privacy

Hey all! I’m Ashoat, the founder of Comm (@comm.eth).

We're building a sovereign Discord alternative by using personal servers to extend Signal's model of E2E encryption (https://comm.app).

We’re looking for feedback from privacy maxis — if you’re down for a demo, drop a 👋 or DM me!

encrypted messaging for farcaster communities / https://comm.app/download

founder of @comm.eth
open source / build in public

Is it possible for something like this to be a network of volunteer hosts like Farcaster hubs so we can have some redundancy in the community chats? I think what the ETH community likes about having their R&D server on Discord is reliability and uptime.

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Hear you on reliability / uptime. Comm keyservers are basically just a webserver + database + load balancer + Redis cache, all of which can be implemented in the cloud with replication for the simple stuff (eg. webserver) and managed services for the complicated stuff (eg. AWS RDS for the DB)

Ultimately this isn’t the same as a network of volunteer-hosted nodes… that would ideally get you the best of both worlds, privacy and scale. But it’s harder to build for… we can’t just rely on a SQL database as a black box.

We’ve kicked around the idea of volunteer-hosted nodes, along with some sort of utility token that would incentivize / compensate the volunteers. It won’t be something we have ready for launch, but it’s definitely something we’re thinking about.

We plan to make this sort of reliable/scalable cloud setup available via Terraform and (maybe) AWS Marketplace. It’s a bad fit for a privacy-focused project, but a good fit for a large community that just wants sovereignty over the data