RetroShare is much more than a backup for centralized solutions. It is a self-organizing network, where malicious actors are marginalized by majority vote and eventually excluded.

You are free to create your own channels. There is no hierarchy. Private groups/chats/channels/circles/nodegroups can be created, too.

The bright nodes are ON 24/7 (our own IDs) and the dark nodes are occasional visitors (1st degree separation). Any of +2000 nodes worldwide can be used to access public boards

In the boot phase we are invitation only. If you want to help testing reply here and get an invitation PM. Don't send me PMs from other lemmy instances

had to ban due to spam. PMs from monero.town are fine.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A 100% decentralized Monero p2p experience, you say? Sounds cool!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I sent you a PM.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

can i use rs over tor? if i can then ill join. i used rs a long time ago it's nice

also this is cool but rs is unmaintained, so im a bit sketch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

tor is built-in and required for easy peer discovery. RS is not unmaintained, who told you that? Its on OpenSuse.

I sent you a PM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It can be used over tor, i2p and clearnet.

It is definitely maintained.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

okay i didnt know. i think it had a period where it was? my bad i guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ELI5?

Also, what's the breakdown on where the Monero community hangs out online? I'm on matrix as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/ideals-behind-retroshare/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay, I've installed RS, ready to receive an invite 📭

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I sent you a PM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How is this different from nostr out of curiosity? Also, is that the dude?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The short answer is: NOT YOUR NODE, NOT YOUR RULES

"federated" has been used lately to mindfuck ppl into believing they are free and decentralized. A federated government is not a democracy and a federated protocol doesn't set u free. It's the old server-client paradigm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The longer answer is: there might be times when users want to DELEGATE some functionality TEMPORARILY to confidents and software should ENABLE this feature. In a digital voting system you may not want to vote on every little issue. The critical design choice is here to deliver the full software package to endusers, so they can take back responsibility whenever they choose to. Next the software needs to be enduser friendly and not discourage the user in any way to exercise his or her full power.

Whenever you hear "client" to describe your app, chances are you don't get the full package.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I sent you a PM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is this an alternative to Haveno? Is this the bisq-esque incarnation people wanted on XMR?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Retroshare is a social network

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah social network with XMR integration? I'm sorry I didn't have the time to go through their docs yet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

nah, doesnt have anything to do with XMR. just very anon and very resiliant to censorship

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks