https://github.com/draeder/simple-p2p-social-network

A Simple P2P Social Network that runs exclusively in the browser to create 'pop-up' social networks on the fly
https://github.com/draeder/simple-p2p-social-network

censorship-resistance decentralized p2p serverless social-network

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A Simple P2P Social Network that runs exclusively in the browser to create 'pop-up' social networks on the fly

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/draeder/simple-p2p-social-network
• Owner: draeder
• Created: 2020-07-11T14:46:00.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-06-13T23:00:06.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-30T19:48:06.899Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: censorship-resistance, decentralized, p2p, serverless, social-network
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://social.peer.ooo
• Size: 250 KB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# Simple P2P Social Network

An experimental effort to build a simple serverless, fully decentralized peer-to-peer social network.

The service can run directly in a browser tab without any need for server hosting by simply downloading index.html and opening it in a browser. It can also be hosted, but everything happens in the browser. There is no server-side code to speak of.

At present, the service is completely experimental (expect some bugs)--researching, testing and playing around with various decentralized APIs like Bugout, AvionDB, js-ipfs among others.

## Current Features

- Create a 'pop-up' P2P social network that can be accessed by anyone who has the generated URL

- Once connected to the instance, peers can share new posts and comments between each other

- Posts and comments allow HTML tags. Be careful when using out of date/insecure browsers--they may process scripts!

![Screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/draeder/simple-p2p-social-network/master/sreenshot.png)

## Current Limitations

- Post & comment history is not sent to new joiners, yet

- Many familiar social network features are not yet available (hashtags, likes, post sharing, searchs, followers, etc)

- Code security has not been evaluated

- Connections using Chrome for Android do not work, but other browsers on Android seem to work okay

## Usage

### Online Demo

1. Demo available at https://social.peer.ooo

2. Share the generated URL with friends, or open in a different browser/browser tab to test it out yourself

### Run locally

1. Download and launch index.html

2. Copy the URL into another browser or browser tab

- Note: what makes the magic happen is the 'Peer ID' portion of the URL (the search string after "?r="). 

- Anyone with that string may add the search parameter "?r=" to the URL followed by the generated string to connect to your instance and communicate

> `file:///index.html?r=47321648ef3de6d1bffee634ab3aeba24d775f23`