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Re:Why the open social web matters now by mactavish88 on Sunday October 19, 2025 @07:38AM (#45633512)
The open social web's decentralization is just as dependent on relevant protocols and communities as it is on the hosting services on which they depend.

It's way easier to censor a decentralized social network if the majority of its nodes run on AWS, GCP and Azure, for instance.

What'd be great is if we could run these networks primarily from our personal devices (i.e. true edge computing), but the more the computing's pushed to the edge the harder it becomes to implement technically and socially.

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Re:Why the open social web matters now by jasonvorhe on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:10AM (#45633631)
nostr can do this. relays are lightweight enough to run on Android devices, Citrine ships one with a nice UI even. It's not p2p or anything but it works well enough to preserve your own note history and there a plans to extend its functionality beyond that.

https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine

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Re:Why the open social web matters now by mactavish88 on Sunday October 19, 2025 @10:11AM (#45634283)
Neat!

For this to be long-term sustainable though, it needs to be implemented in such a way that non-tech-savvy folks can also participate very easily, without needing to learn anything about P2P, relays, decentralized or edge computing, etc.

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