decentraleyes-net v0.0.18
DECENTRALEYES.NET
Decentraleyes.net is being crafted by Rob Colbert to offer an alternative to centralized social networking. The corporate walled gardens of today's online social media and their policies are a problem. Practically anyone with something real to say has been suspended or had content removed against their will because a random company has a random policy based on things like politicial correctness as defined and enforced by greedy, purchased politicians in the United States of America and a few completely out-of-balance societies overseas.
Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Ello and others are all owned by a centralized entity seeking to be the primary beneficiaries of the technology they created and the content and value you give to them. They also provide direct feeds to governments for spying and censorship purposes. I do not deny those companies and governments those opportunities. I just don't agree with their model.
I seek to deny them the control they want over the things you and I want to share and talk about online. I think concepts such as freedom of speech and data ownership are important, and should be available to all those who want it.
Decentraleyes.net exists to solve these problems. I guess I look at it as rather than trying to figure out how to build a bigger or better "company" than Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., and go compete for dollar-based resources with them, human beings simply deserve the ability to freely and privately communicate online while accepting personal responsibility for what they say. So, I guess I'm turning society into the next big social media company of sorts. There just won't be one CEO.
I/we are done being spied on. I/we will be doing the spying from here on out.
Centralization vs. Decentralization
When you visit Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc., and create an account and use it, you are granting the company that owns that service a lot of power over your online life. They will, from that moment forward, control what you say and who sees it. They will control who sees your posts, in what order and when. They will categorize and classify your content, associate advertisements with your content and generally use your tightly controlled content in whatever way benefits them most with complete disregard for you.
It's great! It really is. For free, a company has provided you with all of that. It's like as if you can open up your own television station and just start broadcasting online for anyone to receive...and it's all available right there...for free. All you have to do is enter your email address, think up a password, lie about reading the terms of service and off you go! Upload a nice selfie as a profile photo, set your banner and start sharing and caring. Simple!
Did you catch the one problem with all of that? Or, did you ignore it the same as when you created your account on a centralized social network? Hint: It's the Terms of Service.
Readiness
Decentraleyes.net is not ready for use by others at this time. It is only on github today as a way for me to worry less about it only existing on my personal laptop.
Until further notice, this is essentially an off-site backup with history for this codebase. Everyone is welcomed to view the code, fork it and do whatever you want at any time.
I am not accepting contributions of any kind (money, code, whatever). Fork it, contribute there and track my changes while the system is in high flux. I wouldn't, yet. It's not worth it and I'm goign to frustrate you while iterating on the base architecture. I want no input and likely won't. Ever. They're called forks. Have one or more of them as your happiness. I have mine.