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# Social platforms are broken
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<h4 class="light">There's something terribly wrong with the Internet</h4>
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-server fa-3x light"></i></div>
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#### 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>
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#### Expensive
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Centralization costs a lot. Servers need to be paid for and engineers need to
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be hired to handle their load. That's why most sites have ads.
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-bomb fa-3x light"></i></div>
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#### Fragile
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When you use a centralized service, you rely on its owners. What if they go
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bankrupt or just pull the plug on your data?
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-legal fa-3x light"></i></div>
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#### 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
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it do something new?
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----
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## How can we solve this?
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A new Social Platform needs to be built that attempts to be the first to solve
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these problems: it has to allow people to publish their thoughs, give them power
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to control their content, their pages and their profiles but also the freedom to
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live without any rules. It has to work on all platforms, all networks,
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even without the Internet.
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----
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## Introducing Boards
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<h5 class="light">Boards is a distributed social platform built for the browser
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using the <a href="https://ipfs.io">IPFS</a> protocol</h5>
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-users fa-3x light"></i></div>
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#### Distributed
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__Every user is responsible for his own content__, Profile and Boards, but your computer
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helps your friends and favorite creators (and only them) by sending their
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content to people that want to see it. __Only the original creator has control
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over his data__.
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-bolt fa-3x light"></i></div>
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#### Efficient
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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 virtually impossible.
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-globe fa-3x light"></i></div>
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#### Free
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__Free, as in Freedom__. __We can't control anything__, because the users
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control the content. There is no central database. There are only the users,
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their computers, and their content. __We can't put ads on this__, because
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they'd be too easy to block: anyone can create his own App that connects to
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our service.
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<div class="head-icon"><i class="fa fa-cogs fa-3x light"></i></div>
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#### Open
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__We're working on this in the open__. We already have a prototype, and all our
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code is _Free Software_. Got what it
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takes? [Join development on GitHub](https://github.com/fazo96/ipfs-boards) and
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help us build the first feature complete prototype.
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----
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<h5 class="light">Help us getting it to work</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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----
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Built by [Enrico Fasoli](https://github.com/fazo96). This Application is a prototype
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distributed under the terms of the GPLv3 License. Every other bundled asset is
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distributed under the terms of its own license. Learn more at the [Project Page](https://github.com/fazo96/ipfs-boards)
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