Town

[marcusquinn]

One to watch for decentralised (you’d hope spying and censorship-proof) community building:

• https://x.com/townsxyz
• https://www.towns.com/
• https://blog.towns.com/in-community-we-trust

Every message on Towns is end-to-end encrypted so you can speak freely and know that your messages are protected.

[privsec]

Ooh this is sexy

[BrutalBirdie]

I like it

[marcusquinn]

TBH nothing will be secure from it's operating systems or browsers spying, but anything that decentralises databases is a step in the right direction from being cancelled by some arbitrary host.

[LoudLemur]

@marcusquinn The documentation seems to have nothing on how the river protocol on which it runs handles spam. This is a crucial concern for a communications platform like this, and a difficult problem to solve.

CAPTCHAs might be one way, but even these are defeated by AI nowadays.

[g66lol]

Wish it ran on something like Veilid instead of blockchain.

[timconsidine]

Love the concept but I don’t understand the relevance or role of being “on chain”

[marcusquinn]

@LoudLemur Maybe just with the usual settings on whether to allow DMs from people you don't know, or not. All systems are going to require some amount of human mods.

[marcusquinn]

@timconsidine so that there's no single central database that could be taken down

[marcusquinn]

@g66lol open-source, so post your thoughts in their git repo to see if they'll debate that

[murgero]

Essentially open source, decentralized discord clone? I like it.

[g66lol]

@marcusquinn My experience is that blockchain folks aren't interested in anything other than blockchain. Even worse if I come in there talking about something that is actively hostile towards blockchain (as Veilid is).

[marcusquinn]

@g66lol Don't know anything about Veilid, but yeah, definitely some we-know-best vibes. Creators prerogative, I guess.