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Social platforms are broken
There's something terribly wrong with the Internet
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 can we solve this?
A new Social Platform needs to be built that attempts to be the first to solve these problems: it has to allow people to publish their thoughs, give them 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.
Introducing Boards
Boards is a distributed social platform built for the browser using the IPFS protocol
Distributed
Every user is responsible for his own content, Profile and Boards, but your computer helps your friends and favorite creators (and only them) by sending their content to people that want to see it. Only the original creator has control over his 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 virtually impossible.
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 build the first feature complete prototype.
Help us getting it to work
Built by Enrico Fasoli. 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