Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media

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Post by rsgalloway » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 6:05 PM UTC

Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media
techcrunch.com

Re: Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media

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Post by DLA » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 6:33 PM UTC

From https://capsule.social "Capsule is a decentralized social media solution where each user hosts their own microservice. These lightweight, user friendly and secure microservices then connect to one another in a mesh design, allowing users to follow one another and share their posts."

Love this idea. Simple concept. Should scale, save for the tail cases 1:huge N followers, but that's solvable with caches/proxies. Hope for the decentralized web free from the grip of the Big Tech elites.

Re: Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media

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Post by smt88 » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 6:39 PM UTC

DLA wrote: post #2

From https://capsule.social "Capsule is a decentralized social media solution where each user hosts their own microservice. These lightweight, user friendly and secure microservices then connect to one another in a mesh design, allowing users to follow one another and share their posts." Love this idea. Simple concept. Should scale, save for the tail cases 1:huge N followers, but that's solvable with caches/proxies.…

You could/can already do what you describe with blogs and RSS.