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# System prepended metadata

title: Social Network

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# 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
        - 
    - Weaknesses:
        - Requires a synced eth node
        - Any action requires a gas fee
        - 
    - Unique featuers:
        - Hosted on etherum, using IPFS for larger content

## The Mercode Social Network

- Unique Features
    - ? Total compatibility, wherever possible

