Lots of people are looking to build on a decentralized censorship-resistant platform that offers privacy, that is mesh, that is p2p, or uses blockchain, or is federated, or <pick your buzzword>.
Nostr clearly is in this space. But this thread is more general.
Signal is in this space and Moxie Marlinspike argued (5 years ago) in favor of centralization here:
I'm not going to argue against all his points, many of them are clearly constructed and wrong and not worth my time. But that video is what inspired this post.
I want to talk about high level ideas in this space, and clear up what I believe are common misconceptions. Since I'm going to write about lots of separate things I'll make sub-posts for each point.
Mike Dilger ☑️
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