Tried listening to the recent What Bitcoin Did episode with Nic Carter. Didn’t make it past the intro where he talks about how he gains IQ points by having a nicotine patch on his body at all times.

The man is not well. Hopefully he rediscovers The Way. Maybe in the next life

I know... and that's the problem of it. I wish they built it using BTC to incentivize the nodes instead. I'm not a programmer, but if I was, I would look at what kind of effort would be involved to fork that code and modify it to where it runs on lightning nodes (like an umbrel node). The incentivizing structure would have to change though to something like a pay as you use (x amount of sats per MB for example) and those funds get dispersed to the nodes routing your traffic.

There is also Lokinet. No need for a special browser if installing on PC and you can also set up an armbian device like raspberry pi to be a wifi access point to give you acces to their onion routed network. I can vouch that it's way faster than Tor. You need to use the Linux build though as that is always the best supported one.

That is very true. Althought Damus and Amethyst are technically not forks of Twitter, they only have very similar UI. Forking a project to tweak a few parameters and expecting everyone else to follow is much more unprobable than getting a chunk of Twitter users to switch to your app with a fundamentally different approach to social media at the core.

Right, good clarification. Just out of curiosity, would the metadata needed for synchronisation of files reveal anything about the files publicly, similar to the case of DMs on Nostr?

I guess relays could share with others if you updated your tree, so it could be similar.

The time it takes to turn your OS into a tree is far too long though lol… maybe in the future when consumer hardware is faster, then it may likely be possible.

It went to zero.

Zeronet is a dead project now, sadly

That is very true. Althought Damus and Amethyst are technically not forks of Twitter, they only have very similar UI. Forking a project to tweak a few parameters and expecting everyone else to follow is much more unprobable than getting a chunk of Twitter users to switch to your app with a fundamentally different approach to social media at the core.

Tor doesn't scale, unfortunately.

Email scaled, and you could route outside of this censorship mess but no one does.

Ham radio, can work at scale, shame ppl don't use cuz it's hard. It could be as big if not bigger than centralized comms. We had a handle held repeater covering the whole city with full signal.

Electricity is censorship resistant. Sounds silly but it's not true for nat gas. Unless you have a well.

IRC scales, but too hard for most ppl.

XMPP scales but never took off.

The only 3 truly censorship resistant technologies at scale I’m aware of are: bitcoin, nostr, and simplex.

More? Tor?

when timechain VR I want to be in the mempool