Cassie Heart on Warpcast

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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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I took the time to pivot, to build what Nick Szabo called a god protocol. A protocol capable of being a globally shared computer — but truly one, not facing the extreme bottlenecks of the existing block chain paradigm. And I began to sound the battle cry: the internet is under attack. I argued that the four axes of control over the web: - ISPs - cloud providers - identity/backup/mail/general service providers - state actors All of them were engaging in a multisided attack on internet freedom. I argued this before founders were getting arrested and charged for uncensorable platforms. I argued this before tornado cash's developers were arrested. I argued this before protesters in Canada saw their bank accounts frozen. I argued this before government and major social media went on a collaborative purge and information hole campaign on topics related to COVID, labeling/hiding "misinformation" that later was proven to be true (lab leak, mask effectiveness, economic policies that are coming due as we speak)

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Ok banger. Super stoked to see things coming to fruition.

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Sheesh 😮‍💨👏

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Cassie. I just read through it all, a bit emotional and close to tears rn. you could lead me to war right now and i’ll march behind you without any questions asked. this is alot to take in and work against and i wish you the absolute best. you’ll definitely succeed in this fight. LONG LIVE THE INTERNET!!!

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Govt as whole trying to block people's freedom of speech and privacy as whole They arrested Pavel Durov for protecting privacy of telegram users! Everything became a joke! Miss if you build something for privacy related chat I'll volenteer to test it!

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You definitely read a lot of books and presentations. Cause i have to commend how you made this read so engaging. 👏🏾 Facing these circumstances as a builder must have been really tough yeah, you're so strong Cassie.🙌🏾 So on the latter people, it felt to me like you were talking about VCs, i know people usually think they help projects, but i see it differently, story for another day. The internet is dead. Long live the internet?.... banger ending fr

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ok banger (i support this)

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I'm supporting you through /microsub! 23 $DEGEN (Please mute the keyword "ms!t" if you prefer not to see these casts.)

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How do we get access? I appreciate this.

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this makes me wanna run through a wall, keep going 🫡

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Venkatesh Rao ☀️

Oh is this the quilibrium endgame?

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LONG LIVE THE INTERNET

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@networkspirits is this based?

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Save the internet @cassie ! 🥹 300 $degen

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Icetoad 🎩 🍕 🎶 🐈 💚

Inspiring and well written! I love forward to seeing the magic you've been so hard at work on. This is the most cypherpunk thing I've read in ages.

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The control by major technology companies over these things has become concerning. This project you stated has an angle of user empowerment. Despite the challenges you faced, is the project still on?

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The fact that you were making it decentralized shows how selfless you are…And also how you didn’t allow any one state have control o et it Seeing how determined you are with it I hope it’ll be successful …Or has it been finalized?

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