2 years ago

Category: Business, Privacy, Infrastructure

Aether is one of many new applications in the decentralized social media ecosystem. In other words, the users of Aether get to govern themselves rather than be subject to the whims of a corporate overlord like Reddit.

The P2P app was first released back in 2018 and is billed as a “network of independent, self-moderated communities” (as described in the notes when you first launch the application).

So instead of joining a public community on the P2P app, you create your own private community and control who has access to it. Another key difference is that the P2P app is open source software, whereas the web app is a hosted commercial service (again, like Reddit).