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https://github.com/publiusfederalist/federalist
Access files on the decentralized, unblockable torrent swarm and visit links using Handshake domains. Decentralized internet is here.
https://github.com/publiusfederalist/federalist
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Access files on the decentralized, unblockable torrent swarm and visit links using Handshake domains. Decentralized internet is here.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/publiusfederalist/federalist
- Owner: publiusfederalist
- Created: 2021-12-02T04:07:04.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-02-02T16:58:31.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-02-17T12:40:09.983Z (9 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 359 KB
- Stars: 582
- Watchers: 17
- Forks: 16
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# federalist
## Access a new kind of decentralized website on the DHT
## Learn more by joining the [Handshake Discord Community](https://discord.gg/tXJ2UdGuda)
## Extension
An extension was made by the [Kyokan](https://kyokan.io) team. [Bob Extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bob-extension/ogcmjchbmdichlfelhmceldndgmgpcem?hl=en-US) supports the federalist protocol and a plethora of other features including Handshake wallet support! This is highly recommended to use moving forward. This repo will be updated soon to support webrtc.
### Short Description
federalist uses webtorrent with BEP 46 and Handshake domain resolution to access truly decentralized, unblockable swarm websites.
### Long Description
federalist is a proof of concept to show that it's possible, today, to create a decentralized, uncensorable and generally unblockable, distributed high performance
viewable page. federalist achieves this by using several amazing technologies and weaves them together:
- [WebTorrent](https://github.com/webtorrent) - Provides torrenting capabilities and the bulk of the system. federalist pages are torrents that are
distributed via magnet links and DHT is used to find peers.
- [DMT](https://github.com/lmatteis/dmt) - Reference implementation of decentralized mutable torrents, [BEP 46](https://github.com/lmatteis/bittorrent.org/blob/master/beps/bep_0046.rst).
- [Handshake](https://github.com/handshake-org/) - Provides decentralized DNS
- [nodeJS](https://github.com/nodejs) - Provides the Javascript engine built on V8 by Chrome
- [Electron](https://github.com/electron) - Provides the GUI
- [Chromium](https://github.com/chromium/chromium) - Electron uses this really cool software to deliver GUI applications that can be made with HTML, CSS and Javascript.
### Features
- Update your unblockable swarm site without updating your DNS, as often as you'd like.
- Use HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Unblockable
### Status
This software is a POC and is in version 0.1a. This is an upgrade from the previous version which worked with markdown files and only immutable destinations.
### Screenshot
## Use Cases
- Create an unblockable blog
- Whistleblow (must use an anonymizer)
- Share information
- Share meta information about other torrents
- Create an unblockable personal link site
- Save bandwidth and CDN costs
## federalist
The federalist app is used to browse. You can use the [publius](https://github.com/publiusfederalist/publius) app to share/seed your page and get the infohash to which an on-chain Handshake name will be resolved.
## Installation
Required
```
npm
nodejs
```
1. Clone this repo
```
git clone https://github.com/publiusfederalist/federalist
cd federalist
```
2. Install npm modules
```
npm install
```
3. Run federalist
```
npm start
```
4. Access a decentralized, unblockable swarm site.
```
federalist://federalistpapers
```
which points to:
```
magnet:?xs=urn:btpk:e239849106256aad20b0ddadd9f2cb013910dab3207f3b200fbe2e76899cb6c2
```
## Discussion
Please make an issue on github for any bugs or feature requests. To discuss more,
join #scarywater on irc.freenode.net.
## Copyright and License
(c) 2021 Publius
MIT LICENSED