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I've mentioned this before, but I'll say it again: I like the concept, but I can't help but feel that the presentation has been consistently poor.
The earlier releases left a sour taste for some by highlighting connections to cryptocurrency, and now it's literally being rebanded to "bitsocial"? With Bitcoin being the widest known cryptocurrency in the world, it's definitely not alleviating the concerns that this is some sort of cryptoscam.
You are just not going to stop pushing this, are you? I'm glad you've learned not to associate your platform with crypto, but I still don't trust you and I don't want to reiterate how this WILL become a childporn haven when you don't have wide-spanning moderation.
Also your SSL cert is expired and the website is broken besides.
on moderation : the protocol is not private or anonymous. It’s peer-to-peer, and IPs are visible in the swarm. anyone trying to post illegal content is not hidden and will get caught. Also, each community has its own mods, and clients can enforce their own rules similar to how Seedit is SFW by default.
There’s also a character limit, so you can’t base64-dump images posts.
. The proper landing page is going live next week.
We are building in public and taking feedbacks seriously.
In before this is a big elaborate ad for NordVPN.
(VPNs and tor allow you to mask your IP)
You made an annoucement before your website even works and linked it? Why? I dont understand why anyone would trust you with this level of incompetence?
we are still in the process of rebranding and the main info page (intro, docs, roadmap, links, etc.) will go live on bitsocial.net next week.
Why not post here when everything is all ready? Fragmenting your big marketing push is just going to hurt you.
Honest comment: Bitsocial sounds an awful lot like Truth Social.
If that comparison is unintentional and not desired, maybe reconsider the name.
If that is intentional, we are probably not your target audience.
Ngl I did not think about that at all. There are loads of sites with social in the name, like the flagship mastodon instance.
It seems kinda silly to stop using social as in the name for social websites because of them.
I hear BitTorrent with that name
For us, Bitsocial just means BitTorrent for social media, nothing political.
If not for political reasons then why limit first version to Google/GitHub rather than starting with generic OIDC (which should include those two anyway)?
We also took your feedback seriously and we are now implementing proper sign-in options like: Google GitHub (and more coming later)
We chose BitSocial because it’s closer to “BitTorrent for social media”
the “bit” part is about peer-to-peer distribution and protocol design, not politics or ideology.
We are not trying to mirror Truth Social or target any specific political audience.
Our goal goal is a neutral, open-source, decentralized social media protocol.