Yes, Odysee is much better than YT, they will not block you for using a VPN and you can use burner a email to sign up. They also do not have annoying ads every 3 minutes, they have zero ads. Sad that so many creators refuse to post their content on other platforms and continue to support YT’s tyrannical monopoly. Still there is a pretty good selection on there.

what advantages does it have over hosting your own fedi server

Specifically in the context of this post you cannot be forced to collect any data on users or be prosecuted for not collecting because you are not hosting accounts, they are on-schain. Fedi is a very different type of platform and not really a direct alternative. Bastyon is trying to compete with twitter mainly IMO.

You do not get any special access or control by hosting a server because it is just a node that relays data. This makes the network more robust and faster as a user’s app will connect to the fastest nodes for a better experience.

Here is an in-depth article about the platform

https://www.publish0x.com/at-scottcbusiness/the-guide-to-bastyon-and-pkoin-xznxqdk

How does Bastyon work? - https://bastyon.com/help?page=faq

You do not understand the platform and are speaking out of ignorance. You do not need to run a node to use the platform and no one can stop you from joining.

If you run a node you participate in the network, your user does not reside or originate from your node it is distributed as all metadata is stored on chain.

Maybe it’s not for you, no one is forcing you to use it, it is not all about you.

A woman protesting an oppressive regime with her posts may find it is the only safe place without getting her identity reported back to the oppressive state as all corporate owned platforms would do.

Good job looking into it a bit instead of freaking out like most others on here. It is running and working and has been for over 6 years if I am not mistaken.

Users do not have to pay to publish. Advertisers can pay to boost content and get visibility. There are many people dedicated to free speech and anti-censorship so they will continue to run nodes even if they are not turning a profit. At this point nodes stake coins and earn rewards, not sure of the long term tokenomics, have not gone super deep on it.

If they pass a law that social media platforms need to collect ID the instance you run will have to collect ID or shut down. No single entity runs Bastyon and no ID laws can be enforced.

No, it is not. Mastodon is federated, this means your account is owned by the instance owner and can be banned. Bastyon is decentralized meaning there is no owner, your content can be blocked if there is a report and a random jury of high reputation users unanimously agrees that rules have been violated.

Mastodon is only federated, this means your account is owned by the instance owner and can be banned. Bastyon is decentralized meaning there is no owner, your content can be blocked if there is a report and a random jury of high reputation users unanimously agrees that rules have been violated.

This is a very informative report, thanks for posting. I hope he realized Bitcoin Cash is the real Bitcoin soon.

It is a place of free speech. The only rules are, no porn, drugs, or threats. You can block users if you want.

The point is that it is not owned by any corporation and it is run by a network of nodes which are not easily shut down.

They do, the website is just a portal to the network for exposure. Using the app is the real Bastyon.

https://github.com/pocketnetteam/pocketnet.gui/releases

or

https://bastyon.com/applications

Good luck, we now have Bastyon, fully decentralized twitter style platform. It’s over.

Not sure about the privacy of Presearch but their results are really good. A few times already I was searching for something I know existed out there and only Presearch was able to find it.

It’s KeepassDX for me, works great. If there is an F-Droid alternative then that is what I use.

You can just purchase BCH, run it through CashFusion for privacy then swap for Monero. 👍

https://bchfaq.com/knowledge-base/what-is-cashfusion/

There is also potential of Monero as a sidechain on Bitcoin Cash. This would bring extreme privacy and world level scalability to make the ultimate digital cash, as well as DeFi participation in the BCH CashTokens ecosystem.

https://bitcoincashresearch.org/t/addition-of-merge-mining-bch-with-monero/1406/9

Embracing politicians… 🤦

How much more private do you need to get? I mostly use Bitcoin Cash with CashFusion and it is enough, no one is going to spend time and money on tracing most transactions, it’s not cheap or easy. I only use Monero when my identity is involved in the transaction.

After the next HF upgrade on BCH we should see ZK level privacy start to develop via smart contracts. Hopefully in the future BCH can be as or more private than Monero and our communities can unite into one unstoppable digital cash force!

Great job, it starts with us. If you want it done then do it. 🙂

The P2P Economy uses stablecoin payments

Current stablecoins weaken the P2P economy by adding counterparty risk to every transaction.

There is a decentralized stablecoin on Bitcoin Cash DeFi called MUSD in alpha phase, we will soon be able to dump the centralized trust based stablecoins. https://app.moria.money/