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://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:
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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