TALK LIBERATION: NEW VID: See Panquake In Action
A new video released this week by Talk Liberation offers an early look at Panquake, a decentralised social media platform currently in closed development. The platform’s founders say it is designed to reduce data retention, avoid centralised media storage, and provide alternative infrastructure for online publishing and discussion.
What Is Panquake?
We did it. We built Panquake.
The Panquake team is using it daily and it is currently in internal use by its development team to browse and post on. In this brand new video released today see Panquake founder Suzie Dawson using Panquake, and specifically, showing off our custom-built audiovisual player PanVME.
PanVME stands for the Panquake Visual Media Environment. There is a ton of extremely innovative tech inside it which we are keeping under wraps for now, for good reason, but what is shown in the below is demonstrated features and we can tell you a bit about what is under the hood.
The video was deliberately shot on a handheld mobile phone filming a laptop screen running the web application version of Panquake Lite in browser.
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No Media Content Stored In Panquake
Unlike the vast majority of other social networks, Panquake does not receive, store or retain copies of the images and videos you upload into PanVME. That’s right! All of the images and videos you see in the above video are not stored in Panquake. This is to protect you – and to protect us.
When you upload content into Panquake it goes instead to IPFS – a decentralised, distributed and censorship resistant file storage. Panquake then uses the IPFS address to the content to render the images and videos into our interface. This gives us the ability to moderate content without ever ingesting the actual files or retaining them.
What we never had – we can’t sell, we cant use to profile anyone or feed into any AI service! And no one can come knocking looking for it. Because it already exists in the public arena: the IPFS addresses will all be published on the Panquake public blockchain.
Current Users and Development Status
So Who Is Using It?
Right now there are 51 user accounts on Panquake belonging to our team members and a few other people involved in the project. This number will gradually expand as we bring in longtime key supporters to get a feel for the platform and give their feedback. Every day we collect a bunch of suggestions to increase usability and every day there are new developments, bug fixes and improvements made to the platform.
We know there are a lot of you who can’t wait to be next in line to get an account, and you will get that chance when the Beta is released. However, releasing a social network to market is an entirely different ballgame than building it.
First and foremost, we are committed to rolling out Panquake only when we can do so confidently and responsibly. That means knowing that we can administrate, moderate, market and scale the platform properly.
We have to be able to transition from design and development to support and maintenance and dramatically expand the operational side of the business.
Funding, Beta Release and Next Steps
What Do We Need To Hurry This All Up?
In order to pull this off, we absolutely need material support from as many like-minded, caring people as possible, who understand how important Panquake is for the liberation of human communication and what a unique opportunity this is for us all at a vital moment.
Where to Find More Information
How Can You Find Out More?
We publish most frequently here on the Talk Liberation Substack – please subscribe for free or paid to support us:
Official updates to our campaign appear at our GoGetFunding page and then are later posted to the Panquake website News page.
Thank you so much for all your support, trust, patience, good wishes and solidarity to this point. It means the world.
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