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Towns

@towns #15655

Ownable town squares for online communities. Towns is a group messaging app for creating better digital hometowns. Built on @buildonriver by HNT Labs
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Towns: Permissionless Group Chats 🏙️

Build your own Town now.
End-to-end encrypted, decentralized and onchain.

http://towns.com

Available on web and iOS.
Build Your Own Clubhouse
/towns
In Community We Trust: we typed up a manifesto piece on the erosion of trust in online spaces. And our outlook towards fixing it 🔮 hope you enjoy!
Know a community leader or builder we should host? Shoot us a note
/NYC
Another one in the books! We host community dinners in NYC to bring fresh perspectives together irl. It’s our way of sharing what we’re building in a more intimate setting than just shouting into the void.
/NYC
we hosted a dinner with some friends of Towns during Farcon this weekend. felt very early 2010s SF meets early sxsw energy. thanks to everyone who made it out.
Creating a town that you own is a seamless experience that takes less than a minute: enter a town name, upload an image for your town, and you're in. Other fun stuff... (1/3)
Make it fun. Explore an on-chain composability playground combined with a familiar messaging experience we all know and love.

Available this Spring as a Progressive Web App for desktop and mobile.
Towns is launching live for everyone this Spring! Here’s a sneak peek 👀

Towns is built on @buildonriver and offers rich E2E encrypted messaging with seamless integration into your on-chain communities.
programmable communication is the way forward
Privacy settings shouldn't exist as toggles. They need to be native, built-in features, that ensure you are the sole owner of your data.
In permissionless social, the community is the network.
Join us in Denver on February 29 for round two with our friends from Refraction Festival!

https://ra.co/events/1860590
In traditional online communities, the platforms set the rules for membership. Access is granted at the whim of centralized administrators, and members have no true ownership over their role in the community
As the transition from online to onchain continues to unfold, communities deserve true ownership and influence over their digital spaces.

Arriving here hinges on moving beyond the shift from online to onchain communities, and towards the concept of onchain towns.