Polycentric is an Open-source distributed social network - Similar in some ways to Nostr (beehaw.org)
I’ve not done an in-depth look at this network but reading through their documentation shows it has a lot of similarity to the basics of the Nostr protocol and network. There is just not as much information available on the Polycentric site as there is already for Nostr. Nostr is also censorship resistant, with distributed...
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