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From the FAQ linked on the site:
This sounds fucking awful. You want a peer-to-peer network, but decided to tie critical features to the blockchain, something arguably less decentralised than APub software.
As the FAQ says, the base protocol doesn't use tokens. Meaning, there are no critical features tied to any blockchain.
The crypto features we implemented in our clients are not required by the protocol. The protocol works perfectly fine without them. We implemented them in our clients because they are nice, and they are:
Human-readable names are a critical feature.
Not really, most of the time people post on 4chan without them even though they exist.
And we see how horrible 4chan is...
One of the interfaces copies it, so it's supposed to be a decentralized 4chan. Usernames are not a core feature of it, and anyone can impersonate you unless you post with a hash of your password. That hash is only barely human readable and many people forget what it is.