/FractalWeb

A minimalist distributed Web communications framework

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FractalWeb

A minimalist distributed Web communications framework, meet the content you want.

Core design principles

  • Give all the possible control to the user, and good defaults
  • User owns her data
  • User owns her connections
  • Give the user real value following good design principles (http://www.timewellspent.io/)
  • Bring the user ideas to life

Design

  • Written in Typescript
  • WebRTC and WebAssembly based

Use cases

  • As a blog / microblog
  • As a knowledge base
  • As a common chat
  • As a CMS
  • As a corporative chat
  • As a CRM

POC 1, Simple messaging

Completed:

  • Users can join the server with an id
  • Users can connect to other users via id
  • Users can send messages between them when connected

POC 2, replicated filtered DB

Design

  • Minimal
  • Atomic

Each node should have:

  • Content index
  • People index
    • Followers index

Example:

contentIdx = {
  'contentId': { author: '', timestamp: '', type: '', keywords: [], value: '' },
}

peopleIdx = {
  'peopleId': { followersIdx: { token: '' } },
}

Concepts:

  • Content is indexed in contentIdx
  • Direct replication: Node replicate their content based on permissions of followersIdx of itself
  • Indirect replication: Node replicate third party content based on follower permissions of the author in the followersIdx of peopleIdx

POC 2, Asymetric encryption

Use ssb-keys library for that

Server

The design goal is to have one server per user

Responsabilities:

  • Peaple Lookup
  • Signaling

TODOs:

  • Replicate resources directly to friends
  • Secure Authentication via signed message

Roadmap

  • Implement direct replication
  • Implement indirect replication
  • Wifi automatic replication
  • Implement Persistent Nodes
  • Implement Cryptography in Web via WebAssembly

Ideas

  • Automatic Node Protocol Verification: Nodes that are corrupted are isolated

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