Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, open source

Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by FreeTrade on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:39AM (#25725026)

So member.cash is an instance of Member - it's there to make it easy to see how it all works.

Member is open source, so you can host a mirror on your own infrastructure. You might make that mirror available publicly, or you might use it privately. Shutting down all the public instances would likely be a game of whack-a-mole. Similarly, its not dependent on AWS, or a gmail address.

While a single website might be vulnerable to DDOS, the vision is many independent instances which will allow for great redundancy.

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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by onion2k on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:19AM (#25726561)

Shutting down all the public instances would likely be a game of whack-a-mole.

It is like playing whack-a-mole, but with a government mallet that's 5 miles in diameter.

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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by sneak on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:11AM (#25726904)

You forgot the most important part: because it's pay to play, there will only ever be a half-dozen moles to whack if the project is successful, or one if it isn't.

Source: I used to run steemit.com.

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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by 3np on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:44AM (#25727156)

I'd LOVE to hear some stories/experiences/lessons/rants :)

Maybe I could tip some steem, if i can locate my ancient wallet

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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by zaarn on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:53AM (#25726380)

Yes, but how would one go about removing posts that violate human decency? If I were to host an instance, I would want to not host any content illegal in my country (Child Porn for example). How do you go about preventing that?

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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by feu on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:43AM (#25727146)

You can't prevent that, and that is the inherent flaw in Member and all similar platforms.

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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by pjc50 on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:44AM (#25727663)

That is the intent of these platforms.

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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by mullingitover on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:42AM (#25725049)

So is this a federated thing like Mastodon, or is everyone operating a mirror running a copy of the whole site?

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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by robjan on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:58AM (#25725152)

From what I understand the messages are stored in the Bitcoin Cash Blockchain

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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by FreeTrade on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:06AM (#25725216)

It is not federated, each mirror uses its own Bitcoin Cash node which contains a complete record of all the actions on the blockchain.

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