# Social Network

# Competitors

## Centralized Space

## Dezentralized Space

- ZeroMe (zero://me.zeronetwork.bit)
- Strengths:
- Can work offline, fully
- Weaknesses:
- Requires to be synced with the entire network to see all content
- In order to follow a user you need to download the entire hub
- User-IDs depend on centrally signed "CAs" (like zeroid)
- Unique features:
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- SSB (https://scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/secure-scuttlebutt.html)
- Strengths:
- Can work offline, fully
- No central naming, names are self-proclaimed
- Weaknesses:
- Deletion is not possible (append-only)
- No unique names
- Multi-device usage is dangerous, since history-inconsistencies (messages that have the same parent) can't be merged
- Unique features:

- Akasha (https://akasha.world/)
- Strengths:
- After sync content is available locally
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- Weaknesses:
- Requires a synced eth node
- Any action requires a gas fee
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- Unique featuers:
- Hosted on etherum, using IPFS for larger content

## The Mercode Social Network

- Unique Features
- ? Total compatibility, wherever possible