Afari - Decentralized, censorship resistant social media like twitter

 

 
 

 
 
official website:  https://www.afari.io/
ios version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap ... t%3D8
android ersion:  https://play.google.com/store/ ... afari
 
Hi guys:
 
 
I’m Avthar, one of the co-founders of Afari. We started working on Afari earlier this year while still in college. After turning down our job offers at tech giants and other blockchain startups we’re now working on it full time and are excited to share the launch of our public beta with the PH community! We built Afari to give people who value privacy, data ownership and censorship resistance, an alternative to centralized social media like Twitter and Facebook. You can think of Afari as a decentralized Twitter, but we plan to be more than that. In future, we plan to integrate a token network to help content creators of all audience sizes monetize their content more easily. This is our first time launching anything and the app is still in beta, so we’d love for you to use the app and offer feedback on the features present, UX, and anything you think would make Afari more appealing to you!
 
Our philosophy is that users should be in control of their data and should have choice over who can access it. The first step in that direction was innovation on the dimension of data ownership - users keep their data in their own storage systems thanks to Blockstack, a decentralized naming and storage system. This means that we can't share user data without user consent (like what happened in Cambridge Analytica).


This also means that users have much greater control over their non-public data (e.g profile information, ad profile etc), as users can get much more fine grained access control through encryption, since we don't own user encryption keys. Apart from that, we plan to build features that give users more control over which groups of people see content they post, who they follow etc.


On messaging - we plan to integrate encrypted messaging into the platform. Privacy means different things to different people -- would love to hear more about any privacy features related to social media that you'd specifically like to see!