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A Distributed Social Platform for users that care about controlling their data.
Share
Upload your media, write your posts and share your files. The more people see it, the more it spreads.
Discover
Anyone can seed a copy of everything, App included. You can even use it in LANs without the Internet.
Connect
Take advantage of the social features: seed what you like, leave comments and build communities together.
Why?
Because existing social platforms are broken
Centralized
Online services are all centralized. Your data always goes through foreign servers and is stored in databases far away from your control.
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.
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?
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?
How do we solve it
Boards was designed to be Distributed from scratch, using the IPFS protocol.
Distributed
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.
Efficient
There is no heavy Blockchain. This service is built to work everywhere from supercomputers to smartphones to embedded devices. The more users see a page, the faster it travels to others, making Denial of Service attacks very hard and allowing users to work offline.
Free
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.
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 and 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.
Learn more about development
Note: a getting started section is coming as soon as the prototype is ready!
Built by Enrico Fasoli. 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
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