CTZN (pronounced "Citizen")

A decentralized social network with a strong focus on building communities.

Features

• Status feeds with 256 character limits but the ability to post "extended text" with no limit (shows on expand).
• Social following and moderated communities.
• Threaded comments.
• Decentralized hosting (anybody can create a server, and data syncs using the Hypercore Protocol).

Read the initial design document to learn more about the architecture.

⚠️ Alpha Software

CTZN is still in development! If you decide to run a server or build against the protocol, beware that breaking changes may occur and won't always be communicated ahead of time. We will create a stability process once CTZN reaches beta.

📚 Docs

• Setup
  • How to set up a CTZN server
  • How to work on the CTZN codebase
• Architecture
  • Design overview
  • Roadmap
  • APIs
  • Database schemas overview
  • Database methods
  • Community roles system
  • Community permissions system

📺 Videos

CTZN's development has been live-streamed from day 1. You can watch the archives on YouTube.

Attributions

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✨ Patreon support

CTZN is generously supported on Patreon by many people. You can see the full list of names here.

We've also received gracious donations outside of patreon from:

• cryptokoh.eth