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Show HN: Open-Source Decentralized Forum

https://decon.app/

I'm working on an open-source "decentralized" app that allows viewing and posting text messages.Posts are stored in the blockchain and not censurable to some extent. Fetching of the blockchain data is done through polling of public apis (blockfrost or koios). Posting a message requires a Cardano transaction which implies fees but this would also prevent spam.Private messages between users are...

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2024) on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:30PM (#39566434)
I'm working on a "decentralized" app that allows posting messages. The posts are stored in the blockchain and not censurable to some extent. Posting a message requires a transaction which implies fees but this would also prevent spam. The whole app is hosted on github pages and open source: https://github.com/alucao/decon
Re:I Moved My Blog from IPFS to a Server on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @05:00PM (#39210010)
I'm exploring a similar project, having a "decentralized" website (hosted on github) which saves users' data in the blockchain itself and then provides that same data to other users through public APIs and/or from actual blockchain clients.

Wonder if there is actual use or need for such thing.

Paywalled... I wonder if there is a way to avoid such posts.