Polycentric is an Open-source distributed social network

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25 pointsTiredOfLife4 comments

The documentation says: "Polycentric provides an alternative to traditional social media platforms by utilizing self-sovereign identities in a distributed censorship-resistant network."

The privacy policy says: "FUTO will delete any accounts belonging to users in violation of this policy."

Only one of these can be true.

The privacy policy is just for servers FUTO runs. We can't host content that is illegal in our jurisdiction for example. It is similar to refusing to seed certain torrents. Servers run by other parties, or in other jurisdiction will likely have different policies. Your identity is always yours, and whoever is willing to host it can.

Yah, you'd want more nodes that agree on the protocol that are willing to distribute the information.

This video helped me understand more about what is going on with this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld87FNygymw

Polycentric is another post-Scuttlebot app with a slightly different take on message replication.

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