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<h4 class="light">A Distributed Social Platform for users that care about
controlling their data.</h4>
<div class="row">
<div class="four columns">
<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-upload fa-3x light"></i></div>
#### Share
__Upload your media, write your posts and share your files__. The more people see it,
the more it spreads.
</div>
<div class="four columns">
<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-globe fa-3x light"></i></div>
#### Discover
__Anyone can seed a copy of everything__,
App included. You can even use it
in LANs without the Internet.
</div>
<div class="four columns">
<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-users fa-3x light"></i></div>
#### Connect
__Take advantage of the social features__: seed what you like, leave comments
and build communities together.
</div>
</div>
</div>
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# Why?
<h4 class="light">Because existing social platforms are broken</h4>
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-server fa-3x light"></i></div>
#### Centralized
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__Online services are all centralized__. Your data always goes through foreign servers and
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is stored in databases far away from your control.
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-money fa-3x light"></i></div>
#### Expensive
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__Centralization costs a lot__. Servers need to be paid for and engineers need to
be hired to handle their load. __That's why most sites have ads__.
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</div>
</div>
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-bomb fa-3x light"></i></div>
#### Fragile
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When you use a centralized service, you rely on its owners. __What if they go
bankrupt or just pull the plug on your data?__
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</div>
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-legal fa-3x light"></i></div>
#### Controlled
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__The owners control the service__. What if you want to go back to an older version
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of the service? What if you want it to work like it used to, or you want to make
it do something new?
</div>
</div>
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----
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## How do we solve it
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<h5 class="light">Boards was designed to be Distributed from scratch,
using the <a href="https://ipfs.io">IPFS</a> protocol.</h5>
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<div class="row">
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-users fa-3x light"></i></div>
#### Distributed
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__Every user hosts is own data__, but your computer
helps your friends and favorite creators (and only them) by seeding their content,
sending it to whoever wants to see it. Anyone can also set up a server that
helps random users by seeding their data.
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</div>
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-bolt fa-3x light"></i></div>
#### Efficient
There is no heavy __Blockchain__. This service is built to work everywhere from
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supercomputers to smartphones to embedded devices. __The more users see a page,
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the faster it travels to others__, making Denial of Service attacks very hard and
allowing users to work offline.
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</div>
</div>
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-globe fa-3x light"></i></div>
#### Free
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__Free, as in Freedom__. __We can't control anything__, because the users
control the content. There is no central database. There are only the users,
their computers, and their content. __We can't put ads on this__, because
they'd be too easy to block: anyone can create his own App that connects to
our service.
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</div>
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-cogs fa-3x light"></i></div>
#### Open
__We're working on this in the open__. We already have a prototype, and all our
code is _Free Software_. Got what it
takes? [Join development on GitHub](https://github.com/fazo96/ipfs-boards) and
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help us making this better. __There are a lot of ways you can help__: not only writing code,
but also submitting feedback, testing for bugs, and spreading the word.
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</div>
</div>
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<h5 class="light">Learn more about development</h5>
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<a href="https://github.com/fazo96/ipfs-boards"><i class="fa fa-github fa-3x"></i></a>
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__Note:__ a getting started section is coming as soon as the prototype is ready!
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----
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Built by [Enrico Fasoli](https://github.com/fazo96). This Application is
distributed under the terms of the MIT License. Every other bundled asset is
distributed under the terms of its own license. Learn more at the
[Project Page](https://github.com/fazo96/ipfs-boards)
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