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From a few years back, there is a #P2P #socnet application called #Twister.
I haven’t used it in years, but I do plan to revisit Twister (and #BitMessage) to see what has changed. No timeline for doing so.
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I saw someone mention #Bitmessage. “Bitmessage”:{https://wiki.bitmessage.org/Main_Page} was interestingly different when I tried some years ago. I should take another look. It seemed to use a lot of bandwidth and CPU to sustain the network, even when it was days or weeks between actual incoming messages for me / outgoing messages from me.
Also: #Twister. “Twister”:{http://twister.net.co/} is a #P2P microblogging tool. Twister seemed a little complicated to get running, but once I did, it was cool.
Bitmessage seemed to be:
1. Mostly for person-to-person messages, but I don’t recall reading its security & privacy specifics.
2. A little tech-specific, as in not appealing to people who are not into the technology involved
3. Slow to develop ... I’m sure the note about using the updated patched version has been on the website for years.
Twister seemed to be:
1. Mostly for public microblog type posts.
2. I wasn’t really sure whether “following” did much.
3. At the time, it felt like things were actively moving, but I do remember a months-long thread about censorship resistance features that resulted in some contacts abandoning it.
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Don’t know when this happened, but #BitMessage had a remote code execution bug that may have been exploited. https://wiki.bitmessage.org/Main_Page
I’ve been wanting to get BitMessage running again ... put the program on a small device that runs little else and just have it running.
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I should find out whether #BitMessage and #Twister are still around. Not that I would even remember how to use the same UserIDs that I had when I used those systems.
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@ajroach42 Some of that sounds like something called #BitMessage. I'm not sure whether that's still around, but it used keys instead of usernames. It is probably not everything you're looking for, but it may be similar enough to give you a starting point.
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@veg05 I started #Bitmessage ( #PyBitmessage ) a few months ago, but I must have forgotten to transfer the files with account info when I changed the OS on my laptop. I would be starting from scratch, so I haven't started it since.