This is about creating (social) networks without authorities or business censoring and storing all data in one locations.
Everybody has his own content and joins several channels. Channels are like chatrooms, in a way that everyone joined gets every update by everyone else and nothing persists. Channels can have restrictions, like:
- an IRC style channel only allows for text
- a twitter style channel allows 140 chars of text, links, pictures and videos
- a facebook style channel allows text, links, pictures, albums, videos etc.
- a creative channel allows canvas drawings with descriptions only