Peergos is a new foundation for the web where everyone has their own private space and can interact with others safely without coercionor control from big tech. Its foundation is a P2P E2EE global filesystem with fine grained access control.

In this Episode we are discussing the idea, progress and outlook of the Peergos project with the project maintainers Ian and Kevin.

The show notes:

The Peergos Project Website: https://peergos.org/

Links

https://peergos.org/posts/perfect-social-network

https://peergos.org/posts/the-social-dilemma

https://peergos.org/posts/keybase-left-building

https://peergos.org/blog

https://book.peergos.org

https://github.com/peergos/peergos

Facebook damage:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/facebooks-dangerous-experiment-teen-girls/620767/

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1039076/facebook-google-disinformation-clickbait/

AI bias:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/21/facebook-algorithm-biased-race/

Threat to democracy:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/03/democracy-at-risk-if-facebook-does-not-change-says-former-zuckerberg-adviser

Google account bans:

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-account-banned-1054640/

https://medium.com/@tokata/how-google-play-terminated-a-developer-for-no-reason-e4d760e9f472

https://9to5google.com/2019/11/09/google-account-bans-youtube-emote-spam-markiplier/

Content addressing:

https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/how-ipfs-works/#content-addressing

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