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Fiatjaf/nostr – a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter
This is not censorship resistant. Relays are external points of centralization. For all intents and purposes, they are federated service providers -- central services that can deplatform users by simply choosing not to syndicate their messages. Over time this will result in all relays being compromised by state adversaries. Legitimate "free speech" relays will be removed from the internet via ddos, legal complaints, and just general nuisance complaints that the SPLC and other organizations excel in. Both domain names, ARIN/RIPE/etc IP assignments, and BGP peering relationships are historically subject to revocation via a loud chorus of complainers when the speakers are politically unpersoned. Original nodes will then be replaced with adversarial ones -- sometimes on the same now-reassigned IPs or domain names that were taken from the original operators.
This could be reasonably censorship resistant if the first place people checked for the updates of users they follow was a hidden service that is innate to every client. Ricochet Refresh and Bisq are great models of this -- every messenger or trader client launches a local daemon accessible only by a hidden service that corresponds as its identity. Any kind of relay or pub system needs to be an offline-only gossip protocol that is only checked if the publisher's hidden service is inaccessible.
Secondly, this just does not scale, at all. The twitter firehouse is petabytes of content a day. If even a single city adopted this and used it like people do Twitter, running relays would be a financially and logistically significant enterprise. This is obviously nonviable. There are great ways for lowering the cost of UGC, namely serving it on some sort of DHT. You could use BitTorrent, or you could use IPFS. You are using neither, which means you haven't done basic napkin math on what being a Twitter alternative would mean.
But basically a real useful and actually decentralized and censorship resistant protocol would not be dependent on pubs or relays. If you want to contribute to something in development which actually has a viable model, I recommend Identia: https://github.com/iohzrd/identia
This proposed service has not confronted a single one of the actual problems of censorship or centralization in the subset of social media. You maybe should actually talk with people who have done significant anti-censorship work and ask them what the actual problems are and what needs to be done to solve them.
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WebRTC TipXmr Idea
Other things that might be worth looking into: Nostr for comms https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
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Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email
nostr (https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr) seems to be a minimal possible solution. It doesn't seem to be much in use though, so I guess once that happens a few issues will come up.
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Facebook to allow calls for violence against Putin
Nostr [1] seems interesting. I don't trust the idea of "relays" on the long term but it seems like it should be possible to develop alternative ways to distribute the content, and it can be a way to bootstrap the network in the short term. Though at this moment it seems a bit too bare-bones, and it would need some interesting application built on top of it to make it usable.
[1] https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
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Towards a Greater Federated Architecture: What does a next-gen Fediverse platform look like? How features might help the network move forward?
https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr comes to mind as so far the best example of p2p social networking.
- In This Environment, I Don't Think We Can Have Decentralized Media Without Bitcoin
- /u/Mark_Bear reddit account suspended. What happened? He was one of the most frequent commenters on this subreddit and seemed to know what he was talking about regarding Bitcoin.
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Ask HN: Getting Started with Web3 Development
I don’t know if this is the answer you’re looking for because it’s not tied to a cryptocurrency but take a look at nostr: https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
It’s a protocol that allows nodes to gossip event messages amongst each other. The event relays can be used as a backend to provide data to your web/desktop/mobile apps.
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The Nostr Protocol - NIP01
Nostr stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". It is a new type of social experience on the web where "dumb" relays can be used to send messages from one user to another, in a secure, censorship resistant manner.
- Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter
- nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working
What are some alternatives?
gmpublisher - ⚙️ Workshop Publishing Utility for Garry's Mod, written in Rust & Svelte and powered by Tauri
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
rsslay - A Nostr relay that creates profiles from RSS or Atom feeds and emits items as Nostr events
LibreSignal - LibreSignal • The truly private and Google-Free messenger for Android.
orbitdb - Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web
Signal-Server - Server supporting the Signal Private Messenger applications on Android, Desktop, and iOS
FreeShow - FreeShow is a free and open-source, user-friendly presenter software.
synapse-admin - Admin console for synapse Matrix homeserver
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working
Peergos - A p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol
ipfs - Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol