I’d like you to discuss this topic on an upcoming MoneroTalk.
I’d also appreciate some instruction on how I might join in the live chat so that I could join in on the episode where something like Bastyon is discussed.
After examination, it still appears that Bastyon does a better job of providing a Twitter like interface while remaining private and anonymous as you choose to. However, my assumption that using the block-chain being the only way to do that may have been in error. I’ve also learned a bit about Session and done a little reading on Nostr, but although Session seems to be a WhatsApp OR Signal - killer, it doesn’t appear to have the same ability to share news and create followers like Twitter or Telegram. I am very enthusiastic about all the new activity in the decentralized communication space.
Session stores messages on a blockchain, and I have no idea why this would be a good idea.
At least they introduced a mechanism to autodelete messages now, so the biggest threat is somewhat gone
After some additional education on the broad topic of decentralized communications tools, I’ve learned of Matrix/Element and Session Messenger, which seem to accomplish alot of the privacy and anonymity goals without the use of blockchain, yet it is decentralized, so they also will survive a widespread DNS blocking, also referred to as the Internet Kill Switch.
Session uses a blockchain afaik, but everything on there has a deletion date to autodelete.
Matrix is not privacy optimized at all, its good for discussions etc but you are not anonymous at all.
Try SimpleX, it has the best design
