As a community, we should all abandon centralized servers and migrate to decentralized solutions. I’d support any decentralized system supporting privacy and anonymity, something that asks no personally identifying information such as phone number or email address. Something like Bastyon or Brighteon.io . Some attributes are below:
- This solution is directly on a blockchain, has no corporation behind it, much like Monero.
- Plus it’s got many of the features that Twitter or Lemmy has, we can set up private or public groups and memberships.
- It supports direct, private messaging, as well as voice and video chat.
- No email address or phone number is required, so you can remain as anonymous as you choose.
- There’s already a strong group of liberty-minded individuals. While they aren’t all crypto-savvy, they are predisposed to solutions benefiting privacy.
- Adequate settings to block offensive speech, only controlled by the individual, so you can limit what YOU see, but not what I see.
- Built-in design is the requirement for small amounts of PKOIN, the coin that powers the blockchain.
This last bullet about requiring PKOIN has the effect of reducing spammers and trolls, but does not eliminate them entirely. While those desiring to have a megaphone and upload large amounts of data will have to pay, the average user posting photos, articles, and links to external sources normally have no cost. I’ve never needed to purchase PKOIN and have steadily posted links to articles of interest repeatedly since starting to use the platform nearly a year ago.
I would volunteer to help set up any groups that the community wants to duplicate over there. Please contact me if there’s anything I can do to assist in this migration should it occur.
you can put a video, but if you upload large videos, it uses up PKOIN, so in moderation, yes, you can, otherwise, you’ll need to pay to purchase PKOIN. Alternatively, using URL’s of video’s posted elsewhere like Rumble or Bitchute or some other censorship-free video platform like Brighteon.com.
Content is NOT hosted on a centralized server, they have nodes, just like the Monero Blockchain, and that is where the content is stored.
Thanks, it is looking good so far.
From their FAQ:
How does it work behind the scenes? Where are the servers?
Bastyon is modeled on decentralized a cryptocurrency Bitcoin, because it has no central authority and uses the blockchain to make transactions and ensure security.
There is no central server: instead, the platform relies on a network of nodes, located all over the world. Every person in the world with a computer can actually run a node (and be rewarded to do so by using coinstaking with Pocketcoin).
Hash of each post, each comment, each interaction (except chat messages!) is stored on the blockchain. The posts and comments themselves are not in the blockchain, but in a companion database tied to a blockchain.
Bastyon uses a dedicated blockchain, derived directly from the Bitcoin chain.
https://bastyon.com/about?id=about-faq