I am building a decentralized social media tool

Note to the mods: I'm not promoting this tool via this post. I don't want to compete with GLP. I simply want to discuss what I'm working on and its possibilities.

I have been thinking about and tinkering with all kinds of web technologies that might enable a truly decentralized social media platform ever since I first heard about people being "de-platformed" because of wrongthink several years ago.

Since that time, a few players have shown up who claim they are decentralized, but it's not true. They all rely on some central point of failure. Whether that be some cloud service like Amazon Web Services or Azure, or depend on a single domain name/DNS provider/CDN, like Cloudflare or some other webhost.... These approaches always showed the major flaw.

How can someone build a tool that is truly decentralized while still depending on big tech players?

The answer is simple. Take the middle man out entirely and go 100% decentralized with P2P. By that, I mean get rid of domain names. Get rid of hosting providers. Get rid of centrally managed storage.

How am I doing it? WebRTC and WebTorrent. Those are the main clues I'll give you. But I'm not going to give away all the secrets before I have a working model that I'm ready to release into the wild....

Feel free to ask any other questions.. .

oh and it's blockchain, btw. hybrid public/private. u own your data, you're responsible for abuse, and all activity is stored and confirmed via decentralized consensus (similar to public chains like btc, eth, etc.)

Collectivism is evil, no matter which way you spin it.

excuse me?

what does this mean?

I didn't stutter. Collectivism is evil.

You must believe that we live in a Democracy. We don't. We live in a Republic.

A Democracy is COLLECTIVISM. It doesn't account for all people, it accounts for a majority of people, which is EVIL.

i wasn't aware i was saying anything political. i agree collectivism is a problem, but where did u pull that out from?

The point of blockchain is to distribute trust to all involved parties, rather than one central, and to provide immutable proof of something happening.

I'm not seeing your point here.

and i'm perfectly well aware we live in a republic. wtf?

It's a great idea, OP, but please be careful. Remember what happened to Ilya Zhitomirskiy when he tried to get Diaspora up and running? Murdered at age 22. TPTB are ruthless when it comes to protecting their monopoly on, well, everything.
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I dont know what this means. But fuck you.

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and i'm perfectly well aware we live in a republic. wtf?

Banking on the collective to make the right decision is wrong.

Are you new to the internet or something? You sound totally retarded is why I ask?

Blockchain isn't collectivism dumbass it's basic math.

"Spreading shit all over the place isn't collectivism." -Zoomer logic.

"It's like avacato on my toast"