Table of contents
Decentralized Network
Planetary.social is built on decentralized technology, allowing for greater privacy and control over user data compared to traditional social networks.
Open Source
Being open source encourages transparency and enables developers to contribute to the platform, fostering innovation and trust.
User-Centric Design
The platform is designed with user needs in mind, focusing on creating a community-driven environment rather than an ad-driven one.
Data Ownership
Users have more control over their data, which is stored locally and not on centralized servers, enhancing security and privacy.
This may not be the perfect space for this question, but it's probably close enough. Evan Henshaw-Plath apparently has a new project called planetary.social that uses a protocol called Scuttlebutt (which I've never heard of), which seems to be "open", but MIT licensed. I've always appreciated Evan's politics (he was a key contributor to Indymedia and Riseup.net, if I remember correctly), but I'm not quite sure... Source: almost 3 years ago
Rooms are new and only manyverse supports them so far. The new rooms 2.0 is based on go-ssb and there is also a go-ssb pub. With planetary we use go-ssb in the ios app but the older js pubs in the cloud. Source: over 3 years ago
Planetary.social | Go / Swift Devs | Full-Time | Remote | $ Market | https://planetary.social Help us build out secure scuttlebutt as an open protocol for decentralized social media that puts users in control. Work on open source to solve important problems in the world. Planetary is working with twitter's bluesky to build a better future. We're looking dev's who want to work on our decentralized go lang... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago
Manyverse is a great app, one of several compatible ones which use the secure scuttlebutt protocol. For ios another open source one is https://planetary.social/ which I wrote. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago
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