Decentralized Social Media(Dwitter)

HashNode AWS Amplify

Introduction

In the present world social media has become a very important part of our lives. We share so much content everyday ranging from what we are doing in our personal lives to professional information. For some it's a source of income due to its marketing capabilties and for some it's platform to share there content, for some its a platform to raise there voice and for some it's a platform to connect to world. Infact some social media platforms have become a political playground also. Many decisions, ideas, events our shared on these platforms, consider the case of twitter many heads of countries share updates on this platform. But with all these things we know social media has a problem due to its centralized nature. we have seen of password leak of twitter users and forcefull banning of accounts due to political influence. Also the advertisers may not know wether the ads they are promoting are not influenced by these companies. All these things force us to adopt a decentralization and this project have tried to implemented that.

Platform Overview

The platform is a decentralized social media something similar to twitter but totally in a decentralized way having no server. The platform is having a smart contract containing all the important logic and is deployed on Ethereum Blockchain. Some of the features of the platform are:

Secure and user friendly login using metamask wallet
Only your Public address is the key to access the platform
Cool user profile same as Twitter
Easy to use interface
Commenting feature on dweets
Reporting feature on dweets
- Once a dweet get a specified no of reports it will be sent to maintainers for action
- You will have to stake some ethers for reporting
- If the dweet is banned by maintainers you will get refund and a reward
- If the dweet is not Banned by maintainers you will get no refund and the staked amount will go to the reported dweet author
Like feature on dweets
You can upload advertisements(image and a link) and reach out to platform users at nominal cost
- Advertisements once submitted will be sent to maintainers for acceptance -If it is rejected then 80% amount will be refunded
Maintainers can be added to the platform
A dedicated maintainer page where you can give acceptance and ban dweets(only If it gets required reports)

Tech stack Used

Ethereum
IPFS
Web3js
HTML
CSS
Bootstrap
Javascript
Jquery
Truffle
AWS Amplify

Future Work

Use Meta transactions(gasless transactions) to make the platform gas free for users
Add more Features like follow, profile view etc
Add video Advertisement options
Add reporting on comments
Aws Amplify Text to speech and AWS Sentiment Analysis for better management
Aws Object and Image Detection to track explicit or wrong images
Aws amplify analytics to track platform
Aws amplify push notifications for real-time dweet updates

Directory Structure

📦 DECENTRALIZED_SOCIAL_MEDIA
 ┣ 📂 .github
 ┣ 📂 node_modules
 ┣ 📂 build (Recent build of the Smart Contracts)
 ┣ 📂 contract (Solidity Smart Contracts)
 ┣ 📂 migrations (Truffle deployment migrations)
 ┣ 📂 test (Smart Contract Tests)
 ┣ 📂 src (Dapp Frontend)
 ┣ 📜 avoiding_common_attacks.md
 ┣ 📜 design_pattern_decisions.md
 ┣ 📜 package.json (project dependencies)
 ┣ 📜 README.md (Project Documentation)
 ┣ 📜 server.js (Lite server to host frontend)
 ┗ 📜 truffle-config.js (Truffle Project Config)

Running the project

Smart Contracts

Run npm i to install dependencies.
Run ganache-cli to start a local chain.
In the projects root directory, run truffle console to interact with the porject.
To compile contracts run truffle compile
To deploy run truffle migrate
To test run truffle test