Here's a solution to the "bad name" problem. Let's call it the Debian "Words of Encouragement" messaging app. Its purpose is to allow Debian members to send sh

Here's a solution to the "bad name" problem. Let's call it the Debian "Words of Encouragement" messaging app. Its purpose is to allow Debian members to send short, pithy words of encouragement to each other to spread goodwill through the universe. Here's how to build it: 1. Fork Bitmessage. 2. Have the client fetch the Debian strong set at startup. Only those keyholders may send and receive messages. 3. Limit it to one fixed-size message per day, to be sent at a pre-determined time. 4. If no message is in the queue, either send an acknowledgment of receipt for the last message or a randomly generated message. 5. Repeat forever. Now you've got a private information retrieval system that has no scaling problems, no Sybil attacks, and essentially no bad actors. (Or if a bad actor happen to materialize, well, they just signed their bad act with a key that someone in the Debian ecosystem should be able to tie to a human identity if it came to that.) And you don't have to worry about giving it an approachable UX because Debian devs don't care about that shit. Boom-- state-of-the-art decentralized messaging service that whose anonymity and metadata-mining resistance scales with Debian's own interest in granting its developerbase anonymity.