LocPost

LocPost

Censorship resistant, location-based communication that empowers anyone to have a voice.

Created on 18th September 2022

LocPost

LocPost

Censorship resistant, location-based communication that empowers anyone to have a voice.

The problem LocPost solves

Don't you find it strange that we can easily connect with someone around the globe, but that we live surrounded by neighbors we don't ever know about?

There is no 'easy-to-use', that is intuitive & (in particular) accountless, context- e.g. location-based, public content posting (e.g. messaging) system out there, let alone one using a decentralized, censorship-resistant infrastructure that allows for privacy, anonimity, and near effortless participation & inclusion. Until now.

LocPost helps bring web3 to the common user, and fights back the centralized model where everyone is in danger to get banned, censored or cancelled by platformed overlords, at any time, for whatever reason. With LocPost, anyone anywhere can (inter)act instantly at any time, in relation to a specific context or location.

Use cases (can) include leaving graffiti/tags somewhere (beyond MVP: perhaps even as 3D artificact?), where they can be read (used) by anyone, but also simply enabling more (i.e. lower/lowest threshold) local interaction, e.g. at the neighbourhood level.

Our simple apporach gives us a way to interact with each other in a way that is (still today) hard to do, while at the same time, needed.

Challenges we ran into

Empty messages.

Lack of / delay in synchronization.

Learning GUN (the distributed/decentralized graph DB).

Design issues: core value proposition (actual importance / 'zoom level' of location), encryption, (more) decentralization, upvote/voting/valuation system, tokenization, UI/UX.

Integrating map data: display & work with map functionality.

Notification system.

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