Thread by @Suzi3D

Epic thread incoming:

I'm going to answer the question so many people have been asking this week:

WHAT IS PROJECT X???

Here's the definitive thread to tell you - and show you -precisely what Project X is

Grab a drink, sit down with me and let's #TalkLiberation

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"Project X" is actually called "PanQuake".

Pan means "all". Quake is the huge effect our voices can have when our communications are uncensored and when we have access to brand new functionality that *enhances* our social reach, rather than diminishes it

Here's our logo:

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You can follow the fledgling official PanQuake Twitter account here: @pan_quake and see our super cool new website here: panquake.com

You can find our donation page here: gogetfunding.com/panquake

Keep reading this thread to find out why we created it & what it is

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SPOILER ALERT: Much of the content below this point is from my personal slides & speech notes from today's launch event. That stream got totally ruined by (big) tech problems, but I'm happy to report everything is turning out wonderfully regardless:

https://twitter.com/Suzi3D/status/1350599901621723139

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Here are some of our most high profile & dedicated public advocates for PanQuake - many of whom were scheduled to appear at our launch. All of whom stuck around for hours, to do a prerecord of the event, which is being edited, processed & uploaded for you as I write this.

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When you see that stream, you also get to meet many of our amazing staff, which now number more than 20 volunteers, giving their time & love & effort to bring PanQuake to the world.

Those qualified, caring people are fulfilling the following roles in our company:

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Our team has been building this product for months. All of our backend architectural documentation (blockchain, blockchain process, core, network, server) has been nailed down, along with our front-end UI/UX design docs. Here's where our project is at so far:

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Technical stuff aside, this build has a backstory to it. A painful backstory that will resonate with many, because we are all being victimised by big tech, corporations & governments who want to prevent us having free access to information.

PanQuake exists to counter that

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That story for me, mostly started with the Twitter core functionality changes last September. These are the analytics for my person account from August 2020 through to this month. The data is revealing. Counterintuitively, although my reach plummeted, my mentions didn't.

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This means that even as my reach was halving and halving again, approximately the same amount of people were still engaging with me.

ie. the same amount of people were viewing my profile & talking to me, but far less new ppl than before were being exposed to my content.

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Attached is my opening speech from tonight's event. When you see the full video, you'll see me speaking to this in much more detail. But for now, here is the beginning of what I said word for word.

Summary: we are in an abusive relationship with big tech and we must end it

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This screen quotes what I was told by a very mainstream, non-activist, non-content creator, non-techie woman who had never used any social media except Facebook.

Her level of awareness as to the damage that big tech was causing to her life amazed me

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I remembered that Julian Assange had talked in years past, about the increasing problems with censorship by big tech platforms.

I searched up his old tweet and found this: Julian talking about what he called "the filterverse of one"

2nd image: our visual depiction of it

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In 2017 Julian Assange called for a decentralised/cryptographic alternative.

So we decided to fulfill his vision and create a product capable of breaking the "filterverse" that he had so presciently described would end up confining us all.

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Now we get into the 'how'.

By creating a short messaging service, on our own custom blockchain for transparency, with groundbreaking totally NEW functionality, supported by our users! (*Not* supported by VC, advertisers, corporations, governments or security agencies!!!)

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To make that viable, we need to charge registered users a small monthly fee - $5 a month. For those that are struggling with the basics & can't afford it, we will have gift accounts & compassionate accounts.

Here's what $5 per month will get PanQuake users:

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Some months ago, I started canvassing Twitter users I know, asking them to tell me everything they hated about this platform.

On the left: their problems, as they were told to me

On the right: How PanQuake architecturally solves their problems

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Solving problems with existing systems is just a baseline for PanQuake.

We wanted to offer users much more than just that.

We wanted to bring you powerful, cool, life-changing functionality to that no other platform has.

So we designed it & based it all on altruism.

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I studied big tech user workflows & counted clicks. I discovered they deliberately increase loading times, extra clicks & other timewasting stuff, so they can falsely inflate the time users spend on their site, to bump the platform up in ranking engines & attract more ad $$

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PanQuake by comparison, will not seek or accept money from ad companies, corporations, venture capital or investors

Therefore we don't care what our ranking is. Therefore we can - and have - design every single aspect of our systems and user interface for user convenience

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Not only will we not accept investment - we won't sell our company.

How can you trust that? Because we made sure there's nothing to sell.

No user data at all cos we don't collect it.

No central servers (no client/server model)

Our network exists only on user's devices

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Want to know more about the architecture, design, build, implementation, testing, deployment & delivery plan for PanQuake?

Next Saturday (23rd) we will hold a tech deep-dive stream, then broadcast monthly public delivery meetings thereafter.

Join us!

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Not so fussed on the techie stuff but dying to get to try out PanQuake?

Visit panquake.com and follow the 3 steps posted there, then tell as many people as possible to do the same.

Donating will get you regular progress updates & expedite the build process

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There is mountains more to what PanQuake is, what plans we have in store for it and how our supporters, staff & public advocates feel about the product. You'll get to hear some of that with the impending release of our launch vid & more in coming weeks...

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But for now, regular people are employing word of mouth to already shape this campaign into a success

With no corporate or MSM backing, no big advertising or PR dollars, we will have to be the little engine that could

With your love & help, that's exactly what we'll be

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We live in a really dark world right now, where very few opportunities for meaningful change arise

So when they do, its more important than ever that we grab them with both hands & don't let go

Our strength will be the strength you lend us through your participation

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Persistent campaigning to raise awareness about panquake.com at the person-to-person, grassroots level will be really key

Being an overnight success is nowhere near as good as achieving organic growth

So we must #talkliberation every day until we achieve it

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