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Aether
Aether is a Reddit-like p2p social network, designed with ephemerality and mutability in mind.
Identity
Identities in Aether are based on keypairs, like in ssb.
Aether has a strategy for multiple device logins under development — you can store and sync encrypted keys from a remote backend.
Networking/Message passing
Data Storage/Message Persistence
Aether's data structure is a DAG (directed acyclic graph). It allows insertion and deletion of content.
Posts are ephemeral. After a certain period of inactivity on a post, it automatically gets dropped by nodes on the network.
Moderation/Reputation
Each sub-community has its own moderators, which communities elect or impeach themselves. Like sub-reddits, communities largely govern themselves.
Whitelists and blacklists are used to moderate the collection of communities. When users join, the default is to only display communities on a vetted whitelist, to ensure the safety and comfort of a user's initial experience.
Spam
Aether combats spam by requiring users to complete a small "proof-of-work", a brief hashing function, before they post. This rate-limits the amount of posts that a user can send out to the network, making it more expensive to flood it with spam.
Social/Discovery
Privacy/Access Control
Monetization
The p2p version is supported through funding from the self-hosted Aether Pro version.