Quilibrium

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.

No one can imagine @cassie's struggles and sacrifices to reach Quilibrium to this point. Not one person - neither a Q guide creator, bootstrap operator, a release signer, a node runner, or a Farcaster user - can question her integrity with the mission she envisioned and laid out for Q. 

I have been at the sidelines of her journey, since I joined Quilibrium's mission last February and I absolutely admire her steadfast commitment and her recognition of her own limitations at times as a human being, and that right now to fulfill the mission, she has to be THE TEAM herself. 

I know a lot of us here in Farcaster, in the Quilibrium community, wish and wants to do more for her and the mission, than to be where the profits are. I know I do. Just know @cassie that the community is behind you every step of the way, and you know you can count on us.

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

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https://quilibrium.guide/ - lets win 

every single one of us is the team, this could not be achieved without the work that you and countless others have brought to the fore.