But Kobeissi says he was startled by the level of interest in the concept. “I posted that tweet and the expectation that I had was that basically 60 people max would retweet it and then maybe I’ll set up a Kickstarter,” he tells us. Instead the tweet “just completely exploded” and he found himself raising $100k “in a single day” - with $50k paid in there and then. I’ve been running a business based on consulting and based on academic R&D services,” he continues. “But by the end of the day - last Sunday, eight days ago - I was running a Delaware corporation valued at $10M with $100k in pre-seed funding, which is insane. Completely insane.”Ĭapsule is just the latest contender for retooling Internet power structures by building infrastructure that radically decentralizes social platforms to make speech more resilient to corporate censorship and control. The list of decentralized/p2p/federated protocols and standards already out there is very long - even while usage remains low. Interest in the space has been rekindled in recent weeks after mainstream platforms like Facebook and Twitter took decisions to shut down US president Donald Trump’s access to their megaphones - a demonstration of private power that other political leaders have described as problematic.Įxtant examples include ActivityPub, Diaspora, Mastodon, p2p Matrix, Scuttlebutt, Solid and Urbit, to name a few. Kobeissi also takes that view, while adding the caveat that he’s not “personally” concerned about Trump’s deplatforming.
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