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Seems based on hypercore but not much info on the protocol. Interesting that the faq of this project talks about xxhashes which are non cryptographic afaik while hypercore is using blake2b or something similar.

The name is also weird for me. Seems to be completely anonymous, in which case I wonder how you deal with moderation which I didn’t find being mentioned. Even the old /b/ had rules that had to be enforced from time to time.

The final nail in the coffin for me was the following. Not only because it’s closed source, but because of the lack of a polished product and the hand-wavy reasoning without any mention on how they are planning on monetising it.

> is moderator open source, can I see the code: no it's not. open source is failing to provide sustainable income to programmers and designers alike and is not a viable option for us

thanks for the feedback. It's based on a tangle protocol called thicket. moderator is designed for collapseOS / 8bit computers, crypto in unfeasible so losing attribution is the next best thing.

off tangle hosting is now done on IPFS, hypercore might be a better choice. Or writing a separate, simpler distributed blob store.

for monetization, SAAS would be an obvious choice, build your own client on top of moderator API and do what you want. this stuff in underway, there will be a dart / elixir api in the next few weeks for people to build their own stuff.

I need to add a few more faq items to answer your questions, people are probably wondering about similar things. Doing it right now.

thanks again for the feedback!

for the open source point, https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html might be a good place to start, illustrating how dysfunctional foss is these days.

updated the faq. Good questions very welcome. https://sd7ezzynq5jclyltgiwnvabtk4m6nccdrmzfth72raxisoiplrtn...

small preview of moderator that is an anonymous forum that runs on super low spec devices. it's completely distributed and hosts none of your data. take a look.

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