Cassie Heart
@cassie
Years ago, when I started building a decentralized discord clone, people asked me why. I wanted a communication tool that was truly decentralized, in a way that no state actor was able to gain control over. Signal's design wasn't capable of group chats beyond a certain size. The features only went so far. And it has failure points such that countries block them by firewall and have to rely on the good graces of others to run proxies, which ultimately get shut down or blocked too. App stores do not share in this ideal — their concern is profit, and will bend backwards when forced to by regulatory bodies. Amazon and others are complicit in helping state actors maintain their control of the web, and are profiting handsomely from the arrangement. None of this happened by accident. And I only saw it getting worse. I realized what I was building in this chat application went beyond just chat, and how pressing it was to make this general purpose.
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Blue Cockatoo
@bluecockatoo
I just spent an hour and a half reading through the Quilibrium blog posts and docs as this is all new to me. Admittedly, I can't absorb everything in that time, but I still didn't find any description that explains succinctly what it is or how it can/will affect normal people's lives compared to the current state of the internet. Could I get just an elevator-pitch-length description of it, please? Is it an alternative to the internet at large? Or an alternative to web servers? Or an alternative to a social network like Farcaster? Or an alternative to email? Or an alternative to blockchain that gives private transactions? Or something else than any of these things? When it goes live, how will an average person use it and what benefit will it give them? And how much will it cost them to use it? Will anyone be profiting from it? I am genuinely intrigued by what I've seen but I still don't know exactly what it is. Thanks for any clarification!
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Damon Outlaw
@damon-o
Hi, can you provide me with what you read?
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