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Mastodon.technology Is Shutting Down

Pleroma Hacker News IPFS Aether Scuttlebutt Ethereum Name Service
  1. Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols.

    #Social Network #Social Networks #Decentralized Social Network 45 social mentions

  2. Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    This user's been on HN for a while repeating this ad nauseam. https://www.google.com/search?q=rvz+mastodon+failure+site:https://news.ycombinator.com I wouldn't engage.

    #Social Networks #Social News #Startups 500 social mentions

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    IPFS is the permanent web. A new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Isn't that what IPFS aims to be? https://ipfs.io/.

    #Cloud Storage #File Sharing #Blockchain 288 social mentions

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    Aether is a free app that you use to read, write in, and create community moderated, distributed...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    All fair/valid points to consider. The closest example so far that I've found of a truly P2P online community is Aether: https://getaether.net.

    #Social Networks #Social News #Knowledge Sharing 100 social mentions

  5. A decent(ralised) secure gossip platform.
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    • Open Source
    Edit: Scratch that, a more fleshed out and popular protocol that implements this P2P concept is Scuttlebutt: www.http://scuttlebutt.nz/ The most user friendly and refined client I’ve found that implements this protocol is Planetary: https://www.planetary.social/.

    #Social Network #Decentralised Social Network #Decentralized Social Network 50 social mentions

  6. Like DNS, but for Ethereum wallet addresses
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    • Open Source
    >perhaps someone could have setup a central name server to avoid name collisions, but who would you trust to run it? What happens when it goes down? Might as well just use dns. ENS (https://ens.domains/) solves this problem rather elegantly. A single source of truth that is decentralized so any app can use it without trusting anyone. It wasn't around when Mastadon was being built unfortunately but is useful for developers of new apps and protocols.

    #Crypto #Web App #Crypto Marketplace 188 social mentions

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