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@hamishcampbell

hmm.. i meam - this is unfunded and not supposed to be ready for being used yet.

there will be a polished user interface once it reliably works, so maybe a bit "unfair" to take a work in progress open source project 100% by volunteers.

when you say protocol over ppl its hard to understand what you mean.

so far, ppl over protocol meant sysadmins, instance operators or social network owners like musk reign supreme...
饾摷饾摦饾摶饾摢饾摴饾摢饾摻饾摫銆愩儎銆戔槷(馃搷馃嚞馃嚙)
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@hamishcampbell

...because when issues occur, they can always interfere nad "solve the problem" how they seem fit, against the consent of users.

p2p protocols means sovereign users, the people that SHOULD have the last say on things will have the last say on things and not some "other people", like angry sysadmins ...

so protocols instead of servers owned by tech people, will empower the user people 馃檪
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@hamishcampbell

if A trusts B, A places trust im B.
If it later turns out that trust wasnt justified, A learns and maybe shares their experirnce about B with others.

I think designing systems for trust is great. These are systems for people and we need them.

The p2p protocol are meant to make it a reality to have that kind of situation, because in centralized and fediverse social media, there is NEVER an A trusts B.

Because there is always a party C involved which can interfere
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@hamishcampbell

That party C was never meant to be part of the relation between B and A.

An example is a system administrator.
If you host your own website, you kinda implicitly trust, that you hosting company (whether Amazon/AWS) or some smaller one, wont use their power to change server logic, so that your blog readers read something entirely different than what you wrote and published on your blog.

Its an extreme example, but it is the world we live in

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饾摷饾摦饾摶饾摢饾摴饾摢饾摻饾摫銆愩儎銆戔槷(馃搷馃嚞馃嚙)
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@hamishcampbell

There are plenty of social networks out there, including bsky, mastodon and even nostr.
there is also good old atom/rss feeds.

imho there is no point in adding yet another app to this, unless it fundamentally solves some deep problems.

thats where my passion for p2p comes from.
of course i agree, that once it works, the apps built on top have to serve the people ...and we are getting close - thats why i shared the github link - even though its raw unfinished work in progress