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I wish there was a decentralized scalable version of Twitter, Facebook, Youtube.

It would run off our mobile devices and PC sort of like bitorrent.

I am aware of webtorrent (web based torrenting p2p) for videos and such but still nothing in production.

IMHO, the next person that comes up with a highly scalable, decentralized, widely distributed mesh network of devices to securely transfer files between peers will not be a rich man but he would be a hero, I personally would donate a large chunk of money just to keep it afloat for others.

Sort of like a "public funded public utility" software.

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The scuttleverse [1] comes to mind when you mention this. It allows for creating a decentralized mesh network with communication between each node end to end encrypted. It's able to operate off the grid and allows communication through Lan, Bluetooth etc. Happens to also work offline as the content is stored on your device and any posts you make sync up with others later. I'm not sure about the scalability of it though.

It's also available on mobile [2].

[1] https://scuttlebutt.nz

[2] https://www.manyver.se

twitter: https://joinmastodon.org/

youtube: https://joinpeertube.org/

The fediverse checks many of the boxes you mentioned. While I personally enjoy using it, it still lacks usability for many people, I think.

facebook: https://pleroma.social/

instagram: https://pixelfed.org/

blogger: https://write.as/

soundcloud: https://funkwhale.audio/

At the end of the day, though, the Fediverse is just like any other social network - most people join because their friends or people they know have.

What if you could use the existing Facebook, Youtube, Instagram clients and seamlessly be connected to both the "centralized content from FANG" and "decentralized content from FEDIVERSE" ?

If your content gets censored it would be archived on the fallback fediverse, therefore neutralizing their ban hammer?

That'd be very cool, but you then run into the data collection issues of all of those platforms. Many Fediverse users aren't so much concerned with being censored by Big Tech as they are with being hit with targeted advertising.

Really, I'd be happy with a way to seamlessly follow friends / public figures that are on FANG + Twitter, even if it's a one way road.

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