Twitter is a popular social network where users can write short messages in one-to-many mode (you can learn more about this on Wikipedia). I read an interesting article by Alex Payne (former head of API on Twitter), The Very Last Thing Ill Write About Twitter , where he claims a decentralized one-to-many communication mechanism ...
From a programming point of view, how would this service be developed? I guess this may be like email, where anyone can set up a mail server. However, one of the main motives is the opposition to censorship; can architecture be fully decentralized? It will include a similar protocol for open standards based on email and IM protocols; Does this protocol already exist? Should the design include aspects of network anonymity such as Tor? Is an open source initiative already launched for this?
I am creating this community wiki as these are fairly open-ended questions about the design of a one-to-many decentralized communications service.
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