BYOF

BYOF (bring your own friends) allows users to follow ethereum addresses and get followed back.

Twitter, Discord and any centralized social media platform keep their social graphs closed. If Discord suddenly shuts down, all your Discord contacts are lost. If you want to leave Twitter you cannot bring your contacts with you. Today there's nothing that gives users ownership on their lists of following/followers and make it portable from platform to platform.

With BYOF you can seamlessly bring your followers to any web3 platform. On the other side, developers can integrate BYOF to import already existing networks.

Let's take Decentraland as potential use case.

Right now once you connect to Decentraland you have to manually enter the addresses of people you want to interact with. If after a week you wanted to move to another platform you have to start from 0 again. If Decentraland would integrate BYOF, you could import your followers (and followings) and start hanging around with them. If you meet someone cool in Decentraland you can start following them: they will always be part of your social graph, beyond Decentraland.

Every web3 application that involves network of people will, eventually, adopt BYOF.

BYOF has 2 components:

A Dashboard where you can track the address you follow. You can check the DAOs they are part of, the NFTs they own and trading, the web3 games they are playing or the metaverse platforms where they are hang around.
An open API that can be integrated within any web3 platform that relies on social networks.

BYOF unlocks:

censorship resistant ownership upon your list of followers
portability and composability across web3 protocols
privacy guaranteed by asymmetric cryptography

MVP Demo

https://youtu.be/bGmtw75th_Y

MVP Specs

Implemented using Ceramic, 3id-connect, Self.ID and DID (decentralized identifiers).

The application uses a custom data model created with Glaze called BYOFGRPH; you can find it [here] (https://github.com/enricobottazzi/BYOF/blob/master/schemas/BYOFschemaz.json)

everything is done off-chain so users won't need to pay gas in order to follow someone

Open Task Board

https://enricob.notion.site/b262167e5b1642edbcd9d6d606e95ec9?v=99b43f78006548418ab490da532ac62b

How to demo it yourself

npm install -g @ceramicnetwork/cli on your machine
run ceramic daemon to start a ceramic node
Clone this repository on your machine
cd my-app
npm start