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It'd be nice if I didn't have to download an application to use it. Open to a reddit alternative, but I care more about convenience than any sort of encryption
by alexandercrohde 8y ago
It'd be nice if I didn't have to download an application to use it. Open to a reddit alternative, but I care more about convenience than any sort of encryption a client would offer.
- boomskats 8y agoI dunno - when I saw 'decentralised' I assumed I'd have to download something. Isn't that how decentralised applications work?
- deweller 8y agoIt is theoretically possible to serve a web app from github pages and let the decentralized peer-to-peer application run in the user's web browser. There are limitations and this approach might not be feasible for this application.
- timbit42 8y agoThe web doesn't have to eat everything.
- newsbinator 8y agoAlso the application takes 1-5 minutes to "download fresh content".
- benhylau 8y agoSince Aether is a peer-to-peer network, the client syncs content and becomes a node itself to scale up the network's capacity. It also allows the user to perform actions without letting a backend track your navigation history, etc. I don't think there is encryption done on the content, only signing and verifying with keys, as there is no concept of private messages in the Aether network at the moment.