mirror of
https://github.com/fazo96/ipfs-boards
synced 2025-01-26 15:04:19 +01:00
127 lines
3.7 KiB
Markdown
127 lines
3.7 KiB
Markdown
# Social platforms are broken
|
|
|
|
<h4 class="light">There's something terribly wrong with the Internet</h4>
|
|
|
|
<div class="row">
|
|
|
|
<div class="six columns">
|
|
|
|
<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-server fa-3x light"></i></div>
|
|
|
|
#### Centralized
|
|
|
|
Online services are all centralized. Your data always goes through foreign servers and
|
|
is stored in databases far away from your control.
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="six columns">
|
|
|
|
<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-money fa-3x light"></i></div>
|
|
|
|
#### Expensive
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="row">
|
|
<div class="six columns">
|
|
|
|
<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-bomb fa-3x light"></i></div>
|
|
|
|
#### Fragile
|
|
|
|
When you use a centralized service, you rely on its owners. What if they go
|
|
bankrupt or just pull the plug on your data?
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="six columns">
|
|
|
|
<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-legal fa-3x light"></i></div>
|
|
|
|
#### Controlled
|
|
|
|
The owners control the service. What if you want to go back to an older version
|
|
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>
|
|
|
|
## How can we solve this?
|
|
|
|
We found a solution. A new Social Platform that attempts to be the first to solve
|
|
these problems: it has to allow people to express themselves, give power to control
|
|
their content, their pages and their profiles but also the freedom to live without
|
|
any rules. It has to work on all platforms, all networks, even without the
|
|
Internet and become truly universal
|
|
|
|
## Introducing Boards
|
|
|
|
<h5 class="light">Yeah we totally need a better name</h5>
|
|
|
|
<div class="row">
|
|
<div class="six columns">
|
|
|
|
<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-users fa-3x light"></i></div>
|
|
|
|
#### Distributed
|
|
|
|
__Every user is responsible for his own content__, Profile and Boards, but your computer
|
|
helps your friends and favourite creators (and only them) by sending their
|
|
content to people that want to see it. __Only the original creator has control
|
|
over his data__.
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="six columns">
|
|
|
|
<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
|
|
supercomputers to smartphones to the Internet of Things. __The more users see a page,
|
|
the faster it travels to others__, making Denial of Service attack virtually impossible.
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="row">
|
|
<div class="six columns">
|
|
|
|
<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-globe fa-3x light"></i></div>
|
|
|
|
#### Free
|
|
|
|
__Free, as in Freedom__. __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.
|
|
__We can't control anything__, because the users control the content. There
|
|
is no central service. There is only the users, their computers, and their content.
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="six columns">
|
|
|
|
<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
|
|
help us build the social platform of tomorrow.
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
#### We're doing this because we believe that Social Platforms can become more than what they are now
|
|
|
|
<h5 class="light">Help us step into the next generation of the Internet</h5>
|
|
|
|
----
|
|
|
|
Built by [Enrico Fasoli](https://github.com/fazo96). This Application is a prototype
|
|
distributed under the terms of the GPLv3 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)
|