On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:53 AM, rysiek rysiek@hackerspace.pl wrote:
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Temat: Twister: P2P microblogging platform Data: sobota, 11 stycznia 2014, 12:24:59 Od: Jesse Taylor Do: cypherpunks@cpunks.org
I came across this the other day:
Personally, I'm impressed by the creative application of Bitcoin/Bitorrent/DHT protocols to the problem of private/anonymous communication ... and the software looks very clean and usable as well. I also like that it's based on P2P technology unlike solutions such as Diaspora, which still require trusting third parties with personal data ...
Personally, I'm not, it's been tried a few times in the past and has not caught on ever. Including onion-routed/garlic-routed protocols and Freenet.
It is too hard to set up for general public and it is impossible or at least hard to link it with the general Internet. Unless said technology can be set up with three clicks (like blogger) and accessed with one, it is doomed to be marginal due to lack of convenience. People are willing to sell even the last shred of privacy for convenience.
R.