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Cofounder of @bitsocialnet, peer-to-peer network for social apps, with no servers, no global bans, where users and communities are cryptographic property.

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New milestone has been achieved:

Full P2P node in the browser/mobile is has proven to work and soon to be deployed on plebbit-js. I just got a local browser node to load a comment P2P from the community node over WebSockets. End-to-end encrypted, no gateways or RPC involved!

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@NanoGPTcom Can this be on by default?

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@TheDRC_ @kelsiemvn Where can I buy its epub?

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@davidvfurlong Hey, I tried DM'ing you but couldn't get it to work for some reason. DM me please, I'm very interested in trying the demo

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@Livid For example, if cloudflare purges your photo then you can just post a new link in the thread. It would be annoying but not fatal in terms of censorship resistance

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all this talk on X about how the decentralized social dream is dead is dumb. Farcaster has never been a good attempt at it to begin with. For starters you needed to download the mobile app and pay $5 to sign up, can't even do that on your PC.

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@Livid I suppose their logic is censorship resistance of text is much more important than images, and also much cheaper to store text as well. We made that same choice and had our protocol be text-only because censorship resistance of images/video is not a high priority imo

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@PhiMarHal holy slop, this is why you should be very careful about financializing social apps

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@LefterisJP what do people who sit on governance boards do anyway? $700k is pretty sweet

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@PryvitKyle @zkDragon @VitalikButerin @scupytrooples @ncsgy @tkstanczak helia is great, we have an alternative version of seedit that loads all content in browser p2p, https://t.co/89z4YYuXmE

Needs more work on stability, but it's much faster than loading from ipfs gateways!

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@kateirwin why can't farcaster compete with bluesky? Farcaster has raised way more money and had a better chance of nailing deso.

If anything going full crypto and web3 has turned off web2 people off

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@riksucks strangely enough even with the centralized design the UX is still terrible. Seems like they combined the worst aspects of both decentralized and centralized systems

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@PhiMarHal @DefiIgnas Said something similar on https://t.co/kmPz58fS9h

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all this talk on X about how the decentralized social dream is dead is dumb. Farcaster has never been a good attempt at it to begin with. For starters you needed to download the mobile app and pay $5 to sign up, can't even do that on your PC.

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@0xdevelopera also it has 3.5m daily active users as of now which is not bad at all. They've got momentum

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@0xdevelopera I actually have both bluesky and farcaster and bluesky is way more usable and has better UX. Also lots of devs are building their own tools on top of it. Lots of labeling services for content too. It's a growing ecosystem. Recommend you check it out

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@Crypto_Jargon onboarding celebs wouldn't have fixed and they already got Vitalik shilling them. Their app sucked in terms of UX and it wasn't really decentralized so most people had no reason to move there. It was a good eth echochamber tho

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@0xdevelopera I don't think farcaster was a good attempt at deso though, wrote about it here https://t.co/kmPz58fkjJ

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all this talk on X about how the decentralized social dream is dead is dumb. Farcaster has never been a good attempt at it to begin with. For starters you needed to download the mobile app and pay $5 to sign up, can't even do that on your PC.

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Their team made really bizarre choices with their UX and alienated way too many users. Neutrality should be the core of any social media, even moreso for decentralized social media

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@ksaitor not getting it, is it location dependent?

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@NanoGPTcom @kilocode @eshurakov Pretty cool! Any other coding software I can use NanoGPT with?