identia

Peer-to-peer, censorship resistant social media on IPFS. Plus experimental RSS reader.

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Development / Running from source

Follow this guide to setup dev dependencies...

Linux

For video playback on linux, you may need to manually install gstreamer/gst-plugins: gstreamer gst-libva gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-ugly

For hardware video acceleration install: gstreamer-vaapi. Optional but recommended.

npm install
npm start

Architecture

The identity object:

{
    "avatar": "", // base64 encoded image or ipfs CID for "avatar"
    "description": "", // user-defined description / bio
    "display_name": "", // user-defined display name
    "following": [""], // a list of ID's the user follows
    "meta": {}, // graph time!
    "posts": [""], // a list of CIDs that represent post objects
    "publisher": "", // users IPNS ID
    "timestamp": 1608271880058, // UTC adjusted UNIX timestamp of the identities last alteration
}

The post object:

{
    "body": "", // the text body of the post
    "files": [], // a list of file paths, relative to the post root
    "meta": {}, // graph time!
    "publisher": "", // original publisher, will be used for "re-post" functionality
    "timestamp": 1608271880058 // UTC adjusted UNIX timestamp of the post
}

The meta object:

{"TODO": "so many things to do..."}

The meta object is a store for arbitrary data that can be used to describe complex relationships between various types of data. These relationships can be stored in a post object to add context to a specific post or in the identity object to provide an identity-wide context scope.

TODO

• prototype logic
• periodically re-publish self identity
• periodically update identities you follow...
• cache posts
• enable file in posts
• bundle IPFS binaries and manage execution
• post view
• implement tray.
• progress events for spinners and such
• Distribute binaries
• migrate to SQLite...
• Paginate feed
• enable(fix) audio/video playback
• re-implement comment system via pubsub
• implement image(media) board system via pubsub
• implement custom IPFS in rust-libp2p
• mobile...
• "re-post" / mirror a post
• include crypto signature of body in post
• mechanism for exporting / importing, identity / posts
• strip exif data from images
• include index.html with posts to allow styling for browser consumption...
• Auto-update system
• advanced pin management
• meta view
• settings view
• keybase-like functionality...

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