Manyverse – a peer-to-peer social network
Manyverse is a social networking app with features you would expect: posts, likes, profiles, private messages, etc. But it's not running in the cloud owned by a company, instead, your friends' posts and all your social data live entirely in your phone. This way, even when you're offline, you can scroll, read anything, and even write posts and like content! When your phone is back online, it syncs the latest updates directly with your friends' phones, through a shared local Wi-Fi or on the internet.
We're building this free and open source project as a community effort because we believe in non-commercial, neutral, and fair mobile communication for everyone.
( Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux)
Manyverse – a peer-to-peer social network
A social network off the grid – mobile and available on Androidwww.manyver.se
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Nate Cox
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in reply to Nate Cox • • •Zerush
in reply to Nate Cox • • •I don't know, probably. Well, anyway P2P is always the best solution to avoid that big corporations are breathing in your neck.
Gitlab page gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse
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in reply to gtr • • •Joël de Bruijn
in reply to Zerush • • •Forgot this existed, tested it 5 years ago or so.
Latest release is from 2019.
AFAIK every message propagates through the entire network, not knowing its destination, but only the rigth recipient can decrypt it. As a consequence of the scuttlebutt protocol.
That didnt seem scalable to me ....
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Pika
in reply to Joël de Bruijn • • •further more the opencollective project hasn't seen an expense report for development since july of 2024 only domain renewals. so it's not like they are working behind the scenes and just haven't pushed anything to the gitlab (which also hasent seen any real development activity since july 2024)
edit: I just saw this on their blog.
so it sounds like the project is essentially dead
Launch of the PZP protocol and the future of Manyverse
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Cooper8
in reply to Zerush • • •Sadly Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol is abandonware, as is it's more scalable but far less tested successor PZP
The p2p social approach seems so necessary, but projects that actually implement it are fraught with challenges it seems.
Launch of the PZP protocol and the future of Manyverse
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in reply to Cooper8 • • •Cooper8
in reply to Zerush • • •The question is why is this the case? The simple answer is p2p solutions struggle with asynchronous communications due to variable uptime of consumer devices. That said, that can be overcome by various means.
Establishing a user base for any communications platform is a challenge, largely adoption is driven by user experience and project narrative. There is no reason a p2p project couldn't meet these criteria, they have before many times for file-sharing.
In fact, I think a self-hosted cloud storage solution with a communications platform built on it could be a great way to get a network of this type established. I know various file-sharing platforms like Soulseek have had these features, but I wonder if you slapped a WhatsApp clone UI onto it and push it as "own and share your files securely, no one you don't specifically share the file with ever holds the files" if that wouldn't pick up some steam.
Ulrich
in reply to Zerush • • •Where is FDroid repo?
Can I have some room invitations?
Florencia (she/her)
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