- Creating customizable interfaces: See [Party](https://party.lol/) which reuses any existing website (gmail, twitter, Facebook, reddit, etc.) for E2EE messages.
- Communities setting norms: See my article on [emotionally intelligent social networks](https://hackernoon.com/a-new-kind-of-social-network-emotional-intelligence-e45dcddb1bdb), also check out the wild [Notabug](https://notabug.io/t/notabug/comments/59382d2a08b7d7073415b5b6ae29dfe617690d74/welcome-to-notabug) experiment.
- Keeping public conversation from fragmenting: Check out ["How to fix the internet"](https://hackernoon.com/what-is-wrong-with-the-internet-and-how-to-fix-it-c67w32no) by [Martti Malmi](https://twitter.com/marttimalmi) (Satoshi's 1st Bitcoin contributor) which is exactly this.
## Network structure
Decentralized/p2p.
Uses data replication via message passing.
It daisy-chains, [routes](https://gun.eco/docs/Routing), & relays messages.
Think of it as doing also what the internet, routers, switches, etc. already does.
But also works over most existing transports: WebRTC, UDP multicast, TCP/HTTP -> Websocket, etc.
## Identity
Iris adds a [reputation system](https://medium.com/@mmalmi/learning-to-trust-strangers-167b652a654f) to SEA which provides the underlying cryptographic Security, Encryption, & Authorization.
The most important differentiating factor is that we support multi-device login that is cryptographically secure yet uses "normal" UX.
This technique can be extended to secure password resets (no servers)
And, password recovery using a 3-Friend-Authorization approach that we cutely call 3FA (please don't use this with your Bitcoins).
- Decentralized identity (ECDSA)
- Key management (Iris)
- Key verification (Iris)
- Key backup (GUN+SEA)
- Reputation, Trust (Iris)
- Account recovery (3FA)
- Privacy (ECDH, AES)
#### Data
- Data models (graphs, key/value, document, table, relational, hyper-graphs)
- Data availability ([AP](https://gun.eco/docs/CAP-Theorem), strongly eventually consistent)
