[quack]

What is the motivation of twister over bitmessage + namecoin. Namecoin is already a decentralized authorization/registration crypto network and bitmessage is a POW based P2P messaging system. The use of DHT seems novel, and it may be interesting to see if the bitmessage community had a reason not to use it.

I'm not trying to attack the idea. I just want to understand what novel work is being done here. Cheers.

[salient]

For starters, I'd probably use this over Bitmessage for the easier to use UI alone. This one also seems to be a little more focused on public messages, too. It looks like a fully decentralized version of Twitter, which could be more appealing to some people.

[johnchristopher]

>What is the motivation of twister over bitmessage + namecoin.

Bitmessage is to mail what twister is to twitter ?

[quack]

Bitmessage is for any messaging system. You can broadcast (twitter), send private message (email), or start a channel (IRC). The key in bitmessage is that to send a message you have to do a POW according to the size of the message you are sending.

Even then you still have massive data bloat problems, which I dont see DHT alone solving.

[kaoD]

Reading Bitmessage broadcasts requires following the user, so you can't see replies if you're not subscribed to the replying user. Twister feels more like Twitter, including searching, hashtags, etc.

Though I guess you could leverage BM's protocol and infrastructure to do that too (broadcasts are public you'd just have to filter the noise).

[johnchristopher]

The few times I installed bitmessage to see what it looked like it escaped me I could actually broadcast messages à la twitter. Might check out that part of the package in the coming future. Thanks for pointing it out.