Strypey on Nostr: The vision of a serverless, purely P2P social network app is an enticing one. Every ...
The vision of a serverless, purely P2P social network app is an enticing one. Every few years there's a new attempt; FreeNet, Diaspora, Tox, Scuttlebutt, Aether, etc, now Veiled.
None has ever been used beyond a subculture of tinkerers. Because there are deep technical problems with making it work well, due to the way the net is currently plumbed together. See;
'The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle'
https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
(4/4)
None has ever been used beyond a subculture of tinkerers. Because there are deep technical problems with making it work well, due to the way the net is currently plumbed together. See;
'The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle'
https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
(4/4)