https://github.com/bamidev/stonenet

A peer-to-peer & censorship-resistant social-media platform
https://github.com/bamidev/stonenet

peer-to-peer social-network

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A peer-to-peer & censorship-resistant social-media platform

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bamidev/stonenet
• Owner: bamidev
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-01-14T18:07:09.000Z (12 months ago)
• Default Branch: dev
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-22T09:04:30.000Z (8 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-22T16:49:51.902Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: peer-to-peer, social-network
• Language: Rust
• Homepage: http://stonenet.org
• Size: 1.27 MB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 17
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# Stonenet

Stonenet is a peer-to-peer (social) publish-subscribe network, also known as a

decentralized social media platform. It is designed to protect free speech, and

resist censorship. It does this by putting all the data in the hands of the

people, rather than just one (or a few) server(s) like other centralized

and federated social networks. Everyone moderates their own home feed, and

content is only distributed by those peers that have consented to do so, by

subscribing to someone and thereby explicitly supporting their content.

Stonenet works because every participant in the network donates a certain amount

of disk space to those they follow. This resists censorship simply because it

results in a lot of data duplication of recent content, which should be ok since

disk space is very cheap nowadays.

Everyone that wants to help out the network even more than that, can put up

nodes on servers to help improve peer-to-peer connectivity and data

availability.

Moreover, cryptography in Stonenet ensures that nodes that choose to help with

relaying & data storage for strangers, will be unable to know what they are

relaying or storing. This provides ["plausible deniability"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability#Use_in_computer_networks)

in the jurisdictions that support it.

You can even increase the reach of your content outside of the network. A

Stonenet node can be set up as a web-server or an ActivityPub server, so that

your content can be provided to non- Stonenet users on the World Wide Web & the

[Fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse).

**Note**: *Stonenet is still in early development. If you start using Stonenet,

keep your client up to date because it may otherwise become incompatible with

the rest of the network.*

See the doc/ABOUT page for more info.

![image alt center](desktop/assets/logo/128x128.png "Stonenet Logo")