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Re:Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter by Timja on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:49AM (#33419937)
Based on cryptographic signatures.

If you signed your message with "This is a reply to msg 33419574 by dustedcodes. Signed: mejutoco", then nobody could take this converstion away from you. It would be federated by all competing services that use this protocal.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter by NortySpock on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @08:35AM (#33420295)
Sounds a bit like the Nostr protocol.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

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