shokuninnetwork / catalyst

catalyst

(wip) flexible social blogging/news platform for encouraging intercommunity communication among local communities.

building

build webserver: cargo build --release build wasm blob: cargo run --bin xtask

running

cargo run --release --bin catalyst

This will run a webserver on 0.0.0.0:8080 (or localhost:8080).

Roadmap

In intended order of implementation:

• Make and reference immutable posts with sanitized html
• Support browsers that don't have setHTML support (?)
• Special posts that allow linking and post management/"deletion"
• Optionally sign posts and maintain an identity
• Document API endpoints and expected3
• Support multiple identities
• Author profile pages
• Sync posts between nodes via webrtc
• Per user and per instance permissioning
• Use webrtc for user-facing chat+video too
• Harden privacy and security guarantees
• Document trust model clearly
• Private/encrypted/group-private posts & messages
• Basic image+video transcoding, hosting
• Identity/fact attestation and local user beliefs.
• Claim+verify same-person-ness (for multidevice support)

In no particular order:

• Better optimize DB queries for memory use
• some system to create and execute db migrations
• User friendly post editing (automate creating a new post linked to an outdated post)
• WYSIWYG editor mode and tools
• First class listings/classifieds post types to let folks do commercial stuff easily
• Enable isters to use their preferred payment backends safely
• Special post types for IOUs and other public commitments
• Give users access to directly modify local recommendation engine
• Search / Topics
• Notifications of some kind (not push), read notifications tracking

catalyst's Issues

[feats] features for biasing post retrieval

Default get_posts endpoint currently returns one post per author - this currently puts signalling messages (which we intend to hide) at the same level as other posts, which can lead to sparse first loading pages (as most posts would be hidden) - we should change the default get_posts to another method that is not one-post-per-author, or at least allow hidden posts not to count towards max_posts