It’s intended to be much more local and decentralized than the fediverse, under the assumption that over time large fedi instances will exhibit the same issues as large centralized social networks (profit seeking, manipulation, etc)

• Instead of many people connecting to the same server, people only connect to people’s devices that they know
• It uses the resources of users “daily driver” devices for hosting
• It leverages “real life” personal connections and trust to deny access to large centralized entities