Ethereum Creator Praises Decentralized Twitter Peepeth, But Not All Users are Happy

Who tested Peepeth for the first time on July 21, 2018, complimented the developers for integrating a clean user interface, opinionated features, charity stickers, and a unique aspect that enables users to connect their Twitter accounts to Peepeth to "Peep" and Tweet simultaneously.

Some users expressed complaints about the data processing system requiring users to send a transaction to the Ethereum main chain each time a Peep or a response to a thread is posted on the Peepeth platform.

As a decentralized application, every piece of information uploaded to the Peepeth platform is processed on the main blockchain network of Ethereum, and depending on the performance of Ethereum, the user experience of Peepeth can change drastically.

"We shouldn't ask technical decision making from users. Ideally users should be able to use products without even having to know what a blockchain is."

Some protocols based on Ethereum like 0x, the decentralized exchange protocol on which popular decentralized exchanges such as Paradex are built, have created particular off-chain mechanisms to batch transactions and data requests to one large transaction that is sent to the Ethereum main chain.

The benefit of utilizing a hybrid on-chain and off-chain mechanism for both the developers and users is that it reduces congestion on the Ethereum network and costs handled by the users when initiating various operations requiring gas to be processed.

On Peepeth, at least in its current form, users are required to send gas to the Ethereum network for each post or change, creating an impractical environment for users, especially for responding on threads and messages.

The deployment of Peepeth could be justified by the censorship of data initiated by central authorities, such as Twitter itself and government agencies, as seen in the case of China banning Facebook, Google, and YouTube to help local companies gain complete dominance over the Chinese market.

If Peepeth intends to provide excellent UI and a seamless experience to users on par with existing social media platforms like Twitter, it cannot depend on the Ethereum network to reach a million transaction per second capacity with Plasma and Sharding.

Peepeth will need to design unique native scaling solutions to ensure the platform can exist comfortably on the Ethereum network.