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A new privacy protecting, but easy to use new player - Veilid will soon appear on the horizon. Color me skeptical. It claims it uses P2P. They use phrases like heavy node (Super node?). I wonder is it Skype in new clothing?

Cult of Dead Cow hacktivists design encryption system for mobile apps - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/technology/

The Washington Post · Hacking group plans system to encrypt social media and other appsBy Joseph Menn
Aswath Rao

It turns out that they have a presence in Twitter from July 2020 and their first pinned tweet there is a hex code which I surmise it to be their public key. So that is a first clue. Will they also map it to a human friendly name like ATP et al do? A Hubzilla in the making?