Town
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One to watch for decentralised (you’d hope spying and censorship-proof) community building:
Every message on Towns is end-to-end encrypted so you can speak freely and know that your messages are protected.
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Ooh this is sexy
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I like it
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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.
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@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.
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Wish it ran on something like Veilid instead of blockchain.
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timconsidine App Devwrote on Sep 20, 2024, 9:39 AM last edited by timconsidine Sep 20, 2024, 9:39 AM
Love the concept but I don’t understand the relevance or role of being “on chain”
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@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.
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@timconsidine so that there's no single central database that could be taken down
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@g66lol open-source, so post your thoughts in their git repo to see if they'll debate that
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@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).
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@g66lol Don't know anything about Veilid, but yeah, definitely some we-know-best vibes. Creators prerogative, I guess.
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