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Polycentric is an open-source, distributed social network

Polycentric is an open-source, distributed social network that lets you publish content to multiple servers. If you're censored on one server, your content remains accessible from other servers.

Getting started

⚠️ We're working on this.

You will need just, Docker, and pnpm.

1. Run the local server: just services/start
2. Build rs-core for all platforms: just packages/rs-core/build-all
3. Install dependencies: pnpm install
4. Run the app: pnpm run:ios or pnpm run:android

Development

• pnpm dev builds all SDKs in watch mode.
• just legacy/test-core runs integration test on local server

Project Structure

Packages

Package	Description
packages/js-core	Core JavaScript library containing the main Polycentric protocol logic
packages/js-browser	Browser SDK using SQLite WASM for local storage
packages/js-node	Node.js SDK using sqlite3 for local storage
packages/react-native	React Native SDK for mobile applications
packages/rs-core	Rust core library - the underlying protocol implementation
packages/rs-core-wasm-browser	Rust core compiled to WebAssembly for browser environments
packages/rs-core-wasm-node	Rust core compiled to WebAssembly for Node.js environments

Apps

App	Description
apps/polycentric	The main Polycentric social network application (Expo/React Native)

Services

Service	Description
services/polycentric-server	Reference server implementation for hosting Polycentric instances
services/verifiers-server	Server for verifying claims and signatures in the protocol