Recreate the newspaper layout using a Query block

Some users asked me how they can create the deprecated Newspaper layout now that there's no option to have it. here's a small video showing you how you can recreate it with the Query block. Feel free to ask any questions or feedback in the discussions panel! 👉 Thanks and hope this helps!

Collaborating on the Web with Seed Hypermedia and IPFS

We’re building the Seed Hypermedia Protocol — a decentralized protocol for authorship, versioned publishing, and intellectual collaboration. It’s built on top of IPFS and libp2p, and carries forward many of the same principles that inspired IPFS itself: content addressing, verifiability, and peer-to-peer distribution. However, where IPFS focuses on the storage and addressing layer, the Hypermedia Protocol addresses the upper layers of structured collaboration, enabling people to write, discuss, and update documents over time in a decentralized yet cohesive manner. Core Foundations We leverage IPFS for distribution and storage while building structure, authorship, and collaboration on top. A dynamic knowledge base discussing an Urban Plan in Spain If you're curious about how this all works, visit explore.hyper.media/list — a live view into the content-addressed building blocks of Hypermedia Sites, served directly over IPFS. To start participating in the peer-to-peer web, download the Seed Hypermedia app at https://download.seed.hyper.media/. Publish your own website, collaborate with peers, and take control of your digital presence — all without relying on centralized platforms. Latest Highlights For a deeper dive into our progress, check out seed.hyper.media/blog Let’s build a better web — one where knowledge is created, shared, and permanently preserved — The Seed Hypermedia team seed.hyper.media

About Mintter (now Seed hypermedia)

This article was published in mintter.com in 2020, now seedhypermedia.com Explore the frontiers of knowledge together Mintter is a decentralized knowledge collaboration application for open communities powered by a knowledge graph. Why Mintter? Humans need better collaboration and thought tools to solve ever more complex problems. However, the goal of most content companies today, basically social media or click-bait media, is to generate advertising by competing for our attention through emotional manipulation. More than ever, the public sphere has become a platform for advertising instead of a platform for constructive dialogue and critical debate. Conversations are fragmented, divisive, and plagued with disinformation, leading us to polarization. An example of how the world of publishing works nowadays: An epidemiologist expert writes an article about COVID-19 in your city's online newspaper. Many people will read it. Some trolls will comment on the article, and others will share it through a messenger app, igniting heated conversations. The expert's knowledge will slowly fade away without any educative reviews, challenging responses, or other informative perspectives. No one will learn anything—the policymakers, the audience, or even the author. The article will become another failed opportunity for society to solve a complex problem. The main drawback is the actual silence of the expert, which will shy away from all the noise. The social dialogue that brings learning and progress to society is impossible with current digital tools. Decentralized knowledge collaboration In Mintter, we believe a decentralized knowledge collaboration network can spark human cooperation to solve our most challenging problems. Decentralized access and participation The application uses decentralized identity with public key cryptography instead of any logins. Decentralized identity allows users to sign their content and maintain their attribution in a network of computers without needing a central server; consequently, other users can reuse content while keeping the original authorship. A computer network stores the user's information, providing open access to permanent and immutable information through a DAG of changes.-- we use IPFS Framework. Users can connect to the network without asking permission and contribute to the existing knowledge base or public conversations. Immutable intertwingled knowledge We have developed a decentralized knowledge graph that allows users to change their content on top of an immutable set of changes inspired by the version control system git. Content immutability gives confidence to the knowledge experts that they can work on others' author work without the common web broken links. This versionable knowledge graph based on CRDTs brings about the uncensorship character of Mintter, as the collaboration happens without a central server by allowing peer-to-peer direct human interactions. We also provide a complete set of hypertext properties, such as fine-grained linking, transclusion, visible connections, parallel pages, and hierarchical documents, allowing the software to express and play how humans think and collaborate. Also, a star-structured discussion functionality brings the system a whole discussion experience. Open collaboration Build your knowledge open communities: for tech discussions across your development community, for academics, their group's discussions, and for public servants to have their open deliberation. Mintter makes your ideas exponential through a better collaboration dialogue within your community, with syncable and signed libraries of material that produce unique knowledge bases. Tech Stack We are building an application, a protocol, and a decentralized network for content creation and publishing for which we lean heavily on libp2p and IPFS. We derive significant inspirations from SSB, Dat, BitTorrent, and other P2P protocols. We like the great possibilities of the gossip protocol together with the nature of social connections. The backend is in Go. The frontend is in TypeScript with React, and for the Editor, we are using Slate JS. Who are we We are a team of four founders, Alex, Gabriel, Julio and Horacio, passionate about innovation, social progress, and open protocols. Previously, we have created socks, advertising, solar, and sustainable mobility companies. We are committed to many open-source software projects, education, and mentoring. We work remotely, and we come from distant places in the world: Iberia, Siberia, and Central America. We are always looking for nomads all over the world to become part of the Mintter Revolution. Building a Team We are a small team with a strong vision and highly execution-oriented capacity. We work remotely and asynchronously. We are technologists, always fascinated by the latest technologies out there. We are looking for people that share our vision and our strong feeling of purpose in building a critical collective intelligence through reliable, collaborative networks of knowledge. If you feel inspired by our mission, please, we would love you to contact us team@mintter.com .

How to create your custom Auto-update system for your Electron App

TLDR: here's the codebase if you want to jump ahead and copy/paste on your app: https://github.com/seed-hypermedia/seed/blob/main/frontend/apps/desktop/src/auto-update.ts Building a reliable auto-update system is a game-changer. In today's fast-paced tech world, keeping your Electron app current is essential. Users expect seamless updates with minimal disruption. In this post, I share my journey to build a custom auto-update system and detail every step. Why auto-updates is important? At Seed Hypermedia, we are commited to give the best App Experience to all users in all platforms, that's why we decided to build a custom auto-update process for our Linux users. First Attempt: Flatpak and Flathub Second Attempt: Custom Auto-update Implementing IPC Handlers in Electron Integrating UI Components for the Update Process Code Integration and Testing Debugging and Troubleshooting Best Practices for a Seamless Auto-update Experience Future Enhancements and Customizations Code Walkthrough and Customization Tips Recap: The Journey of Building a Custom Auto-update System Final Thoughts and Conclusion

Why we need to save the web

Everybody is online now, and we can’t afford to compromise the way we communicate, share, and learn. Because Archival is a Right and a Responsibility To Own your identity For Ethical Remixing and References To Connect and Collaborate without Gatekeepers For Monetization without Big AdTech Robust Reputation Systems We Need a Rights System

From Mintter to Seed: What has changed?

We launched our first version in September 2023. Since then, we’ve had hundreds of conversations with the community, gathering invaluable feedback to improve our decentralized publishing system—where users genuinely own and control their content. We are rebranding Mintter to Seed Hypermedia. We believe this name better encapsulates what we are trying to achieve together. Thanks to feedback from this community, we have identified critical areas for improvement: better collaboration, clear document ownership, and enhancements to the user interface. To provide this experience, we needed to re-design our data model and architecture. We've worked hard for the past few months on a bold new iteration of our product. Building a p2p system with collaboration and cryptography is one of the most challenging problems we have ever encountered. The web should be our medium of thinking and cooperation. But today's web is deeply flawed, so we are deeply committed to crafting the tools that will allow this community to save the web! Multiple Accounts Subscriptions and Syncing We removed Groups and doubled down on Sites and permissions

How to migrate Mintter to Seed Desktop App

If you are a very early user, you might still be using Mintter. You need to migrate your Mintter Account to your Seed Account. These are the steps: