At the same time that decentralization is gaining more and more space in the world of internet so is doing (ironically) the censorship and surveillance. Just check news about net neutrality or cambridge analytica and you will feel like there's something to do. We need to own the net again. That's why I'm introducing
STEEMSITES
Steemsites is a decentralized platform that aim to create webpage for free thanks to the blockchain and the torrent protocol. Therefore steemsites is uncensored, collaborative and open.
The fact that the blockchain used in this project is steem open the possibility to earn money by publishing or updating websites.
See it live now
Technology Stack
There are 3 key components that make this project. The first is peerweb, a package that renders HTML downloaded via WebTorrent to the browser. The second is WebTorrent which is "torrents on the web". And the last is steem, the blockchain that stores the reference (magnet link) to the actual webpage. The following diagram show exactly how this work
Roadmap
I would love to make this platform more stable and add cool features like webseed and TURN server. I'm open to new ideas!
How to contribute?
Comment ideas in this post, correct my grammar, open issues or pull request in GitHub
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