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A gossip peer-to-peer protocol.

Feeds are represented as a hashchain of signed messages.

Berty

A truly peer-to-peer, uncensorable and offline first messaging app.
Based on IPFS

Bitmessage

A radical no-metadata messaging app. Every message is a hidden blob that you will try to decipher with all your keys, if you succeed, the message is for you. (Scaling is a issue)

TOR-routing of messages is also offered.

Lens

A social network on a blockchain (Polygon).

Personnal consideration : I don't know if a pure on-chain approch could scale well, every validator would have to validate every post, comments, likes, ...

See : lenster.xyz, mirror.xyz

Ceramic

https://blog.ceramic.network/tiles-a-browser-for-open-source-information/

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Retroshare

Freenet, I2P, Zeronet

Perfect Dark

Retroshare

Interesting technologies

Zero-Knowledge proofs

https://twitter.com/LuozhuZhang/status/1530984087061929984?s=20&t=_6d66haeswHBHNn4cEB46A

https://research.protocol.ai/sites/snarks/