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by gnarea 631 days ago
Hello! Author of Awala here. Not sure about that. We're trying to solve very different problems.

Scuttlebut and SSB-powered apps like Manyverse focus on social media and decentralisation, which is more about "broadcasting" and gossip protocols, where the offline comms is a happy side-effect of their decentralisation goals.

Awala is a platform to make software communicate offline securely. Centralised services like Twitter[1], and decentralised ones like Letro[2], or even hybrids, are all possible.[3]

I'm not on a quest to decentralise the Internet. I'm on a quest to connect people to their loved ones despite repressive regimes and wars.

[1] https://github.com/AwalaApp/poc#relaynets-proof-of-concept (Awala used to be called Relaynet)

[2] https://letro.app/en/

[3] https://awala.network/tech-overview#service-decentralisation