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the_clarence on Nov 4, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Aether – Free, privacy-sensitive public communitie...

The 6 month thing is a storage problem where every node needs to store the app’s content.

The privacy thing is free marketing that came out of that constraint.

This is really a good marketing move tbh. Everybody wants privacy and nobody understands what it technically means.

brokenmachine on Nov 4, 2018 [–]

The way I see it, it has some privacy. No node after the first hop will have any way to get ip information of the poster, or even know how many hops they are away from the poster.

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