chain governance?

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I don’t think much of him, because I never met him . although I know two people who have met him physically !
i think this is amazing that a man can recollect his memory across past life. Politically wise, about the place he represents, I really don’t have an opinion, because all I know about it is coming from western media - which is very often biased.

Gandhi is a legend :wink:

I believe that cults have their own governance, although I don’t really know the details, I think it is almost next to impossible to have their governance put on digital form. They are really old school.
It won’t be a fork. Just a theme, and all references to the original name removed PLUS an admin section for the tech savvy members of the cult who want to suggest new content to the common trunk, and also manage the content of their members only section.

The D-Safe label forbids all spiritual content, because this can be a divisive subject, and right now, we all need a global source of knowledge that is ethical and sustainable for the environment.
However, a cult member section allow those communities to access spiritual content tailored to their beliefs, that is managed by their community leader. It is hard for me to imagine how that would work in detail, this is why I need to get inside, and ask directly the leaders what they need.

I don’t know much about Desmond Tutu, but I do admire Nelson Mandela! I met one of his jail guard while he was in Jail. I met him in Cape Town. The two became friend, and the man became one of his ministers after he got released from jail! Truth story! He wrote a book about it.

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Same as me but I watched quite a hand few of his videos and I’m convinced he’s examplary if and when the discussion is about purity :lotus: in holiness.

Arch bishop Desmond Tutu is a 1/1 only if you could just read about, then we don’t have leaders over in Africa cut from the same cloth as Madiba, he’s every African child’s hero.

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I just did.

I like every part of what he is teaching. I don’t really have the right, as a D-representative to give my opinion, or share my belief, because it could reflect in the original content of D Library, being biased toward an ethnic group, or community rather than pure merit.

All I can say about my personal opinion is that I believe in God(s), Reincarnation and time travel.

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Is there a slight chance we could see the library and it’s content in other languages tho?

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Yes, definitely.

Version 6 that I released about 3 years ago had native I18n support embedded in the data structure itself.

Now it’s v9. And v6 has been buried deep.

The only blocker I have is that I need books in other languages too, and for this, I need to develop a community in that language.

For example, if I translate the Library in Thai, I have some people ready to help me, correcting Google translate mistakes for the topic names and the UI. But the books will still be in English.

I need Librarians in other languages ready to invest some time compiling a collection of books I can distribute for free without breaking any law.

I personally don’t believe English is the best language to represent Sustainable eco-friendly development . But this is all I have right now…

Anyone who feel like become a green hero in their native language are more than welcome to contact me, and I will get a translation ready for them.

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You hit the nail on the head with this statement, to eliminate any form of bias, I think it’d be fair to expand beyond English as a language to reach various regions like Asia and Latin for instance, Africa too, with so many diverse languages.

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We are definitely on the same page.

I have been thinking to use AI to possibly translate English content into other language.
But then, that would break the D-Safe label, that stipulate that AI generated content is not allowed. I could play on the words and reformulate the D-Safe label to say that AI translation is acceptable - only when verified by the community.

We could even imagine an exam to test students with an exercise of the type: “Find the translation errors of this book”, and those who find them all could get an unofficial certification of Sustainable translator - or something like this.

I don’t know yet how to address this problem.

There is also the fact that most indigenous tribes I got lucky to learn from - are not into reading & writing that much. They have an immense knowledge and wisdom, but prefer to use traditional (and also effective) methods to pass their knowledge to the next generation.

AI made such an extraordinary progress in the field of translation - that it could be safe to get it to translate original content into other well supported language without risking too much hallucination.

I also don’t want to be mean to the amazing English speaking Authors - some of whom are real legends - and devoted their life to promote sustainable practices in their country - which is quite hard in every country around the globe - and not that financially rewarding.

And yes, I believe too that the future of sustainable development is in Africa, south America and Asia - more than in the West - which is focused on synthetic alternatives and processed food - mainly because of their fascist type of government who takes orders from corporations - whose definition of sustainability is only trough the financial lense.
But let’s not forget that what we see in the media is just a small picture of the reality. In USA alone, there is a very large number of farmers who are legends in regenerative farming, it is just that the corporate media don’t give them any visible presence. Same thing in Europe, and the new generation is very much different than the baby boomer one. Everyone could learn from each other.

I have a personal roadmap for translation, because I love to live in Thailand, and I am amazed at that rich country heritage, and everyone there know their plants well - and they prove it by their actions and policies. I am also from a French background - and I am planning to get it done in French after the Thai version is done. But that’s me - and my experience since i started 5 years ago taught me that nothing goes as I plan - and that that my personal preferences often don’t matter: Translating to Thai then French is probably not going to happen in that order… which is fine :wink:

When anyone is feeling like going on a life adventure (And believe me - the day anyone steps in that mission fully - nature spirits will come and protect ) - Traveling, networking, collecting books and knowledge from elders - and become a local hero in that field, I am up for giving all the assistance I can, and take all the feedback they would need to make their journey easier.

This is a life journey for me, and I already chose to do it until the end. It is not easy - but what is the alternative?

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It’s quite commendable how you acknowledge the use of AI, I personally don’t use AI translation cause my device came preinstalled with “translate”, a tool that translates across different languages, effortlessly.

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I believe AI will ultimately get us all to become dumber & dumber.

For example:
People who use calculators a lot become less proficient doing mental Maths - because they don’t train their brain anymore, and they get to forget.

In the West, the new generation is now using AI to do homework for them, and there is nothing teachers can do. At the end of their high-school, it looks on paper that they are proficient, while in fact, that are far from it.

Soon, people will replace their brain and critical thinking with a machine designed and controlled by a corporation. And since corporations are driven by short term profits. AI will always prioritize the corporation interests above the user’s interests.

So for example, may I ask an AI how to make paper, it will direct me to a shop, instead of explaining me how to recycle existing paper. Then after few generations, the knowledge that it is possible to recycle paper will disappear , and only a few activists will remain with that knowledge. Of course, nobody will make the effort to ask them - when you have an AI on your phone (or inside your brain).

LLMs today are still in its infancy mode, and is only 3 years old. I am talking about a time that is soon to come.

This is why the D-Safe label forbids the use of AI generated content - so authentic knowledge stays untouched by corporate, political and financial interests.

This is the same reason why the D-Licence is Integral, and forbid the distribution of commercial content.

One direct consequence of those restrictions is that it removes the need for security.
Since there is no financial value stored anywhere in the Library, may it be trough the form of copyrights, tokens, and advertisements, there is no need to have an account - and therefor, it protects the identity of anyone visiting that space.

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This is a very thoughtful take, I share the exact same opinions, AI being a commercial resource where there’s free and premium subscription versions does more harm than good, cos imo with monetization comes destabilization.

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Let’s do it !

If I were to translate the Library in 3 new Languages for Africa, which ones should I start with?

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Swahili/Afrikaans - one of the widely used languages down here.
Then Ibibio/efik - a popular language in West Africa, Nigeria precisely.
And not forgetting the Ghanaian Twi.

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Do you’ve a twitter at all?
I had you in mind when I made this shout-out but idk your handle :backhand_index_pointing_down:t2:

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I do, but it is super inactive. https://x.com/data_pond

Thank you so much for supporting me, and sharing a similar vision.

I will start getting active to social media in the coming week, and start experiment with X ads to have solid estimates on conversions rates.

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And about free books and copyright free in those languages, is it something that is common?

What is your take on that? I am very ignorant about what is available.