r/SentinelP2P Becomes Sentinel's Main Subreddit, r/dVPN Lives on As Hub for App Users

This is a modified version of an announcement originally posted on r/dVPN.

As you've probably gleaned by following this website, Sentinel has been dramatically expanding its scope and objectives over the past two years.

Since this was formally set in stone about a week ago with the P2P ticker change, the mod team was left in a bit of a bind since Reddit doesn't allow subreddits to be renamed. dVPN is still the core of Sentinel, and r/dVPN holds half a decade of community activity and project history.

After deliberating for a few days, the Sentinel Growth DAO (the community-focused arm of the project which manages both this site and Sentinel's presence on Reddit since r/dVPN's grand re-opening over a year ago) has decided that the best course of action is to create a brand new subreddit for Sentinel and retain r/dVPN as a home for dVPN application users.

Click the button below to visit r/SentinelP2P, Sentinel's brand new home on Reddit.

Visit r/SentinelP2P

Why do This?

To put it as simply as possible, r/SentinelP2P is the new home for the blockchain-oriented side of the community, and r/dVPN has been re-geared towards everyday users of Sentinel's array of consumer dVPN applications.

Those applications have over ten thousand daily active users, a figure which will soon balloon to over a hundred thousand due to the onboarding of an established traditional VPN. The majority of those users don't even know what Sentinel is because of how similar the in-app experience has become to non-blockchain VPNs.

Because Sentinel has achieved an unprecedented degree of real-world adoption among demographics which aren't necessarily crypto-literate or concerned with the open source architecture powering their apps, we believe that hosting two subreddits will just reflect the reality of the project's unique position. For example, somebody who uses Independent dVPN to access georestricted F1 streams will likely just be confused if they visit r/dVPN and see posts about node hosting, crypto trading, and governance proposals—that's not something most blockchain projects ever have to worry about.

What Goes Where?

r/SentinelP2P

r/SentinelP2P is for any discussion or news about Sentinel as a blockchain/cryptocurrency project, including:

• Core development activity.
• Community happenings and memes.
• Trading and price discussion.
• Staking and governance.
• Marketing and outreach.
• AI (Agent/LLM) training and data acquisition with Sentinel Scout.
• On-chain infrastructure such as dVPN nodes and validators.

r/dVPN

r/dVPN is for questions, feedback, bug reports, technical support, news, updates, or anything else that has to do with Sentinel's dVPN applications, both present and future.

More Details

• Both subreddits have received significant overhauls, including visuals, new flair for posts, revised sidebar links/widgets, and rules.
• No posts on r/dVPN have been removed or deleted. Instead, all posts which are no longer on-topic have been locked and everything over a year old has been archived.
• Both subreddits share the same moderation team and will receive the same amount of attention as before.