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Keet and the potential of P2P technology (keet.io)
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I recently stumbled upon Keet, which is a peer to peer messaging app with video calls and file sharing.

This app has a lot going for it:

  • The user experience is really good
  • Free and open source
  • Privacy friendly (no datacentre, server or middleman between you and the people you are talking to)
  • Better quality since there's no throttling of traffic
  • No file size limit

I'm baffled that this app seems like a well kept secret, so I just wanted to share it with you guys.

To me, peer to peer technology seems really interesting because it addresses the root cause of many of the harms that plagues the modern day internet: surveillance, platform silos, the market dominance of multi-national tech-conglomerates, energy usage of datacentres, etc.

What do you think? Can P2P be the solution to these problems?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fundamentally, cryptocurrency is a scam.

The idea that anyone can make up their own unregistered securities and start selling them to naive investors is nothing more than a system for encouraging fraud.

Every single purpose given for the existence of cryptocurrency is contradicted by their actual implementation. They do not enable untracable transactions and so are of no utility for the underground economy. They do not enable un-banked consumers to safely store and exchange value as they are risky and volatile. They're more environmentally damaging, less secure, and much harder to use than cash or credit cards.

Who even are they for other than weird tech bros who have made crypto their entire personality?