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Honest comment: Bitsocial sounds an awful lot like Truth Social.
If that comparison is unintentional and not desired, maybe reconsider the name.
If that is intentional, we are probably not your target audience.
Ngl I did not think about that at all. There are loads of sites with social in the name, like the flagship mastodon instance.
It seems kinda silly to stop using social as in the name for social websites because of them.
I hear BitTorrent with that name
For us, Bitsocial just means BitTorrent for social media, nothing political.
If not for political reasons then why limit first version to Google/GitHub rather than starting with generic OIDC (which should include those two anyway)?
Lmao, rent free
We chose BitSocial because it’s closer to “BitTorrent for social media”
the “bit” part is about peer-to-peer distribution and protocol design, not politics or ideology.
We are not trying to mirror Truth Social or target any specific political audience.
Our goal goal is a neutral, open-source, decentralized social media protocol.