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No one can take down any content from the app, even the admins. Lenster is powered by Lens Protocol, a decentralized social graph built by Aave companies \ud83d\udc7b\n\n\n\nThe Problems with existing social media\n\n\nThere are a lot of social media platforms out there, and we should agree they provided us great service, but also we should agree there are a lot of problems still persists.\n\n\n\n\u2022 Personal Information: We need to give a lot of personal information not needed for the platform or useful for consumers.\n\n\u2022 Privacy: There is no privacy on the existing platforms. All the data we give are sold for advertisements, and 1000s of mods and admins monitor all our posts and chats.\n\n\u2022 Spam: Current model creates tons of spam against the user. Because spamming is free, you don't need to pay money to spam.\n\n\u2022 Downtime: The app we use right now is prone to downtime because a single company with limited servers hosts that.\n\n\n\nThe Problems Lenster Solves\n\n\n\u2022 Personal Information: You don't provide any personal information except your username (it's your choice) and wallet address, and we don't collect any sensitive information, and it's difficult to store those in Smart contracts.\n\n\u2022 Privacy: Lenster or the Lens team doesn't have access to remove your posts, everything you post is public, and you are responsible for it.\n\n\u2022 Spam: In Lenster, you must sign for everything or by the relay. That's the nature of the Blockchain; no one wants to sign their identity for spamming\n\n\u2022 Downtime: Lenster is hosted in a decentralized chain and decentralized file storage system IPFS. This means there will be 0 downtimes, and no one can DDoS the platform.\n\n\n\nFeatures\n\n\n\u2022 \ud83d\udc65 Create user profiles\n\n\u2022 \ud83c\udf20 Create posts\n\n\u2022 \ud83d\udcac Comment on a post\n\n\u2022 \ud83e\ude9e Mirror (sharing) posts\n\n\u2022 \ud83d\udd16 Bookmark posts\n\n\u2022 \ud83d\udd10 Token gated publications\n\n\u2022 \ud83d\udcb0 Create crowdfunds\n\n\u2022 \ud83d\udc65 Create communities\n\n\u2022 \u2795 Follow profiles\n\n\u2022 \ud83c\udfa8 Publish NFTs\n\n\u2022 \ud83c\udfde Collect NFTs\n\n\u2022 \ud83d\udd14 Notifications\n\n\u2022 \ud83d\udc8c E2E encrypted DMs\n\n\u2022 \ud83d\ude80 Launch a DAO from the profile follow NFTs\n\n\u2022 \ud83c\udfd8\ufe0f Communities (WIP)\n\n\u2022 \ud83c\udfa4 Spaces (WIP)\n\n\n\nWhy Grants?\n\n\n\u2022 We want to make the app more accessible without paying any gas. 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