Ok, but… Who are you?
I’m a research engineer at PUC-Rio University. I have Master in Telecommunications and Doctorship in Applied Electromagnetism. Previously (until 2007) I was one of the lead developers of xine, the multimedia playing engine for Linux. I live in one of the best cities of the free world: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I have a full time job so you might want to know that twister is a hobby. I climb. I hack.
Miguel Freitas
@mfreitas @twister
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That’s the coolest bio ever
Just reading the premises, this project rocks. I’m setting up a node at home.
Agreed. There’s huge potential for this project.
I’m on #twister on Freenode IRC if anyone wants to join me.
Great work Miguel. I started a subreddit for twister. http://www.reddit.com/r/twister
This is interesting. Gotta look forward about Twister.
Miguel, Absolutely brilliant concept. Very well done. Can’t wait to try it.
Hopefully the community can create clean install packages in short order.
Bill
Installed it on my virtual machine and everything working smoothly. Very nice concept that looks and works nice since very beginning – that’s GREAT!
Admin – please make a simple forum for supporters, coders, front-end designers, users – we need to discuss how to make it better and boost the marketing – make it viral
This is very exciting–I’m going to see what I can do to create an Android client and port to Windows in .NET.
Sounds like a community could build around this pretty quickly.
Sorry–should have specific “_Java_ Android client”.
Great idea and cool ‘about’ page.
Thanks very much dude for your valuable time spend on real work.
I’m extremely anxious to see this take the microblogging world by storm.
Soooo cool! It makes me really happy to know people are out there building safeguards for democracy!
Democracy purely on its own, is a system in which the majority can vote away the rights of the minority. A blockchain based means of implimenting censorship resistence is not an example of such, but is more reminisient of safeguards provided by individual rights as something that no one should be able to vote away. The issue here is individual freedom of speech and free autonomy, not collectivisation.
@Brady, excellent clarification. This is about individual freedom.
Love it. Will be trying to build in Ubuntu tonight. Hope I can help in some way.
Long live the distributed solutions for a new fair political representative system!
And cheers to you!
very cool. Keep up the good work!
I liked your “one of the best cities of the free world: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”
are some of the best places in the FREE world!
I live in São Paulo and despite all the (mostly untrue or overrated) bad press I agree with you: Brazil and Rio (and São Paulo
Miguel, essa ideia é muito boa. Sucesso para o projeto. Fiquei sabendo dele esta semana quando entrou no “ports collection” do FreeBSD ( http://www.freshports.org/net-p2p/twister/ ) – acho isso mais um bom sinal.
Bacharel em Sistemas de Informação *PUC/PR* ;D
Hi Miguel,
We have thousands of decentralized networked users on Retroshare which I feel would love to have a Retroshare Twister Plugin that would further expand their comments thru other decentralized, secure networks.
We have a short wiki on Retroshare plugins, sample and blank plugins which interface with the C++,QT Retroshare source coding if you are interested.
Thank you for your interest, efforts and consideration,
ASmith
Hi, I was hoping that there is someone out there working on a touch version for Ubuntu touch when it comes out in 2015, as the De Facto messaging system like “whatsapp” or “Viber” dedicated to Ubuntu users. This will be a tremendous launchpad for Twister and linux smartphones in general, I would instantly drop Android and Windows chat systems for this and I know more people would do the same.
This looks cool! Decentralization = freedom on the Internet
(Please add an option to minimize Twister to system tray)
There is no contact e-mail address, so I leave this comment here.
When trying HTTPS, your website doesn’t load and makes my GNU IceCat browser to throw this error: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long.
Can you please check this?
Thanks!
But we have no SSL certificate here! It will never work.
I see. Can you put one in place (self-generated one, CAcert, StartSSL etc.)? Your webserver listens on the SSL port (443 I believe). Or at least, redirect https to http (which is not a good practice, but anyway). What do you think?
Why dont you set up a nonprofit foundation for Twister and start developing and promoting it like diaspora? Its very important you know. it can bring great change.
Gotta get Twister on board with WebRTC. ☺