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antonyjr0 t1_iw7csyt wrote

Reply to comment by shanoshamanizum in Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum

So no way better than a centralized or traditional news. Then what's the advantage in this. We already have twitter, and retweet which seems like the confirmation step.

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shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7dxri wrote

The biggest one - no one owns it. All people host it. No censorship, no ads, no paywalls, no surveillance, no curation, no algorithms, the list goes on...

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antonyjr0 t1_iw7elp8 wrote

Yeah I agree open source projects are better with respect to privacy but we already have technology similar to this. If you don't like Twitter then go for Mastodon.

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shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7f5l2 wrote

It still has admins and servers because it's not p2p and flat. Also Cyber Witness is focused on directly witnessed news only. Other than that of course we can have as many as we like with variations. The whole point of diversity.

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antonyjr0 t1_iw7gb1r wrote

It seems like you are using IPFS which is p2p which is good but I would still prefer Mastodon since its Federated. Any p2p app leaks IPs of all those who share the data which is really bad for anonymous journalism. With mastodon you can host a instance in a country where they don't sell you out.

But still your app is cool and strive to improve it. Maybe make it Federated.

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shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7gnxi wrote

Yep, it's really just a fun game/simulation rather than an app to be used as a social media.

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