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Planetary — Decentralized social media by and for the people.
Planetary is a social media app built upon the idea of protocols not platforms. Users and creators own their identities and social relationships. Privacy is respected and creators supported. Abuse and harassment is handled through community governance.
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This is another really interesting play at a decentralized social network.
With the ethical questions arising around how communities in the US political spectrum are using these products, it’s a joy to see this team talk about openly the Scuttlebutt protocol and allude to their values as a backbone. This kind of transparency and tone is at least a reprieve from that.
Really exciting to see Plantary launch! Thanks to you and the team for all the hard work on this.
This platform is so sorely needed. Awesome experience. Thoughtful design and implementation!
Thanks so much for taking the time to look at what we've been building.
I'd like to direct folks to our launch announcement:
https://mailchi.mp/9d453992186b/...
It goes in to more depth about what we're doing and how planetary works.
I feel like having the only way to access it being via Apple kind of defeats the point?
@rabble congratulations for the launch! Do you plan to launch an Android/PWA/Web version as well?
Been a fan of Scuttlebutt (SSB) for years. Awesome that it has another quality mobile app for it now!
The coolest thing about SSB is in the future that if Planetary turns evil, you can just get another SSB app (like say Manyverse), import your private key, and still have all your posts / connections. Unlike Centralized social media where you're locked in for life.
Exciting to see scuttlebutt become more approachable! Planetary is doing great work rebuilding the social web to be more about who you listen to, and less about who targets who.
I think there is great potential to combine Planetary's decentralized social infrastructure with Lightning Network Bitcoin payments to build a full social and payments experience without corporate gatekeepers.
Excited to see this. I've been using Patchwork for a few years and I'm happy to see similar stuff becoming more user-friendly
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